May BHA Meeting

Come hear the news and share your views

The next meeting of the Boylan Heights Association will be held Tuesday May 25, 2004, 7PM at Project Enlightenment 501 S. Boylan Avenue (between Cabarrus and Lenoir) in the library.

Meeting Agenda

1. Welcome

2. Committee Reports - Website, Treasurer, Neighborhood Watch, others reports…

3. West Gateway Planning Update

4. Traffic calming

5. Announcement of candidates for BHA leadership

6. Other business

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Call for nominations

It’s election time for BHA officers for 2004-2005.

All elected positions: President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer will be on the ballot. Election will be held at the Memorial Day Picnic, on May 31. Anyone interested in running, please contact

Paul Meyer 838-9028 (h), paul.meyer@boylanheights.org

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Attend Democratic Precinct Work Night
Democratic Precinct (27) in Boylan Heights is having a work night at 7p.m. on Wednesday, May 26, at Ann Green's house on 510 Cutler St. We will be updating voter registration lists in preparation for a Get Out the Vote effort for the November election. Refreshments will be served.

Block captains are needed. For more information, call Ann at 828-6888, or agcarver@unity.ncsu.edu

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Boylan Heights Graduation Party 2004

The Boylan Heights Graduation Party will be held

this year on Sunday, May 30 at 5:30 on McCulloch St.

This is a street pot luck celebrating all the high school graduates from the neighborhood and honoring everyone moving up to middle school and to high school. We have 10 High School graduates this year. Hot dogs and hamburgers, cake, and drinks will be provided, as well as plates, cups, etc. Please bring a

side dish to share.

The graduates' families will be singing to them, we'll

all join in and of course we'll have the traditional kazoo procession. Hope you can make it.

For more information, please contact Susan Parry

by phone 755-0585 or email skparry@nc.rr.com.

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Annual Memorial Day Picnic will be Monday, May 31 at the Gazebo at Dix Campus, gather @ 6pm.

BHA will provide soft drinks and plastic cutlery.

Please bring a potluck item to share.

Elections will take place for BHA officers.

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Stroll with neighbors during the Moonlight Walk . Neighbors join us on our evening walk through the neighborhood Sunday, June 6 starting

at 8:30 PM.

Meet us at 728 South Boylan (near Dorothea) and stroll with us through the streets of Boylan Heights.
We do this to increase neighborhood foot traffic, to take note of any faulty street lighting, and to get to know each other. Hope to see you then!

Questions: contact Santiago Hernandez, 833-7456 (h) or Santiago@adteco.com

The Big Boylan Bash 2004

The incredible Boylan Heights block party - “The Big Boylan Bash 2004” will be Sunday August 1 from 5 to 9 pm at Dupont Circle Park.

The first organizational meeting was Sunday April 18. At that meeting, we divided into small committees and decided that we will be doing most of the work through the committees. The committees and their point people are provided below. Please consider helping with this year's Bash. The best way to start is by calling the point people and ask what you can. You can choose exactly how much or how little you want to participate.

Our next organizational meeting is Monday May 23rd at 7 pm at Dupont Circle Park.

Music:	Kelly 919-522-6037
Food & Beverage:	Caron 919-838-9028 K.D. 919-755-1066
Advertising:	David and Santiago 919-833-7456
Logistics:	Paul 919-838-9028 Jay 919-821-4725 Chris and Jimmy 919-755-3558

In addition, we are looking for someone who will organize children’s activities for The Bash that would last about an hour. Interested? Call Chris Weedy at 755-3558.

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Triangle Transit Authority

Open house in Raleigh:

NCSU Campus McKimmon Center

(Western Boulevard and Gorman Street)

Raleigh, NC 27695

(919) 515-2277

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

More info at www.GoTriangle.org or (919) 549-9999

2004 is an election year.

Boylan Heights is in Precinct 01-27. The voting place is Project Enlightenment, 501 S. Boylan.

July 20, 2004 Primary
November 2, 2004 General Election

All citizens are encouraged to vote. For information

Contact the Wake County Board of Elections,

337 South Salisbury Street, Raleigh, NC.

Phone: 856-6240

Registering to Vote : http://msweb03.co.wake.nc.us/bordelec/voterreg.htm

(tells you where to register, how, when you need to register in order to vote, allows you to download the form to register to vote)

Primary Schedule: http://msweb03.co.wake.nc.us/bordelec/20040720_Schedule.htm

(tells you all the significant events leading up to the primary - July 20, 2004)

Election Schedule: http://msweb03.co.wake.nc.us/bordelec/20041102_

Schedule.htm

(tells you all the significant events leading up to the election -November 2, 2004)

Wake County Board of Elections: http://msweb03.co.wake.nc.us/bordelec/default.htm

(for information on voting in Wake County)

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Downtown West Gateway Plan

Community Review Session

Wednesday, June 2, 2004

Raleigh Urban Design Center

133 Fayetteville Street Mall

5:00-6:30PM

Questions call: Dhanya Sandeep 890-3653

or email dhanya.sandeep@ci.raleigh.nc.us

The Boylan Heights web site (BoylanHeights.org) began a new section called Meet Your Neighbor in April. Each month we highlight a new family.

