Basta's Ristorante in Bartlett Park becomes Chanele's, a restaurant and club

Luis Perez writes in today's Times:

The old mural of San Remo, Italy, is still on the wall inside Basta's Ristorante, but the color on the walls has changed from white and blue to warm crimson.

In about a month or so, the sign bearing the name of the Italian restaurant that closed earlier this year will change, too. The new name: Chanele's. The new motto: "Where Grown Folks Play."

Co-owner Philip Morrison, a former Pinellas County bailiff who left the Sheriff's Office last year, says the restaurant and club at 1625 Fourth St. S, will be a casual dining spot with a wide repertoire of nightly entertainment.

"I see it as many things for many people," said Morrison, 43, who is making his first foray into the restaurant and club business. He named the restaurant after his 23-year-old daughter.

I visited the new restaurant a few weeks ago and was impressed by the renovations underway. Please stop in and tell your friends. New businesses need neighborhood support.

Link: http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/article1019313.ece

Teen Summit- July 18, 2009 -2pm-6pm

Citizen’s Patrol – Thursday at 5:30 pm

Citizen’s Patrol – Crime Watch members drive through the neighborhood and alert police to crime and questionable activities.


Bartlett Park Crime Watch
Meeting resume in September
Community Resource Center
642 22nd South
727-826-9774

Crime Watch takes a summer break and resumes meeting at 6 pm on the first Tuesday each month at the Resource Center. Citizen Patrol training, Court Watch, clean up and block parties are topics for discussion.

On Saturday June 20th a cleanup will be held.

National Night Out is coming up!

Update
The patrol has had a small group out for the past2 months. We have at least 2 cars with 3 volunteers per car. a driver, radio operator and note taker. Several addresses are being reported for graffiti and illegal dumping thanks to our faithful volunteers.

Noise complaints can now be turned in online.

Visit: http://www.bartlettpark.net/ for more information.

WHY a Neighborhood Crime Watch?
A Neighborhood Crime Watch encourages citizen participation in reducing crime.
Residents and police learn how to work together to achieve one common goal – "Making Our Neighborhood Safe."
Members will be taught how to protect your property and report suspicious activity to the police.

WHAT Does a Neighborhood Crime Watch Do?
Members meet their neighbors and learn how to make their homes and business more secure.
We watch out for each other and report suspicious activities to police.
Neighbors mark their valuable property with an identifying number to discourage theft and help police return stolen property.

Crime Watch Components

Meetings – These will be held at 6:00pm the first Tuesday of each month at the Bartlett Park Community Resource Center at 642 22nd Avenue South.

Citizen’s Patrol – Crime Watch members who walk or drive through the neighborhood and alert police to crime and questionable activities.

Communication – Regular discussion will be held between neighbors, Crime Prevention Officers and Community Service Officers.

Neighborhood Crime Watch is one of the most effective and least costly ways to prevent crime and reduce fear. So please come out and learn how we can work together to make our neighborhood safe!

From Salt Creek to Preston Avenue to Paris Avenue

This past Saturday was a great day in Bartlett Park. After working in the park cleanup I stopped by to admire the work on the newest Paris Garden planting on Preston Avenue and then went by the Bartlett Park Community Garden on Newton Avenue where a large group was busy working. I was amazed by all the activity on one hot summer morning. So much progress from so many dedicated volunteers tells me the future is bright.

Also busy helping the neighborhood are crime watch members who continue to patrol every block. They have been together at least once a week for the past two months. Please give an hour next Thursday to keep our neighborhood safe.

The cleanup was a continuing educational effort sponsored by the Bartlett Park Neighborhood Association, the Bartlett Park Community Resource Center, the Tampa Bay Estuary Program, SWFWMD and Keep Pinellas Beautiful. Volunteers from Raytheon joined neighborhood association members in cleaning litter from the Salt Creek shoreline. We were able to clean about 3 blocks of the west creek bank, from 22nd Avenue north to the new dock.

