The Official Newsletter of the Southampton Neighborhood Association • September 2007 Next Southampton Neighborhood SNA to Sponsor Progressive Association Meetings Yard/Garage Sale Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Saturday, September 29 Time: 7:00 p.m. Refreshments will be served The Southampton Neighborhood Association is organizing and sponsoring another Progressive Yard/Garage Sale this fall Location: Southampton Presbyterian Church on Saturday, September 29, 2007 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Lower level gymnasium 4716 Macklind Avenue (at Nottingham) If you are interested in having a yard or garage sale at your SNA Officers, Board Members residence, you may sign up by completing the registration form in this newsletter. The $10 registration fee is a deal as it includes advertising in the Post-Dispatch, Journal and online, placement of a sale & City Officials sign with balloons in your yard, and inclusion of your address on the map. All you have to do is display and mark Chad Stockel, President your items! This day also offers an excellent opportunity to find some real bargains right in the neighborhood. 752-9972 • [email protected] Maps to the homes with sales will be sold for $2 beginning at 7:30 a.m. the day of the sale near the corner of Macklind and Nottingham Avenues. Ron Coleman, Vice President & Newsletter Editor 832-3872 • [email protected] In the past we have had more than fifty houses participate by holding sales and several hundred sale-shoppers Andrew Barrett, Treasurer coming through the neighborhood. This is also a fundraiser for the SNA and allows us the opportunity to show 351-6343 • [email protected] off our neighborhood. For more information please contact Michele Cygan at 517-8679 or email snagaragesale@ Marie Robinson, Secretary gmail.com. We hope you will participate as either a seller or shopper! 667-5268 • [email protected] Pat Theodore, Chris Nitzsche, Block Captain Co-Chairs 352-7137 • [email protected] 448-1138 • [email protected] Are You As Smart as You Look? Stephen Gregali, 14th Ward Alderman (includes Macklind to Kingshighway) Macklind Business Districts holds Trivia Night Fundraiser 622-3287 • [email protected] Donna Baringer, 16th Ward Alderman The Board of Directors of the Macklind Business District is hard at work planning a Trivia Night fundraising (includes Macklind to Hampton) 641-8377 • [email protected] event to be held Saturday, October 13, 2007 at the new Parish Center at Our Lady of Sorrows Church at South Kingshighway and Rhodes. Doors open at 6 p.m. and Trivia play will be from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Sandy Colvin, The proceeds from this fundraiser will go to various improvements and initiatives 14th Ward Neighborhood Stabilization Off icer slated for the Macklind Business District in 2007 and 2008. 613-3169 • [email protected] DeAnna Murphy, If you haven’t been to a trivia night before, you will definitely want to come to 16th Ward Neighborhood Stabilization Off icer this one! The way it works is that tables of eight form a team and your table 589-8161 • [email protected] submits its answers to unique trivia questions during rounds of questions. Your Don Veile, Public Affairs Off icer table answer sheet is scored after every round and the table with the most points St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department at the end of the evening wins. You are encouraged to form table teams with 444-0168 • [email protected] friends, neighbors, co-workers or family members, bring food to share with your table-mates and decorate your tables. JOIN THE SNA! YOUR Tables of eight are on sale for $200 or $25 per person. Admission to this fundraiser includes soft drinks, beer, MEMBERSHIP MATTERS wine, and snacks plus some outrageous trivia. Prizes for First, Second and Third Place winning tables and “Best Join or renew your membership to the Southampton Decorated” table will be provided. Rumor has it that Mr. Pete Manzo, of Manzo’s Italian sausage fame, will be Neighborhood Association. Simply mail this form with your the emcee or “Trivia Master” for the evening. Neither confirming nor denying, Pete issued this warning, “Heckle annual dues of $10 per household. Your current membership at your own peril!” and promised some surprises. This should make for a very interesting evening! status can be found above the mailing address. So call your neighbors, friends, co-workers and grab a team of eight and go to www.macklindbd.com to register New Member Membership Renewal and pay using PayPal online or call 256-9835. Our goal is to fill the Parish Center so reserve your table today! Name ______________________________ Address: ____________________________ Homeowner Renter Business/Property Owner Phone (optional): __________________________ THE LATEST NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ IS ON THE Southampton Email (optional): ___________________________ YAHOO! Group. Register to read messages from your neighbors, ask questions, address concerns, talk