1601 W. Josephine St., Lakeland, FL - January 2019 Hickory Hills Happenings Kate Sherman - Editor [email protected]
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Mr. and Mrs. Claus visited the Sanders house Happy New Year! Page 2 Hickory Hills Happenings BIRTHDAYS 731 Aspen to 1520 El Dorado. We hope you build lots 01 Nancy Ryan 21 Bryan Locke of great memories in your new homes! Rick & Claudia 02 George Holbrook 22 Wendy Warbritton Kramer have a new phone number: 863-397-1432. 03 Victor Rosario 23 Deb Robar Lorraine Watson also has a new number: 863-606-5303. 04 Gloria Espinosa 24 Michelle Bouley 05 Judy Holbrook Arlene Hendrick BINGO: 06 Kathleen Urquhart Sarah Jones 08 Judy Jones 25 Marie Minter Come join us every Tuesday evening 09 Jan Anderson Dick Pask in the clubhouse. Card sales begin at 5:45 pm and end Mary DiMatteo 31 Tom Flanders at 6:15 pm, games begin at 6:30 pm. Snacks and some Doug Motter beverages available. 11 Robert Langille 13 Kay McClelland CARD PLAYING SCHEDULE 15 Holly Forcier Sarah Moreno Mondays Racetrack Canasta 12:45 pm 16 Lisa Marie Flanders Pinochle 7 pm Sandy Garlitz Wednesdays Five Crown or King's Up 12:45 Thursday Euchre 7 pm Friday Bid Euchre 7 pm ANNIVERSARIES 02 Dave & Jan Holbrook COFFEE HOUR 03 Wayne & Eileen Vick 19 Paul & Holly Forcier Come join us every Friday morning at 9:00a.m. for coffee 20 Arnie & Linda Johnson and doughnuts. We talk about upcoming events and park Frank & Judy Jones news. It is a lot of fun! You might even hear a joke or two!
Our deepest sympathy goes out to the family and friends DANCE of Patt Martinez and Joan Lucia who passed away in December. Join us Jan. 26 for a great time listening and dancing to the Please keep these residents and friends in your prayers music of Rockin Ron! Starting at 8 pm in the clubhouse, as they battle illness or other crises in their lives: Patsy Ron will keep you partying to 11pm. Tickets available Brown, Carla Freeman, Tim Griffie, Fay Iles, Charlie from Dan Shepherd and his crew for $8. Chase, Jeannie Heingardner, Judy Holbrook, and Buddy Tyson. FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR Join fellow residents Fridays at the adult pool to have a RESIDENT'S NEWS drink or two and unwind at the end of the work week. 4 Several of our residents traveled north to visit family pm until whenever. and friends; many others had family and friends visit here during December. This newsletter went to print in GOLF early December, so I haven't heard the stories yet; hoping everyone enjoyed their visits and no major disruptions in Felix Bartotto is again heading up a the traveling. weekly golf outing. Meet at 10:00 am Lou Fredricks flew out to Mesa, AZ near Phoenix to visit at various courses Thursday mornings a brother and sister she hasn't seen in five years. She was for a day of golf, food, and fun. Felix really excited to make the trip! will announce the course for next week after each game. Watch the bulletin board for a sign up sheet or give Felix Merv Mortimer and Bev Parker have purchased and a call to let him know you are interested. moved into Jim Wetmore's place at 1528 Estate Drive from 1422 Spruce. Roberta Jamison has moved from Hickory Hills Happenings Page 3 MOVIE NIGHT SCRAPBOOKING Dan and Kathy Shepherd host a movie night once a month Millie King leads this activity in the clubhouse or library or so. Mark your calendars for Jan. 6. Movies usually every Tuesday at 1 pm if you would like to join the fun. start at 7 pm, movie to be announced later. She can help new