Park Hill

The Resident’s Association writes:

The Park Hill Land Conservancy and the Park Hill Residents’ Assoc. have been accepted by the Department of Transportation adopt-a-highway program for the Park Hill gateway area at the Rumsey Road/Cross County Parkway intersection.

We will be doing once a month Saturday clean up and vine cutting for the next year. Volunteers are urgently needed. Come for an hour - come for the day - meet your neighbors. The DOT provides hard hats, safety vests, orange trash bags. We provide labor and enthusiasm for picking up garbage, rooting out invasive vines and planting.

The schedule of Saturdays is:
October. 22
November 11
December 10
…with 2006 dates to follow.

Please contact coordinator: Terry Joshi at 914 969 4142 or mommylooloo AT hotmail DOT com.

Into orange? Got a neatness fetish? Or do you just want to keep the first part of Park Hill that we and most visitors often see clean? Than sign up for a Saturday. If everyone does one Saturday a year, why in no time at all you’ll be able to eat right off that highway. Or, um, something like that.

Park Hill 2005 Members’ Picnic
Sunday, September 18, Noon – 5 pm, Rain or Shine
A Day of Food, Fun, Music, Meeting New Friends and Catching Up with Old Friends
Right in the Neighborhood at the Racquet Club

Everthing is FREE, but only for Park Hill Residents’ Association Members

If you have paid dues this year, please join us! RSVP by Wednesday, September 14 with the information below.

If you aren’t yet a member, look for the letter with your address label on it in the mailing you received just before Labor Day and send your dues to the address below with your RSVP.

RSVP with your name, address, number of adults (immediate family members only), number of children, and number of guests @ $5 each.

- Email your RSVP to picnic@ParkHillYonkers.org,
OR
- Mail to PHRA, P.O. Box 59, Yonkers, NY 10705

Volunteers Needed
We also need a few more volunteers to help out on the day of the Picnic. If you have a couple of hours on Sunday to help set up, clean up, flip burgers or help with kids games, please write to:

list AT parkhillyonkers DOT org

…and let us know what you can help with.

We look forward to seeing you on Sunday!

The Park Hill Residents’ Association will hold their annual meeting at the Park Hill Racquet Club on Thursday, June 8th, at 7:30 p.m.

Speakers will include Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone; Captain Frank Intervallo from the Yonkers Police Dept. 3rd Precinct; Det. Bob Stumpf also from the YPD to discuss identity theft and how to prevent it; and our very own web designer, John Boudreau, presenting highlights from our website.

This is fantastic organization doing good work for the neighborhood. I encourage everyone to go. Capt. Intervallo, whose taken time to do similar engagements before, is an especially good (and patient) speaker. And, naturally, I encourage everyone who’s not a member to become one.

I ran this the other day, but I’m running it again, especially as it looks like we’re going to have some nice weather for the event.

The PHRA says:

Eat Pancakes, Pay Less

Our first Pancake Breakfast & Plant Sale is on Sunday, May 22nd,9:00 am – 11:30 am at The Racquet Club! Rain or Shine

Buy advance tickets now and save $2 off each breakfast:
Adults, $10 at the door, $8 in advance
Kids, $7 at the door, $5 in advance

Send your check to PHRA, P.O. Box 59, Yonkers, NY 10705.
Indicate your name, number of adults and number of children. Your name will be at the door when you arrive. We must receive your check by Friday, May 20th to receive advance sale prices!

So bring your appetite, and your green thumb and green cash for the plants.

Proceeds will benefit beautification projects in Park Hill. See you there.

Volunteers are needed for the breakfast and the plant sale. If you can help, contact Kathryn Buckley at 375-5125 or email BuckleyJim[@]msn[.]com.

I’ll be with the wife in the Old Country, so someone please have a stack of blueberry pancakes, some link sausages and a couple of bloody mary’s for me, ok?

The PHRA says:

Eat Pancakes, Pay Less

Our first Pancake Breakfast & Plant Sale is on Sunday, May 22nd,
9:00 am – 11:30 am at The Racquet Club!
Rain or Shine

Buy advance tickets now and save $2 off each breakfast:
Adults, $10 at the door, $8 in advance
Kids, $7 at the door, $5 in advance

Send your check to PHRA, P.O. Box 59, Yonkers, NY 10705.
Indicate your name, number of adults and number of children.
Your name will be at the door when you arrive.
We must receive your check by Friday, May 20th to receive advance sale prices!

So bring your appetite, and your green thumb and green cash for the plants.

Proceeds will benefit beautification projects in Park Hill. See you there.

Volunteers are needed for the breakfast and the plant sale. If you can help, contact Kathryn Buckley at 375-5125 or email BuckleyJim[@]msn[.]com.

So come on out and eat plant some pancakes, or, em, eat some plants or whatever.

This coming Saturday, April 30th and Sunday, May 1st, the Park Hill Residents’ Association will hold their annual tag sale. Let’s take the easy way out and block quote this:

Sat. 4/30 & Sun. 5/1 - Park Hill Tag Sale - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
RAIN or SHINE! Join your friends and neighbors for our community Tag Sale. This annual event has become known throughout Westchester as THE weekend for great bargains and deals. It’s also a fun way to meet your neighbors. Maps are available at participating homes on Rumsey Road. To get your house listed on the map, please contact Kathryn Buckley at 375-5125, by 3:00 pm Friday, April 29.

I picked up some great stuff last year, including a cool 1950s outdoor table and chair set.

Also on Saturday, come and enjoy an evening of acoustic music at the Racquet Club’s first Open Mic Nite: Musicians Anonymous.

A little further on the horizon is the Downtown and Waterfront’s Mayfair which will include lots of fun events and the opening of the farmers’ market.

It looks like the Park Hill Residents’ Association’s annual Tag Sale is slated for Saturday, April 30th. Time to dust off crazy aunt Sally’s hat collection and try once again to pawn it off on the trollers from Pelham Manor.

Then, after sating your capitalistia lust, relax to the music of the people at Musicians Anonymous.

More on both these events later…