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City Councilman Jim Kraft has moved to further define what he will accept as valid when it comes to community organization meetings and decisions.
Proxy votes don’t make the cut.“As all of you are aware, I have a long
history of acting based upon votes taken by local community associations,” he wrote in an Aug. 11 email which could be taken as his statement regarding proxies.
“I have attempted to follow the positions adopted by our local associations,” he continued. “In almost all instances, those positions have been adopted by the Association after their meetings at which the members have had the opportunity to get together, hear presentations, learn about,
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On a recent Friday, three mattresses were piled up next to two televisions (one a busted-up wooden console) parts of two cars’ bumpers and grilles, clothes, rags, and other trash on the 3600 block of Leverton Ave. at Conkling St., which is the alley behind Gmart.
“That’s pretty much all the time,” says “Brett” of the debris. Brett CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
Vitamin, a branding, web design and public relations boutique fi rm at 3237 Eastern Ave., takes on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, in which participants dump ice water over their own heads, donate to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research, and challenge others to do the same. #IceBucketChallenge | Photo by Vitamin
Will a community garden alleviate dumping in Baltimore Highlands?BY DANIELLE SWEENEY [email protected]
GO SEE IT: Our favorite play was writtenby a Canton resident
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lives nearby and does jobs for Milton Electric Co., which owns the property next to the alley, at 25 S. Conkling St. His main job is cleaning up trash and keeping his eye on vagrants and dumpers who regularly trespass on the property.
“There’s cameras in the alley,” he pointed out.“It’s almost as bad over here,” he added, pointing to the company’s
partly raised grassy lot—which used to be part of the railroad and now houses two containers the electric company uses for storage.
Police seek to identify individuals in reference to robberyIn reference to an unarmed robbery involving police impersonation that occurred on Aug. 13, 12:55 a.m., at 3101 Pulaski Hwy., the Southeast DDU is attempting to identify the pictured individuals.
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Patterson Park master planning process given longer time line
Friends and the Patterson Park Audubon Center, and city departments such as Recreation and Parks, the Health Department, and other similar stakeholder groups.
The Steering Committee last met Aug. 7, and outlined some actions to be undertaken in the master planning process, including two surveys, a “snapshot” survey of park users and their perceptions, and a more formal, statistics-oriented survey in which park users would be interviewed during all seasons and times of day.
“Going along with this process, we want to make sure we understand the most current user data,” said Robinson.
Though the Guide did not attend the Aug. 7 meeting, community members with whom we spoke—including Robinson—expressed optimism about the process, despite the delayed time line.
“I think at first the process seemed to be stalled,” said Scott Richmond, a resident of the Patterson Place neighborhood who has been taking detailed notes of the meetings.
“I think more recently, Baltimore City and the Mahan Rykiel consultants have stepped forward and put a nice process in place and are moving forward with it.”
The first part of Richmond’s comment refers to a July 16 meeting, in which Steering
While community members continue to meet to form a plan for the future of Patterson Park, the process has changed.
The Guide last reported in March that the Patterson Park Working Group was meeting under the leadership of the Department of Recreation and Parks, and an updated master plan for Patterson Park was expected by the end of this year, a due date highlighted by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake in a letter to the group.
Now, though Recreation and Parks is still leading the process, sources are putting that due date later, possibly toward the spring of 2015.
“We’re trying to coordinate with the city’s CIP [capital improvement project] request schedule,” said Jennifer Arndt Robinson, executive director of the Friends of Patterson Park and a member of the Patterson Park Master Plan Steering Committee.
The Steering Committee meets “monthly at a minimum, and more often if needed,” Robinson said.
Like its prior iteration, the Patterson Park Working Group, the Steering Committee is a group of about 20 including representatives from community organizations near Patterson Park, nonprofits vested in the park such as the
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discuss and debate proposals and issues facing their community prior to voting on them.”
Kraft then went on to highlight a couple problems that according to him are inherent in proxy voting, including the fact that the proxy voter does not attend or participate in the meeting at which the issue at hand is probed and debated.
He also said that people who bring others’ votes to meeting may be abusing the process, and specifically soliciting votes that support their own positions. Such a
situation, Kraft argued, “may well defeat the purpose of having a meeting in the first place...prior to the meeting having been held or the presentation having been made, the proxy holder(s) will have already been in possession of a sufficient number of votes to secure passage of the vote supporting the holder’s position, whether that be in support or in opposition to the topic of the presentation.”
