Neighborhood Notes: October 2022

Traffic Calming Murals

Graham Projects is collaborating with the Highlandtown Community Association on traffic calming crosswalk murals to increase pedestrian visibility and calm traffic at the intersection of Eastern Avenue and S. Ellwood.

The mural design will be based on input from our community. Ideas were shared with the artists during the Highlandtown First Friday Art Walk: October 2022 (Oct. 7) at Off the Rox at 3232 Eastern Ave. from 5:00-8:00 pm! 

If you didn’t make the event, no worries - share your ideas using this link! http://makeplacehappen.com/highlandtown. To learn more about Graham Projects: https://www.facebook.com/grahamprojects/.

Fiesta Baltimore Parade & Festival
Fiesta Baltimore 2022 is the most anticipated Hispanic/Latino cultural event of the year in Baltimore. Join us on Sunday, October 9 for the 4th Annual Parade of Latin Nations (1:00-3:00 pm on Eastern Ave.) and the Latino Cultural Festival 10 am-7:00 pm in Patterson Park at the Pulaski Monument. For a list of all the participants, visit https://www.facebook.com/NuestrasRaicesInc/. And, don’t forget to RSVP to the event at https://www.facebook.com/events/1155954131632176.

Great Halloween Lantern Parade & Festival
Join neighbors, friends, and family at Patterson Park on Saturday, October 22 to celebrate the 23rd Anniversary of The Great Halloween Lantern Parade and Festival. The day begins with a family festival, featuring an adorable kids costume contest, lantern making, pop-up performances, an arts & crafts market, and more. Once the sun sets, the magic begins. Everyone is welcome to grab a lantern and march with thousands of neighbors, artists, musicians, and performers or line the parade route to watch the delightful Great Halloween Lantern Parade wind through the night!!

Festival 4:00 pm, Parade Line-up 6:30 pm, Parade 7:00 pm. Costume Contest: Registration for kids and families begins at 3:30 pm, Contest begins at 4:30 pm. For more information, www.creativealliance.org or email info@creativealliance.org.

BARCStoberfest is back Saturday, October 29 in Patterson Park!
BARCStoberfest is an annual, large-scale, pet-friendly festival and fundraiser that benefits the lifesaving programs and animal care at BARCS. The festival, which takes place at Patterson Park, includes a 5K Run/1-Mile Walk, Pet Costume Contest, Beer Garden, vendors, kids’ activities, and more! Fundraising leading up to BARCStoberfest raises critical funding for Maryland’s highest volume, open-admission shelter serving 10,000 animals per year. The goal this year is $350,000, so please join us to raise funds for animals in need in our community.
Festival: 9:30 am-2:00 pm
5K and Walk: Registration at 7:30 am, run/walk at 9:00 am
Beer Garden: 10:00 am-3:00 pm
Register yourself and/or a team today: https://www.barcstoberfest.org/

Halloween Decoration Giveaway
Win a super cool Halloween Decoration & Lighting Package from the CCA and Canton Ace Hardware! Scary witch, black flamingos, pumpkin lights, or talking ghoul? Enter to be surprised!! To be eligible, signup as a new member or renew your current membership to the Canton Community Association by end of day Tuesday, October 18. https://www.cantoncommunity.org/join-us. A winner will be selected at random and announced on Wednesday, October 19.

United Evangelical Halloween Costume Service & Social
You are invited to attend a family Halloween Costume Service and Social on Sunday October 30 beginning at 10:00 am at the United Evangelical Church, 3200 Dillon Street. There will be treat bags and costume prizes for children. Please register at https://tinyurl.com/UECHalloween by October 21st so the church can get a head count.  Any questions, please call the church office at 410-276-0393.

Music on the Square returns October 14
Music on the Square Concert Series returns for its 2022-2023 season! The first concert of 2022 features Phil Wiggins, America’s foremost blues harmonica virtuoso, on Friday, October 14 at 7:30 pm. The concert starts at 7:30 pm - Doors at 7:00 pm. $20 suggested donation. Church on the Square is located at 1025 S Potomac Street, Baltimore, MD 21224. TICKETS: tinyurl.com/PhilWiggins. Upcoming Concerts: November 11 - Larry & Joe; January 13 - Cathy Fink, Tom Paxton, & Marcy Marxer; February 10 - Across The Harbor; March 3 - "Don't Put Her Down" Documentary showing by Julia Golonka + Wicked Sycamore.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

One way to participate in Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) is to support the Tyanna Foundation Baltimore. The organization was founded by five sisters, Megan, Bridget, Katie, Anne, and Sara, after losing their Mom (Tyanna) to breast cancer when she was only 48. Fun. Feisty. Fearless — for a cause, the Tyanna Foundation is different. Known for their signature slogan “Save the Girls” and annual fundraiser “Breastfest”, the volunteers of Tyanna work tirelessly to raise funds to help make breast cancer more comfortable for patients—and less prevalent on the planet.

