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ROADRUNNER ESTATES WEST NEIGHBORS DEDICATE STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS FUNDED BY NEIGHBORHOOD GRANT

photo: Neighborhood Services Coordinator Patrick Krause, (third from left) assists Barrel District Councilmember Yvonne Knaack (center) in presenting a plaque to the members of the Roadrunner Estates West neighborhood.

 

GLENDALE, Ariz. – Neighbors living in the Roadrunner Estates West neighborhood have new streetscape improvements, along the south side of Mountain View Road from 57th to 59th avenues. Thanks to a neighborhood grant for the upgrades, totaling $57,751 awarded by the Citizen’s Advisory Commission on Neighborhoods, the residents in this area have improved their neighborhood.

Barrel District Councilmember Yvonne Knaack presented neighborhood leaders with a plaque to thank them for participating in the process to improve their neighborhood at a brief dedication ceremony on Thursday, June 5.

The Roadrunner Estates West Neighborhood lists 35 households in the property, which is more than 30 years old. The boundaries are between Mountain View Road on the north, and Purdue on the south between 57th Avenue and 58th Drive.

The Neighborhood Partnership Office administers a grant program that funds revitalization projects twice a year to assist neighborhoods more than 15 years old. Citizen participation and involvement are key components of the program.

For more information on the Neighborhood Grants Program, call 623/930-2868.

Letter Carriers' Food Drive 2008 
They thank you for  your bag of food  Saturday, May 10!

2008 Food Drive is letter carrier blitz against hunger

Letter carriers, with help from their sisters and brothers in the other postal crafts and thousands of other volunteers, will stage a blitz on Saturday, May 10, to combat hunger in America, conducting NALC’s annual “Stamp Out Hunger” Food Drive in every U.S. state and jurisdiction.

The drive, in its 16th year, is the largest one-day food collection in the nation and the biggest community service effort by any union affiliated with the AFL-CIO.

Utopia Road Recorder Consort Annual Holiday Concert
At The Velma Teague Library Downtown Glendale

Photos and story Ed Sharpe Glendale Daily Planet

Once again it was  time for the Utopia Road Recorder Consort annual holiday concert at the Velma Teague Branch of the Glendale Public Library on Thursday night  12-13-2007. 

It was wonderful to walk  in after  walking  in the crisp evening air and enjoying beautiful lights in the park and have the sweet sounds of Renaissance  styled  Christmas music reach your ears... 

Linda Rising Husband  Karl Rehmer Perform with Bass Recorders

Recorders have been popular instruments since the 10th century in Europe. By 1750, recorders were replaced in orchestras by more powerful transverse flutes. Recorders have seen a surge in popularity since the early 1900s because they are relatively easy to play.

Director Linda Rising says that: "The group is made up of Renaissance wannabes who gather to play and sing just for fun and perform a few times each year. They will play a variety of music from medieval to contemporary, played on replica instruments from the 15th and 16th centuries."


Group director Linda Rising tells how  they got started... "Utopia Road Recorder Consort has been playing together for over 10 years. We started as a group of people who worked at what was at the time, AG Communication Systems, on Utopia Road. We are all connected to software development and music is just for fun. We all have some background in music: Karen was a flute player, Anne had piano and sings in her church choir, Karl played the trumpet, and Rick the guitar. "

She explains her personal background: "I've been playing recorder the longest and I was the one who infected the rest of the group!  I've had piano and voice and two years of music theory -- thinking at one time I would get a degree in music, but ending up with a Ph.D. in computer science instead."

This dynamic group turns up all over the  valley and has played at  Bookmans, Borders, churches, libraries, and schools. A program targeting young people in grade schools to get them interested in music is called called "Recorders Through the Ages" .

Linda explains the advantages of starting out on a recorder: "The recorder is a great instrument to play for fun, because you can become pretty good without the intensive work of other "real" instruments. The recorder is the Renaissance and early Baroque precursor of the flute. It is softer (even the smaller instruments) and easy to play. Good plastic instruments are available so it is a good way for school children to learn about music."

Utopia Road Recorder Consort Annual Holiday Concert
At The Velma Teauge Library Downtown Glendale

(L to R) Rick Miskowski, Karl Rehmer,  Linda Rising, 
Bottom Row   Karen Grover and Anne Sullivan

(L to R) Linda Rising, Karen Grover, the stellar soprano recorder player, Anne Sullivan, Karl Rehmer
and Rick Miskowski in front on guitar.

Patrons of all ages turned out for the performance!    - Rick Miskowski playing stringed instruments

 Anne Sullivan and Karen Grover