Ford Homes
Neighborhood News
November 2001
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Santa Claus Visit |
Making
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A Tour of Season’s PastSunday, December 2, 2001 1:00-6:00pm. The home tour is one short week away! |
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Santa
is taking time out of his busy pre-Christmas schedule to visit the Ford Homes
District! Come tell Santa if you’ve
been naughty or nice, and let him know what you are hoping to get this
Christmas. |
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Don’t forget to drop off baked goods for the bake sale at Duvall school the day of the home tour at
noon or later. |
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Santa will be at 22538 Beech Street from 5:30-7:30 pm on Saturday, December 8. Thank you to Larry Beaver for hosting Santa at his home this year! |
Since the home tour is district-wide (not
just on 1 or 2 streets), it would be great if everyone in the district could
help make the neighborhood festive for this occasion: · If you have a historic street light in front of
your |
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We
will also have FHHD merchandise for sale for anyone who has holiday shopping,
and will have the binders of photocopies of our historic houses under
construction (taken in 1919 and 1920) for those of you who missed them at the
district meeting. |
home, it would be great if you could decorate it with cedar roping (or other green roping) and a bow by the tour. (Note that decorating the street lights will be at your cost.) ·
On the day of
the tour, please park your cars in your garage or driveway to allow parking
on the streets. |
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Home
Tour Tickets
Tickets will be $12 on
Dec 2 at Duvall school, and |
· It is FHHD tradition to have the houses decorated
with electric candles in each window.
Please have your candles lit during the home tour hours (1:00-6:00pm). |
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a $3 trolley pass
available that day will give you unlimited trips on the Classic Trolley
around the district. Tour tickets are
$10 thru Dec 1 at: Little Professor (22174 Michigan Ave between Howard and Mason,
278-6633) Sally’s Gifts (23233 Michigan Ave. at Outer Dr. Bloomsbury Lane (22149 Michigan Ave in the Starbucks/Mongolian
BBQ set of stores, 565-3800) |
· Drive carefully during
the day of the tour. We will have a
lot of folks walking around that day. Invite your friends and neighbors to come to the
tour! Even if you can’t come, please consider
buying a ticket to support your neighborhood newsletters, web sites and
community events! For
more information, call Sylvia Tillman (278-4055) or Teresa Klimkiewicz (563-2457). Thanks in advance - |
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And The Winners Are… |
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Thank You! Our newest Neighborhood
News volunteers are Lisa, Molly, |
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The FHHD Pumpkin Carving Contest and Neighborhood Stroll were big successes this year. Thanks to Darcy and Perry Edgell and family for having the warming station in their yard, and for making the spooky life-sized Halloween ghouls that guarded the tent!! And thanks to our board of directors and head judge Ron Mallord for their judging! Congratulations to this year’s winners. First place was won by Laurie and Joseph Caruso, and their sons Vincent, Dominic and Joey at 22361 Gregory. Their green alien jack-o-lantern was awesome! Second prize went to Pat Johnson at 22603 Nona for her giant jack-o’-lanterns. Third prize went to Ellen Hossack of 22726 for her man on the moon themed jack-o-lanterns. Special honorable mentions go to Lisa Cronin and Ariel Nicolaci of 22030 Francis for their “hip couple” jack-o-lanterns (groovy self portraits!), and to Andrea, Jason, Courtney and Anderson Trapp of 22415 Gregory for their carved alien coming out of the pumpkin! Everyone else gets an honorable mention. There were so many outstanding jack-o-lanterns this year that it was very difficult to pick the best ones! |
Bobby, & Katrina Menter. They will be delivering newsletters to
Francis homes between Beech and Cass.
Thank you so much!! |
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New to
the Neighborhood? If you are a new
neighbor, or know someone who is, please contact Michelle Donaldson at
791-0583. |
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Thank You! Many thanks to Mike Skinner for an excellent presentation on Henry Ford and the Ford Homes District at our fall meeting. You can see him as a docent at Henry Ford’s
Fairlane Mansion. |
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FHHD Resources
District
Officers:
President: Scott Smith - Term ends 2003 (ssmith@fordhomes.org or 730-2174)
Vice President: Dave Tillman – 2003 (dtillman@fordhomes.org or 278-4055)
Treasurer: Mike Assenmacher – 2002 (massenmacher@fordhomes.org or 274-4192)
Secretary: Teresa Klimkiewicz-2002 (tklim@fordhomes.org or 563-2457)
Officers: Evonne Kakos – 2002 (ekakos@fordhomes.org or 730-0534), Cindy Bohn – 2002 (cbohn@fordhomes.org or 274-2488) and Amy Jelso - 2003 (ajelso@fordhomes.org or 278-4064)
Building Committee:
Co-chairs: Kurt Klimkiewicz (563-2457) and Dave Tillman (278-4055); Mike Assenmacher, Jack Berry, Mark Davison, Kevin Donaldson, Ron Mallord, Joel Ray, Rocco Sanfilippo, Scott Smith, Larry Tailford.
NOTE: Building Committee membership
is open to everyone in the district – please contact any member.
Ford Homes Welcoming Committee: Michelle Donaldson - 791-0583 or mdonaldson@fordhomes.org
Ford Homes Neighborhood News: Barb Smith – 730-2174 or brksmith@hotmail.com
District Party Tent / Canopy Rental: Shawn or John Cornea - 565-2289
District's Sign Rental: Dan & Christy Czarniecki - 563-7804
Large wooden signs for front lawn for $1/use. Choice of clown birthday sign or stork signs for births ("It's a Boy" / "It's a Girl").
Ford Homes Merchandise: Sylvia Tillman - 278-4055
Contractor's List: Kurt Klimkiewicz - 563-2457
FHHD Webmaster: Mike Assenmacher – 274-4192