Dec 10th, 2020 Zoom Meeting - Dan Batteredhat

Music stylings by our very own Dan Batteredhat from our Dec 10th, 2020 Zoom meeting.

SODA Holiday Decorating Awards 2020

SODA Ugly Sweater Zoom Party

SODA Ugly Sweater Zoom Party!

Thursday Dec 10th @ 7:00pm

In lieu of our annual SODA Potluck Dinner, we will be having an ugly sweater get together on ZOOM. Wear your best ugly sweater, Christmas sweater, holiday wear, or what ever you've got.

No ugly sweater? No problem, come join us anyway! We'll be voting on the best ugly sweater and giving away some prizes.

Grab a beverage, bring some snacks, and come visit with your neighbors online!

Meeting Link:

https://bit.ly/SODA-DEC

SODA Wednesday Update Dec 9th 2020

SODA Wednesday Update Dec 2nd 2020

Giving Tuesday 2020

It's Giving Tuesday!

Help Support Neighborhood Activities.

Your generous donation will help SODA continue to provide community events and support our neighborhood.

Click the Donate button to easily donate online through PayPal.

SODA Nov. 2020 Presentation By Kaileigh Bianchini

Thank You Kaileigh Bianchini, City of Dearborn Senior Planner, for presenting at our November SODA meeting..
You can view the presentation portion of the meeting here:

November SODA MEETING 2020

November SODA MEETING

Thursday Nov 12th @ 7:00pm

Zoom - Virtual Meeting

Join Link: http://bit.ly/SODA-2020

Special Guest: Kaileigh Bianchini

City of Dearborn Senior Planner

(Full join information below)

Discussion about future projects and events.

Help Wanted!

Board Positions Open:

- Secretary

If you are interested in running for a board position please send a message on the Contact Us page. http://www.sodadearborn.com/p/contact-us.html

To run for a board position you must be a Regular SODA Member and current with your annual dues payment.

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SODA is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: SODA Meeting 2020

Time: Nov 12, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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October SODA MEETING 2020

October SODA MEETING

Thursday Oct 8th @ 7:00pm

Zoom - Virtual Meeting

Join Link: http://bit.ly/SODA-OCT

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Discussion about future projects and events.

Help Wanted!
Board Positions Open:
- Secretary

If you are interested in running for a board position please send a message on the Contact Us page. http://www.sodadearborn.com/p/contact-us.html

To run for a board position you must be a Regular SODA Member and current with your annual dues payment.

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SODA is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: SODA Meeting 2020
Time: Oct 8, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

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Sept 2020 SODA Meeting Video

I would like to apologize, we had a bit of a mix up in the Zoom meeting link posted in the Facebook and Nextdoor.com events. The Bitly link and the links sent to member emails were right, but the Zoom information on the Facebook & Nextdoor.com events as well as the website were wrong. I'm sorry for the confusion. I  recorded a video reviewing the information we would have covered. Below is the video on YouTube. If you have any questions about this information presented please let me know. Again, my apologies. Running SODA meetings thru Zoom is still new. 

https://youtu.be/IwoD57CVAEM

- Timothy S. Harrison
   SODA President

September SODA MEETING 2020

September SODA MEETING
Thursday Sept 3rd @ 7:00pm

Zoom - Virtual Meeting

Join Link: http://bit.ly/SODA-SEPT

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Discussion about future projects and events.

Help Wanted!
Board Positions Open:
- Secretary

If you are interested in running for a board position please send a message on the Contact Us page. http://www.sodadearborn.com/p/contact-us.html

To run for a board position you must be a Regular SODA Member and current with your annual dues payment.

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SODA is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: SODA Board Meeting - Sept

Time: Aug 31, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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SODA Garage Sale and Snow Woods Street Sale

August 14th - 16th   2020

Fri & Sat 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Sun 11:00 am – 3:00 pm 

SODA and Snow Woods have teamed up this year. Find all your street sale and garage sale locations all in one place! Locations can be found on the map below, or on the Yard Sale Treasure Map app.

For the safety of Vendors and Attendees please review this COVID-19 Safety Information:

COVID-19 Safety Information

Download Yard Sale Treasure Map app
You will be able to see sale locations the day
of the sale with the free version of the app

 

CLICK HERE FOR PRINTABLE MAP

Scout Helps Beautify Neighborhood

Thank You to Kamryn Brown and her family for working on our park flower boxes this past weekend! They weeded, watered, and put down mulch in all 5 flower boxes in the neighborhood. Kamryn is a Star Rank Scout with Scouts BSA Troop 1104. She covered the cost of the materials needed using bottle returns that she has been collecting for her path to Eagle. Eagle Scout is the highest rank attainable in the Scouts BSA program of the Boy Scouts of America.

