<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Bruce, have you had a meal at the Calvert House at 2:00 am ? </div><div><br></div><div>We all want to see the business succeed, but loud music in the wee hours is obviously not working in their best interest. </div><div><br>On May 3, 2012, at 6:47 AM, Bruce Wernek <<a href="mailto:bruce.wernek@verizon.net">bruce.wernek@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><div>Judy</div><div> </div><div>Calvert House is not a dance hall. It's a restaurant. Maybe you should go there sometime and see for yourself.</div><div> </div><div>Bruce</div><div> </div><div> </div><div style="MARGIN: 5px 0px; BORDER-TOP: #bcbcbc 1px solid"></div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">On 05/02/12, <span>Judy Stone<<a href="mailto:austintula@yahoo.com">austintula@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:</span><div> </div><div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; FONT-FAMILY: garamond, new york, times, serif; COLOR: #000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><div><span>Hi, I live one and a half blocks away from the Calvert House. We have called the police many times to ask them to get Calvert House to turn down their music. The bass from the Calvert House rocks the windows in our house. Many communities around the country are struggling with how to contain this type of low level bass noise. Once when our windows were rattling at 2 am, the police said they drove by there and the it "wasn't that loud."</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Have you ever been in traffic next to a car that has the bass turned up so loud that all the cars in the vicinity are shaking? yet, the driver of the car with the amped up stereo only hears the loud stereo, they do not experience the low level bass vibrations. This is what is happening at the Calvert House.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>And honestly, Bruce, residents DO come before businesses. Businesses aren't people, PEOPLE are people. And whether or not The Calvert House is a dance hall...they play music like its a dance hall. I want the music OFF by 11pm.<br></span></div><div><br></div><div>Judy Stone<br></div><div style="FONT-FAMILY: garamond, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><div style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"></font><hr size="1"><font size="2" face="Arial"><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</span></b> Jackson325 <<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:jackson325@verizon.net" target="_blank">jackson325@verizon.net</a>><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</span></b> Carol DePrato <<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:tazimax@verizon.net" target="_blank">tazimax@verizon.net</a>>; Towntalk <<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:towntalk@riverdale-park.org" target="_blank">towntalk@riverdale-park.org</a>>; Melissa Avery <<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:m.avery@rocketmail.com" target="_blank">m.avery@rocketmail.com</a>>; "McDougall, Sherene (Law)" <<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:Sherene.McDougall@ngc.com" target="_blank">Sherene.McDougall@ngc.com</a>>; Bruce Wernek <<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:bruce.wernek@verizon.net" target="_blank">bruce.wernek@verizon.net</a>> <br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</span></b> TownTalk <<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:towntalk@riverdale-park.org" target="_blank">towntalk@riverdale-park.org</a>> <br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, May 2, 2012 8:22 PM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [RP TownTalk] EXT :Re: Calvert House?<br></font></div><br><div id="yiv2002848676"><div><div>We hear it two blocks over from the Calvert House's front door. We have neighbors with babies and young children and they are often woken up by the bass and loud music. Our bedroom faces Hyattsville and we still hear it.<br><br>We used to go to the Calvert House when DJ Bobby was spinning his dance parties and had a great time. </div><div><br></div><div>We certainly know how to have a good time and have turned down our own house party music at 11:00 pm, we are not trying to rain on anyone's party or stop anyone from turning a dollar... But it is loud and most unneighborly.</div><div><br>Janice Byrum-Jackson</div><div><br></div><div>On May 2, 2012, at 7:16 PM, "Carol DePrato" <<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:tazimax@verizon.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:tazimax@verizon.net">tazimax@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><b><font face="Kabel Bk BT">Unfortunately, I do live right next to Rt 1 and EW Highway so I do get my share of glass pack mufflers, late night partiers etc. As for not being supportive of business in Riverdale, I am very supportive of local business..I have eaten at Calvert House hundreds of times, supported the local animal hospitals, shopped at local pet stores (when they were open) etc. The only thing I said was that Calvert House had been playing music very loud and quite a few times way after the local noise ordinance. They would often put speakers outside on the Rt 1 side for their patrons. This happens to face my house and yes, it was them. My neighbors on 44th ave heard the music as well. I have never officially complained about them, only thing I did is ask RPD to have them turn down the music at 4 am so that my family and I could get a good nights sleep. I have no problem with them being a restaurant or a club or whatever, just keep the music to a normal level at the wee hours of the night. </font></b></div><div><b><font face="Kabel Bk BT">Carol DePrato</font></b></div><blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" dir="ltr"><div style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div><div style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4"><b>From:</b> <a class="parsedEmail" title="m.avery@rocketmail.com" href="mailto:m.avery@rocketmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:m.avery@rocketmail.com">Melissa Avery</a> </div><div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a class="parsedEmail" title="Sherene.McDougall@ngc.com" href="mailto:Sherene.McDougall@ngc.