Great Rehab Opportunity!

Looking for a rehab property in a great location? This one could be for you!

4 Unit, 3 story building. Property is vacant, mostly gutted, ready for rehab.

GREAT LOCATION: +/- 1/2 mile from Johns Hopkins University Main Campus and Union Memorial Hospital. 2 blocks from Waverly Farmers Market and across from recently built Giant supermarket. 3 blocks from Harry & Jeanette Weinberg YMCA at Stadium Place.

Unit 1: 3BR/1BA
Unit 2: 1BR/1BA
Unit 3: 2BR/1BA
Unit 4: 2BR/1BA

New owner needs to request reestablishment of zoning permission.

Please contact
Ursula Bowen at 410-746-2005
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JHU to Host Science and Research Job Fair

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You're Invited! Stadium School Youth Dreamers Housewarming Party!

Written by the students in Youth Dreamer Project Class 2009

We’re the Youth Dreamers
We are a 501(c) 3,
We want to decrease the amount of violence
among youth in our community.

We are creating
a youth-run youth center,
open after school
all are welcome to enter.

We have a Board of Directors
and lots of friends,
that help us with our dream
and support us till the end.

There’s a whole lot
to our history,
we started in 2001
with $70,000 from Senator Mikulski.

We bought a house
and went through zoning,
we worked with an architect
who turned our dream into a drawing.

Now we’re in construction
and running programs after school,
it’s 2009
and soon our youth center will rule!

You’d be amazed
at what we’ve done
this year in Project Class
and it was fun!

We’ve been to My Sister’s Place
Shepherd’s Clinic, too,
had two huge service days
just to name a few.

Our after school programs
Modeling, Community Art,
Homework Club and Health Club
and that’s just to start!

From State Farm we got a grant
to fund our first real year,
we wrote it all together
It’s time to cheer!

This means a whole lot
for us and our community,
our youth center
will soon hold the key…

People will come
to work, play, and be,
to learn leadership skills
and more about the community.

We are so excited
to extend the YD’s history,
by moving into this house
it’s a brighter future for you and me!

We hope for our first year
to be busy and have fun,
with teenage employees
getting all the work done.

Adults volunteering and teaching
different classes going on,
playing on our new playground
and memberships lasting long.

We are having a Housewarming Party
and all are welcome to come,
On May 30th this year
to learn about us and have fun!


The Stadium School Youth Dreamers are a group of students in sixth grade through college who decided in 2001 that they wanted to open a youth-run youth center. They celebrate their success on May 30, 2009, with a housewarming party.

Learning in Greater Homewood

Did you know Greater Homewood is home to 17 great public schools? From pre-kindergarten through high school graduation, there is a school close to home waiting to serve you.

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Experience Corps on Front Page of The Baltimore Sun

Congratulations to GHCC's Experience Corps program, which has received great press via a front-page article in the Baltimore Sun on April 14 as well as a mention in the Sun's InsideEd blog. The article highlights the results of a national study conducted by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, and complements studies by researchers at Johns Hopkins University.

GHCC has administered Experience Corps in Baltimore City since 1998. In the past school year the program served 20 schools, with over 325 members contributing 158,000 volunteer hours. A partnership between GHCC and The Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health, the program has been in Baltimore schools for 10 years and benefits over 7000 students each year.

Success stories abound at each of the Program's 20 schools, like this one from Beatrice Saunders at Waverly Elementary/Middle:

The student that I feel improved the most academically because of Experience Corps is Tommie. I observed in the beginning of the school year that Tommie's problem with staying focused and keeping up with the class was a result of his disorganization and lack of confidence. I first started by helping him straighten out his desk, organizing his papers and notebooks so he could better follow along with the class.

Oftentimes Tommie appeared to be in a daze and showed a lack of interest in keeping up with the other students. The teacher noticed that when I spent time with Tommie he tried harder. I took time to encourage him by telling him that he had to do better in order to pass to the second grade. I also told him he was smart and that he needed to participate in class more so the teacher could see how smart he really was. In observing Tommie four months later I saw great improvement in him. He's now more confident in reading aloud, and he participates more whether his answers are right or wrong. Tommie is just one example of the successful impact of Experience Corps. There are many more I could talk about. I am truly enjoying the life experience. I look forward to seeing the joy I bring to Waverly Elementary each week and the love I receive from everyone there.

Kudos to Experience Corps for a wonderful year!

Don't Miss the Old Goucher Historic House Tour on April 26!

by Peter Duvall


Old Goucher Historic House Tour
April 26 2009

The Old Goucher Community Association, Inc. is celebrating our neighborhood with a tour of the Old Goucher Historic District, located right in the heart of Baltimore.

On Sunday, April 26th from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM, the Old Goucher Community Association, Inc. will hold a house tour in the Old Goucher Historic District. Stops on the tour will include beautiful two- and three-story row houses, dramatic churches, and some of the historic buildings and halls of Goucher College’s original campus, most dating back to the late 1800s. The fabulous “Clock House” will be on the tour this year.

Tickets for the self-guided house tour will be sold for $12 (Students with ID pay $6) starting at noon through 3:00 PM on April 26, 2009 in front of Lovely Lane United Methodist Church, 2200 St. Paul Street. The ticket price will include a small snack item at one tour stop.

For more information about the tour on April 26th, or about the neighborhood and the Old Goucher Community Association Inc., please call 410-561-0562 or send e-mail to: email@oldgoucher.org.

Waverly School Parents Get a Space of Their Own

From the Waverly Elementary/Middle School PTO

With the help of our Community Connections VISTA this past January, the Waverly Elementary Middle School PTO received a grant from Lowe’s for $3,600 to make a new parent room. With this money we are creating a special space for parents at the school that will be a lounge, work space, and resource center. The parent room is located in the middle school portable building. So far we have had two "decorate days" where we put together our new furniture, decorated the walls and installed three brand new computers! Soon we will have a resource library complete with materials on parenting, childhood development, how to help children in school, and much more. Soon parents will be able to come to the parent room to hang out, get information about the school, use the internet, use the printer and copy machines, or attend workshops and meetings. We hope the room will be a great resource to Waverly parents!