Faced with a community organization asking for his support or action, then, Kraft wrote, “I do not intend to take into account votes that include proxies.”
In a later interview, Kraft clarified that he was referring to individual proxy votes; he wasn’t stating that the presence of some proxy votes would necessarily invalidate the overall vote of a community organization.
A couple weeks ago, the Butchers Hill Association voted 55-26 against expanding residential permit parking in City Council
District 13, and one proxy vote was in that mix. Kraft indicated that, had the vote applied to his District 1, he would have considered it valid except for the one proxy. (It’s not the best example, because Kraft has also stated that he is generally against residential permit parking, regardless of how a community organization votes.)
Kraft also said that he was most concerned with votes which contain a high percentage of proxies in a relatively small number of total votes.
“We really need to have our associations doing more outreach, trying to get
members,” he said. Turning back to Kraft’s email statement,
it requests that community organizations’ decisions be made “by those who have taken the time to come to the meeting, who have given the presenter the courtesy to hear the presentation with an open mind and who have made the commitment to think about it all fairly before casting their vote.”
“Those who cannot get there can still let us know how they feel by letter, e-mail, phone, text or other communication,” Kraft added.
In July, Kraft announced his intent to take such communications into account when he is asked by communities to support a certain position.
“I said that such garnered information would not necessarily supercede that provided by the votes of an Association on a particular matter, but it would be taken into account,” he said in the Aug. 11 email.
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Canton Community Association votes on Linwood apartment proposal
On Aug. 5, the board of directors of the Canton Community Association voted to not provide a letter of support for developer Ross Taylor’s proposal to develop a five-story, mixed-use building at 1000 S. Linwood Ave.
The board of directors’ report states that the CCA hosted four public meetings to consider the proposal.
The Baltimore Guide reported on the final
public meeting in an Aug. 6 article, “Residents fear parking impact, overall size of proposed Canton apartments.”
The idea behind the letter of support, which the board ultimately declined to provide, was that it would have been a necessary step in convincing City Councilman Jim Kraft to introduce legislation to rezone the property.
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“There are people living over there sometimes,” he said, gesturing below, to a chain-linked fence.
“You see their plastic bags of stuff tied up?” he asked. “They’ll be back.”
Todd Borz, president of Milton Electric, said “they” are assorted vagrants and homeless drug users who have been sleeping on his property off and on for several years.
“More so during the summer. You see where the trash is and the grass is flattened down?” he pointed out. “That’s where they put up their tent.”
About a minute later, Borz motioned toward a couple, apparently under the influence of drugs, walking down Leverton Ave., at street level.
“That’s them, I think,” he said. Borz said he’s called 311 numerous times
for illegal dumping on his property. As for the dumping in the alley, he said he
has video footage of dumpers and is looking for tag numbers.
“The police say, ‘We’ll send somebody by,’ but it’s hard to catch them in the act,” Borz said.
He’s had the cameras in place for a about a year now because the dumping is such a problem.
“It affects me financially. I’ve been fined for other people’s trash.. I managed to get a
few of those citations abated, but still,” he said. “And I pay Brett for several days’ work each month.”
Milton Electric has been in business for 50 years. Its headquarters is on the 3600 block of E. Lombard St., a few blocks away.
“We like the area. It has good access,” Borz said of southeast Baltimore, but he admits he is at a loss for how to combat the dumping and trespassing. And, frankly, he said, he is not even sure the multiple surveillance cameras are a deterrent.
“I’m not in the police business,” he said.Borz is however, trying to make his property
less appealing to vagrants (he photographed a different one sleeping in the yard on Monday morning) and ultimately more attractive to the community.
Milton Electric recently signed a lease with the Highlandtown Community Association to use the land for community garden space.
Borz said: “I’m happy that they’ll be creating something here.”
“If all goes according to plan, we will have garden plots next season,” said HCA president Brian Sweeney, who added that the HCA intends to work with the Department of Public Works and Code Enforcement to enforce anti-dumping regulations.
“We’ll put up fencing and do whatever we need to make the area secure,” Sweeney said.