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:Sherene.McDougall@ngc.com">McDougall, Sherene (Law)</a> ; <a class="parsedEmail" title="tazimax@verizon.net" href="mailto:tazimax@verizon.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:tazimax@verizon.net">Carol DePrato</a> ; <a class="parsedEmail" title="bruce.wernek@verizon.net" href="mailto:bruce.wernek@verizon.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:bruce.wernek@verizon.net">Bruce Wernek</a> ; <a class="parsedEmail" title="varcher@gmail.com" href="mailto:varcher@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:varcher@gmail.com">'Vernon Archer'</a> ; <a class="parsedEmail" title="towntalk@riverdale-park.org" href="mailto:towntalk@riverdale-park.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:towntalk@riverdale-park.org">'TownTalk'</a> </div><div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 02, 2012 10:55 AM</div><div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [RP TownTalk] EXT :Re: Calvert House?</div><div><br></div><div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><div><span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">You should try living next to a two bedroom residential house with 12 adults and 4 children, 9 cars, some with glass pack mufflers </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 16px">coming</span><span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> and going at all hours of the day and night, loud late night parting in the parking lot, including drinking, smoking, a marching band under our kitchen window, which the police did break up, gun shots, loud talking, soccer games blocking the street, using neighbors cars a goal posts, drug deals in front of their house, in front of the children on the street and that was just in the last month.</span></span></span></div><div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><br></div><div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><div style="FONT-FAMILY: times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"></font><hr size="1"><font size="2" face="Arial"><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</span></b> "McDougall, Sherene (Law)" <<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:Sherene.McDougall@ngc.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:Sherene.McDougall@ngc.com">Sherene.McDougall@ngc.com</a>><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</span></b> Carol DePrato <<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:tazimax@verizon.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:tazimax@verizon.net">tazimax@verizon.net</a>>; Bruce Wernek <<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:bruce.wernek@verizon.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:bruce.wernek@verizon.net">bruce.wernek@verizon.net</a>>; 'Vernon Archer' <<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:varcher@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:varcher@gmail.com">varcher@gmail.com</a>>; 'TownTalk' <<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:towntalk@riverdale-park.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:towntalk@riverdale-park.org">towntalk@riverdale-park.org</a>> <br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, May 2, 2012 9:10 AM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [RP TownTalk] EXT :Re: Calvert House?<br></font></div><br><div id="yiv2002848676"><div><div class="yiv2002848676WordSection1"><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I live within earshot of Calvert House and don’t hear the music. I know they were having karaoke on Thursday nights and on Friday nights they would have happy hour. Are we trying to keep businesses in Riverdale or not?</span></div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></span> </div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Sherene</span></div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></span> </div><div><div style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:towntalk-bounces@riverdale-park.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:towntalk-bounces@riverdale-park.org">towntalk-bounces@riverdale-park.org</a> [<a class="parsedLink" href="mailto:towntalk-bounces@riverdale-park.org" target="_blank">mailto:towntalk-bounces@riverdale-park.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Carol DePrato<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 02, 2012 6:59 AM<br><b>To:</b> Bruce Wernek; 'Vernon Archer'; 'TownTalk'<br><b>Subject:</b> EXT :Re: [RP TownTalk] Calvert House?