It’s been awhile
since Tonya’s Patisserie at 321 Broadway closed its doors.
So Chesterton Town
Manager Bernie Doyle brought glad tidings to the Town Council at its meeting
Monday night: a new restaurant is set to open in the space.
As Doyle
understands it, the eatery will be called Ivy’s Bohemia House and--somewhat
unusually for a bistro--it will be be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., serving
breakfast cafe-style in the morning, then sit-down dining at lunch and
dinner.
And it’s applied
for a three-way alcohol license, under the aegis of the “riverfront
designation” approved by the council in 2009.
The riverfront
area--which allows a municipality to circumvent population quotas on alcohol
licenses--extends by ordinance 3,000 feet from either bank of Coffee Creek
as it winds south to north through the Downtown. Very roughly, those limits
describe a district bounded--west of Coffee Creek--by the CSX tracks to the
north, East Porter Ave. to the south, and as far west as Eighth Street;
and--east of Coffee Creek--by the Norfolk Southern tracks to the south, the
east arm of the Little Calumet River to the north, and as far east as
Roberts Road.
Ivy’s Bohemia House
would join three other eateries which have secured alcohol licenses under
the riverfront designation: the Octave Grill at 137 S. Calumet Road,
Villanova Pizzeria & Bistro at 213 Broadway, and the Lemon Tree at 356
Indian Boundary Road.
Doyle believes that
Ivy’s Bohemia House will open in the next four to six weeks.
Gadzala Rocks the
IDEM Audit
In other business,
Town Engineer Mark O’Dell reported that MS4 Operator Jennifer Gadzala
successfully shepherded the various municipal departments through a “good
housekeeping” audit conducted by the Indiana Department of Management.
The point of the
audit: to ensure that all departments have in place proper stormwater
pollution prevention protocols and are actually complying with them. IDEM is
concerned, for instance, with spill prevention and cleanup technquies, with
the storage of potentially hazardous materials, and with run-off from
facilities and vehicles.
Gadzala in fact
“aced the audit,” O’Dell said, and well in advance of it “did an excellent
job meeting with department heads and keeping them up to date on standard
operating procedures. And kudos to all department heads for helping out.”
Remarked Member Jim
Ton, R-1st, Gadzala “does an outstanding job and deserves our appreciation.”
“She sets the bar
pretty high for the other local communities,” O’Dell agreed.
Rebuilding Together
Ton took a moment
at the end of the meeting to urge folks to sign up for, and participate in,
Rebuilding Together Duneland, on Saturday, April 25.
Volunteerism is one
of the signal features of life in Duneland, Ton said, and “it’s a very
central and very important part of this town.”