In Baltimore alone, over $1.8 million has been raised to support programs at The Hoffberger Breast Center at Mercy Medical Center to help ease the day-to-day burden for breast cancer patients as well as provide state-of-the-art technology to increase early detection. In 2008, Mercy named the Tyanna O’Brien Center for Women’s Imaging after the organization’s namesake Tyanna Barre O’Brien. For more information, to volunteer, sponsor, or donate, visit www.tyanna.org or email info@tyanna.org.

If your business or organization would like to host a “Pink Drink Night” in support of Tyanna, please email Rose@Tyanna.org. Tyanna thanks you for your support to #SaveTheGirls!

Cancer Screening Saves Lives
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a reminder to schedule your mammogram! Screening tests are used before a person has any symptoms to help find cancer early, when it may be easier to treat. To learn more, including how to schedule a screening test and how to afford a screening without insurance, visit cancer.org/get-screened.  

Reporting and Preventing Crime – Tip Line
The Baltimore City Police Department asks neighbors to report crimes via this TIP email: SEDtips@baltimorepolice.org. Security camera footage and photos should be included.

CCA NEWS

 Buy A Brick Program On Hold – Seeking Volunteer Administrator

The Canton Community Association Buy-A-Brick Program to benefit O'Donnell Square Park is temporarily on hold… and we need your help to continue!

1.) We are seeking a new administrator to run the program. (Thank you to Lauren Mallon Davino for all your hard work!)

2.) We are running out of available space around the flowerbeds in the park, so we are brainstorming ideas for new locations.

If you are interested in running the program (taking and placing the orders and overseeing the installation - probably 2x a year), please email info@CantonCommunity.org and put BRICK in the subject line. If you have ideas on where neighbors might also like to see memorial bricks, please send suggestions as well.

Utility Lines
Do you have utility poles around your home with inactive, loose, or potentially dangerous lines hanging from them? Any old, unused, or possibly faulty equipment? The CCA wants to know!

The CCA is starting an initiative to motivate utility companies to clean up Canton's overhead utilities but needs information on the "problem poles" first. If you have a utility pole in front of your house or in a nearby alley with any of these issues please fill out the form at https://tinyurl.com/CantonUtility.

We will pass along the information to the appropriate businesses (telephone, electric, cable, etc.) to see what can be done to get them cleaned up or removed. We are starting this process with phone/internet lines as Verizon has asked us to give them a list of specific locations.  

NOTE: The CCA is not the point of contact for problems with your service. We are merely trying to help facilitate the removal of non-functioning lines. 

Canton Anti-Racism Alliance - update
The Canton Anti-Racism Alliance is dedicated to affecting long-term, impactful changes in our neighborhood to foster a more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and welcoming community. The Alliance meets the 4th Tuesday of every month via Zoom. To join, email president@cantoncommunity.org for details. The next meeting is Tuesday, October 25. Everyone is welcome!

 CCA Committees
CCA committees include Arts, Economic Development, Education, Marketing, Membership, Public Safety, Transportation, Social, Sustainability, and Volunteer. The CCA also oversees the Friends of Canton Dog Park and Friends of O’Donnell Square, and partners with Canton Canopy. And, in 2020 the CCA founded a new community committee, the Canton Anti-Racism Alliance. New members are welcomed. Details can be found on our website at https://www.cantoncommunity.org/committees. 

CCA Social Media - Follow us!
For the latest information about our neighborhood and other helpful community/city news, please follow our CCA pages on social media. Instagram @CCA_Baltimore and www.facebook.com/CantonCommunityAssociation.  

SAVE THE DATES

CCA Public Meeting 2022
November 15

CCA Community Dumpster Day 2022
November 5

Canton Day of Giving
December 10