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and family activities. Thursdays, 6-9 p.m., through Sept. 11, with the exception of the first Thursday of every month, when WTMD First Thursdays shows are held at Canton Waterfront Park. Info: thecancompany.com. Aug. 21: Brian Farley.Buena Casa, Buena Brasa: Todos los jueves. Canciones, rimas, cuentos, y juegos, para los niños (0-3 años) y los padres o cuidadores. 11 a.m. at the Southeast Anchor Branch, Enoch Pratt Library, 3601 Eastern Ave. Info: 410-396-1580.Friday, August 22Deadline Extended, Scholarships for BCCC Attendees: Councilman Kraft’s office is currently accepting scholarship applications for first district residents attending Baltimore City Community College. To apply, please send the following, by Friday, Aug. 22, to [email protected]: a copy of your transcript; a copy of your resume; a brief (500 words or less) essay describing your academic and professional aspirations. If you have any questions about eligibility or the application process, please contact the office at 410-396-4821.Little Italy Film Festival: Every Friday through September 5, at the corner High and Stiles streets. Live entertainment at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, August 20Films on the Broadway Pier: Films On The Pier is a free film series presented at the end of the Thames Street Pier in Fell’s Point. Each film begins at dusk on Wednesday evenings starting in July through the end of August. Bring a chair, bring some friends, and enjoy your summer evenings with us. Aug. 20 “This is the End.”Mother Goose Baby Steps: Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m. An interactive nursery rhyme program with music and movement. For children up to 36 months of age with their caregivers. Patterson Park Branch, Enoch Pratt Library, 158 N. Linwood Ave. Info: 410-396-0983.Eastpoint Mall Farmers Market: Purchase fresh food from local farmers, every Wednesday through Oct. 9. The farmers market is 10 a.m.-2 p.m., in the parking lot across from McDonald’s.Thursday, August 21Can Company Concerts: Bring your chairs and celebrate the summer while enjoying live music, festival food, happy hour specials,
Movie starts 9 p.m. Free event. Free popcorn sponsored by Colombo Bank. August 22: “Silver Linings Playbook.”Saturday, August 23Mexican Folktales and Dance for Kids: This class is for kids ages 2-4. Young ones learn storytelling and movement while listening to Latino folktales like “Tio Juan,” the Mexican version of “Old MacDonald.” 11-11:50 a.m. $40 for the entire session, $5 per class. Creative Alliance, Eastern and East avenues. Info: 410-276-1651 or [email protected] y Bailes Folclóricos Mexicanos para Niños: Clases para niños de 2 a 4 años de edades. June 28-Aug. 23. Los pequeños aprenderan historias y movimientos mientras escuchan cuentos, como el de “Tio Juan”, la version Mexicana de “Old MacDonald”, entre otros. 11-11:50 a.m. $40 for the entire session; $5 per class. Creative Alliance, Eastern and East avenues. Info: 410-276-1651 or [email protected] Discussion: Read and discuss “Faith Bass Darling’s Last Garage Sale” by Lynda Rutledge. 2 p.m., Aug. 23. Enoch Pratt Free Library, Southeast Anchor Branch, 3601 Eastern Ave. Info: 410-396-1580.BMI Farmers Market: The Museum of Industry’s farmers market. Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., on the grounds of the museum, 1415Key Hwy.Waterfront Wellness at Westshore Park: Free boxing boot camp at 8 a.m. and Zumba at 9 a.m. The Waterfront Partnership is committed to health and wellness and is excited to offer this free series to residents, employees, and visitors of Baltimore. All participants must be 18 years of age or older to participate. To register, visit the Waterfront Partnership website: waterfrontpartnership.org. Please note, you only need to register one time for the entire series.Sunday, August 24Back to School Giveaway: 3711 Eastern Ave., is holding its fourth annual back-to-school celebration. The first 50 children at the event, Sunday, Aug. 24, 1-3 p.m., receive free backpacks filled with school supplies. The afternoon also includes $1 regular haircuts for children pre-K through age 13, and a raffle for a BMX bike, as well as free hotdogs, hamburgers, refreshments, games, music and face painting. Donations will be accepted in school supplies only. Info: Larry, 443-779-9907. Waterfront Wellness at West Shore Park: Yoga at 8 a.m. and Parkour at 9 a.m. The Waterfront Partnership is committed to health and wellness and is excited to offer this free series to residents, employees, and visitors
of Baltimore. All participants must be 18 years of age or older to participate. To register, visit the Waterfront Partnership website: waterfrontpartnership.org. Please note, you only need to register one time for the entire series.Monday, August 25Mother Goose Baby Steps: Mondays,11 a.m. An interactive nursery rhyme program with music and movement. For children up to 36 months of age with their caregivers. Southeast Anchor Branch, Enoch Pratt Library, 3601 Eastern Ave. Info: call 410-396-1580.
