Taste the Neighborhood was Delicious

Last Wednesday, Northeast Shores hosted our Taste the Neighborhood event. The food was great, the company better, and fun was had by all. We want to thank all of the neighborhood restaurants that supported the event by donating their delicious munchies. Please show your thanks by supporting independent restaurants here (and everywhere). We also want to thank Jackpot Festival and onefundj for providing the music.

Besides the great eats, we also gave out the 2008 awards for the neighborhood. Award winners learned that night that they had won. Winners included:

Neighborhood Investment of the Year: Key Bank for the construction of the East 185th Street Branch and promise to donate the closed Waterloo Branch to Northeast Shores.

Neighborhood Investment of the Year: Shoparooni for starting the Waterloo Walls project, creating a Waterloo scavenger hunt, expanding into the annex and getting Waterloo national television exposure on ABC's Wife Swap.

Block Club of the Year: Overlook Park Drive Association for their strong representation of the neighborhood in deliberations with the Christian Life Center.

Volunteer of the Year: Mary Louise Jesek Daley for her various projects to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Collinwood School Fire.

And - Last but not least -


Collinwood Hall of Fame inductee - Miles Kennedy was the 2008 inductee for his support of Waterloo Road, Northeast Shores, and Arts Collinwood. Miles received a standing ovation for being inducted into the Hall of Fame and some people teared up as Miles accepted his honor.

If you were there, hope you enjoyed yourself. If you missed it, hope you will think long and hard about what happened last Wednesday that was more kick-butt than our Taste the Neighborhood event.