people get started and enjoys sharing her expertise with other scrapbookers. PICKLEBALL SHUFFLEBOARD: Join in for a game or two 9 am at the pickleball courts. Similar to tennis but played on a smaller court and the Regular games are in full swing ball makes for a slightly slower pace. Good way to stay now. Join fellow players at the limber and have some fun! courts for games starting at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday and Friday mornings. There may be the POOL SCHMOOZE opportunity to play outside games with other parks. The Enjoy chatting with other members of our community annual meeting is set for Jan 4 after Friday coffee and around the two pools here. Cooler weather sees most before playing. people around the main heated pool at the clubhouse and The Shuffleboard Club Breakfast is on the 2nd Saturday. hotter weather find us late morning/early afternoon at the Join us in the clubhouse 7:30 to 9 a.m. for pancakes, Customer: AMS Central (Pam) adult pool. New park residents – this isJob: a great 4 x 6way Postcard to get french toast, sausage, and biscuits with sausage gravy. $5 to know your neighbors! Date: 9.26.15 gets you a very satisfying meal! If you have never played a game, don’t worry, we will be happy to teach you. Come out and have fun. We can CLUNKER always make room for more players! As the owner of an old clunker, I was used to dealing with a variety of car breakdowns. One day at the supermarket, just after I had filled my trunk with groceries, I noticed a stream of fluid leaking out of the bottom of the car. I knew I had to get home before the car was once again out AMS of action. When I arrived I asked my husband to take a ,QVXODWHG$OXPLQXP5RRI2YHU look at the problem. Expecting the worst, I braced myself for his diagnosis. When he came back in, he was smiling. “It's apple juice,” he said.
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P: 954.792.2085 F: 954.792.2095 739 S. State Rd. 7 (441) Plantation, FL 33317 [email protected] www.artsgraphics.net Page 4 Hickory Hills Happenings THURSDAY NIGHT HOA DINNERS Management will call the street captains with any The regular HOA dinners are every Thursday night important information that needs to be sent out quickly. through March. The time is changing this year to give Some of our street captains are finding it hard to do our working residents the chance to join us. Plan to eat this task, if you are interested in helping out by taking at 5:30 pm, if you are 10-15 minutes late, come anyway on this responsibility, including helping to deliver the as the line will be just finishing up. There is a sign-up free phone books once a year, talk with your street sheet on the bulletin board in the screenroom area of the captain, then let Kate Sherman and Laura in the office clubhouse. The menu is listed each week, sign-up from know of any changes. Friday through Tuesday. Pay when you arrive.
Ray of Sunshine: Nancy Smith (863-680-1383) is doing WATER AEROBICS a great job sending out cards to those who need a bit of A group gets together daily at the main sunshine during a dark time. If you know someone who pool for exercise and socializing. is struggling with illness, stress, grief or who just needs Mary Ellis and Barb Hall are leading a bit of encouragement let Nancy know so she can reach this activity so check with one of out to them. Remember to check your in-park mailbox them for the time as it changes based on the table in the clubhouse screenroom for any cards on weather. you might receive.