This project was done has part of the requirements for the special James M. Stewart Good Citizenship Award, learn more about this award here: https://jimmy.org/scouts-bsa/

Below are a few before and after pictures of the work done.

Thanks Kamryn for beautifying our neighborhood and community!

SODA Neighborhood Garage Sale 2020

SODA Neighborhood Garage Sale
Be apart of Michigan's Longest Garage Sale!! 

August 14th - 16th, 2020

Fri & Sat 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Sun 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Please fill out the form below to register your address for SODA's event. We will contact you before the sale date to give you further information and confirm that you have obtained a garage sale permit.

Residents are responsible for getting their own permit from the City.
http://www.cityofdearborn.org/services/clerk/obtain-a-garage-sale-permit
The cost is $10 for the first City permit for the year

The association will advertise the event, make a map of the garage sale addresses, and sale locations will be available via the smartphone app Yard Sale Treasure Map. The sales will also be published on www.us12heritagetrail.org as part of Michigan's Longest Garage Sale

Michigan's Longest Garage Sale
https://www.us12heritagetrail.org/garage_sale.asp

COVID-19 Safety: For the safety of all participants, it is your responsibility to follow state and local guidelines that are in place on August 14th -16th.

Hubbard Street - SODA History

A brief history about the name of Hubbard Street 

Not to be confused with Hubbard Drive which runs East / West through the middle of Dearborn, Hubbard Street runs North / South for two blocks between Madison St. and Oxford St. in the heart of the SODA neighborhood. According to the Dearborn Historical Museum and the Dearborn Press & Guide; Huddard St. was named after Bessie Hubbard, wife of Jackson Howard Pardee. The land in the area that is now the Southwestern Outer Drive Neighborhood was once rows of ribbon farms and the Pardee family was the owner of one of those farms. 
A Wayne County map from 1893 shows the Pardee farm which was bordered by Monroe St. to the East and what is now Pardee St. to the West, another street named after the Pardee family. To the North the farm border ran along what is now Oxford St. and the farm extended West in the direction of the what is now Princeton St. up to what is now Parker St.. The 1893 map shows a structure was near what is now the Hubbard St. location, possibly the Pardee family home or a building that supported the family farm.

Statement on Summer-Stephens Pool 2020

Message from City of Dearborn Aquatics Supervisor Teddy Shaskos regarding Summer-Stephens and Lapeer pools for the summer of 2020;

Thank you for reaching out. Let me clarify what is going on. First and foremost, Ten Eyck Pool was chosen over Summer Stephens and Lapeer due to the fact that it does not have a sub pump that the other two pools require to bring all waste water to grade. Both Summer Stephens and to a lesser degree Lapeer have flooding issues in their basements due to the sub pumps not being able to keep up with the demand of the pool. The flooding over the years has caused these basements to require more maintenance and more time to set up for operations. Additionally the Initial water quality at Summer Stephens is very poor and that Pool requires approximately four to six days to filter out all of the rust that is in those lines. And although Ten Eyck Pool is not without its own set of issues, it currently has none of these issues.

- Teddy Shaskos, City of Dearborn Aquatics Supervisor

Additional statement from Greg Orner, City of Dearborn Director of Recreation & Parks Department:

There have been no recent discussions about closing Summer Stephens or any of the remaining outdoor pools. Due to our having a very limited staff this year, we were only able to secure enough personnel to open two (2) outdoor pools this summer. We just didn't have the time to recruit, hire and train lifeguards like in the past. For example, we were unable to hold our annual spring lifeguard certification classes, as in the past, due to the pandemic.

We'll be opening up one (1) pool east, Ford Woods and one (1) pool west Ten Eyck, this season.

We hope to be able to offer a more normal season next year if the nation can get its arms around the Corona Virus.

- Greg Orner, City of Dearborn Director of Recreation & Parks Department

No annual passes will be available in 2020.

The new Ford Woods Pool will operate noon to 8 p.m. each day. Daily rates for Ford Woods will be: Resident: $7, Guest of a Resident: $9, and Nonresident: $14. 

