Strathmoor Village Voice

October 2019 Fall Edition

Strathmoor Village, KY www.cityofstrathmoorvillage.com

Make Sure These Events Are on Your Calendar

Food Truck Night in the Village—Friday, October 18th; Strathmoor Blvd. Circle

Once I have the exact times narrowed down; I will post on our website and send out an e-mail alert, but plan for a couple hours that Friday evening from 6-8pm. No need to worry about cooking that night! We will have the Hurri Kanes food truck serving Gourmet Hot Dogs (Hawaiian Dogs, Philly Dogs, Nacho Dogs, etc…) along with Pulled Pork, Fried Green Tomatoes and Snowballs. The Lil Cheezer truck will also be serving Grilled Cheese sandwiches, chips, drinks and pickles. We’ll have part of the Circle blocked off for traffic, so if the weather is nice: Bring your lawn chairs/blankets and make it a picnic. If the weather is not so nice...Take Out is always fun too!

Kingsley & Strathmoor Village Halloween Parade—Saturday, October 26th;

Kingsley Park

Like last year, take those costumes for a dress rehearsal and join your neighbors at Kingsley Park for a Halloween Parade and some Trick-or-Treating. The event starts @ 6pm. As more details become available; I will send out an alert and post on our website. Keep your fingers crossed for good weather...Nobody likes wearing jackets over their costumes !! If you would like to volunteer to help out that evening or donate some candy; Please reach out to Commissioner John Barrow; johnbarrow502@gmail.com.

Family Friendly Halloween @ Destination Games, Toys & Comics—Saturday,

October 26th; 5031 Shelbyville Road (Best Buy Shopping Center)

Load up the Kids, Adults, Cars/Trucks for a fun evening of ‘”Trunk or Treating.” From 7—9pm; Come over to The Destination Games, Toys and Comics store for an evening of Games, Youth & Adult Costumes contests, and Best Decorated Car/Truck contest. For more information about this event; Please contact Brian Barrow; (502) 883-2110 or thedestinationky@gmail.com especially if you want to enter the Best Decorated Car/Truck contest.

Strathmoor Village Best Decorated Halloween House Contest—Judging will take

place between 6:30—7:30pm on Wednesday, October 30th.

Back by Popular Demand !! Remember a few years ago when Strathmoor Village gave Hillcrest Ave. over in Crescent Hill a run for its money; We sure do! I think it would be fun if we could get there again and really make the neighborhood come alive for a couple of nights. Dig out those Halloween decorations (I have seen that some of the houses in the Village are WAY AHEAD of me on that...Great Job!) and make those Front Porches, Yards, Driveways, really spooky. The Commissioners are stilling working on the prizes for the contest, but it will be worth your time and effort. Plus...It’s just fun !!

Election Day is Tuesday, November 5th

DON’T FORGET TO VOTE !!

Useful information regarding this upcoming Election Day:

Jefferson County Voter Locations and Sample Ballot—www.jeffersoncountyclerk.org/wheredoivote

How to Request Absentee Ballot Application—www.jeffersoncountyclerk.org/absapprequest or send an e-mail to absentee@jeffersoncountyclerk.org

In-House Early Absentee Voting—Hours: Monday—Friday (9/23—11/4) from 8:30am—4:30pm & Saturdays (10/19, 10/26 and 11/2) from 9am—3pm

Registered voters in Jefferson County who will be out of the county on Election Day, can vote early during the above hours @ 701 West Ormsby Avenue, Room 301. Others who can vote early are wom-en in the last trimester of pregnancy, a person or their spouse who is scheduled to have surgery on election day and those people that are not able to go to the polls on election day due to age, illness or disability.

Mailed In Absentee Ballots

Application for an absentee ballot must be requested, completed and returned to Jefferson County Election Center (701 West Ormsby Avenue, 40203) no later than close of business on Tuesday, Octo-ber 29th. The ballot is then mailed to the voter and must be returned via mail to County Clerk’s Of-fice and must be PHYSICALLY IN that office on Election Day; Not Postmarked on election day, so al-low a few days for USPS mail. Read the instructions that come with the ballot carefully to make sure your ballot will be marked valid.

Sick but Still Want to Vote?

Call (502) 574-6100 and request a paper absentee ballot from Tuesday, October 22nd to Tuesday, November 5th. The application for ballot must be notarized and presented to the Election Center in order to receive your ballot. After the ballot is completed; The ballot must be returned to the Election Center before 6pm on election day.

For More Information; Jefferson County Election Center can be reached at (502) 574-6100 or via e-mail at elections@jeffersoncountyclerk.org.

Public Right-of-Ways and Trees/Bushes/Scrubs

A word about our Trees, Bushes and Scrubs and Public Right-of-Ways…From the Strathmoor Village published Ordinances:

Trees and Shrubs which have branches projecting into the public right-of-way (Easements, Side-

walks, Streets) shall be trimmed Fifteen (15) Feet Above the public right-of-ways. Additionally,

any tree, shrub or other plant form afflicted with decay or vegetation sickness that can be transmitted to other trees, plants, shrubs shall be treated or removed.