Here is the April 2004 interview….

Meet Your Neighbor: April 2004

Deborah Whitfield and Robert Nash

Deborah Whitfield and Robert Nash live at 901 W. South Street with Simon, an 8- month old wire fox terrier, and Tiggertail “Tig” Whitfield, a 15 year old cat. They bought their house from Mack and Julie Paul in 1996. They discovered the house “by accident” while considering several houses in the Five Points area. What attracted them to the neighborhood was that the owner lived in the house and was moving within the neighborhood, that the house had had repairs and “had potential,” and that the neighborhood offered a setting where they could get to know their neighbors, as opposed to the Lake Johnson neighborhood they came from where neighbors merely waved to each other, if that. When they moved here Cutler Street Grocery was in business and that was an attraction.

Deborah is from Martin County, in eastern North Carolina. Deborah attended the College of the Albemarle. She is a part-time RN at Wake Med on the neuro-rehab unit and a part-time antique dealer working in private sales. She has been collecting antiques since the early 1980’s. Robert is from Lilburn, Georgia, just outside of Atlanta. He did his undergraduate work at Georgia Tech and attended Duke Business School for his Masters. He is a manager of Environment, Health and Safety at Glaxo Smith Kline.

Deborah has two adult sons, John and Christopher. She and Robert spend their time “entertaining” Simon and gardening together. If you haven’t seen their front and back yards you are missing a gem! Robert built a greenhouse in their backyard three years ago. It took a year to build. Better Homes and Gardens will feature their greenhouse and yard in their May 2004 issue. Recently Robert installed a

(Meet Your Neighbors cont. in next column…)

humidification system and a drip system. The greenhouse has beautiful orchids, an orange tree, African violets, and gorgeous green plants. The greenhouse is complete with speakers to provide music and a place to sit and read. Besides the greenhouse, the back yard has several arbors (adorned by Wisteria and Georgia Rose), a deck, and a beautiful courtyard, all designed by Deborah and Robert. An large agave cactus welcomes you into the back yard.

Deborah and Robert’s 3 bedroom house was built between 1910- 1915. Besides doing all the outside work they have opened up a fireplace and installed coal-burning gas logs. (For information on the Raleigh gas log company they used, go to the Boylan Heights forum and click on Neighborhood Offerings.) Other updates include putting in a new kitchen floor and stripping the hardwood floors.

Deborah and Robert’s dreams for the neighborhood include wanting to see the Dix property become an open park, having a “heart-felt interest in cleaning up the neighborhood, and wanting to see it’s appearance improved. As Boylan Heighters they enjoy our neighborhood web site, being close to the Farmer’s Market, Pullen Park and the Flea Market, and participating in BH events such as the Art Walk, Pink Truck Day, and “the pumpkins at the bridge.”

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BHA Newsletter circulation…

If you have any items to add to the June 2004 BHA newsletter, please contact K. D. Reeve 755-1066 (h) or email: catdreeve@aol.com

Kindly leave a way for me to contact you in case of any questions about your entry.

Last day to enter announcements for June’s newsletter is Wednesday, June 16.

News from Rebus Works Gallery

If you have not made it to the New Show at

Rebus Works, a gallery space next to the Boylan Bridge, Shonna and Lee invite you to stop by.

Rebus Works is in the workspace of Shonna Greenwell¹s pH seven fine arts framing and the office of Lee Moore, an arts educator who also works in photography and exhibitions.

Our current show:
"New Paintings" by David Connell
Exhibition runs May 9th through June 19th
Gallery Talk: Saturday June 19, 4pm

There is also have a special collection of artists working in ceramics, jewelry, garden art, glass, bird houses, painting, book making, cards and paper, handbags and more.

These artists include:

Graham Auman, Marina Bosetti, Shawn Ireland,

Stacey Kirby, Kathy King, David Larson, Casey Porn,

Annette Marsland, Susan Myers, Betty McKim,

Eddie Taylor, Simone Travisano, Gina Schwenn,

Carol Vargo, and Sarah Kathleen Warner.

We hope to see you there! -- Lee and Shonna

Rebus Works/ 310-2 Kinsey St/ Raleigh NC 27603

11-7 Tues-Fri , Sat 1-4
Www.rebusworks.net/ email: pete@rebusworks.net
919-854-8452

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Summer Concert Series

Raleigh Parks and Recreation's Arts Office

(919) 831-6854 or www.raleigh-nc.org/parks&rec