Much more needs to be done but the progress is impressive. The volume of trash collected is much less than last year when we filled a large dumpster about half way up.

Pepper trees cut to the ground exactly one year ago are back to 6 -8 feet tall. Where the stumps were dug up they did not come back. Association member David Schroeder removed 25 truckloads of pepper tree from the edge of the mangroves during the month before last years cleanup. We need to keep them from regrowing and spreading seeds.

City Council is moving to change the name of Preston Avenue to Paris Avenue, a symbolic action designed to remove the stigma of the tragic murder of Paris Whitehead-Hamilton. Adding beautiful landscaping and preventing the return of gang violence by patrolling will do more to restore this block.

The garden on Preston is the third of many planned to give our neighborhood sustainable, drought tolerant landscaping. Residents can grow food with efficient water conserving irrigation and use native low maintenance plants to replace high maintenance water thirsty lawns. Here are links to a news story about the new garden, and the FOX 13 story on Bartlett Park Community Garden

The park is cleaner, Preston Avenue has new landscaping and the Bartlett Park Community Garden continues to grow.

Neighborhood Association Meeting- September 10

Neighborhood association meeting every 2nd Thursday except during the summer months. This next meeting is on September 10th.

Our meeting starts at 6:00pm and is held at the Frank Pierce Center - 2000 7th Street South, Room #1.

Agenda

Crime Watch Report: Crime patrol is going out every week. Please volunteer an hour or two.

On Aug 29th our Salt Creek and neighborhood cleanup will take place followed by a block party.

Telephone Tree: We need a volunteer to organize calls to all residents who ask for a reminder call.

Community Garden Ordinance and other news

Bartlett Park Neighborhood Association supports the
Bartlett Park Community Garden Paris Garden planting
8:00 AM Saturday, June 20
771 Preston Ave South

Salt Creek and Neighborhood Clean-up
Saturday, June 20, starting at 8AM
642 22nd Avenue South
Information: www.BartlettPark.Net


Update: Neighborhood fights crime with flowers , from Fox 13

and Paris Gardens Photo Gallery

St Petersburg Passes Community Gardening Ordinance!

St Petersburg became the first major city in the Tampa Bay area to pass community gardening legislation yesterday. The new permitting process allows gardens to be established on private property on any zoning area throughout the city. The measure, sponsored by District 6 Councilmember Karl Nurse, was passed unanimously.

"The ordinance is a great step forward for gardens in St Petersburg. It could help new community gardens get started in the city over the coming years." said Andrea Hildebran, Executive Director of Green Florida.

Come celebrate with Green Florida next Saturday June 13th at the Mirror Lake Shuffleboard Complex. Our 2nd Annual Summer Shuffle Event has music by Loose Oranges, food from local restaurants, beer and cider from the Cider House. It's just $5 for the evening.

Saturday June 13th, 7:00 PM - 11:00 at the

Mirror Lake Shuffleboard Complex

Update: FOX 13 story on Bartlett Park Community Garden

Permitting for Community Gardens in St Petersburg

The city of St Petersburg is considering important new rules that would foster the development of new community gardens throughout the city. This is an important development, making St Petersburg the first major city in the Tampa Bay area to start proactively planning for community gardens. Other community gardening ordinances have been enacted recently by the cities of Tarpon Springs and Safety Harbor.

If you live in St Petersburg, let your city council know that you want community gardens! Call 727-893-7117. Give your name and address and your message will be delivered to your city council member.

Here is a link: Community Garden Ordinance, Notice of Public Hearing, Garden Slide Show and Howard Troxler column.

Paris Gardens - gardening for safety, food and community

The horrifying gun death of 8-year old Paris Whitehead Hamilton this past month sparked a wellspring of grief and outrage among neighbors in Bartlett Park. In a move to heal and renew the community, members of the Bartlett Park Community Garden have launched a new project in Paris' memory to transform front yards in the neighborhood into gardens integrating Florida native plants and vegetables.