TRAVELING PENGUIN OF LOVE PARK RESIDENT VEHICLE I.D. STICKERS I'm a traveling salesman and the lengthy trips I make Available for purchase from Marie Minter. When placed can be very lonely. When my five-year-old daughter, in your vehicles rear driver’s side window, you will be Jennifer, gave me a little stuffed penguin with a hand- identified as a resident of our park. Thanks for your painted sign that said, “I love my Dad!” I started carrying cooperation. it everywhere. Through the years, that penguin traveled hundreds of thousands of miles. Once, at JFK airport DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE AND LARGE ITEMS in New York, a customs inspector pulled it out of my suitcase and summed up its meaning: “That's about the We have all received the proposed most valuable thing I've seen in all my years on the job,” rent increase of $15 per month. he said. Thank God we don't charge a tax on love. The statutory committee believes a portion of that increase is going to be justified by the increase in STREET CAPTAIN NOTIFICATION SYSTEM: dumping fees for the large open Aspen Dr. Deanna Burgess 863-440-4468 dumpster. The following are the Hickory Hills Dr. Dominic Mercurio 863-688-3270 guidelines to be followed so we pay Colt Ln Jim & Shelly Coy 740-463-9459 the least amount possible to dispose Paddock Ln Irene Nolan 683-7039 of yard debris and items too large for Chaparral Vi Simmons 863-937-5057 the compactor. Palamino Way Judy Muschawick 863-688-5622 Corral Dr Carol Harris 863-284-1286 Please place all garbarge into the compactor as this Remuda Dr. Dottie White 863-682-6473 is the least expensive way to dispose of our waste. It El Dorado Dr Dave & Bob 603-3712 also encloses all food garbage to keep rodents and other Saddle Tr Jim Xenos 863-816-6042 animals from being attracted to the waste. With the Estate Dr Nancy Overpeck 863-206-9883 exception of large rigid items such as wood or metal Spruce Dr Nancy Bridges 863-670-6550 pieces, if it fits into the compactor and its not recyclable, put it into the compactor. Large rigid items, including New residents: It is up to you to contact your street large cardboard boxes, will jam the compactor and put it captain to give them your phone number. Call out of use until it is repaired so use good judgement over your captains with any updates or changes, Please! continued on page 6 Hickory Hills Happenings Page 5
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ESTIMATES & SMILES ALWAYS FREE (863) 244-7407 or (800) 377-7885 Page 6 Hickory Hills Happenings what to place into the compactor. using the waste containers correctly, especially anyone bringing in trash from outside the park. We all need to The large open dumpster is intended for all yard waste, do our part to reduce the cost of disposing of trash or our construction debris and anything too large for the rent will go up even more than the upward pressure from compactor. One major problem is not breaking down rising rents due to increase in people wanting to live in large items to make them layer into the dumpster. When Lakeland. large items are placed whole into the bin, they create large open spaces that don't hold any waste, but the dumpster HOA AUXILLARY NEWS gets full and has to be dumped. The park is charged both by weight and just coming and getting the bin, so the The Holiday Season is over and we are gearing up for a cheapest fee per weight is to pack as much into the bin GREAT WINTER. as possible before it has to be dumped. PLEASE break On Saturday January 19 from 2 to 4 in the afternoon we down large items by removing legs from tables, cutting are having our 2nd ICE CREAM large branches into smaller pieces that will layer into the SOCIAL.. FOR ALL park residents. bin and cutting down large cardboard boxes. Put into the There will be representatives from various activities that recycling bin all cardboard (cut into flat sheets), plastic we have. If you want to be in the PHOTO residents book items with the recycling logo (clean or at least rinsed out), there will be someone to take your picture. metal cans, aluminum items, and paper. DO NOT USE PLASTIC BAGS. If bags are used everything in the bag We are planning on a 50”s and 60’s theme for our Talent is thrown in the garbage. We use a large kitchen trash can show in February if you can think of a Song or skit you to collect recycling and just dump everthing into the bin. would like to do. Contact Kathleen Urquhart 863-450- At the recycling station, the bins are emptied onto large 4591, she might have some ideas. Keep your eye on the conveyor belts that sort the items by size and weight so