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“ A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. “ ~ROBERT ORBEN VOLUME ELEVEN, ISSUE FIVE MAY 1, 2016 JOIN US for a tour of the IMPORTANT BOARD NOTES NATIONAL n THE VILLAS AT FIVE PONDS EXECUTIVE BOARD LIBERTY MUSEUM THE PURPOSE of this communication is to bring all residents “up to speed” & Lunch at BUDDAKAN with some of the things we are anticipating that will most likely affect the ON Wednesday, August 17, 2016 2017 Villas at Five Ponds monthly. Simply put it appears it will need to be we are going to the heart of historic increased. Philadelphia for a guided tour of the • So far this year, mostly due to the blizzard in January, plus a few street National Liberty Museum located at 321 saltings, we are over our 2016 snow budget. And this is without Chestnut Street. Visitors to the museum knowing if December 2016 will bring us snow that will require paid will enjoy stories of heroes and a collection services. If we have a “bad” December, we will need to make up those of contemporary art. The museum’s primary excess dollars spent. art form is glass art, as it makes the point • Each year we examine and adjust our reserve funds, our homes roofs, that freedom is as fragile as glass. We will the biggest reserve item, were done with “30 year” shingles, however, we board the bus at the clubhouse at 9:15 AM. have been advised that the prudent thing to do is consider decreasing the Following the tour, we have made a years of life for the roof shingles and fund for slightly more square reservation for lunch at Buddakan (at your own expense) 325 Chestnut St. footage, to allow for waste, in order to be more accurate with our Cost of Tour and Bus: $23. funding. This will require more dol lars monthly from all. Please deliver your non-refundable check made out to the Villas at Five • As the common areas and commonly owned items get older we find Ponds Social Club to Aileen Salus, 104 Villa Drive, Tel: 215-441-9339; ourselves spending more and more on maintenance and repairs on them. or, Barbara Kains, 114 Villa Drive, Tel: 215-444-9908. Deadline for reservations June 1, 2016. Continues on page 2 THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK MICHAEL & JUDY MULDAWER performed last summer at The Villas at Five Ponds, and will be returning to perform again on Wednesday, June 15 NEEDED! at 4 PM. The Muldawers are For various community projects. native Philadelphians, living in Do you have valuable skills to share? Albuquerque, NM since 1970, Please see pages 2, 6 & 8. where they recently received the prestigious “Entertainment Duo of the Year” award, presented by the Southwest HELP IS Pickers Acoustic Music organization. ALWAYS Many of their presentations center on thoroughly researched songs and stories about AVAILABLE! the Tin Pan Alley era. The June 15th performance will focus on lyricists of Tin Pan Alley, n CAROL BERKSON Broadway, and Hollywood who helped create the memorable songs of the Great American Songbook, beginning in 1892 and ending in the 1950s. Songs representative of this period will IF YOU ARE RECOVERING from be performed following a short and entertaining self-produced video. an illness or are homebound The lyricists featured will include Gus Kahn, Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, we would like to help. Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Irving Berlin, and Cole Porter, the latter two who also composed Would you like a visit? Need errands run? music. The Muldawers will present historical background and biographical stories about these Need your dog walked? Please consider using men and women and their collaborations with the more widely known composers. Helping Hands. We have “Hands” ready to assist the As Jule Styne, one of the best 20th composers of popular music, stated: “A song without needs of our residents. Contact Carol Berkson at words is just a piece of music.” Learn why this is true on June 15th! 215-441-4791, e-mail [email protected] A sampling of the Muldawer’s past performances can be found on youtube at or Sandy Rubin at 215-441-8544, [email protected]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbq7tMu40xc Please RSVP to Len Jaffee at 267-934-1383 by June 1st for this FREE preformance. THE VILLA’S VOICE | MAY 2016 | 1 otes from the Board of The Villas at Five Ponds Nn THE VILLAS AT FIVE PONDS EXECUTIVE BOARD IMPORTANT NOTES—Continued from page 1 • Have your paver patio power washed and re-sanded. This also will require more dollars monthly from all. • Have your roof check by a roofer for loose shingles, popped nails and cracked “rubber boots” that are over the pipes that come out of your •e W have recently had to upgrade the FOB, Security and Fire systems a roof. By doing this you could prevent future leaks. necessary cost. • Also during the blizzard many homes experienced what they thought • In the spring or early summer the outside wood portion of our homes were roof leaks, instead it was caused by the high winds and large will be painted. The majority of this will be funded out of our reserve quantity snow being blown through the brown colored air vents on fund, however, some homes will be painted a “bit” early so we can get all each roof. of our homes on the same schedule. This will help in the future, since Note: There is an improved brown colored air vent available on the market more home being painted at the same time will give us better bargaining that would make it more difficult, not impossible, to experience the snow or rain power. But this time around some dollars will have to be added to reserve coming through them. Some should consider upgrading their air vents using a dollars to pay for it. professional roofer. • As time has gone on we have had has less volunteers willing to do minor Note: The Board does not recommend any specific contractor, but here are repairs and maintenance in and around our clubhouse, this will two contractors who have done roofing in our community; necessitate us having to hire a maintenance/handyman type person Ray’s Roofing, Ed MCann, Jr. 215-200-4147; Manion Contractor’s, Tom Manion much more frequently. Again, this adds to our expenses. 215-598-7890. •, Finally our Capital funds are extremely low, these are the funds used to buy We hope this information helps you keep your home in good condition things to enhance our property or additions to our clubhouse. Capital now and into the future. Funds basically come from two sources, sales of homes and earnings from the Social group. Frankly, the latter has been on a down turn for the last Spring Pool Schedule few years. This year the cover on the outdoor pool will be removed approximately two We hope by reading this information and understanding it, it will help weeks earlier than normal, in very early, May. you not be surprised when at our annual meeting in November 2016 the Once the cover is off the outdoor pool, it will be emptied of its re- 2017 monthly is announced an explained most likely at a higher rate. maining water. Once the pool is totally empty the following work will be performed on it. Home Upkeep Suggestion • It will be acid washed. The Villas at Five Ponds Executive Board would like to announce a few home • Major cracks will be filled. up keep items that all residents should be doing. • The coping on the deck around the pool will be replaced. • Have your dryer vent professionally cleaned out. Note: This will also be done around the Spa. After each one of these operations there is drying time required. While the pool is empty we would ask all residents to not go anywhere near its edge. Thank you. Once work on the outdoor pool is completed and everything is dry, it will be refilled with water, this takes almost three days, then the pumps, filters and chemicals will be re-engaged to get the outdoor pool up and run- ning, prior to Memorial Day Weekend. This is our plan, we will need some cooperation from the weather and the two organizations who will perform the work. The Villa’s Voice Publisher/Owner: Ron Dorfman, Design, Graphics, Advertising The Villa’s Voice newspaper 97 Villa Drive, 215.328.9255 is an independently owned [email protected] and operated enterprise www.RonaldDorfmanDesign.com providing information as a public service. The Villa’s Voice Staff: All views expressed in credited columns are those Bill Cohen, Distribution & of the individual writer(s). Special Assignments They are not necessarily the opinions of The Villa’s Tony Martella, Distribution & Voice staff, The Villas at Special Assignments Five Ponds management Barry Ace Platt, Investigative Reporter company, Board or of the VFP Association. Herb Utain, Sports Reporter As our community members, your comments Al Wiesner, Editorial Cartoonist and remarks are invited on any shared topic All staff can be reached via email at: of interest. [email protected] —The Villa’s Voice Staff ©2016 Ronald Dorfman, Warminster, PA. 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