Community NotebookBuild an Art Cart: If you think you have what it takes to build an amazing cart, create fabulous costumes, and show your spirit on the track, put yourself to the test at the 4th Annual All Ages Art Cart Derby, a spectacular show of wit, bravery, and downright silliness. Sept 20, 1-6 p.m. at Conkling and Gough streets in Highlandtown. There are 14 prize categories. Info: visit Art Cart Derby & Art By The Pint on Facebook.Butchers Hill Flea Market: Vendors interested in reserving a 15-foot-by-15-foot space should visit butchershill.org. Spaces are $30 each, unless used to advertise or represent a commercial enterprise, in which case the fee is $100. There are 150 spaces, first-come, first-served. Visit butchershill.org for more information. Further questions may be directed to [email protected] or 410-675-0148. The Flea Market is Saturday, Sept. 20, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.Audubon is Hiring: The Patterson Park Audubon Center in Baltimore is hiring. Audubon seeks one part-time, fall seasonal educator to lead its elementary school after-school program and another to coordinate its high school Audubon Watershed Experience. Both focus on the Chesapeake Bay. For details on the position or to apply, visit www.audubon.org and scroll down to “current opportunities.”City Pools: Park Pool hours: Monday–Friday 12:30-7 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays 12:30- 7 p.m. Pool admission fees for the 2014 swim season are $2 for park pools. Rec and Parks also offers Summer Season Passes for park pools for $30. Pools remain open until September 1 (Labor Day).Preschool Program: United Evangelical Church’s PACT preschool program (Parents and Teachers Together) has fall 2014 openings for 3-year-olds. This program starts in September and classes are held two days per week. Please contact PACT’s director, Concetta Clark, at 410-995-0118. United is located at 3200 Dillon St. (corner of Dillon St. and East Ave.) in Canton.
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Not ones for conversation, white pines only whisper when a breeze ruffles their soft needles, so who knows what they’re thinking?
They might see nothing or everything, and what’s the difference?Maybe the tree that grew in tranquility in Anne Arundel
County knew that it would end up in a tree pit on Baltimore City’s E. Pratt St., igniting conversations between strangers and attracting a sizable crowd on its coronation day.
The tree has begun its second life (that we know of) as a vertical art installation in front of Mark and Nancy Supik’s home on the 2200 block of E. Pratt, near Patterson Park.
The Supiks explain the process in a series of pictorial blog posts at emptytreepit.blogspot.com. Mark cut the 12-inch-diameter fallen tree into blanks, drilled center holes, and used his Oliver lathe to turn each piece into a new shape, which he painted and varnished.
Rather than assemble the sculpture all at once, Mark had been adding a piece at a time over the past few weeks, attracting more attention each time, especially when the sculpture climbed above the roofs of parked cars and became visible from the street.
“We’ve met so many neighbors that we didn’t know,” says Nancy. “It’s just been a great thing for our block.”
Dead tree resurrected in Butchers HillThe piece is bolted into the stump of an oak tree, planted by the
Supiks and neighbors 25 years ago, which, according to the blog “provided shade, privacy and a home for birds in front of our house.” The oak died in 2012, but its stump is now joined with the white pine, at least until the Supiks plant a new, living tree in the pit.
“It’s not really permanent,” says Nancy of the sculpture. “It’s going to have a life.”
“It’s an experiment,” elaborates Mark. “We’re wondering if someone will steal it, pee on it, hit it with a car...”
He believes that the second has probably already happened, but it didn’t quell the fanfare—a gathering of friends, neighbors and colleagues—when the sculpture was topped with the 14th and final piece last Friday.
Supik, who graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art with a degree in sculpture, opened his shop in 1981, at first taking on “anything that came in the door,” and eventually focusing on “turning,” the art of shaping wood on a spinning lathe. It also allowed him to spend his time in his own shop, which he enjoys.
Today, Mark Supik & Co. Woodturning and Beer Tap Handles, 1 N. Haven St., employs eight and splits the business between architectural turning and, obviously, wooden beer tap handles, which are in use all over the country.
