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What We have Done So Far?
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What´s New?
Neighborhood Events — 2010
- General Meeting, 1 March (Has been held)
- Cherryhill Block Party, 19 June - 12-3 pm, Elderberry Drive > (Has been held)
- National Night Out, 3 August – 6-8 pm, De Anza Park Picnic Area
- Harvest Walkabout, 11 September – 5-7 pm, Planned route through the Neighborhood
- General Meeting, 8 November – 7-8:30 pm, De Anza Park Building
- Holiday Walkabout, 12 December (added) – 7-8:30 pm,Planned route through the neighborhood
What´s Next?
National Night Out™ 2010
Tuesday 3 August 2010, 6:00 to 8:00 pm
De-Anza Park Picnic Area
Pot Luck
Meet city officials and police officers
Games for kids
Prizes and giveaways sponsored by Target Stores
Just knowing your neighbors is one of the best deterrents to crime. Neighborhoods throughout Sunnyvale are joining forces with other neighborhoods nationwide for the 27th annual National Night Out™ Crime and Drug Prevention event. This is a nationally organized effort designed to help prevent crime by encouraging neighbors to spend an evening together.
This is a great opportunity to discuss recent robberies in and near our neighborhood and determine what we can do to prevent them.
Burglarly Basics.
City officials and Public Safety Officers will drop by for one-on-one contact.
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT™ is designed to:
- Heighten crime and drug prevention awareness
- Generate support for, and participation in, local anticrime programs
- Strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships
- Send a message to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back
Our celebration includes a pot luck dinner! Please bring a dish to share and your own beverage. We recommend you bring a plate and utensils from home to help minimize waste (If you forget there will be paperplates and plastic utensils at the event.Target stores will supply bottled water and light appetizers.
Questions: Doris Tan, 408-245-0656, Email Doris; Kyle Welch, 408-481-9700, Email Kyle.
Our Neighborhood Association
Cherryhill Neighborhood Association is a City of Sunnyvale sanctioned organization formed for the benefit of our neighborhood. The advantages are many:
- Enhance our neighborhood
- Address common concerns, e.g. traffic control
- Learn how to prevent crime; establish Neighborhood Watch programs
- Free dumpster weekends
- Have a stronger voice in local government
- Obtain city funding for neighborhood projects
- Provide a forum where candidates for the city council can directly address us
- Know your neighbors - Foster communication and interaction between neighbors for the common good
- City sponsered disaster preparedness training SNAP
Please contact us with your suggestions:
- Clue us in: What do you think your neighborhood association should do for you?
- Please send us suggestions and ideas for new activities
- How can we make meetings more exciting?
- What have we done well? What should we do differently?
Contact us through our Yahoo Group, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cherryhill_neighbors/, for all to see. Or you can email them to Wayne Amacher, Chairman and he will share them with the board.
During the 13 December 2009 Walkabout, several neighbors expressed some great ideas for 2010 activities. Now is a wonderful time to get those ideas out on the table, discuss them, and start to implement them.
Traffic Control Committee
We have formed a traffic control committee within the association to address automobile traffic problems in the neighborhood and to petition the city to make us and our children safer. John Park chairs the committee. Contact him for information and to sign our petition, John . More traffic control details wil appear in our next newsletter.
What We have Done So Far?
You can read more about what we have accomplished in our Newsletters. Use the navigation button on the left.
1 March 2010 Neighborhood General Meeting We held a general meeting 1 March 2010 in the De Anza Park Building. The meeting was highlighted by a presentation by Doug Moretto, Captain, Special Operations, Sunnyvale Public Safety. He spoke about youth at risk and gangs in Sunnyvale. Yes, there are gangs in Sunnyvale! What is being done about it? The Sunnyvale Challenge Team has been formed to redirect and mentor youth at risk. For those of you who missed the meeting, and by popular request, Here is the meeting presentation including Doug Moretto's slides .
An anonymous tip site has been set up where you can report gang and other suspicious activity. See the poster TipNowSV .
13 December 2009 Neighborhood “Walkabout” The walkabout was a resounding success! It started at Westmoor Shopping Center, proceeded along Mandarin Drive, Yorktown, Valley Forge, Lime, Ticonderoga, Elderberry, Syracuse, Cranberry, and Rockefeller. Some of us walked all the way; others joined in and walked part of the way. There were seven stations set up along the way with with refreshments ranging from cake and cookies to mulled wine! About 100 neighbors joined in at one time or another. There were about 80 neighbors at the final stop at Crandano Court off Rockefeller. The invitation, which is the best overall description, is available at Walkabout Invitation.
Beth Erickson, Valley Forge Drive, said, “What a marvelous and unique evening! Applause to those who made it happen and to all who supplied the spirit.”
Andrea Stawitcke, Yorktown Drive, said, “Fritz and I had such a wonderful time hosting and meeting so many old and new friends. We especially enjoyed all the kids who stopped and really enjoyed chatting and eating :-). Kudos to Kathy Besser for such a wonderful, warm idea and to Kyle for all the help with organizing too! You really pulled off a great event. We live amid a great group of folks and are thankful to be part of such a terrific community. Happy Holidays!"
