Meadoword July 2020 the Meadows Community News and Lifestyle Volume 38, Number 6
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T HE M E ADOWORD THE MEADOWORD July 2020 The Meadows Community News and Lifestyle Volume 38, Number 6 MANASOTA, FL MANASOTA, U.S. POSTAGE PRESORTED STANDARD PERMIT 61 PAID SummerSummer FunFun SummerSummer SafetySafety COMMUNITY OUR FEATURED ARTICLE & WRITE BUSINESS NEWS LIFESTYLE VIRTUAL EVENT STUFF DIRECTORY Page 2–9 Page 10–22 Page 11 Page 23–25 Page 26–27 2 THE MEADOWORD July 2020 July 2020 THE MEADOWORD 3 Working Toward a Better Present SPLASH INTO SUMMER and Brighter Future with the Renaissance Access Plan Frances Rippcondi—MCA General Manager Jan Lazar—MCA Board President he past three months have the Renaissance Plan and building and fitness center, he Renaissance Access Plan for those who just want to cool satisfying once positive results if you are tired of eating the same Tbeen some of the most difficult implementation of the strategic improvements to tennis facilities Toffers The Meadows residents off. Water aerobics classes are have been achieved. So, go for old thing, step out to the Centre in our history. Our hearts and initiatives developed to refresh and around the pool and Centre the perfect opportunity get-away also available on Tuesdays and it and take the opportunity to Court Lounge where you can sympathies go out to those who and update the amenities our Court Lounge (CCL), significant from it all right in your own Thursdays from 8:30 am to9:20 strengthen your mind and body. enjoy outdoor dining on the deck. have lost friends and loved ones to community provides for us. renovations to golfing and dining backyard. Who could ask for am. Reservations are required, so Enjoy the great outdoors, Understanding that many of us are Coivd-19. We especially want to We have been reporting to the facilities, and planned new more? We are all facing a little bit plan ahead. this summer. still hesitant in venturing out for a extend our thoughts to those lost in community for two years that we facilitates such as a dog park, of COVID-19 fatigue. While dining experience, take-out is still the many senior care and nursing are making plans, with the help added pickleball courts, walking uncertainty about the future We are one of the few available. Fresh creative meals are homes, including Tarpon Point of substantial community input trail improvements, etc. has a tendency to increase communities that offers a only a short distance away. here in The Meadows. We urge all through surveys and meetings, on stress, it also provides us variety of golfing experiences. of you to take steps to stay safe and what we can do to preserve our Some of these items will be with the opportunity to Renaissance Access members comply with the evolving directives green space, maintain and increase funded in the annual budget. take on new challenges and receive discounted prices on both Dive into summer on new safety measures from our property values and improve Others, such as the new building, explore new opportunities the Highlands and Groves. Take the state and local officials. We our lifestyle offerings for the whole major beautification initiatives, and activities. Take the opportunity to play on the by splashing into share a responsibility to ourselves community. We want this to be improvements in the dining advantage of our Renaissance Groves but leave the cart behind and others to help contain and an enjoyable place to live and facilities which we now own, program as it expands your this time. The Groves executive your Renaissance ultimately defeat this pandemic. attractive to new residents. and golf course and tennis recreational opportunities in course provides great walkability improvements are being funded The Meadows community. and is the perfect way to increase Access Plan. The personal and economic As most of you know, we bought by the capital loan which was your fitness level while challenging turmoil this pandemic has the real property formerly owned discussed last year. We have Go forward into summer by If swimming isn’t your exercise your skillset with exciting par 4 If you haven’t picked up your wrought is almost unfathomable. by the Country Club two years received approval for this funding utilizing into your Renaissance of choice take the opportunity to holes. Whatever your golfing skills Renaissance Access Card, why A pandemic that is even now still ago to preserve our control on from Centennial Bank and we Access Plan. The summertime is work out at the fitness facility or are our courses can accommodate not get it now? Call the MCA a threat has taken hundreds of any possible changes to land use have begun work on the design the perfect time to take advantage participate in an exercise class. your abilities. 