Welcome to Shepherd Park Plaza

Welcome to the new 2009 Shepherd Park Plaza website. Please look around and enjoy. The site is still under constructions and updated often so please be patient and come back soon to see what has been added. We will continue to update the site with new content and links that should be helpful for everyone who lives in the neighborhood.

SPP Flag Project Update

Thanks to amazing resident participation, SPP is thrilled to have gotten our flag project off the ground—literally! Your enthusiasm and financial support have made our display of the stars and stripes possible. We’d like to thank everyone for your assistance. Plus, we’d like to express our gratitude to Charles & Carol Jean Hebert and their company Heights Electric for assisting with the installation. Please check out more photos of the flag installation in the Photo Gallery section.

SPP to Show Patriotism on July 4th

Your civic club board is undertaking a novel project this summer. We are planning a project to fly the US flag from all the metal street lights in SPP for a period beginning one week before Independence Day and fly high for two weeks. The flags would then be removed and stored for future use. What a sense of patriotism we will all have when we see flags flying in SPP streets as we enter the neighborhood and turn each corner. To make this project a reality, we need your help.

SPP has 126 streetlight poles and we’d like to fly a flag from every one. The cost to purchase flags and mounting hardware for all poles is approximately $4,536. We are soliciting sponsors for each flag to fund this project at $36 per flag. Volunteers for installation of the one time flag bracket will also be needed. We are sorting out how to best accomplish this task in a safe manor using volunteers.

What we need today or in the next few days is your pledge to support this project by sponsoring one or more flags by sending an email to president@shepherdparkplaza.com with your pledge. Based on your response by email we will determine if this project can roll out in full or be scaled back to only fly flags at 50% level this 4th of July holiday.

Your action is needed now as the ordering of the flags will be made next week to ensure delivery and bracket installation and the amount of flags ordered will be in line with our residents support. Sponsor will also be solicited in the next Pulse, though we need pledges now to move forward.

All flag sponsors will have the opportunity to dedicate there donation to someone or provide a memorandum. All donations and memorandums will be published in the Plaza Pulse for the next few months or until the sponsor program ends.

Thanks,

Tom Dornak

SPP Civic Club President

City Improvements Slated for Our Area

by Holly Inderrieden &
Chuck Blesener

At the recent District A Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) meeting held on February 2 with Council Member Toni Lawrence, many improvements for our area in 2009 were discussed. We’re all familiar with the current water line replacement projects in our area, but here are some
current projects near or in Shepherd Park Plaza slated for 2009 that may interest you:

1. Shepherd Park will receive new playground equipment and a mulch/bark landing surface. The ramp will also be replaced to meet ADA requirements. Area residents asked for more improvements for our park but were told that this was all the money allotted would provide at this time. Note: This project is slated to begin April and finish in June 2009.

2. T.C. Jester Park (Dog Park) is scheduled to have substantial completion by June 2009 and will contain a double entry area with sections for small and large, water stations, a wash station and site furnishings (like benches, etc.)

3. T.C. Jester Park will be also receiving renovations to its swimming pool and bathhouse, getting an expanded parking lot and a new amphitheater area for showing movies in the park. Construction will begin after the 2009 pool season and should be completed by 2010 pool season.

Water Line Construction Contacts