Penalty—A violation of this ordinance shall be punishable by a fine in the amount of $50.00 per of-

fense. In addition, the commission may elect, upon proper notice to the homeowner, to remedy the violation and place a lien against the property for costs incurred by the City of Strathmoor Village.

Meet Our New Police Officer—William A. (Tony) Ford

Officer Ford has joined the Strathmoor Village Police Department, so look to see him around and about.

Officer Ford is married to Cathy (40 years) and proudly has 3 children and 6 grandchildren. His law enforcement career began in 1984 as a Part-Time Deputy Sheriff with Jefferson County. During his career, Officer Ford has served with the St. Matthews Police De-partment, Jefferson County Police and Louisville Metro Police. He held the rank of Sergeant with the Sheriff's of-fice and retired as Detective with St. Matthews Police.

Officer Ford’s hobbies include Golf, Weight Training and Martial Arts.

Welcome to the Village Officer Ford !!

Advertise in the Strathmoor Village Voice

Looking for a cost effective way to spread the word about your product/service? Maybe advertising in the Strathmoor Village Voice is something to consider. I am once again looking to include some advertising within our future editions and you will find our updated advertising rates on the last page of this newsletter. The costs have been lowered and you can commit on a per edition basis. I typically publish 4 times per year. If you would like to get a quote for an annual (4 edition) price; I can work on that for you too. It will be about a 10% cost savings if you want to commit to one year. At the present time, 270 newsletters go out via US Mail (Black and White) and I publish on our website (Color) at www.cityofstrathmoorvillage.com. I also notify the NextDoor app when a new edition is online just so our neighboring cities can see what we are up to. If you would like to discuss this; Just drop an email to shermklein@gmail. I hope to start adding some advertising just in time for the Holiday (December 2019) edition.

Welcome to the Neighborhood

During our last Commissioners’ Meeting; We decided that we need to do a better job of welcoming new families into our Village; Making sure they know about our Website, Collecting e-mail ad-dresses, When does trash/recycling get collected, etc. Commissioner Tim Schroering has volun-teered to take this new project on and I am sure that he would like some volunteers to assist. I envision a few of us greeting the new homeowners once we are made aware of a property transfer and providing them with a copy of our Ordinance Book and maybe a one-pager on the really im-portant things. Thinking a Refrigerator magnet or something like that…

RE—Ordinance Book...We are working on updating our old one with the final product being a much more thorough listing of our City Ordinances. Stay tuned for that.

Were You at the Strathmoor/Kingsley Picnic?

Well...If you didn’t make it over to Kingsley Park on Sunday, September 8th, then you missed meeting this guy (maybe girl); I didn’t really check that out! You also missed the other critters in the petting zoo, the Louisville Metro Police Helicopter, our friends at First Financial Bank and a really good dinner courtesy of Morris Deli. We even had some live music playing for a good part of the afternoon.

A good time was had by all and a lot of door prizes were awarded and we even raffled off a couple of bicycles courtesy of First Financial Bank. I didn’t get a final head count, but thanks to the great weather on that day, it was tough finding a table to enjoy your dinner. That’s a good prob-lem to have!

We had an easement tree give-a-way as always. If you couldn’t make it, but would like to inquire about an easement tree; Get in touch with Commissioner Barrow and see if we have some left.

If you missed out this year; No worries, we’ll do it again next year. Maybe we will even go bigger for next year...

History of the Strathmoor Village Flagpole

On July 4th of this year; The Strathmoor Village commissioners rededicated our Strathmoor Vil-lage flagpole (Strathmoor Blvd. Circle) to former Strathmoor Village Police Officer Rudy Davis. In addition to a new flagpole base and commemorative plaque; You will find a US Navy Seal flag fly-ing in Rudy’s honor. There is more to the history of our flagpole however.

The flagpole dates back to the Summer of 1986 and was erected in honor of former Strathmoor Village Commissioner, Herman Kiesler. Mr. Kiesler served as commissioner for Strathmoor Village for 44 years and was regarded as the city’s historian. When Mr. Kiesler passed away in April 1986, the commission agreed to honor Mr. Kiesler in this way as he was known to say that he al-ways wanted to see a flag flying above Strathmoor Boulevard. When the flagpole was erected; it initially flew the United States and Kentucky Commonwealth flags. There was also a plaque hon-oring Mr. Kiesler years of service to the City of Strathmoor Village. I’m not sure where that plaque ended up; I don’t recall seeing one there since I moved into the city in 2001.

Mr. Kiesler built his house on Strathmoor Boulevard in 1937 and was a huge advocate for our large canopy trees throughout the city. During his 44 years as commissioner, Mr. Kiesler also worked to improve drainage within Strathmoor Village. Give a quick thought to both Officer Rudy Davis and Commissioner Herman Kiesler the next time you glance up and see our flags flying high over Strathmoor Boulevard.

The stone entrance columns as you enter the City of Strathmoor Village are getting a facelift. This was prompted by an incident where and LG&E truck damaged the one at the corner of Tyler Lane and Bardstown Road. During the process of getting a quote for its repair; The commission also got a quote to include the re-pair of all the stone columns that needed a little TLC throughout the city. Expect to see the work on these taking place this fall. An informal poll taken during one of our council meetings indi-cated that these entrance markers are very pop-ular with our residents.

Entrance Columns Set for Facelift