boards as there will be a short meeting on SATURDAY bagged items are just removed and thrown out. Collect January 12th in the clubhouse at 11:00 to sign up and see small paper items into a paper bag (I collect receipts and what we have. such into the paper bag our prescriptions come in), junk mail and catalogs go in as is. Even larger plastic items Get your ACTS together...We are looking for some like kids toys, plant pots, and plastic household goods talented Adventurous and Entertaining Residents of can be recycled. If there is someone in the park who Hickory Hills. Our Production team is looking for some would like to collect scrap metal that can be sold, post a NEW ACTS. notice on the clubhouse bulletin board with the details. Once a method is worked out, I can place an item in this FEBRUARY 16TH we are looking at."MUSIC newsletter letting people know who to contact. You will MEMORIES OF THE 50'S AND 60'S. not be allowed to collect scrap metal at your home for more than a day or two. Remember the Bobbie socks and Peddle pushers,T-shirts and blue jeans. One way to reduce the waste going out of here is to pass The Juke Box playing Ricky Nelson and Connie Frances. on usable items you no longer want to someone who will Rock-a-Billy with Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline.. Think use them. The HOA has a large yard sale every year so of all of your favorites and come up with an Act for our call one of the directors to pick up your items. Furniture show. can be placed out in front for a day to two with a FREE sign, or if you have several items call a local charity like We are planning on a fun filled walk down Memory Lighthouse Ministries or the Salvation Army to see if they Lane. We will need your singing voice,Lip syncing act or will come pick up the items. If you have the space, store practice your favorite kararoke song. the items until the day of the yard sale and volunteers will come pick them up and take them to the clubhouse Plan on wearing your Best costume to the show. Prizes for the sale. Instead of automatically taking things to the will be awarded for the Best costume and maybe our dumpster, consider other ways to dispose of usable items. February Dance will be a "Sock HOP".
Earl is taking measures to identify those who are not If we don’t get enough interest and participation to put Hickory Hills Happenings Page 7 together a show there won’t be one. of weeks are all healthy and were released back to their DEADLINE to sign up for the show is January 12th. homes (unable to reproduce!). I set the traps on Sundays and Mondays. SPCA is available to come to our community to pick-up on Monday, IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS: Tuesday, and Wednesday. So the cats are not held in traps Police (non-emergency) 834-6966 for more than 24 hours before pick-up. Bruce, with the County Code Enforcement 661-0228 SPCA, will deliver the cats back to us the following day Animal Control 577-1762 after their neuter/spay procedure. The whole process Street Light Out 834-6789 takes about 3 days. Power Outage (from corded phone) 834-4248 It would be a great help if more of us were helping out with City of Lakeland (Street Maintenance) 834-3300 this growing problem. Bruce told me the largest colony City Right of Way (Corral Dr.) Parcel 834-6230 of feral cats he’s seen was about 180. This community DMV (Division of Motor Vehicles) 499-2322 is big enough for a couple of colonies. Cats are very TAG Agency 298-7577 territorial, so the healthy cats we release back into our Lakeland Electric (Customer Service) 834-9535 community actually protect their territory from outsiders Neighborhood Vet (Privileged Critters) 816-5815 trying to invade, hence smaller colonies. The odor and SPCA Animal Shelter 646-7722 noise of 180 cats in my yard is encouragement enough LRMC Hospital 687-1100 to do my part, but the health of the cats will also affect our tame pets, residents, visitors, and especially children Homeowners (HOA) Membership Cards: are now that always want to play with the wild animals. Bruce available for 2018-19. Please see board members or also said that if you are able to trap a cat in your screened contact Marie Minter at Friday Coffee Hour to pay dues room he will come out to net it. of $10 per individual or $15 per couple to join the HOA. Unfortunately the feral cat population will not control The membership year runs from April 1 to March 31. itself naturally, as a community we need to take ownership You may give her a call if you wish to be contacted or of the problem and insure that they are healthy, fixed and need additional information