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Halloween

The tradition in this building for the past several years has been to trick-or-treat between 6:00 and 8:00 (although we cut it to 7:30 last year because that last half hour is always dead). The usual flyers haven’t gone out as of yet but as far as I’ve heard it’s still on for tomorrow night. It’s a fun opportunity to see your neighbors and admire the kids’ costumes.

I’ll see that some sort of flyer with a “trick-or-treaters welcome” image for the doors of anyone who wants to participate gets distributed tonight—even if I have to do it myself!

Comcast Internet

Has everyone’s network been crashing or is it just us and we should look at new modems? Ours has crashed at least twice today and it’s been a regular thing for the past week or two. It’s a real problem for residents who work online!

Board Seat, Smoking Issues, and School Support

In anticipation of moving away, Fred has tendered his resignation to the Canal Place Board. The means we need a volunteer to fill his Board seat for the remainder of his term which ends in May. If you’re a Canal Place One owner, please consider volunteering for this interesting and important aspect of association membership.

Smoke seeping in from other units continues to be a problem for some residents, not only tobacco smoke, but the particularly pungent smell of marijuana. Please, please be considerate of your neighbors. Smoke can travel from unit to unit via the building’s many connecting systems as well as inside the walls and along the fire corridors.

Please take any smoking outside whenever possible, and use air filters, open windows and vent fans to lessen the problem inside. Consider ways you might keep smoke from traveling into common areas or your neighbors’ units, such as calking any openings where your walls meet the big upstairs beams. If you’re using marijuana, whether for medical or recreational reasons, please consider other ways to ingest it. Any help in alleviating this problem would be much appreciated!

On a different topic, a resident has asked me to point out a local fundraiser that they thought worthwhile. It’s a modest goal for STEM classroom supplies and it’s easy to donate to via PayPal or charge card. I did!

And finally, people particularly interested in the recent post about replacing windows might want to check out several comments that were made in response. For those who were unaware (like me), Cathy clarified at Wednesday’s board meeting that when people talk about window replacement in this building it’s the glass that gets replaced, not the whole window.

Kinetic Sculpture Race Saturday

The annual Kinetic Sculpture Race is this Saturday. This means a section of Market Street will be closed for most of the day—in previous years it’s been closed from Shattuck to Palmer but I can’t find specifics for this year. It should be a fun day of costumes, music, face painting, wildly creative vehicles, and lovely summer weather.

More info can be found at their website and in the Lowell Sun.

Several people responded to the recent post about Window Replacement. If you haven’t already seen their comments and are interested you might want to check them out.

Window Replacement

A resident is wondering if anyone has had their windows replaced, and if so, is this a big undertaking? And who did you use?

I know there are plenty of people who’ve had windows replaced, and my own unit is going to need new ones at some point, so if anyone would like to post in the comments about their experience and who they used, it would be much appreciated.

In the meantime, the question of window replacement has come up before, although mostly about companies used and not the actual process. Here’s an old post from two years ago.

Noise From Next Door

The info below comes from a resident. My own unit is on the fourth floor on the Market Street side and we haven’t noticed anything but we’re below the level of the roof in question.

For people living on the upper floors facing Market Street….that loud continuous screeching noise is coming from the Market Mills building roof. This is the building with the daycare on the ground floor. It’s been loud for a week now. I contacted them last week but it hasn’t been resolved yet.
If this is bothering you too….please contact them.

market@peabodyproperties.com

Sandy Larsen-Souza
Property Manager
Market Mill Apartments
The Majestic Apartments
246 Market St.
Lowell, MA 01852
(978) 454-8030

Cigarette Smoke, Plus a Few Things to Do Tomorrow

Every so often a resident will have problems with cigarette smoke getting into their unit from a neighbor’s, often through the fire corridor or the bathroom/kitchen vent systems, or possibly the heating/cooling system. A resident is asking if anyone has found ways to block this problem. For people with asthma it’s more than just a minor inconvenience. Feel free to offer suggestions in the comments.

And for those people who do smoke, please consider using air filters or taking it outside for the sake of your neighbors.

On the lighter side, there are three festivals going on in town tomorrow for those of you who want to hold onto summer as long as you can: The Annual Fiddle and Banjo Fest from 10 to 6 at Boarding House Park, The Gurjar India Heritage Fest at Lowell Heritage State Park on Pawtucket Blvd. from noon to 6, and The Blues & Brews Fest (requires tickets) at JFK plaza.

Plus Western Ave Studios are having their monthly First Saturday Open Studios from noon to 5.