Working with residents, including Paris Whitehead Hamilton's family members, our first Paris Gardens are being designed with donated soil, plants and volunteer labor to take dying grass lawns and replace them with drought tolerant landscaping and money-saving vegetable gardens.

Our neighborhoods need to provide for our needs! The Paris Gardens can help provide food, work and job training opportunities, a way for neighbors to get to know each other, water savings and a beautiful, peaceful place to live.

Upcoming Workshop: Holistic Healing Through Your Garden
Saturday, June 6th 10:00am - 12:00 pm at the Bartlett Park Community Garden
1443 Highland Street South.

• Melanie O'Dunn, Founder of Balance & Bliss
• Bring a lawn chair with you!

Click here for a map to the Bartlett Park Community Garden.

June 13th, 2009
2nd Annual Summer Shuffleboard Event
Join Green Florida and Friends for the 2nd Annual Summer Shuffleboard Event! $5.00 dollars at the door provides you with an evening of local food and beverages, live music, a silent art auction, and shuffleboard courts!! All proceeds go to helping develop urban green spaces in communities around the state of Florida. See you there!

Event Information
St. Petersburg Shuffboard Club
$5.00 cover at the door
7:00pm-11:00pm
559 Mirror Lake Drive North, St. Petersburg, FL



More here and here.

Garden Girl TV

More at http://www.gardengirltv.com/

Salt Creek and neighborhood cleanup day Saturday June 20st.

The Bartlett Park and Harbordale Neighborhood Associations, the Bartlett Park Community Resource Center and the Harbordale YMCA will sponsor a Salt Creek and neighborhood cleanup day Saturday June 20st.
Please call 727-895-0446 to register if you plan to participate. Call for information.

Also that day:
Paris Garden planting
Saturday, June 20, starting at 8AM
771 Preston Ave South-

Salt Creek and Neighborhood Clean-up
Saturday, June 20, starting at 8AM
642 22nd Avenue South
Next Cleanup is being planned for the last Saturday in August.

Wear work clothes and if you plan to work in the lake wear shoes that can get wet ! ! !
We will be cleaning up the area surrounding the lake.





Bartlett Park Neighborhood Association volunteer David Schroeder has been busy cutting and removing dozens of Brazilian Pepper-Trees that are threatening the mangroves of Salt Creek. Part of last year's clean up was to remove this invasive species before it can choke out the valuable native trees. This photo shows Dave loading a truck with pepper tree limbs. The city park is in the background to the south.
Lots of bottles and other litter are being cleaned up as well. The mangroves serve a function of filtering runoff before it enters Salt Creek. This litter is an example of trash that would have washed into the water if native vegetation has not stopped it.

Pepper-tree stumps are all that remain.






Click for map of Salt Creek.

Saturday Candidate Forum for St. Pete Council 5 (South St. Petersburg) with Joe Smith, Angela Rouson, and Jamie Bennett

Pinellas Pt. Dem. Clubbers and Friends-

Hope you will join us this Saturday for a St. Pete Council Dist. 5 Forum at the S. St. Pete Library (2300 Roy Hanna Drive) at 10:30 AM. Dist 5 Candidates Joe Smith and Angela Rouson have indicated they will come along with outgoing Dist. 5 Councilman, Jamie Bennett who will come to outline unfinished business before District 5. We have reserved the library community room on the third Saturday of the month for the next six months.
With the St. Pete Times coming, bring your quotable self. Also, bring a friend.

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Karl Nurse Campaign Kickoff and Fundraiser

My kick-off and fundraiser is:
What: Karl Nurse Campaign Kickoff and Fundraiser
Where: Carter G. Woodson African American Museum
2240 – 9th Ave. S., St. Petersburg, Fl. 33712
When: Friday, May 22nd, 7-9 PM
Light refreshments will be served
Please RVSP to Mo Epply at: meppley@gmail.com or 727-686-2146 On the web, at http://www.electkarlnurse.com/

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