Old East Village News

Spring 2007

OLD EAST VILLAGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

OEVCA Executive
Members Old East Village BIA News
President:
Annecke Somann The Old East Village BIA is pleased to are invited to join us at Flavours Diner, 761
chair@oevca.ca announce that a Postal Outlet opened at the Dundas Street, for coffee and muffins at 8:30
Vice-President: Old East Village Hardware Store,753 Dundas a.m. before the clean up begins.
Frank Filice Street ,on Monday March 19, 2007. Our sin-
Treasurer: At the Old East Village BIA Annual General
Christina Breen
cere thanks goes to proprietor Mr. Chris Reid Meeting held on Wednesday February 28,
Secretary: for securing this much needed service for the 2007, Mr. Phil Singeris retired as the Old East
Heather Philips area. Village Business Improvement Area (BIA)
admin@oevca.ca
As part of the Earth Day celebrations, the Old Board Chairperson .Local businessman Mr.
Directors at Large:
Greg Anthony East Village BIA will be participating in Ken Keane is the new Chairperson for the
Donna Currie London’s 12th Annual Clean and Green Day 2007-2011 Board Term.
Ted Town on Saturday April 21, 2007 from 9:00 a.m. till For information about BIA matters please call
Past President: noon. This will be the 6th year that the BIA
Greg Thompson
519- 645-7662 or check out the BIA web site
has participated in this event. Business, prop- at www.oldeastvillage.com.
erty owners and merchants on the commer-
Subcommittee Chairs
Garden Club: Vacant cial corridor of Dundas Street from Adelaide
Newsletter: Sonia Wolf Street to Charlotte Street and area residents – Submitted by Sarah Merritt
Social & Fund Raising:
Vacant
Tree Nursery:
Laura Macnamara
Web Maven:
Heather Philips
OEVCA Annual General Meeting
admin@oevca.ca When: Thursday, April 19th, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Boyle Community Centre, 530 Charlotte Street
Check out Who: All residents of the OEVCA area * may attend;
our website:
Members of the OEVCA may vote**
www.oevca.ca
Agenda Items: Update on past year’s OEVCA activities
Old East Village News is On-going OEVCA activities
published by the OEVCA and
delivered free of charge.
OEVCA Board Elections
Graphic Design: Sonia Wolf.
We invite your comments, ** Elections: Two executive positions will be decided:
suggestions and submissions.
Vice-President
Please contact Annecke Somann,
OEVCA President at One Member-at-Large
chair@oevca.ca Nominations will be accepted from the floor. Only members of the OEVCA are
eligible to run, and vote in these elections. Memberships will be available at the
door ($10 per family).
* The Old East Village Community Association takes in the area bounded by:
North: Railroad tracks just north of Central Ave./Elias St.
East: Railroad tracks next to the Kellogg plant
South: Railroad tracks just south of Florence St./Western Fair/York St.
West: Adelaide St.
 Old East Village Heritage Conservation District News
Planning There may be some financial assistance
available from the London Community
kept informed as to the progress of the
project and invited to any meetings
Renovations Foundation’s Endowment Fund for where it will be discussed. In the mean-
Planning major exterior renovations – Heritage. For 2007 applications are due time, any further questions that people
porch replacement, installing siding, April 2nd, 2007. Grants from this source have or input they wish to give can be
replacing windows? Need some tips on are not automatic and must meet certain
directed to the committee members.
how to restore or conserve heritage fea- criteria. A copy of the application form is
available online at: http://www.lcf.on
Hopefully by the end of this year we
tures? will have a new Queen’s Ave. that is safer
Completed applications should be sent to
To preserve the heritage character the Old and more aesthetically pleasing!
the Heritage Planner, 6th Floor, 300
East Village, now that it is a designated
Dufferin Avenue, London, N6A 4L9 prior – Frank Filice,Vice President, OEVCA
heritage conservation district, you may
to the deadline.
need a heritage alteration permit for such
work.There is no fee for such a permit but – Don Menard, Heritage Planner,
there is time required to process it.To find City of London (519-661-2500 x0267) Queens Park
out contact Don Menard, City Heritage
Planner at 661-2500 x0267 or check the Update
Old East Homeowner’s Heritage Guide Queens Avenue People will have noticed that Queen’s
sent to each owner last April. Park has a new entrance feature and
For tips on appropriate materials and sug- Update new posts and banners. The posts serve
gestions to assist in your projects refer to The proposed changes to Queen’s two functions; one, to hold signage that
the Old East Heritage Conservation Avenue was one of the topics of discus- labels the space as a community park,
District –Conservation& Design sion at a community meeting held on and two, to allow for the speedier put-
Guidelines available on line at: January 25 of this year. A preliminary up and take-down of fencing that is
http://www. London.ca. Copies are locat- drawing of the changes had been avail- required for the annual fair. People will
ed in the Carson Branch, from members
able at the Carson Library for three also notice that the posts are recessed
of the OEVCA Historical steering com-
weeks previous to the meeting for peo- into the park so that even when fencing
mittee or on the 6th floor, City Hall.
ple to review. The drawing was also on is up there will always be a green space
display at the meeting where the for residents to utilize. I am pleased to