regarding this important controlling their population by guarding their territory . organization to which every resident should belong! It would only take one sick animal to wreak havoc on us all, especially our tamed pets. The male feral cats tend Newsletter Deadline: Remember that the due date to be very aggressive and if they are sick they become to get your article published is the 13th of the month dangerous. Neuter and spay calms the cats and they become prior to publishing. Please deliver to 1504 Estate Drive much easier to tame and take care of. Don’t feed them if or email [email protected] before that date! you are not willing to take of them. Feeding the feral cats I look forward to and appreciate your input. Copies only exacerbates the problem and the multiplication of are distributed monthly in the clubhouse screen room, their colony. Call me, Cynthia Patterson, if you’d like to next to the in-park mailboxes. Newsletters can also be help me with this at 813.389.0106. viewed monthly on-line at http://4communitymedia.com/ cmnewsletters.html. NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR Avon: Mary Atkins 1512 Colt Lane 603-515-6461 FERAL CAT CONTROL Hello, my name is Mary, I'm going to be your new Avon Nine cats have been trapped, fixed, and Representative. Orders can be placed at www.youravon/ released back into our community maryatkins.com or give me a call. by the SPCA’s TFR Program since October 2018. Please help by removing Computer: Rick Farley 1528 El Dorado Dr 863-940- all food from outside your home so 3003 He can diagnosis & repair your computer. He is the cats will be drawn to the food in reasonable and reliable. Call M-F 9-4 (no weekends the traps. We can then catch them and get please) Nov to April for computer issues. them medical attention. The SPCA will not only neuter and spay, but they also vaccinate and perform a health check. The cats we’ve caught in the past couple Page 8 Hickory Hills Happenings
Handy Man: Luis Santiago: 1429 Colt Ln 863-450-7200 Small Engine Repair: Charles (Chuck) Clark 1619 Luis is your Patriotic Handyman! He can do all type so El Dorado 863-608-7862 can repair your broken or repairs from electrical, plumbing, carpentry, painting, malfunctioning lawn mowers, blowers, or trimmers. It vinyl siding, etc. He is also a Notary Public, Paralegal may be cheaper to repair than to replace! and performs weddings!! If you have a bicycle that needs repaired Luis is your guy! Seniors and Veterans receive a Tupperware: Cyndy Hittle 848 Chaparral Dr. 863-682- 15% discount. 1928 Call or stop by to order your Tupperware today.
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ESTIMATES & SMILES ALWAYS FREE (863) 244-7407 or (800) 377-7885 Page 14 Hickory Hills Happenings THINGS TO DO IN AND AROUND LAKELAND JANUARY SPECIAL EVENTS: FOR LESS THAN $10 Jan 3-20 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Theatre Winter Haven Thur-Fri 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun 2:30 • Attend the gallery showing John Briggs: Casting for & 7:30 pm. An eclectic group of tweens spell their way the Unknown in the Melvin & Burks Art Galleries through the championship of a lifetime. Interspersed on the Florida Southern campus. These coastal with touching and hilarious stories they each spell words landscapes are inhabited by inexplicably nude – some made-up – hoping not to mess up and go home in fishermen casting nets in open water. What exactly disgrace. $28 adults. is going on here? Open most days during business hours. Jan 5-13 Clearance Sale at the Polk Museum of Art • Tune up your musical techniques by going to the free Masterclass: Brass Roots Trio – Instrumental Jan 10 Scotland & Central Europe Study Abroad Exhibit Techniques 4 pm at the Lake Wales Arts Center. This Reception 5-7 pm Free Polk State College Winter Haven is followed by a concert by the Trio at 7 pm. Fine Arts Gallery. • Jan. 12 Lake Alfred Bluegrass & BBQ Bash Lions Park 175 N Nekoma Ave Lake Alfred 11 am to 9 pm Tracy Jean Revels, Professor of History, Wofford College. Free. Sample world class BBQ from competitors for 7 pm “Florida's Civil War: A Family Story.” Branscomb BBQ championship while enjoying live music and Auditorium, FSC views of Lake Alfred. • Listen to live performers in a beautiful theater setting Jan 13 Lakeland Concert Band Youkey Theater in the RP at the Snowbird Extravganza Jan 29-30. Lots of Funding Center. Pre-show at 1:45, show at 2:30. Free, no vendors of all types are located in two large convention tickets needed. halls to explore between performances. Parking is $7, held at the RP Funding Center on Lime St.