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September/October 2017
www.mylocustpoint.orgLocust Point Civic Association
P.O. Box 27097Baltimore, MD 21230
(443) 987-6468
To join the LPCA email distribution list, send email to: [email protected]
Upcoming Meeting:Wednesday, September 13 at 7:30 pm FSK
The second weekend of September will be exciting for the Community. The Locust Point Festival will run on Saturday while the Fort McHenry Defenders’ Day activi-ties will run all weekend. The Festival will be held in Latrobe Park on Saturday, September 9 from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Visitors will enjoy the Food, Beer, Music, Games, Family Entertainment, and Vendors. Music will be pro-
vided by Automatic Slim, School of Rock and UnSung Heroes. Beer will be available from both Diamondback and Budweiser at the Park. The corporate sponsors are: Dr. Lamb (Fort Ave. Dentist), Anthem House, and Domino Sugar. Saturday, September 9th will be a great day to visit the Park, see friends and neighbors and enjoy the end of summer!
Locust Point FestivalSeptember 9, 2017
Festival photos from LP Festival, September of 2016
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Important Contact InformationMaryland State Senate
Senator Bill Ferguson, District 46, Baltimore CityMiller Senate Office Building, 2 West Wing, 11 Bladen St., Annapolis, MD 21401
(410) 841-3600/(301) [email protected]
Maryland House of Delegates
Brooke Lierman, District 46, Baltimore CityHouse Office Building, Room 311
(410) 841-3319 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3319 (toll free)[email protected]
Luke Clippinger, District 46, Baltimore CityHouse Office Building, Room 350
(410) 841-3303 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3303 (toll free)[email protected]
Robbyn Lewis, District 46, Baltimore City House Office Building, Room 241
(410) 841-3772 or 1-800-492-7122, ext. 3772 (toll free)[email protected]
Baltimore City OfficialsMayor Catherine Pugh
City Hall, Room 250, 100 N. Holliday St., Baltimore, MD 21202(410) 396-3835
Council Pres. Bernard C. YoungCity Hall, Rm 400, 100 N. Holliday St. Baltimore, MD 21202
(410) 396-4804 [email protected]
Community Liason Liam Davis: [email protected]
Councilman Eric T. CostelloRoom 527, City Hall, 100 N. Holiday St. Baltimore MD 21202
Mayor’s Office of Neighborhoods100 North Holliday Street, Room 250, Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: 410-396-4735Mr. Linzy Jackson, III
Linzy JacksonLiaison, Southern Neighborhoods, Youth and Education Specialist
Baltimore City PoliceSteve Ward, Southern District Police Commander
410-396-2499Southern District Police Neighborhood Service Unit, 10 Cherry Hill Rd.
LPCA Board of DirectorsPresident: Greg Sileo
Vice President: Harry Stinefelt
Corresponding Secretary: Ginny Rajnes
Recording Secretary: Justin Grossman
Treasurer: Sarah Swiger
Board of Directors:Caroline Baker Matt FarcoskyWill Jovel Kate McComiskeyJamie Kelly Brian McHaleDamian O’Connor Caitlin ReganJohn Shea Beth Terry
Contact us:Locust Point Civic AssociationP.O. Box 27097(443) 987-6468www.mylocustpoint.org
To join the LPCA neighborhood email list, please send an email to [email protected]
Safety -Greg Sileo [email protected]
Membership - Caitlin [email protected]
Communications – Ginny [email protected]
Design & Review –Will [email protected]
Social – Shannon Keedy & Caitlin [email protected]
Dog Park – Amanda [email protected]
Newsletter – Damian O’[email protected]
Parks and Beautification – [email protected]
To the Point is delivered to about 1500 homes and businesses each issue. There is also an online edition which displays in color. If you are not in our delivery area or just want to see the current or past issues, go to the LPCA web page (Google search on : LPCA-Baltimore or My Locust
Point). Click on News and then Newsletters. Newsletters are in PDF format - pages can be viewed or printed.
To the Point welcomes submissions of articles and photos that may be of interest to Locust Point readers.
Damian O’Connor, Editor [email protected]
September/October 2017
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receives the newsletter in a timely manner. If you have any trouble with delivery, please email us at
Ft. Mc Henry - September 8, 9 & 10 - Defenders' Day WeekendExperience the premiere event held at Fort McHen-
ry which commemorates the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner," and the successful defense of Fort McHenry from British invasion during the War of 1812. For 2017, "A New Defenders' Day" will connect Fort McHenry’s service as a hospital beginning in 1917 to the national World War I Centennial commemorations, and to medical history and veterans' communities. The weekend will include a full roster of activities, includ-ing a community parade featuring World War I living history interpreters marching with the Fort McHenry Guard, flag raisings, fireworks, period music performed by WWI themed bands, cannon demonstrations, and presentations by rangers and living history interpreters.
September 9 - Spectacular Evening - 6:30 pmThe evening program (free) features dignitaries, the
Fort McHenry Guard Fife & Drum Corps and the U.S. Army Band, Chorus and Herald Trumpets. 3rd U.S. In-fantry Regiment (The Old Guard) Presidential Salute Battery As dusk settles, watch the symbolic ship-to-shore bombardment...followed by FIREWORKS!
Sept.9 - Friends of Fort McHenry Star-Spangled Spectacular Reception
Event will honor ALAN WALDEN - Recipient of the 2017 Francis Scott Key Award for his decades of passionate support for Fort McHenry!