</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"> </div><div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><b><span>Hi,</span></b></div></div><div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><b><span>As anyone who lives within earshot of the Calvert House knows, they play VERY LOUD dance music till all hours of the night. Yes, the place used to be a very nice restaurant, but recently they have been trying to switch it to a more club like atmosphere. I live across Route 1 from them and several times have had to call RPD at 330 am or later to get them to turn down their music so my sons and I can sleep. I'm not sure what the town sign means, but for those of us kept up all night by their "restaurant", maybe it will help.</span></b></div></div><div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><b><span>Carol DePrato</span></b></div></div><blockquote style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: black 1.5pt solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 5pt 0in 5pt 3.75pt; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in"><div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">----- Original Message ----- </span></div></div><div><div style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4" class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <a class="parsedEmail" title="bruce.wernek@verizon.net" href="mailto:bruce.wernek@verizon.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:bruce.wernek@verizon.net">Bruce Wernek</a> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">To:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <a class="parsedEmail" title="varcher@gmail.com" href="mailto:varcher@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:varcher@gmail.com">'Vernon Archer'</a> ; <a class="parsedEmail" title="TownTalk@riverdale-park.org" href="mailto:TownTalk@riverdale-park.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:TownTalk@riverdale-park.org">'TownTalk'</a> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sent:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Tuesday, May 01, 2012 10:31 PM</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Subject:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> [RP TownTalk] Calvert House?</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Hi Vern</span></div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></span> </div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I just got back from the Calvert House and there’s a sign on the entrance indicating that I should not enter the premises without permission from the Town. Rumor has it that the Town considers the Calvert House a dance hall. I’ve probably been there ~50 times and I’ve never seen anyone dancing there, just eating. After all it is a restaurant. What’s going on?</span></div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></span> </div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Honestly Vern, I’m incensed that this sort of thing is going on in Riverdale. Is this what the Town calls economic development? Freydoun (spelling) has been there for 30+ years. A typical day for him is 10am to 4am. Does anyone on distribution work this hard? Is this how we take care of longtime business owners in this town? If there’s an issue with karaoke or whatever, I’m sure Freydoun would be happy to stop that activity until the issue is resolved without the need for signs which state and I quote “No person is to enter the premises without permission of the Town”.</span></div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></span> </div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Has anyone at the Town Hall considered the impact of this sign on Freydoun’s business. How about his family or all of the people that work there. The revenue from his business is their lively hood. Is it the Town’s intent to put him out of business and all of those people out of work? What about their families and their well being? I just talked to Susan (Fredoun’s wife) and she told me the place has been dead since the sign was posted. He has a valid license to operate a restaurant. So what is the problem with him operating the restaurant?</span></div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></span> </div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I talked to one of the vet’s at Lynn Animal Hospital and he told me that trash has been a problem behind their building recently. Freydoun told me a few days ago that he’s been cleaning up the parking lot after he closes. I’m guessing that maybe some of the trash behind the building is from McDonald’s patrons parking there after hours. I believe McDonalds is now open for 24 hours. It would be easy to determine if this is the case. Just check to see how much McDonald’s trash is in the back of the Calvert House on a Saturday or Sunday morning.</span></div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></span> </div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I feel that the Town should be working with Freydoun to resolve this problem as if he were a college not an enemy. He’s been here a lot longer than many of us. Doesn’t this mean anything to the Town? He as his wife are good people and their business is an asset to Riverdale Park.</span></div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></span> </div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Bruce </span></div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></span> </div><div class="yiv2002848676MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">P.S. You’ve read my posts long enough to know I don’t mince words. Bear with me if I don’t have all of the facts straight. I did do some research on the issue. 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