On Friday, Aug. 17, Mark Supik crowned the sculpture with the fi nal piece, to the delight of friends and neighbors. Right: The sculpture is made up of 14 individual pieces taken from a 12-inch white pine. | Photos by Joe Nash
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In attending the very first performance of, “Under the Poplar Trees,” a play written by Canton resident Rosemary Frisino Toohey, the Baltimore Guide believes that it may have been privileged to witness a significant event in theatrical history.
The play was that good. “Under the Poplar Trees”--showing at the
Fell’s Point Corner Theatre, Thursdays through Sundays, through the end of the month--is the tale of two men affected very differently by the same experience.
It happens to deal with the Holocaust, and evokes strong and real emotion, but not the kind that would drag you down for days or hours. It’s more akin to what we would hope an elderly person feels, looking back at the family they have loved with joy, sadness and laughter.
“It’s a play about life; it’s not a play about death,” says Toohey.
“Under the Poplar Trees” is the story of Meyer and Josef, two men imprisoned at Dachau--a concentration camp outside of Munich--toward the end of World War II. The setting moves from that time and place to Meyer’s present-day life as a soon-to-be great-grandfather in New York. Unknown to Meyer, his old friend his watching over him from the afterlife, when not consorting with the woman of his dreams in his own personal heaven.
Toohey says that she drew on two sources of inspiration for “Under the Poplar Trees.”
One was a trip she took with her husband, Bill, about five years ago.
“We traveled to Munich. It was a charming city, just very lovely with a great big plaza,” she says. “It’s just charming as all get-out. And a half-hour away, maybe 25 minutes, you take the train and you’re in Dachau.”
Her visit got her to thinking, as did her writer’s habit of collecting obituaries. She began reading the stories of Holocaust survivors, who, she notes, are growing fewer and fewer.
“What fascinates me is two people can go through the same--well, let’s say horrific--experience and come out of it different,” she says, remembering the obituary of one survivor that noted his appetite for living and attempts to pick up women in bars into his old age.
“I was very amused by that, cheered by that,” Toohey says. “Others, their life is so fixed on that...they just can’t get past it. It’s like this shadow over the rest of their lives.”
Meyer the Holocaust survivor is 91 years old and has led, by most accounts, an outstanding life. Yet the shadow is there. His friend Josef, “a man of such strength, such talent,” has seen something in Meyer and has
chosen him as a pupil of sorts, the recipient of his knowledge of life’s beauty.
Josef’s devotion to his friend remains after his own death, even to the very slight annoyance of Desiree, his siren-like companion in the afterlife.
Perhaps because of it’s contrast with the richness of his post-Dachau life, Meyer’s shadow is painfully evident to his loved ones--including his wife, gracefully portrayed by Annette Mooney Wasno, and Aaron, his newspaperman son, played by Max Lanocha.
Toohey says she was wowed by the acting and direction of her play, and the Baltimore Guide agrees. Jeff Murray put in a particularly strong performance as the 91-year-old Meyer; the audience feels his joy and pain, and the soft sadness of an old man at an unexpected turn of events.
“Under the Poplar Trees” contains at least one device that literary wonks will appreciate. In Dachau, Josef and Meyer speak plainly and without accents, but fast-forward to present-
The older Meyer (Jeff Murray) shares a laugh with his wife Clara (Annette Mooney Wasno).
Below: Josef (right, portrayed by Justin Johnson) helps Meyer (Karim Zelenka) find something to smile about at Dachau, of all places.
| Photos by Bill Toohey
day Brooklyn and the older Meyer speaks with a (nicely rendered) Jewish accent.
The program explains:“The camp prisoners would actually be
speaking Yiddish. But Meyer, after his immigration to America, speaks English with a heavy accent.”
Toohey began writing plays about 15 years ago, when she realized she enjoyed writing the dialog of novels but not necessarily the prose. Since then, her plays have been featured in over 180 productions around the world.
“Under the Poplar Trees” is one of five finalists for the Julie Harris Playwright Awards. It is also part of the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, which presented “Under the Poplar Trees” in conjunction with the Fell’s Point Corner Theatre.
For more information on the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, visit baltplayfest.org. For more on the Fell’s Point Corner Theatre, visit fpct.org. For more information on Toohey, go to frisinotoohey.com.
