Old Hyde Park Gazette A Publication of Hyde Park Preservation, Inc. Fall 2015

2015-2016

Hyde Park

Preservation, Inc.

Board and Chairs

PRESIDENT

Rudy Fernandez

IMMEDIATE

PAST PRESIDENT

Carren Rieger Friess

PRESIDENT ELECT

Kippy Nelson

TREASURER

Rolfe Thompson

SECRETARY

Leslie Stephens

MEMBERSHIP

Kelly Kozel

LEGAL

Bob Eddy

SOCIAL EVENTS

Terry Knight

CULTURE and

BEAUTIFICATION

Rosemary Watts

FUNDRAISING

Chandra Henthorne

Elizabeth Christenberry

Meg Fernandez

GOVERNMENT RELATIONS

Mimi Betts

HELP

Flip & Rick Miller

NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECTS

Cindy Ramm

Hyde Park Community Fund

Representative

Pat Cimino

Communications and

Gazette Editor

Tish Thornberry

Welcome New Neighbors

Dada Glaser

Street Captains

June Albert

Yard of the Month

Rosemary Watts

Webmaster

Michael Lynch

Historian

Mary Esther Parker

HPPI Home Tour coming Sunday, December 6

Put this event on your calendar now and prepare for another fantastic tour of eight beautiful historic homes on two blocks of South Boulevard, Sunday, December 6 from 1 - 4 pm, rain or shine. Get more details coming in the next edition of the Gazette, but neighbors can purchase $20 advance tickets, payable by check to: Hyde Park Preservation, Inc., 805 S. Willow Avenue, Tampa, FL 33606 (**please include your e-mail address on your check) or by using your credit card at: www.oldhydeparkfl.org/hometour.

Volunteer docents are always needed and can tour the homes at no charge for their contribution: contact Sheila.seig@yahoo.com.

Save these dates

Saturday, December 5 - HPPI Holiday Party Another lovely Bayshore home sets the holiday spirit before the

Home Tour, HPPI’s major fundraiser to support our neighborhood

improvement projects.

Rudy Fernandez, Hyde Park Preservation, Inc. P a g e 2

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

Walking, jogging or driving through our tree-lined streets, it’s hard not to love living in one of the finest historic neighborhoods in Tampa.

As you know, the new owners of Hyde Park Village, WS Development, are creating a new village in our

back yard with new shops and restaurants (including my personal favorite – the Goody Goody). With

HPPI’s support, Swann Pond has just seen a beautiful upgrade. Recently, HPPI and the city of Tampa

planted more than 100 trees in our neighborhood. In the coming months, we will see a capital improve-

ment project along Edison to address drainage issues in Hyde Park.

Your neighborhood association is dedicated to the historic preservation, rehabilitation and development of Old Hyde Park in addi-

tion to maintaining the aesthetic, civic and communal characteristics of our neighborhood. As an association, we work closely with

the City of Tampa and other authorities, including the Architectural Review Commission to serve the best interests of our distin-

guished neighborhood and our diverse community of residents.

Every year, HPPI sponsors special projects both within our immediate and surrounding neighborhoods funded by your membership

dues and proceeds from our highly anticipated Annual Home Tour. Recently, we adopted the following local projects and pro-

grams:

Street Tree Replacement Project – cooperative effort between HPPI and City of Tampa to plant/upgrade 100 Live Oaks

throughout the neighborhood, restoring (in time) the canopy resulting from the recent removal of numerous dying or sick trees

Co-hosting the Hyde Park Patron’s Party with our adjacent neighborhood association, HHPNA, with proceeds benefitting the

redevelopment of Swann Pond and the adjacent area along Hyde Park Village

Repair and replacement of missing or damaged historic signage and street lights

Planting and on-going maintenance of Kate Jackson urns

Maintenance of Swann Avenue underpass

Annual alley cleanup and waste removal (including document shredding)

Maintaining the HELP program to ensure the safety of our neighborhood by providing evening patrol and special occasion

policing for Halloween, Gasparilla and other events. We're happy to announce that we have significantly reduced our dues in order to increase participation among all neighbors. Fur-ther, dues-paying members will receive a “HELP vinyl window emblem” that will enable HELP Police to identify HPPI members. Now is the time to join HPPI and HELP. You are welcome to pay online with your credit card at www.oldhydeparkfl.org or drop off a check to 719 S. Boulevard. You can also join at the upcoming Happy Fall Y’all Happy Hour on Friday, October 23rd. We look forward to meeting many new neighbors and old friends. Please don't hesitate to call me if you would like to discuss ways that you can get involved – we are always in need of houses to

host social activities and volunteers to help with the home tour. If you have any questions or concerns, my work phone number is

273-8270 and email is rfernandez@rwbaird.com..

Sincerely, Rudy Fernandez, President, HPPI

Friends and Neighbors– We’re losing an opportunity here!

If you’re ordering anything from Amazon.com, first go to our website, http://www.oldhydeparkfl.org, and click on the Amazon link on our website to be taken from there to Amazon. Do not go to Amazon first,

because you may go as far as to put something into your cart and then HPPI will get no credit for the order.

