Published by :The North Avondale Neighborhood Association 617 Clinton Springs Ave. 45229 Voice mail: (513) 401.5356 Email: [email protected] Website : Northavondalecincinnati.com Facebook: North Avondale Neighborhood Association Cincinnati JUNE 2018 Volume LVII No. 9 President: Heather Herr Editor: Charlene Morse PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE NABA Many people have been asking questions regarding the Dear Neighbors, status of the development of the vacant lot by Paddock and Happy summer and sunshine. I am honored Reading Roads. Late last year, NANA and NABA formed a and excited to serve as the North Avondale joint committee that worked with the city to draft the RFP Neighborhood 2018-19 President. that was used to solicit developers in January. That search did not produce any offers, but we learned a lot about what A huge thank you to Tiffani Tribble , our developers want and any issues that they may have with the former president, and to all the officials and property and we are working to improve and eliminate these numerous community liaisons that have problems, perhaps and most likely through an RFQ. worked tirelessly to support NANA this past year. Your contributions are so important and we are grateful. Working with the city’s department of economic development, we are currently engaged in developing a plan My vision for our neighborhood this year includes three to revise the intersection at Paddock and Reading to allow left things: PEOPLE, PASSION, VISION. One of my favorite and right turns from both Paddock and Barry Lane and to quotes by Nelson Mandela, “Action without vision is only calm traffic along Reading Road. This plan will make access passing time, vision without action is daydreaming, but vision to the lot easier for the future businesses that may locate with action can change the world”. there. As a 20 year resident of North Avondale I have met many Additionally the condition of the Lenox building has been a neighbors, created new and lasting friendships, volunteered in strong deterrent to a developer. Recently the building was many capacities, raised a family, started businesses, moved closed for safety and code violations and the owner is making once and came back and realized that this is the best repairs and improvements to the building while developing a neighborhood in Cincinnati. Our community is full of business plan to revitalize the property and possibly partner talented and giving individuals that want to see growth, with and develop it with any potential developer for the change and transformation. This is our year to shine. vacant lot. I would like to create a call to action for us to pull together as The various businesses that were located in the Lenox have a team. I am asking and encouraging that everyone come been evicted and the car repairs and motorcycle maintenance together and take an active part of our community going that was once being conducted there has stopped and the forward so we can reach our goals and make positive change. consequences are no longer polluting our streets in the form As Tiffani said in her last message, “Our diversity is our of litter, inoperable junk vehicles stored on our neighborhood strength; let’s use it to our advantage.” streets and repeated loud noise from motorcycles headquartered there. Also the “nightclub,” “Tha HQ” My expectations are grand and we will have so much fun operating illegally as a "convenience store” while promoting along the way. Cheers to a wonderful summer and months liquor sales, strippers, tattoos, teen nights, 420 (code for ahead. marijuana) hookah parties and "ladies on ladies" Heather Herr entertainment has ceased to operate there after being busted Annual Meeting by the police. All a vast improvement. Poet, memoirist, teacher and editor Pauletta Hansel read Michael Caporale President from some of her works at the NANA Annual Meeting, including her most recently published collection, Palindrome, which was awarded the prestigious Weatherford Award for NANA General Meeting the best Appalachian poetry book of 2017. Pauletta served as Tuesday June 12, 7:00pm North Avondale Recreation Center the first Poet Laureate of Cincinnati from April 2016 through March 2018. She is author of six poetry collections, and teaches at Thomas More College, as well as at workshops and Next General Meeting is July 10, 2018 classes around Cincinnati. You can follow her work https:// Thank you for paying your 2018 NANA Dues paulettahansel.wordpress.com/ Thank you to The New School for hosting our meeting . NANA UPDATES To pay the Parks to maintain the flower pots along Reading Road, we are taking donations for 2018 . You can BEAUTIFICATION make a donation online at: http:// northavondalecincinnati.com/ donate/ and check Other and Welcome Summer!!! put: flower pots or you can mail a donation to: NANA, 617 I would like to begin with thanking Sarah Koucky for Clinton