Meet Your New Neighbor - Kelli Keck

As a way to welcome our new neighbors (and we've added several in the last year alone), and to revive a previous tradition -  we'll be featuring newcomers as a way of briefly introducing them to you. 

Please meet Kelli Keck of 507 Ottawa Avenue..

How did you hear about Cleveland-Holloway?  Realtor

What attracted you to the neighborhood?  Walkable and quirky

A favorite hobby? Reading

What famous person are you commonly mistaken for?  No celebrity doppelganger that I am aware.

Cheetohs. Crunchy? or Puffy?  Crunchy

Favorite thing to do on a rainy day?  Turn on sports or trashy TV and take a nap

Favorite song, quote, book, or other? Song- Guitar Man by Bread

A country recently visited OR would like to visit? Mexico but wish it had been Morocco

Favorite thing about the Bull City?  It embraces its past but isn't afraid of change 

Any home projects on the horizon?  Taming the beast of a yard!

Be sure to say "hi" to Kelli when you have a chance. 

Cleveland Hollow'een 2011

Cleveland Holloway celebrates holidays like no other neighborhood in Durham!



We keep a community costume chest of donated costumes to loan out to kids (if you have costumes you'd like to donate, contact Natalie Spring!), we give out candy to neighbors who don't have it in their budget to hand out candy, and we parade around the neighborhood. After all of that, we watch movies and drink warm cider.

We loaned out 44 costumes to kids this year and had many more kids join in the costume parade. We also handed out 25 bags of sponsored candy so that our neighborhood kids could have more houses to trick or treat at. Despite the rain and icky weather, this year had the largest turnout to date.

We gathered at Oakwood Park on a cold wet Halloween to get glow sticks and start trick or treating with a parade!



We had over 75 kids and adults join in the parade and then over a hundred neighbors trick or treat on Halloween! Thanks to all of the neighbors who handed out candy, the kids were all very excited!



To see more images from Halloween check out our albumn here

Cleveland Hollow'een 2011

Downtown Dog Park: Pre-Grand Opening Affordable Vaccine Party

We’re very excited to be the neighborhood hosting the first ever Downtown Durham Dog Park!

One of the missions of opening the park was to reach out to neighbors who have dogs but might not be able to afford appropriate vaccines or the tags to gain admission into the dog park.* 

 

 To this end, we’re going to offer a raffle award package for two neighbors at our "pre-"grand opening this weekend:  all required vaccinations and the tag expenses paid (value = ~$70 each) . We do not want to make this too cumbersome administratively – but the target recipients would be folks who probably cannot afford the vaccinations/tags.   

We have gone door-to-door to individuals in our neighborhood with dogs, offering them a flyer with information about the free raffle. The raffle will be held on 8/20 at 10:00 am, and participants will be asked to bring the flyer we gave them.  Winners will be announced at 10:30 am, and of course will need to be present!  Even if folks do not win, they can gain access to helpful information that will be on hand from the Animal Protection Society of Durham, who will be at the 8/20 event.

Please share this with any neighbors you think might be interested and would enjoy use of the dog park.

Here is more information about all the events:

Flyer:  http://www.durhamnc.gov/departments/parks/pdf/dogpark_flyer.pdf
Invite: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=223372064374631
Friend: http://www.facebook.com/downtowndurhamdogpark

Thanks for your support!

* Durham Parks & Rec requires vaccinations in order to purchase a dog park use tag (see: http://www.durhamnc.gov/departments/parks/dog_park_fees.cfm) and gain access to the park.

4th Annual Cleveland-Holloway Home Tour is this weekend!

One of Durham's many champions, Jessica Sadler from Urban Durham Realty, wrote a post about this weekend's home tour on her blog - Red Bag Realtor. Thanks for the plug Jessica!