Station North Spring Music Festival Seeking Volunteers

The Station North Spring Music Festival is right around the corner, and the Charles North Community Association is seeking volunteers to help make the event a success. Jobs vary from setting up, to helping during event hours (5:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.), to closing everything down between 11:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. This is truly a case where many hands make light work, and working at the Festival is a great opportunity to meet new friends and have a good time.

All are welcome, whether you can give a whole day or just an hour or two of your time. If you can help, please contact Mr. Jamy Erny, Event Coordinator, at 410-812-6161 or theearnys@hotmail.com Or, if you're the spontaneous type, you can also just show up early the day of the Festival at the northeast corner of Charles Street and North Avenue.


See you there!

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Urbanite Salutes Central Baltimore Activists

In the late 1960s and 1970s, GHCC's slogan was "People are the Key." We still know it's true. The people who create positive change in our neighborhoods are residents like you who want their communities to be great places to live, work, and raise families.

A community garden in the 2200 block of Barclay Street

This month's issue of the Urbanite magazine profiles 6 "neighborhood heroes -- people fighting for and inspiring change in parts of town that needed it." Two of those heroes are Bill and Anne Clewell, who have literally transformed a half-dozen rundown homes on Barclay Street in Greenmount West. These rehabbed homes are part of a strategy to bring residents back to the area. Greenmount West is one of the communities included in the Charles North Vision Plan, an exciting plan to turn the central Baltimore area into a center of culture and commerce.

Do you have a hero in your neighborhood? Leave us a comment and tell us about it!

You can also hear more about the Charles North Vision Plan today on Midday with Dan Rodricks on WYPR from 1-2 p.m.