about your favorite business, connect with city services and I can volunteer! (optional) Photographer much more! Joining IS FREE. FOLLOW THESE 4 EASY STEPS: Editor Writer Block Captain Landscape Social PR Special Events Board Please make your check payable to: “Southampton Neighborhood Association” and mail to: 1 2 3 4 Southampton Neighborhood Association, Inc. Type Under the heading, In the resulting window, In the next window, P.O. Box 5183 www.groups.yahoo.com “Join a Group,” type: click on the link: follow the instructions Southampton Neighborhood Southampton Neighborhood. St. Louis, MO 63139 into your browser window. and complete the Click the Search Button. subscription form. President’S Community Updates Business and Commercial Development Message Southtown Centre at Kingshighway and Chippewa is close to having some new tenants. Ron Bush’s Pizza, slated to go across from Coldstone Creamery, is in the final stages of negotiation. There are “coming soon” Hi all, stickers on the windows of this space and lessor Sansone Company is projecting an opening date sometime For those of you who came out early next year. • TheArmy Corp of Engineers is planning to place a recruiting office at Southtown, maxing to enjoy the Summer Picnic, out the allowable amount of office space there. • Fantastic Sam’s is planning to move to Southtown from thank you for taking part in its current space across Chippewa. what’s turning into a nice tradition. We were lucky to have good weather, free trolley TheSouthtown Business Boosters , a volunteer group working on filling the vacancies inSouthtown Centre rides and free sno-cones, and is continuing to contact other businesses about Southtown, including First Watch, St. Louis Bread Company, visits from Aldermen Baringer FedEx Kinko’s, Blockbuster Video, and Sappington Farmer’s Market. First Watch, Bread Company, and and Gregali, representatives from Congressman Sappington Farmer’s Market have expressed some interest in the site. Carnahan’s office, and Mayor Slay himself. Our volunteers Along South Kingshighway, McDonald’s has been demoed, and if you blinked you missed it. The original were outstanding, as usual, Chad Stockel, President, as was support from our development plan called for a new building in ninety days. We expect it will take longer. • Garcia Properties Southampton Neighborhood neighborhood businesses. is working on the yoga studio in its storefront across from Starbuck’s, and is talking to prospective tenants Association about a restaurant in the remaining space. Both DC Auto and Jubilee Church have done extensive facade It’s that time of year again. In work, enhancing the appearance of both buildings. • TheSouthtown Streetscape project is all but done, with addition to being time for the pennant race in baseball, back to school events, fall planting, some sod and a few patches of concrete work that need to be finished. Additionally, Southtown Business cooler weather, and the introduction of the winter seasonal Association members will be adopting stretches of Kingshighway to maintain, removing trash and weeds. beers by our local brewers (the first and last on the list have a special place in my heart), it’s time for membership renewal in the Neighborhood Association. Neighborhood Calling all New and Used Volunteers for a Vision and Brainstorming Session Why should you join? Membership is a great way to meet neighbors outside your block, to get to know your local Big ideas for the neighborhood? Looking to get involved in the community? Interested in political leaders, and to stay informed about issues and have helping make Southampton a better place to live? Just plain bored? The reason for volunteering your voice heard. Your membership allows our Association matters not – Southampton Neighborhood Association is having a volunteer information and to have a strong voice. It’s also pretty cheap. brainstorming meeting on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. in the meeting room Appealing to your sense of responsibility (and guilt) -- while at Macklind Avenue Deli at the corner of Macklind and Nottingham Avenues. All who are we’re lucky enough to be fully staffed by volunteers, we still interested in volunteering are welcome and encouraged to attend. Dick Krekeler, owner of the have bills to pay, and membership dues are how we pay them. The money pays for our insurance, our social events, a portion Deli will be offering $1.50 brews along with the usual sodas, snacks and sandwiches available in the store. of the newsletter costs, and miscellaneous items throughout the year. Without dues, we simply can’t function. We will start by discussing what’s great in the neighborhood and what’s not so great. Hopefully we will have So please, take the time to fill out the form in this Newsletter enough people to break into teams in your interested area, where you can further discuss your visions and and either become a new member, or renew your current hopes for Southampton, come up with a plan of action, and form ad hoc committees.