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Sept. 23: Flu shots at center for seniors age 65 and up and those with disabilities who have Medicare Part B or Humana Gold Choice. Seniors of all age with the following insurance carriers are also included: Aetna, Premera Blue Cross, SummaCare, Universal Health Care. Individuals will need to show their Medicare or insurance cards and complete consent forms.
Sept. 24: Games day. Come play some board games with us, 12:15 p.m.
Sept. 29: STEPS: Surviving and Thriving After a Loss. This informative session is part of the Baltimore City Health Department’s ongoing series through Aging and CARE Services. Join us for great information and snacks. Free and open to the public, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Flu shots, Sept. 23, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., for ages 65 and up. Please bring your Medicare card or insurance card.
Screen painting class Saturday, Sept. 20. Please call the center to sign up and for details.
The Hatton Center’s annual fund raiser has started. Please help to support our center by purchasing a hand-painted crab shell. There are several designs from which to choose. They make nice gifts and great Christmas presents. Please call the center for more details or to place your order.
Monday, Sept. 8, 15, 22 and 29: Video walk 9 a.m.; Eating Together 11:30 a.m. Massage by appointment Sept. 8 and 22, starting at 9:30 a.m. Red Hatters meet Sept. 15 at 11 a.m. Center is closed Sept. 1 for Labor Day.
Sept. 1: Center closed for Labor Day
September 3: Center trip. Join us on a trip to Richardson’s Farm Market on Ebenezer Rd., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Cost is $3 for transportation; purchase your own lunch.
Sept. 10: Call center for information on programming on this day.
Sept. 11: Podiatrist, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Dr. Youngworth will be at the center.
Sept. 12: Johns Hopkins nurses will provide hepatitis and HIV information at 10 a.m. Blood pressure check, free and open to the public, 10:30 a.m.
Sept. 17: Bicentennial of the War of 1812 Celebration. Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the writing of “The Star Spangled Banner” with lunch and a party, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Cost is $3. Please sign up by Sept. 12.
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5:30 a.m. An unknown suspect partially pried open the front basement window of the victim’s property. No entry was made; no property was taken.
Hornel St., 400 block, Aug. 14, 10:40 a.m. Victims report that an unknown person jimmied the front door lock, entered, took $9000 that was hidden underneath clothing in the victim’s bedroom closet, and fled via the front door.
N. Montford Ave., 100 block, Aug. 15, 6 p.m. The victim said that someone forced open the front door and took toilets, a vanity and some faucets.
AggrAvAted AssAultS. East Ave., 100 block, Aug. 10, 2:40 a.m.
The victim walked into the hospital with a laceration from his nose to his ear, as well as abrasions to his elbows and knee. he initially told police that he was approached by a man with a woman, and the man threw him down and cut him. He then changed his story and said that the was trying to solicit a prostitute. The victim received multiple stitches to his face and tried to leave the hospital several times. He would not cooperate.
S. Broadway, 400 block, Aug. 11, 9:30 p.m. An unknown man threw a brick at the cab the victim was driving, completely cracking the windshield. The victim could no longer see out the window. An area canvass was negative.
S. Oldham St., 500 block, Aug. 18, 1:10 a.m. The victim said that an unknown person cut her with a knife. She was taken to the hospital. A city watch camera showed an argument with a man.
lArceny from AutoFrom Aug. 10-16, larcenies from auto
were reported in the following locations: Claremont Ave., 3400 block; Bonsal St., 1400 block; President St., 200 block; Eastern Ave., 5300 block; E. Fairmount Ave., 2200 block; Baylis St., 1100 block; N. Potomac St., 100 block; Jefferson St., 2700 block; S. Washington St., 100 block; N. Luzerne Ave., 400 block; N. Montford Ave., 200 block; N. East Ave. 300 block; Poncabird Ps., 1700 block; N. Port St., unit block; E. Fairmount Ave., 2100 block; Charlotte Ave., 1600 block; N. Broadway, unit block; Essex St., 2100 block; S. Eaton St., 400 block; S. Grundy St., 700 block; Aliceanna St., 700 block; N. Belnord Ave., 600 block.
handgun, which he bent down and dropped. The officer ordered the suspect to stop, and he complied. The dropped gun, which was identified as a BB gun, was recovered. The victim said that the suspect had approached him, put a gun to his head, and demanded his phone and money. The suspect was arrested.
