Please join the Summit Neighborhood Association for our Annual Meeting this coming Monday, April 29th from 7-9 pm at the Highlands at 101 Highland Avenue.
We’ll be voting in this year’s SNA Board, as well as hearing from some of our local elected officials about important issues related to the Summit Neighborhood. Plus, The Sandwich Hut is providing us with delicious snacks!
Hope to see you there!
The 2023 SNA Annual Yard Sale will be Saturday, September 30rd from 10 am to 2 pm. Sign up today to get your yard on our map! Participants set up on their own yard. Maps will be distributed on social media and made available at Citizens Bank (792 Hope St, Providence, RI 02906) on the day of the sale. Neighbors looking for bargains can grab a map online once things are finalized. Fill out this form to sign up!
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The annual Summit Neighborhood Yard Sale is tomorrow, Sunday September 22, from 10AM to 2PM. Come see us in person to pick up your map and in the Citizens Bank parking lot on Hope Street, or use the map below to find all the sales in the neighborhood!
The recent reminders by the Providence Parks Department that the Henry Bowen Anthony Fountain in Lippitt Park is unsafe and off-limits for people (whether to stand or play in the water or be on the structure itself) prompted a lot of conversation on SNA’s e-mail listserv (sign up for it here!).
To continue that conversation in a productive way, SNA has asked Parks Department Director Wendy Nilsson to meet with community members to share data, costs, and other information to foster discussion and help answer questions (and perhaps even come up with some solutions).
About 25 adults and children braved unseasonably balmy weather Sunday to go Caroling For A Cause in the neighborhood.
Covering the area of Bayard Street to Summit Avenue and Fourth to Sixth Streets, the group serenaded residents with traditional Christmas carols – plus one requested rendition of The Hannukkah Song – and were rewarded with jars of peanut butter or cash donations to benefit the food pantry of St. Raymond’s Church. In all, $100 and 24 jars of peanut butter were collected.
The festive evening began at 4 p.m. in the foyer of event partner Miriam Hospital for hot drinks and cookies. Then, since is was the Hannukkah season, there was a short explanation of the Jewish Festival of Lights and a demonstration of a menorah by Monica Anderson, the hospital’s director of community relations, with a little help from some Jewish members of SNA.
Then it was off into the night, laughing all the way, under the leadership of Jon Howard, a former SNA president. As the singers got to houses whose porch lights were lit, doorbells were rung, residents came out and carols were sung, led by members Jeff Davis and Kurt Anderson. Younger singers scampered up the steps to collect the donations from the audiences and pile the jars into the back of an accompanying car. New songbooks were used this year, compiled by a committee of Deb Mero and Ellen Santaniello.
The last carols were sung on Fourth, almost to the Hope Street commercial section, where many restaurants beckoned. As the singers dispersed, there were vows to “See you next year!”
One residence invited the carolers onto the porch for hot cider as a neighbor passed out cookies.
Carolers last year in front of Summit neighborhood home on Sixth Street.
This year, SNA will celebrate the rich diversity of the neighborhood as well as help to diminish hunger in our midst by sponsoring Caroling For a Cause.
Summit residents and friends are invited to gather in Miriam Hospital’s cafeteria at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13, which falls during the Jewish observance of Hannukkah. There will be hot chocolate and cookies plus a short presentation on the meaning of the Festival of Lights. Then the group will sing a couple of non-sectarian pieces before heading into the neighborhood for traditional Christmas carols.
Along the way, the carolers will solicit donations of peanut butter or cash to benefit the St. Raymond’s Church food pantry. The evening will end about 6 p.m. in the parking lot of Seven Stars bakery on Hope Street in time for dinner at one of the multitude of local restaurants and still allow for homework completion before school on Monday.
Please bring your enthusiasm for the holidays and your flashlights to read the provided songbooks. Remember to dress for the weather and most of all – have fun!
DATE: Thursday, November 19th
TIME: 7:00-8:45 p.m.
LOCATION: Rochambeau Library, Community Room
The newly-formed Education Committee of the Summit Neighborhood Association will host an education forum in the Community Room of the Rochambeau Library.
The purpose of this meeting is to gather our neighbors’ views on public education in Providence–what it is, what it is not, and what you want it to be.
The specific topics are up to you! Please come share your success stories, your concerns, and your dreams so we can advocate for the schools our neighborhood wants.
On a traditional dark and stormy night, about 40 adults and a dozen children sampled their way through the Summit Neighborhood Association’s fifth annual cookoff a few days before Halloween.
Gathering in Seven Stars bakery on Hope Street, the cooks brought a total of 11 entries, all with apples as the major ingredient. The dishes ranged from ice cream, muffins, cookies and cakes (spicy and cheese) to butter, cookies and turnovers with an apple onion galette thrown in. The audience brought their appetites and savored each offering, voting for their favorite as they went. Adding to the flavorful ambiance was a tasting of oils and vinegars by Olive del Mondo, also a Hope Street merchant.
After the votes were counted, SNA President Dean Weinberg and board member Emily Spitzman, who coordinated this year’s event, announced the winners.
First prize, a gift certificate to Seven Stars, went to Sandy Kohring for Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars,
Second prize, a gift certificate to Stock, a kitchen-supply store on Hope Street, went to Jade Rosendale for Apple Onion Galette.
