Friends and neighbors,
RHIC has a brand new website. Check it out below. We will be continuing to develop the site and keep it updated. Most importantly for readers of this blog, we will be discontinuing use of this blog and posting on the new site under Project Updates. We hope you enjoy the new website.
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Friday, June 27, 2014
Another New Face at RHIC - Welcome Alli Lesovoy
Repair the World Fellow Alli Lesovoy has joined the RHIC family through July helping with communications updates at RHIC and a Whitelock history project.
Alli is a San
Francisco Bay Area native and is currently a Repair the World fellow in Baltimore. In June 2013,
she graduated from University of California Davis with a BA in Sociology and minors in Chemistry and
Psychology. Her history of Jewish extracurricular activities sparked her
passion for social justice and action. As a Repair the World fellow, Alli has
spending 10 months planning and recruiting for meaningful volunteer
opportunities throughout Baltimore. After she leaves RHIC she is off to New York for more adventures.
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Welcome Back Anita Prettyman
Last summer, Reservoir Hill resident Anita Prettyman joined RHIC's staff for the summer to coordinate outreach and education on the summer meals program, and identify more sites to offer meals. Anita's position was part of a city-wide strategy coordinated by the Baltimore Partnership to End Childhood Hunger to increase access the Summer Meals Program. The sites in our area reported increased use of the program, so the feet-on-the-street approach seems to have worked.
Thanks to support by the Family League of Baltimore, Anita is back with us again this summer working to ensure that families known about the Summer Meals Program.
Monday, June 16, 2014
New face at RHIC and around the community
Noah Erwin has joined the RHIC ranks as a summer intern from Johns Hopkins University. Noah hails
from Tennessee and is a rising junior at Johns Hopkins University, majoring in
Global Environmental Change and Sustainability & Economics. On campus, he is
active in Real Food Hopkins, a student group that promotes a just, sustainable
food system; and serves as the treasurer of his fraternity, Beta Theta Pi. Along
with a few friends, he is training for a triathlon at the end of the summer.
Noah will be spending the summer working with RHIC on a number of existing projects. He helped with finishing touches on the new Girl Scouts mural at German park, and is currently working on the tree inventory.
Noah will be spending the summer working with RHIC on a number of existing projects. He helped with finishing touches on the new Girl Scouts mural at German park, and is currently working on the tree inventory.
You'll be seeing Noah around the community for the next six weeks. Please welcome him to Reservoir Hill.
The 2014 Reservoir Hill Homecoming Was a Wonderful Night
The 2nd Annual Reservoir
Hill Homecoming was a warm and festive evening.
Eighty people gathered in the historic Beth Am Synagogue to share good
food and participate in a discussion of the book, The Other Wes Moore. In this
book, two people sharing the same name, growing up in similar circumstances end
up in very different places in life, having made very different choices.
Park Avenue resident, Russ Moss, formed a reading and discussion group
ahead of Homecoming, so some participants had read the book before
attending. Every table had a list of
discussion questions, and Russ led a lively exchange centered around themes and
lessons from the book. It turned out to
be an extremely stimulating conversation with a lot of participation. Attendees represented a wide range of
background and brought their experiences to the conversation. For instance, state Senator Catherine Pugh joined
us and brought to bear her experience in public service, in developing a
school, and in writing children’s book.
Another person was an employee of the Maryland prison system. Much of the
discussion became focused around the intersection of personal responsibility in
making positive choices, the environment that supports ones ability to make
such choices, and our responsibility in helping create that environment and to
better understand the life situations of others.
We look forward to keeping Homecoming
as an annual Reservoir Hill tradition.
Monday, June 9, 2014
Designing John Eager Howard Elementary as a Community School
On the 4th of June, the School Design Advisory & Action Team held a public meeting focused on how best to use 3,000 square feet in the new design of John Eager Howard Elementary School for community programming and services
A group of residents, city schools personnel, and others met to discuss the results of the Team's community survey of 100 residents.
There were four main categories of need or interest identified through the survey: Food, Housing Counseling, Art, and Health & Fitness. The participants participated in four small groups, each assigned one of these topics. They explored what resources currently existed in the community, and what resources pertinent to the topic could be incorporated in the new school.
Reservoir Hill's city planner, Alexandra Hoffman, spoke with the participants about broader neighborhood planning being undertaken by the Department of Planning. In Reservoir Hill, Reservoir Hill Improvement Council and Neighborhood Design Center have partnered to work with the Department of Planning on such neighborhood planning.
Outreach on ideas for how John Eager Howard as a Community School could benefit the Reservoir Hill neighborhood is ongoing. For more information contact Erin Bowman at ebowman@reservoirhill.net or call 410.225.7547.
Reservoir Hill's city planner, Alexandra Hoffman, spoke with the participants about broader neighborhood planning being undertaken by the Department of Planning. In Reservoir Hill, Reservoir Hill Improvement Council and Neighborhood Design Center have partnered to work with the Department of Planning on such neighborhood planning.
Outreach on ideas for how John Eager Howard as a Community School could benefit the Reservoir Hill neighborhood is ongoing. For more information contact Erin Bowman at ebowman@reservoirhill.net or call 410.225.7547.
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