SUTTON PARK PRESS Sutton Park Condominium Board Meetings are held on the first A Community of Willing Volunteers Wednesday of the Sutton Park is a commu- Blackman, Giuseppe dows, and the Board will month beginning at nity of people who vol- Erba, Adele Gorges and use the same vendor 6:30 PM in the lower unteer their time and Eileen Petrillo formed a within the next few years level Community expertise to enhance the Windows Committee, to replace faulty windows Room value of the physical then spent months re- in the Common Areas. property and enrich the searching windows and For new residents who quality of life within it vetting potential ven- might be interested in for all of us. Below is a dors. They wrote a report replacing their windows, February 2020 list of some of them and which was distributed to hard copies of the report their contributions. all resident owners and and information about Volume , Issue landlords. After the list the approved vendor are Inside this issue: Sandy Beery, head of the of contractors was nar- available from Garry Social Committee, whose rowed down, then Dick Mount. Willing Volunteers 2 other current and continued members are Sandy After a disastrous fire in Another Wonderful 3 listed in an Beery 2015, Nancy Nurick, Ad- Evening accompanying visited ele Gorges and Linda Welcome New 3 article, have three Roth formed a Fire Safe- Neighbors provided deli- compa- ty Committee which con- Holiday Party 4 cious food nies to sulted with the Roches- Drive Safely 4 and entertain- find ter Fire Department to Laundry Room 5 ment set in pleasing mi- one which could be rec- develop new written pro- lieus twice a year for ommended to us as an cedures for fire safety Reminders 5 many years. approved vendor. Final- which were posted Staff Snapshots 6 ly, Giuseppe Erba, Adele around Common Areas Try it and then 7 Cynthia Arrington and Gorges, Garry Mount and distributed individu- Joni Dattilo, current and Stan Siwiec polled ally to all residents. Decide members of the Welcom- owners and landlords to Facebook 7 ing Committee, meet all develop a critical mass of Continued on page 2 Words of Wisdom 7 new residents and orient buyers, so that they them to Sutton Park. could negotiate a volume discount. As a result When some residents eighteen homeowners were dissatisfied with made a significant invest- their windows, Esther ment installing new win- Page 2 Sutton Park Press A Community of Willing Volunteers continued A representative firefighter from bicycles, and donated abandoned who are not one of the original the RFD talked with us at a public ones to a local charity which re- thirty-eight customers can later meeting and left written sugges- pairs and distributes them to city start this service if they contact tions for fire prevention which residents. With the help of OSM Greenlight and contract for it. were summarized in the Sutton Stan Siwiec, they developed a reg- Park Press for all residents who istration system to keep track of all Patti Donahue, Adele Gorges, and couldn’t attend the meeting. The your bicycles stored in the garage. Maureen McCoy have spent committee also researched new months rewriting and editing the fire safety systems and interviewed Liz Cook and Eileen Petrillo up- Residents Manual with Rules and potential vendors. Building on dated our in-house telephone Di- Regulations. Their efforts clarify their work Spencer rectory, added an some definitions, eliminate repeti- Cook, Adele Gorges email list, and dis- tion, and simplify this document and Bill Kelly are con- tributed it to every to make it much more readable. tinuing research on resident so that we The Board is reviewing their final up-to-date fire and can communicate draft during February. All home- security systems; they with each other. If owners will have the opportunity will evaluate available your email address, to review it online at Realty Perfor- products and systems landline or cell mance Group’s website or in hard- which the Condomin- phone numbers copies during the whole month of ium might install. change, please let March before the Board votes in Liz know so that April. Comments can be made to Maureen McCoy and Liz Cook are she can update them in the Direc- any Board Member or by placing a the permanent members of the tory, which will be revised every hard copy in the Board of Manag- House and Garden Committee three months. ers mailbox in the second class which decorates the Library and mail room. Lobby, and adds beauty to our Eileen Petrillo spent months in- grounds. Among the many others forming residents and negotiating This is a brief review of current who devote time, expertise and with Greenlight, an innovative committees and their ongoing pro- financial donations to this ongo- Internet Service