BOARD MEETING
The next scheduled Board Meeting(s) will be held at 7:00 pm in the 12th Floor Hospitality Room on the following day(s):
TBD
2010 REAL ESTATE TAX APPEAL
The results of the 2010 Real Estate Tax Appeal are in! Click on 'Forms and Documents' in the navigation bar on the left to check on your results.
BOOK CLUB
All building residents are enouraged to join the 55 East Erie Book Club, hosted monthly by the Activities Committee. The meetings are held the first Monday of the month at 7:30 PM in the 12th floor hospitality room to discuss the monthly selection. Soft drinks and water are provided but feel free to B.Y.O.B. if you’d like something else.
March 5th “The Marriage Plot” by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Marriage Plot is Jeffrey Eugenides’ eagerly awaited new novel following the highly successful, Pulitzer Prize award novel Middlesex.
William Deresiewicz, reviewed The Marriage Plot for the Times. He wrote that the book "possesses the texture and pain of lived experience. Eugenides has always been best on young love."
And further along in the review, Deresiewicz states, "the novel is also great on the patter and pretentiousness of college intellectuals ('The bookshelves held the usual Kafka, the obligatory Borges, the point-scoring Musil'); on the sweet banter of courtship; on the kind of doormat nice-boy role that Mitchell submits to playing in Madeleine's life; and especially on what happens after you graduate, when the whole scaffolding of classes and the college social scene you've been training your personality around is suddenly taken away, and you have to grope for a new way to be in the world."
The Marriage Plot was an October Best Book of the Month
April 2nd “Nightwoods: A Novel” by Charles Frazier
The extraordinary author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons returns with a dazzling new novel of suspense and love set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s.
Frazier puts his remarkable gifts in the service of a lean, taut narrative while losing none of the transcendent prose, virtuosic storytelling, and insight into human nature that have made him one of the most beloved and celebrated authors in the world. Now, with his brilliant portrait of Luce, a young woman who inherits her murdered sister’s troubled twins, Frazier has created his most memorable heroine.
Before the children, Luce was content with the reimbursements of the rich Appalachian landscape, choosing to live apart from the small community around her. But the coming of the children changes everything, cracking open her solitary life in difficult, hopeful, dangerous ways.
Charles Frazier is known for his historical literary odysseys, and for making figures in the past come vividly to life. Set in the twentieth century, Nightwoods resonates with the timelessness of a great work of art.
For future dates and selections for upcoming Book Club meetings, please contact John DesJardins for more information at (312) 339 - 9222 or jdesjar00@yahoo.com. Please contact Management with any further questions.
WATCH A VIDEO OF 55 EAST ERIE'S FIRE PREVENTION SEMINAR
Dozens of Unit Owners and Residents attended the Association-hosted Fire Prevention and Safety Seminar on May 1, 2010 in the 12th Floor Hospitality Room. A fire official from the Chicago Fire Department's High Rise Unit spoke about what to do in the event of a fire at 55 East Erie. If you missed the seminar, it can now be seen online.
HIGH SPEED INTERNET IS HERE!
The Board of Managers has unanimously approved the installation of a super high speed internet system for the entire building. In an email to unit owners and residents, Board President Marc Ganis wrote that "all units will be eligible to use the building wide system AT NO COST."
Installations have begun, so please contact the Management Office to schedule your installation.
HEART DEFIBRILLATOR NOW AVAILABLE FOR USE AT 55 EAST ERIE
The 55 East Erie Condominium Association is proud to announce that a portable heart defibrillator is now available for emergency use in the building. The Board authorized its purchase and staff training on it in our continuing effort to make our building the best it can be – with health and safety of our residents our first priority!
Each year, more than a quarter-million Americans die from sudden cardiac arrest. According to medical experts, the key to survival is timely response including CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) or the use of a portable lifesaving device such as a heart defibrillator. The device is also known as an “automated external defibrillator” or “AED.”
If you or someone in your unit may be in cardiac arrest, it is important to first call 911 to request emergency medical attention.
Only after 911 has been called should you call the front desk at (312) 440-9917 to request the defibrillator, which a member of the door staff will then bring to your unit for use. The door staff has received training on how to operate the device. The AED is located on the first floor in close proximity to the Door staff desk.
You do not need to be a medical professional to use the device to treat a person in cardiac arrest. The AED device guides the user through the process with audible and visual prompts. The American Heart Association notes that thousands of lives could be saved annually by prompt use of defibrillators.
If you would like to become familiar with the equipment, location and emergency procedures please make an appointment with the Management Office.
Our hope is that the AED will never be needed. But if it is ever needed our building is prepared!
NEW 55 EAST ERIE ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE
A new activities committee has been formed at 55 East Erie, aimed at creating organized events and allowing for more interaction among neighbors in the building. The Board has asked Association members Dawn Geras and Happy Pross to serve as co-chairs for the committee, but all unit owners are encouraged to join them in their efforts. In order to give the committee a better idea of events that would appeal to you, a short survey has been produced for all residents to fill out. You are encouraged to complete the survey online by clicking here or on the " Resident Surveys" tab on the left side of the web page. Thank you for your participation in this survey.
NEWSLETTER
Please click on the link below to read the latest Newsletter from The 55 East Erie Condominium Association.
Copies of the Newsletter may be obtained from the Management Office.
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LOCKER REGISTRATION
On September 1, 2011, the contents of any unregistered and unidentifiable storage lockers were removed. If you find that your items were removed from a locker during the locker reassigments, please contact the Management Office.
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