Thanks to all the volunteers that helped make MorningSide’s Angel’s Night Patrol a success. And thanks to Pastor Charles Laster and Greater Pentecostal Temple for opening their doors as our patrol base.

photo by Beverly Brown

Angel’s Night is quickly approaching and the MorningSide community is looking for volunteers to patrol the neighborhood. Help us keep the community safe!

Patrollers are needed between 7 p.m. and midnight on Oct. 29, 30 and 31.

Report to Greater Pentecostal Temple, 15932 E. Warren. We’ll assign you an area to patrol. Volunteer when you can. All help is appreciated!

Refreshment, food and beverages will be provided.

To sign up for Angel’s Night Patrol in MorningSide, call (313) 881-4704 or leave a comment below with your name, number and the time/day you expect to volunteer.

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Next Detroit Neighborhood Initiative

and

Detroit Police Department Eastern District

will hold the

Be Good, or Be Gone Anti-Crime Walk

11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011

Rally Point will be at Ronald Brown Academy
E. Outer Drive & Berkshire.

Join Commander Steven Dolunt
Mayor Dave Bing
Chief Ralph Godbee
Council Member James Tate
Council Member Andre Spivey

As we walk to take our neighborhoods back!

Call Jeff Jones (313) 394-1035 or go to www.next-detroit.org for more info.

It’s Motor City Makeover season and MorningSide is leading a group of volunteers to help clean our community. Our first community cleaning project of 2011 is tomorrow, May 14.

Thanks so much for all who have signed up but we need more volunteers. Please meet us Saturday May 14th @ 8:30 a.m. at the Children’s Palace parking lot on the corner of Courville St. and Mack Ave.

We will meet there to register and go from there to the designated sites to clean. Please bring any and all tools you would like to help facilitate this cleaning effort. We will provide gloves and garbage bags. Any other tools you may want to use should be brought with you.

The cleaning will go on Rain or Shine! Can’t wait to see you there!

For more information please call our office at (313) 881-4704 and someone will return your call.

Respectfully Yours,

MorningSide Communications

It is that time of year again when family and friends get together to fellowship and share in all of the goodwill that the holiday season brings.

As part of our MorningSide family, we are asking you to fellowship with us Tuesday. We will be hosting a community potluck dinner to celebrate the holiday season. For entertainment, we will have the Voices of Metro providing beautiful music throughout the party.

We ask that you bring a dish to share BUT PLEASE KNOW THAT THIS IS OPTIONAL NOT REQUIRED!

We look forward to seeing you next Tuesday at our usual meeting place in Peace Lutheran Church. We will start a little earlier at 6:30 p.m.

All the best to you and your family,

Communications
MorningSide

Event Info:
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
6:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
Peace Lutheran Church
15700 E. Warren Ave.
Detroit, MI 48224

MorningSide recently won a community award, a MOE Better Award, from the Warren Conner Development Coalition.

We were honored for being an outstanding east side organization during the Warren Conner Development Coalition’s 22nd Annual Extravaganza: A Taste of Detroit’s Eastside event on Oct. 1 at the Roostertail.

Several board members were in attendance to receive the award.

Three neighborhoods – East English Village, Morningside and Cornerstone – will patrol the area for a three-night period, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights before Halloween. Our Angel’s night headquarters will be based in the St. Clare church basement. Meet there for assignments and lots of great food and fun.

Please consider volunteering for the event. We need drivers, administrative help and, of course, food! This is a good time for residents meet new residents and catch up with old friends as well.

Call the hotline at 313-216- 1729 or our EEV volunteer chairperson, Latisha Johnson, at 410-8080 and we will call you back with details.

St. Clare of Montefalco is at Mack Avenue and East Outer Drive.

This Saturday we are cleaning up MorningSide! Please join us and volunteers from our neighborhood, The Detroit SUN Project and University of Michigan – Dearborn for our MorningSide Fall Clean Up.