Provider which jects, and I apologize to anyone ing project are Giuseppe Erba, provides high speed and high vol- whose contributions to the tangi- Mark Pierzynski, Mark Schork, ume connections through fiber ble and intangible value of our Danielle Lubin, Cynthia Arring- optic lines. She arranged several home were not celebrated here. If ton, Joni Dattilo, Prudy Medina, meetings open to all residents with you would like to help on a com- Linda Lobb, Deb Clark and staff representatives from the company, mittee, please reach out to current members Eileen McFadden, Stan and she worked very hard to se- members. If you have an idea for a Siwiec, and Jamie Yeaw. cure commitments from thirty- new project or a suggestion about eight households, a quota of cus- enhancing Sutton Park, please To solve the problem of the bicy- tomers large enough for Green- contact the Board. cle racks in the garage being so light to install their lines through- stuffed with bikes that there wasn’t out our buildings. Greenlight’s Garry Mount room for new ones, Anita Cohen technicians are currently installing and Adele Gorges started a Bike their lines so that homeowners Committee. They inventoried the Volume 13, Issue 1 Page 3 Another Wonderful Evening On November 16, 2019, Dick and Brothers. Having loved and lost and Cindy gave us “Puttin’ on the Sandy Beery opened their beauti- his first wife, then finding joy Ritz” and “Cheek to Cheek”. ful home to forty guests, pampered again in a second happy marriage, From Ethel Merman’s Call Me them with gourmet snacks, fine Berlin in 1921 began composing Madam they sang the contrapuntal wines and craft beers while slow romantic ballads. “You’re Just in Love”. a trio of polished perform- Cindy and Alan pre- ers treated them to a con- sented familiar ballads Michael, Alan and Cindy are a cert of Irving Berlin’s which expressed deep team whose respect for each oth- works. Michael Lasser pro- love, loss and longing er’s talents and joy performing to- vided insightful commen- from this era: “What’ll I gether enriched the evening. Dick tary, Alan Jones sang, ac- Do?”, “How About and Sandy’s guests were not only companied himself and Me?”, “I’ll Be Loving entertained but also developed a Cindy Miller on piano, as You Always” and many complete picture of Irving Berlin they presented a repertoire others. the artist and the man. The group of Irving Berlin’s songs will perform in Vero Beach and from different phases of his career. Berlin wrote for the Zeigfield Follies Sarasota during the winter and and then in the nineteen thirties will return to perform Sunday May A Russian Jewish immigrant, Ber- composed for revues. Cindy and 10 Mother’s Day at 2 PM in Kil- lin grew up in grinding poverty in Alan presented favorites from this bourn Hall. The program is spon- New York City. According to Mi- chapter of his career: “Heat sored by WXXI and is about the chael, he was a genius capable of Wave”, “Summertime”, “Easter portrayal of women in songs lead- anticipating musical trends, and Parade”, and “How Deep is the ing up to Suffrage. It is titled She’s then composed songs which be- Ocean?”. Good Enough to Vote with You: Songs came wildly popular. from the Time of Suffrage. Tickets In the final part of the show the will be available on the WXXI From 1911 to 1921 Berlin special- group presented Berlin’s movie website. Look for announcements ized in Ragtime with its syncopat- hits and standards from his last and don’t miss it! ed rhythms and lyrics. In 1914, he successful Broadway musical. composed for his first Broadway From Fred Astaire and Ginger Garry Mount show Coconuts starring the Marx Rogers’ Top Hat Michael, Alan Welcome New Neighbors Welcoming Committee mem- Gail and Brad Yoshioka bers Cynthia Arrington and (001); James and Maria Joni Dattilo have welcomed O’Brien (315); Stephen many new residents over the and Gretchen Lane (313); last several months and encour- and Ken Emanuel (208). age you to get acquainted if you haven’t already. Say hello to: Geri Album and Michael Israel (415); Marjory David (314); Ann Taylor (112); Page 4 Sutton Park Press Holiday Party 2019 and the Snickerdoodle Mystery What can add even more festive- set-up and clean-up: Walt Bur- McCoy for her making the Lobby ness to the Sutton Park Holiday rows, Celia and Frank Carretta, bouquet and the Library look fes- Party than a good mystery? Many Ok Nae Howe, Hildabeth Klein tive even before the party, and to people, including Anita Cohen, and Nancy Nurick. Thank you. David Ruffo, Celia Carretta and Marilyn Enderby, Adele Gorges, Adding to the ambience were table Joni Dattilo Barbara linens from Mark Pierzynski and for decorat- Hantman, Giuseppe Erba, wine glasses from ing the tree Nancy Nu- Eileen Petrillo, the water cooler this year.