JUNE DAY
If you attend one function all year, it should be June Day. It's for kids, but the age limit for kids is waived for the day. This 70 year tradition has a parade, fun run, midway, field games, pony rides, prizes, food, music and fun for all tied around an annual theme.
Twelve hours of activities for the whole family.
STEAK (and Salmon) ROAST
This "end-of-summer" party is traditionally held at the Community House on the Friday following Labor Day. There is a basic menu of fish (salmon) or steak with an evening of conversation, dancing and neighborhood togetherness. (The 40 seconds of positive Detroit image shown on "Prime Time Live" was our Steak Roast!) The good thing about the steak roast is that if you don't like the food preparation, you get to do it the following year. By the way, this year's chairpersons are:
MOTHERS DAY BREAKFAST
The annual Mothers Day Breakfast is prepared and served by male volunteers in the community. This well-attended event is an opportunity to honor mothers, to partake in a community type meal and to display the culinary abilities of the husbands and sons. This inexpensive breakfast is served from 9AM to 1PM on, of course, Mothers Day.
Volunteers call
CHRISTMAS BREAKFAST
The annual Christmas Breakfast always proves to be one of the season's more anticipated traditions. It's held in early December at the Community House and features a full breakfast of some of your favorite cholesterol filled foods. There is a medley of Christmas carols and, of course, a visit from Santa to hear the wish lists of all the youngsters.
EASTER EGG HUNT
Bring your little bunnies to the annual Easter Egg Hunt on the Saturday before Easter.
GARAGE SALE
Twice a year (May and September) we take our resalable treasures to the Community House for the Garage Sale. Tables and spaces ($10-15) are sold for this six hour, Sunday extravaganza. You must pre-register. For details see
SPRING CONCERT
A great opportunity to enjoy live music and good friends and help raise a few dollars for the Civic Association.
SPRING AND FALL RAFFLE
One month in the spring and one month in the fall you can help out the Civic Association and perhaps win some money yourself.
It works like this: You buy a three digit number for $10. If its Michigan Lottery number hits any day during the month you win $100. If one number either side of yours hits you win $25.
ELECTION NIGHT POTLUCK
The year starts off with this great excuse to break all your new year's resolutions. Bring a dish, vote for your new board members, and eat, drink and dance into the night. It's the best free party you'll ever attend.
NEW MEMBERS DINNER
The first year of membership in NRPCA entitles you to a terrific meal at the Community House. You'll have a chance to meet your new neighbors and become acquainted with the numerous events and activities in North Rosedale. The dinner is usually held in October.
FLOWER SALE
Save yourself a trip to Eastern Market by picking up your flowers at the Community House in mid-May. The April Tattler has an order form and Members receive a discount.
CHRISTMAS LIGHTING
Drive around the Park at Christmas time and you'll see some blocks that take Christmas decorations very seriously. That's because there's a contest each year for best lighting that has caused an ever escalating struggle for decorating supremacy. There are many categories so it's a wonder everyone can't win. Judging is by a secret, elite and unidentified group.
June Day 1930
"While the big parade, field day and picnic for next Saturday (June Day)...a word will be said here about the prizes. This is no kidding, either. The prizes for costumes and contests are way beyond what any of you have reason to expect. How this comes about is a secret; but it can be emphatically said here that the prizes offered in every class are fully worth the best efforts that any boy or girl in the Park could put forth to win them. You folks are going to be surprised and I am not fooling." Rosedale Tattler, June, 1930.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinnerg in
North Rosedale has a long tradition of family dining. We don't have the Saturday night bonfires of the early days but the special events still continue. These events are a great way to get acquainted with your neighbors and enjoy some very good food.
Formal Occasions at the old "Club House"
"On formal occasions, held on cold winter nights (at the Old Club House), it was not uncommon to see a couple of dignified members, in white ties and tails, weilding the poker and shoveling soft coal into the hungry maw of the stove at one end of the room, while a group of ladies, in fromal backless gowns, hovered about the stove at the other end, endeavoring to erase the goose pimples on their arms and shoulder blades. Such minor inconviences never dampened the spirit of those early parties which were entered into by practically every member with enthusiasm to a degree unparalleled in present social life."
A Quarter Century in North Rosedale Park, 1948.