Old East Live II changes were explained, discussed and
questions raised from the audience
report that negotiations with the
Western Fair has resulted in the Fair
recorded. The answers to those ques- agreeing to move events that require
a celebration of fencing-off to be relocated to other
tions are now posted on the Old East
neighbourhood talent – Village Community Association web- areas so that the park can be enjoyed by
children, youth, and adults site. The proposed changes for Queen’s the community without hindrance.
Ave. are as follows: that Queen’s Ave. The only exception will be the annual
Thursday, be reconfigured to be one-way, fair, which everyone will agree, is part of
one-lane with traffic calming the park’s tradition and brings lots of
June 7, 2007 measures including on street park- people into our community.
at 6:30 ing, curb extensions and a bicycle The next step for the park is the hiring
lane. The bicycle lane will be
Aeolian Hall incorporated into the citywide
of a consultant to formulate a master
plan that will incorporate design fea-
bicycle path system. After the dis- tures that make it possible to accommo-
Sponsored by cussion, those in attendance gave their date the annual fair while transforming
Lorne Avenue .School Council endorsement to the proposed changes. the space into an urban park. I encour-
and the London InterCommunity age everyone to use Queen’s Park – take
The next steps for this project involve
Health Centre. the Engineering department writing a a walk, stop and have a coffee, walk your
Ticket information available at a report for the Environment and dog, play with your kids, read a book or
later date by calling the Aeolian Transportation Committee, proceeding daydream under a tree – this is our park!
Hall 672-7950 or Lorne Avenue with design details and tendering the – Frank Filice,Vice President, OEVCA
Public School (452-8340) project for construction. We will be
OEVCA Garden Club Old East Green Day
Are you thinking about gardening, making plans for next this grow-
ing season? So is the Garden Club! Last spring and summer we held The Old East Garden Club is pleased to partner with
our Green Day Plant and Compost Sale, an Annual Garden Crawl, the Lorne Avenue parent teacher association to present
the Boulevards are Beautiful Contest and set-up the Tree Nursery. COMPOST/MULCH VALUE DAY WITH
So if you love gardening and socializing, this is the neighbourhood
club for you. No experience necessary, just the desire to share ideas PLANT EXCHANGE/SALE
and have outdoor fun! But Garden Club and/or OEVCA member- Saturday, May 5th from 10 am - 1pm
ship is required (Cost is $10.00 annually) Drop off plants from 9-10 am (compost available 9am)
Contact me by phone (519-850-1667) or email chair@oevca.ca. Plant sale starts at 10 am until 1 pm.
— Annecke Somann, OEVCA President and fellow Gardenista Lorne Avenue Public School English Street entrance.
Buy TRI-recycle compost from London Composts.
Boulevards Are Beautiful Bag yourself for $2.00/bag or pre-bagged for $2.50/bag
Calling on all Old East Village residents to garden their Buy pre-packaged mulch @ $ 4.00/bag
boulevard. Lets keep the rest of London wishing they are liv- Buy donated plants for 50 cents to $3.00 each.
ing in our colourful neighbourhood where being green is Bring your divisions, seedlings or extra bedding plants to swap
more than just seeing green.Those green thumb boulevard (straight trade) or to donate for the sale. plants can be dropped off
workouts could give you an opportunity to win one of the at 9 am to get us started and for set up. the sale will start at 10 am!
prizes available when our streets will be perused by the Old Volunteers needed! Find out how you can help!
East Village judging posse at the end of July.Watch for details Call Heather (519-438-8402) or email admin@oevca.ca
to be posted on our website www.oevca.ca. Proceeds to the Old East Village Community Association, and to the
greening of the school yard fund for lorne avenue public school.The Old
Communities in Bloom East Garden Club thanks London Composts for its generous donation of
compost to support our community-building work.
Judging to take place July 18, 19 and 20, 2007.
London’s Communities in Bloom (CiB) is doing a "Show
Your Colours" campaign this year. Corals, mauves, burgundies, New Faces in the hood
chocolate, and chartreuse are the chosen colours for 2007.
Looking of inspiration for your boulevard garden this sum- The Village has a few new faces since our last edition.
mer,then consider featuring plantings that display the CiB Christopher Mayberry recently bought a yellow brick bunga-
"Show Your Colours" and help Old East gain greater recog- low on Quebec Street between Dundas and Queens. Part of
nition for our neighbourly enthusiasm. the reason he chose Old East was architectural. "The 1910-
For more information, visit London’s CiB Website: vintage working-class houses suit my lifestyle, and they’re a lot
http://www.londoncib.ca/ or the National Website: more interesting than those in Old South, or the post-war
http://www.communitiesinbloom.ca houses further north."
Want to help out with Old East’s contributions to He also prefers "the cultural ambiance" of the neighbourhood.
CiB, please email Donna Currie: trees4oev@yahoo.ca "I’ve stayed in Old North and never interacted with my neigh-
bours the way I have since I moved here."
Some of that interaction is in a bricks-and-mortar way;
Earth Day Christopher is a brick and stone mason specializing in restor-
ing old homes, and has already put his touch to a few homes
Neighbourhood Spring Cleaning in the neighbourhood.To contact him visit www.oldhome.ca