Tickets on sale -www.friendsoffortmchenry.orgAdult $75, Youth $25
Defenders Day Parade through Locust Point - September 2016
This will be my final edition of To the Point. I have enjoyed putting out the paper every other month for the last two years. It has been a great experience writing stories, interviewing residents, photographing local sights, revisiting history and sharing the news of the community.If you have an interest in working on the paper, contact [email protected]
To the Point Editorial Office
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New, Energetic Principal For Francis Scott Key SchoolBy Hap Duffey
On July 1st, Corey Basmajian assumed the reins as principal of Francis Scott Key Elementary/Middle School. After teaching at FSK for his first five years of his career and most recently serving four years as principal of Windsor Hills Elementary School, he felt he couldn't pass up the opportunity to return to FSK! He will use his experience and boundless energy to help FSK achieve its full potential. He believes that FSK has the ability to soar to new heights with a Gifted and Advanced Learning program in Elementary and an Ad-vanced Academic curriculum in Middle School that can rival the best schools in the district.
Mr. B has already conducted numerous meetings with FSK's teachers and PTO Board members, and has reached out to local business leaders to strengthen the school's community relations. He also hopes to work more closely with the Locust Point Civic Association so that the school may become more involved in com-munity events, and to better address community con-cerns. We wish him the very best, and hope his tenure is a long and successful one.
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FSK Updates
By Hap DuffeyOver the past 4 years, Francis Scott Key Elementary
Middle School, here in Locust Point, has been trans-formed from an underutilized, neglected educational fa-cility into a dynamic and highly respected school which is attracting motivated students throughout Baltimore City, as well as from surrounding counties. This is a result of its outstanding STEM/robotics lab, its music, art, drama and PE programs, and its Reading Partners
Initiative, which is supported by AmeriCorps fellows. (see www.ReadingPartners.org)
Reading Partners is a nationally recognized edu-cational organization that matches dedicated commu-nity and business volunteers with struggling kindergar-ten through 4th grade students. The program utilizes an easy to follow evidence-based curriculum with a proven success record. A volunteer can devote as little as one hour a week to work one-on-one with a student who is reading below grade level.
Volunters Needed For FSK's Reading Partners Program
By Erin Karpewicz
FSK's PTO is working hard to plan the FSK Kids' Zone at the LPCA festival and would love for you to save the date for our Holiday Extravaganza on De-cember 2nd. The FSK community is thrilled about the new state of the art library being developed at FSK- on track to open in late fall. Stay tuned on Facebook and our website for more information about an October/
November Open House for the community to come check out this fabulous new resource!
Last but not least, if you would like to support FSK by donating any school supplies, our teachers have formulated a wish list of items which can be accessed on our website. Thank you for your continued sup-port, we love our LP community! Follow FSK on Facebook: Francis Scott Key Elementary/Middle School or visit our website:www.baltimorecityschools.org/76
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Then and Now : Fort Avenue at Lowman StreetThis might be called a Then and Then as both pictures are probably from the last century. This photo was tak-en on Fort Avenue facing toward Fort McHenry near Lowman Street. Some stylish roadsters are parked on either side of the road. There is a streetcar stopped in front of the Deluxe Theater. This picture may have been taken in the 1940s, judging from the style of the cars. If this was during WW2, there would be older models still on the road. Beyond the streetcar, you can see the firehouse tower and further down the steeple of Good Counsel Church at Towson Street and Fort Ave. On the right, in the distance , that may be the old Francis Scott Key School.Traffic seems light.
This is also Fort Avenue with two of the same land-marks. The theater and streetcar are gone but the two towers on Fort Avenue are still prominent. This picture might be from the 60s to the 80’s. On the sidewalk to the right you can see the edge of a billboard, “Savings?”, “Santa?”. The bridge that breaks up Fort Avenue has not been built yet but there are today a billboard on each side of the bridge, one where this one is place and one facing the opposite direction on the other side of Fort Avenue. It appears that there are no traffic lights on Fort in this direction. Again, traffic seems light.
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OVER $500 IN SAVINGS!
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For sale at Hull Street Blues, Earthshake, and Dessert Fantasies.- OR -
Fill out the form below and drop with your $25 check, payable to LPCA, in one of these mailboxes:
1417 Lowman St or 1352 Towson St. We’ll deliver to your mailbox!
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Questions? Email [email protected]
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$25.00 - GET ONE:
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Volunteers Needed When a child is not reading at grade level by the
end of 4th grade, he or she is 4 times less likely to grad-uate from high school. Reading Partners provides train-ing as well as tutoring support throughout the entire year to anyone interested in volunteering so that both students and volunteers have an enjoyable, stress-free experience. Despite this, last year FSK was unable to attract enough tutors to accommodate all the students who qualified and desperately wanted to be a part of the program.
With so many dedicated teachers, a highly mo-tivated PTO, and a dynamic new principal, FSK is poised to once again make tremendous gains in help-ing our students excel. However, without community volunteers to augment these efforts, FSK will not move forward as quickly as we and the students would like.
Please consider helping in this or any number of the other volunteer positions available in your com-munity school. If you are interested in volunteering at FSK, please e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] for further information, or you can contact the school directly. (www.baltimorec-ityschools.org/76).
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