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Volunteer opportunities at The Hyde Parker
Reporter Journalism background preferred. Recent grad ideal. Audience: Nearly 2,000 households that appreciate clear, concise, newsworthy story-telling. 2-3 assignments monthly.

Advertising rep Build relationships with Midtown businesses and institutions. Outgoing approach and proactive sales call experience preferred.

Send work samples/resume to Mark Dillon, at Editor
2010 Hyde Park Historic Homes Tour

When:

The first Saturday in October - October 2, 2010.

About the Homes Tour:

The Hyde Park Homes Tour has always promoted the neighborhood and surrounding area by showing people that it is a wonderful place to live and raise a family, with nice folks and beautiful homes. The Homes Tour helps continue the neighborhood’s 30-year-long revival by building community awareness and showcasing the neighborhood’s unique history and character to everybody in the KC metro area.

The Homes Tour also benefits Hyde Park by bringing residents together as volunteers to produce the Tour. Earnings are re-invested in Hyde Park for programs such as tree planting, extra trash pickups, and street-sign banners. Many people have moved to Hyde Park after attending a Tour, thereby increasing owner-occupancy, revitalizing the neighborhood and substantially impact a reduction in crime.

Typically, The Hyde Park Homes Tour includes six houses (two in each of the neighborhood’s North, Central and South sections) and 1-2 businesses/organizations. On the day of the Tour, each home has a house manager and other volunteers who take/sell tickets and serve as tour guides. Tour-goers are taken house to house on comfortable, air-conditioned buses.

Financial and In-Kind Support:

Support comes from the neighborhood residents who generously volunteer their time and abilities. Additional support comes from area businesses and organizations that purchase sponsorships and ad space in the Homes Tour program booklet, provide gift baskets for homeowners on the Tour, donate door prizes for ticket buyers, and offer other pro bono services and donated goods.

For the 2006 and 2008 Homes Tours, financial support was provided by the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund from the City of Kansas City, MO Neighborhood and Community Services Department.

Volunteer

The Hyde Park Homes Tour is an all-volunteer effort. All told, the Tour needs about 200 volunteers to be successful.

Volunteer opportunities include:

• Serving on the Homes Tour Committee
• Homeowners whose homes are on the Tour
• On-site house manager
• Home tour guides
• Ticket sales
• Tour guides on buses
• … and much more.

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact the Homes Tour committee chairs, Ben and Erin Nemenoff.

Window Shades Reduce Heat Loss
The Old-House Journal, August 1979, page 91

Old fashioned window shades can be an effective aid in reducing heat loss during the cold months. Shades can prevent the escape of as much as 31 percent of the heat usually lost through windows. Shades are more than four times more effective than venetian blinds and lined draperies which reduce heat loss by 6 to 7 percent.

Energy researchers know that three to four times more energy is lost by radiation through the glass than by leaks through cracks around the sash. In winter, heat from the interior is passed to the outdoors through the glass; in summer the sun’s heat enters the house.

In winter, shades should be drawn to the sill in early morning, evening and night when the temperatures are the lowest and raised during the sunny part of the day.

In the hot weather, reverse the procedure to keep the room cool, because shades are also helpful I blocking out the sun’s radiant heat.

Particularly good for warm weather are the type of shades sold as “room-darkeners.’ they are made of heavier plastic or other material and block sunlight from entering the room.

For maximum efficiency, shades should be mounted as close as possible to the frame of the window, with only a quarter-inch clearance left along the shade’s vertical sides.
Embracing Energy Efficiency—Windows
Noelle Lord, www.oldhousecpr.com
Old-House Journal, www.oldhousejournal.com, September/October 2007

When rehabilitated, traditional windows and doors can offer energy benefits comparable to new replacement. Maintenance of traditional sash and casement windows includes sound glass and glazing, sash shutting snug in their frames, and sash locks to hold them closed tightly. Weather stripping should seal around the entire window sash (side stiles, meeting rails, top and bottom rail, interlock to be airtight and stand up to the friction of sash movement.

There is no question that storm windows are a sound investment. Adding storm sash to a single paned wood window can make the interior window surface temperature comparable to that of a new multi-pane thermal window.

Like other original parts of an old house, traditional windows are an essential part of your home’s historic building fabric. Discarding them in the name of energy will diminish historic character and value.

Let the Numbers Convince You: Do the Math *

For 3' x 5' window

Storm window over single-pane original window:
  • Cost for storm window = $50
  • Annual Energy Savings = 722,218 Btu
  • Annual Savings per Window = $13.20 (assuming gas heat at $1.09/therm)
  • Simple Payback = 4.5 years
Double-pane thermal replacement of single-pane window:
  • Cost for new window = $450
  • Annual Energy Savings = 625,9228 Btu
  • Annual Savings per Window = $11.07 (assuming gas heat at $1.09/therm)
  • Simple Payback = 40.5 years
Low-e glass double-pane thermal replacement of single-pane window:
  • Cost for storm window = $550
  • Annual Energy Savings = 722,218 Btu
  • Annual Savings per Window = $16.20 (assuming gas heat at $1.09/therm)
  • Simple Payback = 4.5 years
Low-e glass double-pane thermal replacement of single-pane window with storm window:
  • Cost for storm window = $550
  • Annual Energy Savings = 132,407 Btu
  • Annual Savings per Window = $2.29 (assuming gas heat at $1.09/therm)
  • Simple Payback = 240 years
* Cost savings do not facture in current tax credit for replacement windows.


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Meeting Schedule

Regular Association Meetings: Monthly, 3rd Tuesday, Central Presbyterian Church, 3501 Campbell, 7 p.m. To add an agenda item, contact the 1st Vice President.


Board Meetings: Monthly, 2nd Monday, Pilgram Chapel basement, 3801 Gillham Road, 6:30 p.m. Board meetings are open to the public.


Crime Meetings: Monthly, last Thursday, Central Patrol, 1200 E. Linwood Boulevard, 7 p.m. For additional information contact Committee Chair
Hyde Park Play Group

Meets at 10 a.m. on Wednesdays. Learn more at Play Group
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