and look for Tacit Brick and Stone in the Advertisers’ links.
Sunday, April 22nd Michael and Melissa Finch are recently-arrived Old-Easters,
Meet at 1:00 p.m. on the north side of and they have their hands full: he’s studying geography at
Central Ave. at Elizabeth St. Western, she’s doing her teaching degree, they’re doing exten-
Join the Old East Garden Club for a spring clean up sive renovations to a big house in the heart of Lorne Avenue,
along Central Avenue, through our neighbourhood, and and their daughter Rya just celebrated her first birthday.
finishing up in Queens Park for refreshments and light And the most recent newcomer is Aiden Joshua Logan, who
snacks. Bring gloves, garbage bags and your friends to our appeared on the scene February 21 – all 10 pounds, four
first guerilla gardening event this year. Don't forget to also ounces of him. He lives with his parents Steve and Sharlyn, also
bring easy to sow flowering seeds to beautify those soul- on Lorne Avenue.
less areas in Old East. – Ted Town
London Community Consecration
InterCommunity policing at its Ceremony
Health Centre best! to be held on
659 Dundas St. 519-660-0874
The London InterCommunity Health
The London Police Service has dedicated
members of the Community Foot Patrol
May 17th, 2007:
Unit to the Old East Village. “The London Police Service has
Centre offers health and social services/
programs to individuals, families, and com- embraced the time-honoured tradition of
Officers Scott Dugdale and Shawn
munities. We welcome participation from humbly petitioning Her Majesty Queen
Rutkauskas will be the liaison officers
neighbourhood residents. Elizabeth II to grant a Coat of Arms, a sig-
walking in the business district identified
Men’s Support Groups nal to our Police Service. Members of our
as the Old East Village.
• Dealing with Anger Wed. 7-9pm staff worked diligently for about twenty
The goal of the unit is to provide high vis- months with the Canadian Heraldic
• Understanding Feelings Sat. 9:30-
ibility patrolling, enhance community Authority to complete the LPS Coat of
11:30am. For more information, call John
at 519-660-0874 ext. 227. relations and partner with the community Arms, which will become the official
Multicultural Women’s to proactively address crime. These two “Colours” of the London Police Service
Support Groups officers look forward to meeting the at a Consecration Ceremony to be held
members of the business community and on May 17, 2007 at Wolseley Barracks.
Offered in a number of languages and com-
munities. For more information, call Vindu residents. When you see these officers feel This ceremony has been in the planning
at 519-660-0874 ext. 251. free to engage them in conversation stages for the past two years and will be
Seniors’ Drop-In – Wed. 1-3:30pm regarding issues that are affecting your the final event of our Service’s 150th
Tai Chi classes – Sat. 9:30-11:30am community. Anniversary celebrations. The ceremony
For more information, call Sarah at Currently the officers are assessing the will be enhanced by the participation of
519-660-0874 ext. 275. potential for a community office to be set The Honourable James K. Bartleman,
Children’s Nutrition and up. A community office is not a police Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, along
Learning Project station rather a program coordinated by with an Honour Guard of 100 officers and
Includes a variety of programs run out of members of the London Police in part- 500 invited guests. With the participation
Lorne Ave. Public School, Monday – Friday. nership with the community. The office of so many members of our Service, both
Volunteers are needed in our nutrition pro- would require staffing by volunteers. civilian and sworn members of all ranks,
gramming; childcare is provided. For more
If you would be interested in participating we are looking forward to a very mean-
information, call Shelly at 519-660-0874
ext. 254. in this project or would like to know ingful celebration that will reinforce our
Art Group more about it, please contact: pride and dedication to the Service and
Runs every other Thursday from the citizens of London.”
Constable Shawn Rutkauskas or
1-3:30pm. Languages spoken include Constable Scott Dugdale
English, Spanish, French, Polish. For more
information, call Wanda at 519-660-0874 London Police Service,
ext. 248. 601 Dundas Street Neighbourhood
Clinical Services London, Ontario N6B 1X1
For information on clinical services, call Liz, (519) 661-5680 Watch
our Intake Worker, at 519-660-0874
ext.255. HELP WANTED!
– Shelly Happy, Community Worker
NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY.

Only job requirements are an

Mini Soccer is Back! interest in working towards a
crime free environment and a
LOCATION: genuine interest in working with
Boyle Community Centre’s Field 530 Charlotte Street your neighbours & community.
TIME REQUIREMENT: Minimal
WHEN: once we get it in place
Mondays 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm for children 4-6 years REMUNERATION: Pride in the
Tuesdays 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm for children 7-9 years neighbourhood, meeting won-
This is a co-ed, non-competitive soccer program running from April – June. derful people etc. To apply call
Caroll at 433-7792 or e-mail:
Parent coaches and assistant coaches needed, so express your interest to join in the
redshawlwoman@rogers.com
fun and volunteer to coach or assist in coaching on registration day!
If you are interested, please talk
For registration information call to your neighbours.
Michelle Kerr 519-661-2500 ext. 5769.