Ten Eyck Pool opened June 24. Daily rates for the Ten Eyck Pool are Resident: $5, Guest of a Resident: $7, and Nonresident: $12.

The three free splash pads at Crowley, Hemlock and Whitmore–Bolles parks opened June 20. They operate 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

For more information about recreational facilities, please call the Recreation Department service desk at 313-943-2350.

Chalk The Park - Oxford Park

"Chalk The Park" returns for a Forth week!

This time bring your sidewalk chalk to Oxford Park.

Let's get creative! Create chalk drawings, inspirational messages, and more all along the track this Saturday at Oxford Park.

Post pictures of your creations here or in our Facebook group for all to see.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/southwesternouterdrive/

While at the park please practice social distancing, remaining at least 6 feet apart from others.

Oxford Park

June 13th

All-Day

June SODA Meeting - 2020

June SODA MEETING
Thursday June 11th @ 7:00pm

Zoom - Virtual Meeting

Join Link: https://bit.ly/SODA-JuneMeeting

(Full join information below)

Discussion about future projects and events.

Help Wanted!
Board Positions Open:
- Secretary

If you are interested in running for a board position please send a message on the Contact Us page. http://www.sodadearborn.com/p/contact-us.html

To run for a board position you must be a Regular SODA Member and current with your annual dues payment.

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SODA is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: SODA June Meeting
Time: Jun 11, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Chalk The Park - Schemansky Park

"Chalk The Park" returns for a Third week!

This time bring your sidewalk chalk to Schemansky Park.

Let's get creative! Create chalk drawings, inspirational messages, and more all along the track this Saturday at Schemansky Park.

Post pictures of your creations here or in our Facebook group for all to see.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/southwesternouterdrive/

While at the park please practice social distancing, remaining at least 6 feet apart from others.

Schemansky Park

June 6th

All-Day

Dogs Welcome On Park Tracks

New Dog Waste Station at Oxford Park

Dogs are now welcome at several Dearborn City Parks, but you may wonder... Why are the No Dogs Allowed signs still up?

On Nov. 26, 2019 a new ordinance  passed by the City Council now allows leashed dogs to walk on tracks in seven City parks: Crowley, Geer, Oxford, Penn-Vassar, Schemansky, Summer-Stephens and Ten Eyck parks.

This allows for owners to walk their 4 legged friends on the tracks at these parks, but only on the track. Dogs are still "not allowed" in other parts of the city parks including public buildings, pavilions, playgrounds, or open fields within the park.

New Dog Waste Stations have been installed in several locations throughout the parks which provide bags for owners to clean up after their dog.  Next to these stations are also posted rules for dogs at the park.

Fines for violating the rules start at $100.

These rules are: 

 

• Dogs must be kept on a leash not more than six (6) feet in length and kept under the immediate control of the owner or person having custody of the animal. Handler must be person of 16 years or older.
• Dogs must stay on the track area throughout the park. Dogs are not allowed in public buildings or other park areas.
• Dog owners/handlers are required to remove and properly dispose of all animal waste immediately.
• Dog owners/handlers are legally responsible and strictly liable for any damage or injury caused by their dog(s), such as digging, and must fill any holes caused by an accompanied dog.
• Dog owners/handlers are required to be present and attend to their dog(s) at all times.
• There is to be no harassment of wildlife, other animals, or other park users.
• Dogs are required to have a valid, city-issued dog license at all times, and are available to purchase at the City Clerk's Office. (Proof of a rabies vaccination is required to obtain the license.)
• Individuals failing to comply with posted rules are subject to citation, expulsion, or arrest as well as dog impound as outlined in Ordinance 17-1579.
• For disruptive animals, dogs lacking the proper tags, etc., please call (313) 943-3030, For an emergency, please call 911.

Chalk The Park - Summer-Stephens

"Chalk The Park" returns for a second week!

This time bring your sidewalk chalk to Summer-Stephens Park.

Let's get creative! Create chalk drawings, inspirational messages, and more all along the track this Saturday at Summer-Stephens Park.

Post pictures of your creations here or in our Facebook group for all to see.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/southwesternouterdrive/

While at the park please practice social distancing, remaining at least 6 feet apart from others.

Summer-Stephens Park

May 30th

All-Day

Chalk The Park - Penn-Vassar - Creations

Chalk The Park - Penn-Vassar
May 23, 2020