Kim Jelfs, Robin Court, said, “A big Thank You to Kathy, Wayne, Kyle and all the hosts for this afternoon's neighborhood walkabout. Since we were pressed for time (had a dinner appt in Mountain View to get to) we did only part of the route in reverse but it was still lovely to meet some of you and visit. The treats were delicious and the coffee and hot chocolate kept us warm. Our 5 yr old daughter loved the festivities and seeing all the holiday lights as we walked back home.”
Our 2009 September Meeting A presentation on the Sunnyvale Neighborhood Preservation Program was made by Steve Frias of the City of Sunnyvale. We approved a change to the bylaws to define the Board of Officers. The Board of Officers now consists of the Chairperson, Vice Chairperson, Treasurer, Secretary, First Past Chairperson, Second Past Chairperson, and Member at Large. Candidates for Sunnyvale City Council were invited. Two attended: Pat Meyering and Penny M. Kelly. They made short presentations and we discussed issues with them after the meeting. We elected new officers who begin their terms on January 1, 2010. the new officers are:
- Chairperson: Wayne Amacher
- Vice Chairperson: Kyle Welch
- Treasurer: Jim Sturtevant
- Secretary: Doris Tan
- Member at Large: Amy McFarland
Our Second National Night Out™ celebration was held 4 August 2009 at De Anza Park. Neighbors joined forces with thousands of communities nationwide for the 26th annual National Night Out™ crime and drug prevention event. At the event we met city officials, Council Members, our City Manager, and police and fire officers. We got to see and hear about the new Sunnyvale armored search and rescue vehicle which is essentially immune to bombs.
Our Second annual Cherryhill Neighborhood Association Block Party was held on 13 June 2009. We had over 100 attendees and everyone had a good time. Details in our next newsletter; watch for it.
Our 2009 Spring Meeting was held on 27 April 2009, at De Anza Park. At the meeting we met our new Sunnyvale City Manager, Gary Luebbers; recieved an update on the Stevens Creek Trail from Garth Williams; and discussed traffic control in our neighborhood with Officer Jim Davis. A report on the meeting is available at Spring Meeting Report and will be reported in our next newsletter; watch for it.
A Cherryhill Neighborhood Watch Group Meeting was held Friday, 29 August 2008, at the DeAnza Park Bldg. We were given a presentation on SNAP (Sunnyvale Neighborhoods Actively Prepare) by Lt. John Gienger. SNAP is a unique residential emergency preparedness program presented by the Sunnyvale Office of Emergency Services. SNAP assists- you, your family, and your neighborhood - to function independently of outside services for the first 72 hours following a disaster. Our July 2008 Newsletter contains a report. Click on "Newsletters" for more details.
Our 2008 National Night Out™ Potluck Party was held at De Anza Park on 5 August 2008. This event is designed to assist neighborhoods in crime and drug prevention. Our August Newsletter contains a report and pictures. Click on "Newsletters" for more details.
An Organizational Meeting to get our neighborhood association started was held 28 June 2008. A report including photos is included in the July 2008 Newsletter. Click on "Newsletters" for more details.
Communicate with Us
Members Mailing List
Your neighborhood association maintains a moderated mailing list, members@cherryhillna.org which is used sparingly by the officers of the association for important announcements such as meetings and block parties. Expect no more than one, maybe two emails per month. To protect members from excessive email, all postings to this list must be approved by the list moderator.
Subscribe to this list by using the membership form on the website, www.cherryhillna.org, membership form . and the moderator will add you to the list. We would like to have everyone in the neighborhood subscribed to this list so that we can keep everyone informed about important events.
You can unsubscribe from this list at any time by sending an email to majordomo@cherryhillna.org from the address you wish unsubscribed with “unsubscribe members” in the body of the email. This will unsubscribe the email address that you mailed from. To unsubscribe a different email address than that from which you are mailing, include “unsubscribe members <the email address to unsubscribe>” in the body of the email.
You can contact the list moderator by sending an email to owner-members@cherryhillna.org .
Cherryhill Yahoo Group
We maintain a Yahoo Group, "cherryhill_neighbors" just for our own neighborhood. Likely, you are already familiar with Yahoo Groups; if not, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cherryhill_neighbors/ to learn more. Cherryhill_Neighbors membership is moderated. If you are not a member you can easily become a member by clicking on “Join this group”. You must also be a Yahoo member; Sign in if you are; otherwise you can easily sign up for a Yahoo account by clicking on "Sign-up”.
You can sign up for an account, revealing very little or nothing about yourself. You can remain anonymous! You can easily control the amount of email you receive. You can receive an email every time there is a new message; you can receive a daily digest of messages; or you can just go to the Yahoo site and read the messages without receiving any email at all! It’s a nice system.
Anyone who is a member of the group can post to the group. Once you are a member the group is an un-moderated forum for our neighbors for topics of general interest:
- Discussions of neighborhood interest, announcements
- Exchange information about contractors, babysitters, etc.
- Recommendations for the association, ideas, activities
- Plan and discuss block parties
- Traffic issues and etc.
Contact the Cherryhill Neighborhood Association Officers
If you are on the members mailing list, You can contact the officers of the neighborhood association by sending an email (preferably plain-text) to Your Board of Officers
Cherryhill Neighborhood Association Website
Our website is http://www.cherryhillna.org. (If you are reading this you are already there.)