This week, an email was sent from the new Board of Directors to the MCHOA Community. The email states that:
The Board has two sites to share all official information:
1. the community's website
or by
2. eblast (email)
In addition, there is a Facebook account that you can friend or post.
No official Board communications will be posted on FB.
Social Media should focus on interaction, not distribution. Good-intended interaction amongst residents promotes a community. For that, you can visit this blog and the Mill Creek Cleveland Facebook GROUP for dialog with your neighbors. We're also on Twitter (@millcreekcle) and Instagram (millcreekcle), if you prefer 140 characters or images of the neighborhood.
Sadly, one of the Mill Creek Falls Neighborhood's gems won't be returning for the 2014 season. For the past 18 years, the Big Dipper was a local destination on a warm, summer evening for anything cold - especially ice cream.
Many of us walked, biked or drove by on our way home to buy a treat at the corner of Bancroft and E. 86 Street.
You were almost guaranteed to run into a fellow Mill Creek resident there. On really hot days, seats at the iron, old fashioned tables and chairs were very popular. While outside, many of us sat on the brick wall trying to eat our ice cream before it melted.
You also mixed with neighbors that lived nearer the local store. Scores of little league baseball players could also be seen celebrating a win, or even a loss, with an ice cream cone - usually Superman flavor (their #1 flavor, per Bill).
Good luck to Bill and his staff that we have grown to know over the years. Thanks for taking the time to talk to us and for being able to predict our orders after so many visits. You will be missed. Especially on a warm, summer evening.
Here's a quick recap:
1. Update from the President - mailbox numbers, tree inventory, contracts, security cameras, landscaping, gazebo and Turner Square.
2. Financial info - provided by Reserve Realty
3. Committee updates - Activities, ARC, Buildings & Grounds and Pool.
4. General discussion - Board and property management protocol for contracts, Turney Road and sidewalk issues, and police presence in the neighborhood.
5. Four elected Board members - Kris Johnson, Crystal Patterson, Pat Shields and Bob Todten.
Monday, March 10 @ 7pm
Community Center
Meeting includes annual Board election
Ever
wonder why you have seen "Mill Creek" spelled all sorts of ways? Is it
Mill Creek, Millcreek or MillCreek? Let's try to settle this once and for all.
Back before there was a MC development, the Broadway Housing Coalition and Slavic Village spelled our neighborhood with two words: Mill Creek. We know this from their marketing and promotion plans.
The builder of the development, Zaremba was where we first saw the name as one word: Millcreek. We also Zaremba documents with the spelling: MillCreek. (uppercase C)
Below are some examples of the two word spelling (Mill Creek) referring to the creek, valley, lane, falls, falls community, district and falls history center.
Here's where the confusion starts, with examples of the one word spellings (MillCreek and Millcreek) referring to the entrance sign, community trail and boulevard street signs. Presumably all by Zaremba.
As you can see, there are different spellings - thus, creating confusion. Thanks, Zaremba and the City of Cleveland. Or is it, ZarEmBa and Cleaveland? It probably doesn't matter, as long as we spell it "home."