Third prize, a gift certificate to Olive del Mendo went to Jenna Lafayette and Kimberly Aherne for Apple Butter.
The prize for best costume, a gift certificate to Hope Street emporium Frog & Toad, went to Cadyn Rosendale, 8, for her realistic portrayal of Hermione Granger.
All that was left was to polish off the last crumbs, take a final sip of coffee and head out into the storm – for which the event has been blessed for most of its life. At least there was no snow this year.
The winners and the recipes are below.
Cadyn Rosendale
Sandy Kohring
Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars
Ingredients
For crust
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 cup cold butter, cubed
For cream cheese layer
2 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar, divided
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
For apple layer
3 medium tart apples, peeled and finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
For streusel
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup quick-cooking oats
1/3 cup cold butter, cubed
For topping
1/3 cup hot caramel ice cream topping
Directions
1.Preheat oven to 350°. In a small bowl, combine flour and brown sugar; cut in butter until crumbly. Press into a well-greased 13×9-in. baking pan. Bake 15-18 minutes or until lightly browned.
Jade Rosendale
Apple onion galette
Ingredients
pre-made pie crust
1 small butternut squash
olive oil
salt, pepper, herbs de Provence
1 baking apple
1 medium yellow onion
fresh-cut rosemary
fresh and dried thyme
Dijon mustard
Cornmeal for dusting
1/3 cup goat cheese
I adapted this recipe from the Food Network where it was a Stilton cheese with more herbs, less mustard (they used a seeded brown) and no cornmeal. I tried without the cornmeal and it split as I removed it.
Directions
-Let the pie crust rest for 45 minutes.
-Meanwhile, split and seed the squash, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle both sides with salt, pepper and herbs de Provence.
-Roast in oven for 30 minutes at 400 degrees, keeping oven at temperature for final baking. The squash is easily pierced with a knife, so remove the flesh from the skin and cut into cubes or wedges.
-Slice apple and onion in half and quarters, then each quarter into 4 or 5 wedges.
-Drizzle apples and onions with 2 tbsp olive oil, 1 ½ tbsp fresh-cut rosemary and mixture of ½ tbsp fresh and dried thyme, 2 tbsp Dijon, salt and pepper.
-Toss together, then add at most 2 cups of cubed squash and mix again.
-Dust a pizza tray with cornmeal, roll out the pie crust and brush entire surface with Dijon.
-Dump the filling into the center of the crust and arrange, alternating squash, onions and apples, leaving a 1″ or 1.5″ ring around the perimeter.
-Fold the first edge up over the filling, moving counterclockwise and lifting a hand-width portion at a time, overlapping the crust as you spin the pizza tray around. Fix any tears as you go.
-Bake for 55 minutes, but at the 45-minute mark, add the goat cheese across the filling. Resume baking.
-Let cool and slide off pan.
Jenna Lafayette and Kimberly Aherne with Quinn.
Apple Butter
Ingredients
7 medium sized apples (we used McIntosh)
1 cup apple cider
¾ cup sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
⅛ teaspoon allspice
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 tablespoon vanilla
Directions
| Since autumn is upon us, this is the time for baked goods made from that New England staple – apple. The Summit Neighborhood Association’s annual bake off competition is set for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28 at Seven Stars bakery, 820 Hope St. and the featured ingredient is apple. Everyone in the neighborhood is invited to make their favorite apple dishes and bring them to the friendly competition – in quantities sufficient to allow dozens of people to taste them. Then prizes will be awarded for the most delicious. And since the festivities will be held just before Halloween, dressing in costumes is encouraged and there will be prizes for those too. There may even be olive oil and wine or beer tasting, but that’s still in negotiation. In past years, there have been snow and rain storms, but the show must go on and is sure to be a gala seasonal happening. |
Buyers and sellers negotiate in the yard of the Church of the Reedemer.
About 150 Summit residents and visitors joined in a major four-hour recycling effort Saturday at the SNA’s annual community yard sale.
There were 22 registered tables of clothes, toys, books, lamps and even canoe paddles that the owners no longer needed and that could have ended up in the landfill.
Instead, an army of people looking for just those items swarmed through the yard of the Church of the Redeemer on Hope Street from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on a beautiful fall day to purchase the previously unwanted objects and give them new life. Both buyers and sellers went away satisfied and Earth was spared from added trash.
Complementing the spirit of community interaction were members of the church who, led by Father Patrick Campbell, mixed with the dealmakers, displayed a slide show of parish activities and even invited the curious to tour the sanctuary. One member of the congregation declared with excitement, “This is the most people we’ve had in our yard in a long time.”
Sellers began setting up at 8 a.m. and some buyers eagerly began negotiating before the official opening. During the day, neighborhood residents who had been to the farmers market in Lippitt Park at the other end of Hope Street made their way to the yard sale. They even were able to refresh themselves with lemonade made and sold by a couple of boys at one table, who were also selling their outgrown toys.
Spots in the yard were reserved through an application form in SNA’s newsletter or on its web site for $15 each or $20 if a table was required.
The green event was not only an opportunity to recycle unneeded items but for neighbors to get to know each other better.
The sale area stretched along Hope Street in front of the church.