Springs Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229, ATTN: volunteering her precious time in assisting me with the Beautification. Please consider helping with a tax deductible flower bed in Seasongood Square Park. We appreciate donation so we can continue making our neighborhood everyone's kind support as we get the park bed in shape for beautiful! the season. A shout out of "looks good," honking cars, Thank you! giving us a "thumbs up" are all gratefully appreciated. If Carolyn Gillman - Flower Pot Fundraising Chair anyone wants to join in, let me know. Maura Wolf and I also have unending thanks to all of you CINCY NEIGHBORHOOD GAMES who help with Beautification. Your passion is strong and many of us appreciate it. Keep Cincinnati Beautiful (KCB) was so impressed with our Spring Cleanup and UC’s Cleanup Cincy felt it was the best organized event in the city. Thanks to each of you who participated for your labor, efforts and VOLUNTEERING for the neighborhood. KCB has given our neighborhood first place awards several years in a row, but to enter our cleanup events for award consideration, we need volunteers to submit the projects. Please let us know if you can help write submissions to KCB. These awards come with $500, which we've used for more beautification, like helping fund the Flower Pots. The Flower Pot program is a cost sharing program through the Cincinnati Parks. Neighborhood Captain: none - contact us if you want to Carolyn Gillman is graciously assisting in fund raising for step up. If interested in competing or volunteering, email the flower pots. Please see her note below and consider [email protected] donating if you haven't already. In conclusion, I feel it necessary to personally thank Beth For more information : www.CincyGames.com Ewing . All of us who drive past the flower bed located at North Avondale CINCY Neighborhood Games the Clinton Springs and Washington Ave.'s have admired the beauty of what Beth Ewing has growing in that flower HEALTH & WELLNESS bed. The appreciation for the neighborhood, Even though we all can note how tobacco use has decreased VOLUNTEERING your time for us does not go over the past 50 years, it is still a problem and it is still the unnoticed. No doubt, it's beautiful. Great planning and leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United patience went into this. States. Today youth under 21 can legally purchase tobacco Beth has had a few things added on her chore list and products. There has been a movement throughout the country decided the Washington garden had to be given up. All of to raise the legal tobacco sale age to 21. It is called the us understand this very well. Thank you Beth for Tobacco 21Initiative . The Office on Smoking and Health organizing the group of volunteers to spruce up the garden report that 9 out of 10 cigarette smokers tried smoking by age this year, and working with Andrew Beiting to take over 18. It has been a marketing strategy for tobacco companies to the garden. Thank you to Alva & Leon Reid and develop and target our youth and young adults, spending downtown resident Brian Hill (formerly Burton Woods upwards of $400 million a year! Raising the minimum age that Lane) for helping Beth on the work day and to Andrew for retailers can sell tobacco products should reduce the number stepping up to own the Garden! of teenagers who start smoking prematurely. Already Thank you Beth for what you have done to help make our California, New Jersey, Oregon, Hawaii and Maine have neighborhood a better place and Cincinnati's Best address. passed laws raising the age to 21. Columbus, Ohio has been implementing the law since October, 2017. Cincinnati is in the We need new volunteers to keep up with all of our NA process of trying to develop support for the Tobacco beautification efforts; if you can help, even a little, please 21Initiative. The Cincinnati Health Department, Interact for contact me at [email protected] . Health and the American Heart Association are advocating for the Tobacco 21Initiative. For more information, contact the Everyone have a fun eventful summer!!!! Cincinnati Health Department. Go jump in a lake! Or pool! The Cincinnati Health Department has started a new policy See you in the neighborhood ! for it’s Elm Street Health Center patients called “Shared Emily Harten Beautification Chair Medical Appointments”. What it does is to combine medical (Continued on page 5) (2) FROM THE CITY & NON distinct character and identity in each of the neighborhoods PROFITS POLICE to reinforce local pride and instill in everyone a better sense The Cincinnati Health Department, in partnership of place. with the Health Collaborative, is conducting a Please visit the CincyFlags Neighborhood Information Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) form here to fill out a quick survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/ for the Southwest Ohio and the Tristate area.