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When a neighborhood is growing, it finds all kinds of ways to celebrate.  So, why not throw a parade? 

It must have started about 4 years ago that we saw the signs of a growing and flourishing neighborhood in East Lake.  It's a beautiful place.  Some of the streets are decked on either side with what you might call "Granny Houses."  Many of us had a grandmother who lived in one of these Post-War era box cottages or salt boxes.  These were the garden homes of yesterday, the perfect neighborhoods for young families.  Sidewalks along the soft rolling slope of the streets and the closely nestled homes gave a feeling of coziness and safety.  Interspersed with the post-war homes are tudors, bungalows and craftsman style houses, offering diversity for the eye that new postage-stamp suburban settlements can't provide.  Not to mention that these homes were built with yesterday's craftsmanship, a trade that has largely fallen by the way in this era of geterdone quick-like developing.  Read more...