HPPI receives between 4% and 6% of your purchase at no extra expense to you. Any earnings from this program go directly into HPPI fundraising. We started this program December2010, and now regularly receive monthly referral fees. If you do your ordering online for hostess and party gifts, textbooks and reading books, holiday gifts, music and movies and the variety of things available through Amazon, it becomes a silent fund-raiser for HPPI neighborhood projects with only an extra mouse click.

The Amazon order reports show what was ordered, the price and HPPI’s commission, but there is zero information on the individual placing the order - no name, no email address - nothing. So your privacy is protected in every way and you contribute to the cause without leaving home. What could be easier?

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Welcome New Neighbors

Michael & Amy Corcell 903 S. Delaware Michael & Holly Hendricks 830 S. Boulevard Whitney & John Warner 832 S. Boulevard Ben Guzzle 812 S. Oregon Megan & Michael Phillips 830 S. Willow Michael & Heather Disser 1008 S. Dakota Kirsten :& Michael Nicholas 891A S. Oregon Scott & Lindsey Sozio 908 S. Dakota

We want to properly welcome our new neighbors to Hyde Park by giving them a “Welcome Gift Bag” of goodies from HPPI and to inform them of all the area has to offer. We want everyone to have an opportunity to be in the directory and be mentioned in the Gazette. Please contact Dada Glaser at da-da.glaser@verizon.net or by phone at 254-4950 when you know of a new neighbor moving in to our neighborhood. Or, if you’ve recently moved into our neighborhood and have not received a Gift Bag, please feel free to let Dada know to contact you with your name, a phone number and address so we can properly welcome you to our Hyde Park Preservation neighborhood.

Thank you all for your service

Street Captains

We couldn’t get the job done without our hardworking street captains who deliver the Gazette, member direc-tories and all other written material for OHPGC and HPPI. Your street captain drops off the Gazettes and flyers at every doorstep in Old Hyde Park and keeps us aware of new neighbors on your street. If you’re miss-ing a flyer or your Gazette, please contact your street captain to arrange delivery. The street captain coordi-nator, June Albert, bundles and distributes materials to the street captains listed below.

Bayshore Joan King 254-5464 Boulevard Michelle Hinz 258-8050 Brevard & Fielding June Albert 258-4085 Dakota Judy Felman 251-1229 Delaware Mary Greacen 251-1994 Edison Lee Anne Meyer 251-0075 Morrison Laurie Kipphut 259-1129 Newport Dada Glaser 354-4128 Oregon Michelle Wolfe 251-6114 Orleans Sharon Gold 254-1111 Rome & Richardson Chrisi Laxer c679-1918 Willow Wendy Wilson c928-9649 Watrous Sharon Gold and Chrisi Laxer

Please NOTE: We’re always looking for volun-teer substitutes for the street captains to cover when they’re not available. If you’re interested in helping out, please call June Albert to get on the backup list.

Introducing… Your new HPPI member-ship vinyl window emblem to be sent to all 2015-2016 HPPI members. Easy to adhere near your front door window, it indicates to both neighbors and HELP officers your participation in our HPPI neighborhood association, the HELP pro-gram and your support of neighborhood projects. A special thank you to our neighbor, Charlie Greacen, for creating this beautiful design for us free of charge.

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YARDS OF THE MONTH

Hyde Park Preservation, Inc. recognizes neighbors for their efforts to set an example with the Yard of the Month sign in their yard. Small yards, large yards, lawn service or personally planted and attended yards are all considered equally based mainly on easy visual appeal to any and all passing by. To nominate a yard for consideration contact Rosemary Watts at home at 259-1303 or put a note on the door at 817 S. Willow. Please tell her the address of the yard nominated, the owners if you know them and why you felt the yard deserves recognition. Neighbors appre-ciate notice of their efforts and the Yard Award Committee welcomes your input.

Above: August: Shannon & James Falcon, 833 S. Willow Dwarf jasmine ground cover yard with beds of liriope, caladiums, floral hedges and entry topiary and flower planters.

Below: October: Christine & Scott Edinger, 704 S. Willow. Yard offers seating area under draping shaded shrubs, offset with perennial colors of red, yellow, blue. Willowy bushes like the street name have easily survived the heat and rain. Pots on the front stoop repeat the colors with different annuals.

Above & Left: June: Chrisi & David Laxer, 830 S. Rome Avenue, front entry with planters, side flower beds of native plants, flowering shrubs and annuals are heat hearty and colorful. Plants carry color out to the right of way. Below: July: Patricia & Jonathan Pedersen, 1501 Bayshore Boulevard, featured in Hyde Park Living Magazine, expan-sive yard with caladium and floral beds lining the perimeter in pink and white theme, draw the eye to entry’s huge floral planters, up the stairway to fern planters on the veranda.

Left: September: Dada Glaser, 810 S. Newport Lawn, entry and side yard all featured in Dada’s design, grouping native shrubs, annu-als and perennials for lots of color. Spider plants line walk to pots of draping florals and greenery on the stoop. Right: October: Christine & Scott Edinger, 704 S. Willow Seating area under draping shaded shrubs, offset with lots of perennial colors of red, yellow and blue. Wil-lowy bushes have easily survived heat and rain add-ing to their fullness. Pots on front stoop repeat the colors with different annuals.