Pulaski Hwy., 3100 block, Aug. 13, 1:20 a.m. The victim said that after dropping off his friend, he drove to a convenience store before driving home. He said a man knocked on his window and stated “Drivers license and registration please.” The victim, believing the man was a police officer as he had a badge, stepped out of his car. He was ordered to place his hands on car, and while he did so, a suspect removed his wallet. The second suspect asked him what he was doing in the area. The report ends here. Police are trying two identify two individuals in reference to this incident; please see page 2.
E. Lombard St., 3800 block, Aug. 12, 4:15 p.m. The victim said that the suspect picked up some items and walked to the register. He then stated “Give me all the money” while lifting his shirt and displaying a gun in his waist. The victim put the money from the register in a plastic bag provided by the suspect, who then fled.
Quad Ave., 6500 block, Aug. 14, 8:40 p.m. A supervisor at the facility noticed three men enter and begin taking bags with parcels in them. She went to find out what they were doing and noticed that one of them had a gun in his pocket, so she began complying with them. Another supervisor saw what was happening and came in and struggled for the gun, and then ran off. The suspects took the packages and fled in an unknown silver four-door sedan.
BurglAryN. Duncan St., 100 block, Aug. 11, 8:15
a.m. The victim said that an unknown person kicked in her front door, gained entry, took her property, and fled out the rear door.
S. Eaton St., 100 block, Aug. 13, 4 p.m. Officers responded to the location and found that a rear door was busted in. They cleared the house and found nobody inside. During the course of the investigation, a witness approached and stated that someone was seen carrying property out of the rear of the house. Taken were two flat-screen TVs.
N. Montford Ave., unit block, Aug. 13,
suspects impersonate police to commit robberyEastern Ave., 1000 block, Aug. 16, 4:50
a.m. The victim said he was walking toward his job when a four-door vehicle did a U-turn and approached him. He said that the driver pulled alongside him, displayed a gun, and demanded his money. The victim reached into his pocket and gave the suspect $60. The suspect took it without leaving the car and drove off.
S. Bond St, 500 block, Aug. 16, 11:25 p.m. The victim said that she was walking to her home when the suspects approached. One stated “Give me your purse,” while reaching toward it but not touching it. He then turned around and said “Give me your phone,” while reaching for it. The victim began to scream and banged on her front door for her roommate as the second suspect acted as a lookout. The suspects fled; no property was taken.
E. Fairmount Ave., 3500 block, Aug. 10, 1:40 a.m. An officer observed the victim fighting with the suspect, who then turned and observed the police before he began to walk away. The suspect was observed to be holding what was thought to be a semiautomatic
roBBeryS. Broadway, 100 block, Aug. 15, 1:55 a.m.
The two male victims were leaving the bar when they were approached by the male suspect, who displayed a handgun and demanded the victims’ money. One of the victims could see the gun was fake, so he ran fearing the suspect would assault him as the robbery continued. The suspect chased after him, and was spotted by police. The suspect was stopped, and the victims advised police that he had tried to rob the two of them. The suspect was arrested.
E. Baltimore St., 2800 block, Aug. 16, 10 p.m. The victim said that she had just parked and was walking through the alley to get to her home when the three suspects, male juveniles, approached her. One of them pulled out an unknown caliber handgun, pointed it at her face, and demanded “everything,” while the other two suspects acted as lookouts. The suspect with the gun took her property, and fled with the other two toward Kenwood Ave. The victim went to a neighbor’s house to wait for police. The report is cut off here.
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I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again: If you put a quality product on the field, people will come to watch…unless of course you’re the Tampa Bay Rays. Then you’re just screwed no matter what.
Currently, the Baltimore Orioles are in first place by seven games over the Toronto Blue Jays, and as of Monday, Aug. 18, they are averaging 30,410 fans per game. The last time they averaged more than 30,000 fans per game was back in 2005: 32,404 fans per game en route to a 74-88 season. After that, those Oriole teams were less than stellar and their attendance dipped down to the low 20,000’s, bottoming out at 21,395 in 2010 when they went 66-96.
If their current record holds, the O’s will finish over .500 for the third year in a row. Not bad considering they had 14 consecutive losing seasons before this stretch. The last time they were over .500 for three years in a row was from 1992-1994. (Technically 1994 ended in a strike, but they were 63-49 at that time.)
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The 2014 O’s seem to be a well-rounded group. They are 34-26 at home and 36-26 on the road. They have played well in extra-inning affairs, going 12-5 in such games, and have also done well in all close games, going 24-18 in one-run games. Those numbers are always helpful come late September and October, when games will most likely be one-run contests.