941-377-2300 to receive your thousands of lives world-wide and and forestall loss of green space of the building, renovations to of fun summertime activities Classes are temporarily being Put down the pot and get Renaissance Card. It will allow you the death toll in the US exceeds and property values that would the Meadows golf course, and whether you enjoy dining, a quick offered virtually but that doesn’t out of the kitchen. the opportunity to swim, exercise, that of the Vietnam and Korean have resulted from the proposed renovation of the Regency room. dip in the pool, or a work out. diminish the fun. Actually, dine and meet new people without wars combined and has disrupted sale and closing of the country The next phase, starting early next there is an added benefit to Summertime is the great time to leaving the community. Rest our lives and brought a new level club. The outcome of which year, will be improvement to the As a Renaissance Access member virtual classes, not only are you eat outdoors or let others do the assured that staff is implementing of uncertainty to our future. would have been are new units CCL/pool area and to the tennis you will be able cool off in the strengthening your body but cooking. COVID-19 stay in place all sanitizing and social distancing being built down the middle of the facilities. This funding is being summer heat. The Junior you’re learning something new. order has certainly hampered the efforts to keep you and the But we are a resilient and golf courses. Based on a Forbes done with a ten-year loan program Olympic size pool has a swim lane If you are like me, navigating opportunity to dine-out but as community safe while your innovative country, and that study and local data, that would and without any need for any available for those who wish to the virtual world can feel like restrictions start to ease dining engaging in activities and some Community News is particularly true of our have resulted in a 25-40% loss of special assessments. do laps while being large enough a workout unto itself and quite opportunities are increasing. So, much-needed fun. community. We have found ways property values and, according to live with the new challenges we to local realty experts, a severely Just as you need to spend money must face when interacting with impaired marketability of our to keep your home in good each other, continuing our daily homes. condition and often need to spend lives and working toward the goals money to upgrade to current Keep Our Ponds Healthy we have for the future. We here in During our research and standards or desires, we as a The Meadows have been especially development of the Renaissance community are doing the same ore than 60% of water pollution that comes from things like • Keep the clippings. Leave grass clippings on your lawn. Mow high Plan, we also identified the thing. Your Meadows assessment Mleaking oil, fertilizers from farms and gardens, and failing for health. Mowing short stresses grass and makes it vulnerable to need for expanded lifestyle and for 95% of our owners is still lower septic tanks. disease, pests and drought. This funding is being done with a programming space for our many than that charged by the lowest ten-year loan program and without any need activities, meetings and programs. condo association annually, and Summer rains wash fertilizers and pollutants from our yards into our WINTER—Oct. 1 - May 31 It was decided that a new many of the associations also creeks, ponds, lakes and other waterways. Stormwater runoff carries the for any special assessments. community building with a new make special assessments for nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizers into our waterways causing • Watch the weather. Rainstorms don't help fertilizers soak in, they fitness center, as well as numerous capital expenditures. While the harmful algal blooms and killing aquatic life. That’s why Sarasota County wash fertilizers away. Front Cover Photos fortunate that we have had the open other updates and enhancements pandemic has impacted us, it has prohibits the use of fertilizer containing nitrogen and phosphorus during Roberta Hover and her spaces to be able to avoid being were in the best interest of the not defeated us. We are moving the summer rainy season, and why at least 50 percent slow-release • Go slow by half. Sarasota County requires at least 50 percent slow- granddaughter Lila enjoy a confined to our homes as many in community as a whole for a forward to make The Meadows an fertilizer is required during the rest of the year. Skip the fertilizer this release nitrogen in lawn or landscape fertilizers. beautiful afternoon in the pool other states have. We enjoy the vibrant and enjoyable future here even greater place to live than it summer! June 1 - Sept.