Keep Lakewood Beautiful Announces Beautiful Home Award Winners
Keep Lakewood Beautiful is a City of Lakewood committee comprised of volunteers who work to promote citizen involvement and investment toward the beauty of Lakewood through green space activity, litter prevention, and recycling efforts. The committee also encourages individual environmental education. The committee's activities include an annual Clean up Day, Adopt-a-Spot program, leaf humus sales, Earth Day Event and Beautiful Home Awards.
The Beautiful Home Awards are awarded to one home in each school district in order to include a wide range of home values and styles. The nominations are accepted, in July and August, from friends neighbors and often even the home owners themselves. The board of directors from Keep Lakewood Beautiful then divide the school districts up among themselves and determine the winners based on 3 major criteria- landscaping, house maintenance and overall beauty of the property.
The first thing that most people consider is curb appeal, because we see many of our neighbors homes from the sidewalks or the streets as we walk or drive by. Surprisingly, we often find even more beauty in the back yard than in the front. We usually find, if the front is well maintained, the back is too. This year's awards are no exception. We have some home owners who really go all out to exhibit their pride in Lakewood home ownership. Sometimes through seasonal decoration, sometimes landscaping and sometimes tremendous outdoor living spaces that create year round enjoyment and beauty for a home.
Congratulations to the Winners, listed here by school district, followed by the Keep Lakewood Beautiful board members who had final say in their designated district.
Horace Mann - 1262 Mathews - Laura A. Smith - presented by John Litton and John Gilbride.
Hayes 16616 Fisher - Thomas and Suzanne Kelly - presented by Susan Lust and Gail Higgins
Emerson - 1032 Edgewater Lane - David & Cheryl Jerome - presented by Maria Parke and Kathy Lawrence.
Roosevelt - 2233 Adeline - James and Beth Gantz - presented by Karl Lepkowski
Grant - 1488 Belle - Timothy Kaye and Robert Gallagher - presented by Susan Lust and Gail Higgins
Lincoln - 1100 Kenneth - Patrick and Sharon Perotti - presented by Dan Morgan and Marianne Quasibarth
Harrison - 1616 Grace Avenue - Tessa & Courtney Smith - presented by Carla Kowalski and Ruth Gillett
The Beautiful Home Award winners and the Adopt-a-Spot volunteers will be treated to an appreciation breakfast at the Lakewood Park Women's Club Pavilion. The cost of the Awards and souvenir programs at the breakfast were funded with a generous contribution by First Federal of Lakewood.
The Keep Lakewood Beautiful board would like to thank the over 100 volunteers who help make Lakewood beautiful every day with their many hours of volunteer contributions. With their support, Keep Lakewood Beautiful is able to continue its unique partnership with the City by bringing these programs to Lakewood. The Keep Lakewood Beautiful board is always considering new ways to expand our Adopt-a-Spots and its many other great programs. Lakewood residents are encouraged to participate in all their programs including the Beautiful Home Awards nomination process as well as contact the board with new ideas and volunteer interests. To do so, email Holly at, klbgeneral@lakewoodoh.net.
Keep Lakewood Beautiful urges residents to "like" the new Keep Lakewood Beautiful facebook page or keep up with our coming events at the web site, www.OneLakewood.com/KLB.
dan morgan
Dan Morgan owner of Straight Shooter Photography is a lifelong Lakewood resident and member of the Keep Lakewood Beautiful board of Directors. Dan and his wife Annette also preside over an Adopt A Spot at the Lakewood Park Entrance at Belle and Lake Ave.