The improvement projects at the Sunnyslope Village Alliance (SVA) and its neighboring Sunnyslope History Museum have finally wrapped up—and now its time to celebrate.
The two organizations will mark the termination of the 6-year storefront project from 4:30-7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, in their shared parking lot between 755 and 737 E. Hatcher Road.
The parking lot serving both groups is paved and there is a new roof on the SVA office, which originally was a single-family home built in the1940s. The museum has a new sign and a covered walkway. There is new courtyard behind the museum where meetings will take place and people can sit on benches and enjoy the landscaping.
The group known as the Madison on 16th Merchants Association, which formed in late 2004 to help raise the profile of the commercial intersection at 16th Street and Bethany Home Road, has organized its second-annual ‘Scene on 16” Street Fair. This year’s event, set for Sunday, Oct. 12, is shaping up to be bigger and better, thanks to a new location and some new partners in the effort.
Lateral 10 LLC and Red Mountain Retail Group, the team that will be redeveloping the shopping center at the southwest corner where Bashas’, Osco and Fitness West used to be, has joined the association and is offering the use of the large parking area on the north side of the center for the event.
When North Central resident Lisa Grafitti won in a silent auction a certificate for a one-day, self-defense class for 10, the first thing she thought of was an acquaintance whose young daughter was kidnapped by a stranger when she was 11 years old. Luckily, the story had a happy ending as the child was safely returned home. But Grafitti wondered, would she have been take in the first place if the young girl knew how to protect herself, even at that young age?
Grafitti decided to invite the daughters of friends and family members—including that kidnapping victim, now 17—to attend this two and a half hour class, which she hosted in her home on Aug. 16. Eleven girls, ranging is age from 11 to 19, listened as Cory Kahabka, a certified Level-2 instructor and 4th Degree black belt, showed them how to “Fight Like A Girl.”
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