If you can, please bring rakes, brooms, shovels and gloves. We will have a limited supply of these items as well as trash bags. We will meet at the U-SNAP-BAC office located at 14901 E. Warren in Detroit at 8:30 am. at which time the volunteers will be dived into teams. These teams will go out to clean specific areas on Wayburn, Maryland, Lakepointe, and Barham.

For more information please call the MorningSide Office at (313) 881-4704 or the U-SNAP-BAC office at (313) 640-1100.

Neighborhood Cleanup
Clark Elementary School

CALLING ALL MORNINGSIDERS!!!

On August 30, 2010, at noon there will be a cleanup around Clark Elementary School located at 15755 Bremen. Wayne State University (WSU) Iserve community effort in conjunction with NDNI (Next Detroit Neighborhood Initiative) and Neighborhood City Hall Eastern District, have put together this effort in order to continue to beautify our community. This clean effort will make a safer environment for our children when walking to school near vacant homes that are consumed with high-grass and weeds.

MorningSide has stepped up to this challenge, and is asking for you to join us. We are in need of lawn mowers, loppers, hedge timers, and weed whippers. Gloves and trash bags have been provided. Please come and join us as we continue our commitment to the make MorningSide a community on the rise……….

Alger Theater Presents, Film on the Hill: a Moonlight Series

“Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark”

On August 28th, The Alger Theater will once again host a FREE outdoor film on Detroit’s far Eastside. The summer film series dubbed “Film on the Hill: A Moonlight Series” will take place on August 28, 2010 beginning at 8:30 p.m. with live music and the film showing at dusk. “Film on the Hill” will be located at Balduck Park at Chandler Park Drive and Canyon Street. Free popcorn will be provided to all attendees and seating blankets will be available for a small donation.

Showing on August 28 will be “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark”. This action- packed adventure film follows archeologist and university professor Indiana Jones as he searches for the legendary Lost Ark of the Covenant before the it gets into the hands of Adolf Hitler, who plans to use its power to guarantee his global conquest. Guitarists Gerry Brisson and Bob O’Brien will provide entertainment prior to the movie.

“We are excited to provide a fun, free, family-friendly event for our community,” said Helen Broughton, a board member of the Alger Theater. “The Alger Theater is committed to the idea of bringing people together through film and arts. We are busy trying to restore the Alger, and in the meantime, wanted to show that something good is happening with the theater. Our July event was a great success and we hope that community members will come out to Balduck Park on August 28th, pack a picnic, and enjoy an evening with their family, friends, and neighbors.”

The mission of the Friends of the Alger Theater (FOA) is to preserve the Alger Theater and create a viable Performing Arts Community Center for the cultural enrichment of a diverse population residing in and visiting the Detroit metropolitan region. FOTAT believes that there is a need on the Eastside of Detroit for a neighborhood source of diverse and wholesome quality entertainment for people of all ages. Furthermore, The Alger Theater believes a thriving Performing Arts Community Center can energize our Eastside area, and help attract investment for nearby commercial improvement. Residents will have a real sense that our neighborhood is alive and well. By promoting social interactions, we will help build strong and lasting relationships among the citizens of our community.

The Alger Theater activities are supported mostly through grassroots fundraising efforts as well as through many community partnerships including CEM Business Association; Next Detroit Neighborhood Initiative, East English Village, Cornerstone, and MorningSide Community Organization; as well as many individuals. The Film on the Hill sponsors are A.H. Peters Funeral Home, Hammertime Hardware, Boost Mobile, Bike Tech, Del Pointe Foods, Jim’s Collsion, Geneva’s Cafe, National Coney Island, Meldrum & Smith Nursery, and Pointe Auto Tech.

For more information about the “Film on the Hill: A Moonlight Series”, – including how to volunteer – or about the Friends of the Alger Theater and how to become a Board Member, contact Karlene Trump, at 313.882.2579 or visit www.algertheater.org.