The O’s have been extremely hot of late, going 17-8 in July and 10-5 in August so far. Actually, since the end of May, when they were playing .500 ball with a record of 27-27, they have gone 43-25, a .632 winning percentage. That’s a pretty good stretch.
It’s not going to be easy however, as they finish the season with a seven-game road trip against the New York Yankees and then the Blue Jays. September in general is going to be rough: The O’s play the Yankees eight times and the Red Sox and Blue Jays six times each. While the road to the playoffs is tough, I think these Orioles have what it takes to get it done.
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He said that this year’s festival—always held the first weekend in October—will be similar to last year’s, which departed from the standard model by allowing alcohol to be drunk throughout the festival grounds, rather than containing it in a few beer gardens.
“Obviously, it comes down to the alcohol part of it,” said Maraziti,
The very beginning of summer is not too soon for planning the Fell’s Point Fun Festival, says Mike Maraziti, president of Fell’s Point Main Street, which last year took over the planning and executing of the festival.Maraziti gave a brief update—“a preemptive strike, if you will,” he said—to the Fell’s Point Residents Association last week on the festival, which was first held in 1966 to showcase the historic Fell’s Point, which would have been demolished to make way for a
Fun Fest planning underway, with more kids’ activities
Licensees, attorneys, and community reps tapped to rewrite Liquor Board rules
The Baltimore City Board of Liquor License Commissioners’ committee to draft new rules and regulations—to govern its administrative operations and hearings—will have its first meeting this summer.The committee, made up of equal parts attorneys, community representatives, and liquor licensees, will convene in late June or early July and meet weekly for about 10 weeks, said Michelle Bailey-Hedgepeth, the board’s new executive secretary, who will head the committee.The board’s rules and regulations have not been rewritten since 1998, so a revision is long overdue, Bailey-Hedgepeth said. IIn addition, new state legislation pertaining to the Baltimore City Liquor Board has mandated that the board review
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PARK PLAN: Community to have voice in process
TREE: Woodturner enjoys sentimental projects
Committee members were first informed that the master planning process had changed. At that meeting, community members were informed that, rather than facilitating the Steering Committee meetings, Mahan Rykiel Associates, a city design and planning firm, would be taking information from the Steering Committee and Recreation and Parks and assembling it into more formal reports in-house.
During the last series of Patterson Park Working Group meetings, which wrapped up in June of last year, Mahan Rykiel facilitated discussion, coming to each monthly meeting with presentations informed by the prior meetings.
Also on July 16, the Steering Committee was informed of the longer time line for the project.
“It’s going more slowly than I would like it go at this point,” said Councilman Jim Kraft,
taking a less optimistic tone than Robinson or Richmond. “At this point...I’m going to defer to the community groups and the working group folks. If they are happy with the speed at which it’s moving, that’ll be fine with me...I got the sense the other night that the community was a little more accepting of the time schedule they [the city] were putting forward.” He added with a laugh, “I wasn’t, but the community was.”
The master planning process is now focused on five main components of Patterson Park—its access, its recreational facilities and uses, programming, the maintenance and governance of it all, and finance. These components were assigned special subcommittees in March, and Robinson said that they are still meeting as needed.
She added that the community will continue to have a voice in the process.
“There will be community involvement along the way, absolutely,” she said.
He notes that tap handles can have a strong influence on drinkers’ decisions, a fact lost on some barkeeps until the phrase “I want the one with the cow on it” switches on the light bulb.
Supik says that he turns wood “for fun” when he’s not making architectural pieces, tap handles, or teaching woodturning classes. Out of that pastime came the Empty Tree Pit Project.
A fair bit of his work explores a connection to not just the wood but individual trees. Several years ago, a tree came down on Baylis St. in Highlandtown. A woman had raised her
family in the shade of that being, and she brought the pieces to Mark.
“She said, ‘Whatever you can make of it, I just want to have something to give myself.”
Supik & Co. fashioned bowls, utensils, wine stoppers and knitting implements from the wood.
“She came in here and she was literally in tears,” Mark says. “It was touching for us.”
Editor’s note: Photos for this article were generously provided by Joe Nash, a Butchers Hill resident. See more of his work at jnash.smugmug.com/Joe.
| Photo by Joe Nash
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