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The Official Newsletter of Grand Lakes February 2019 Important Numbers pg.3 Teenage Job Seekers pg.10 School News pg.12 Library News pg.17 Recipes pg.22 Published courtesy of Krenek Printing, 7102 Glen Chase Ct., Houston, Texas 77095 • 281-463-8649 Advertising: [email protected] • News: [email protected] • www.krenekprinting.com Find us on FACEBOOK for more news & events! Find Businesses easier on our BIZFINDER at www.krenekprinting.com! GRAND LAKES NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2019 The monthly HOA Board Meetings, News and Feedback from HOA Board, Five Languages of Love. Living out the Five Love Languages at home, a guide to picking the best roses, Best Trash Service announcement and wild life article on the Muscovy Ducks. Grand Lakes is online: grandlakeslife.com. NEWSLETTER ARTICLE DEADLINES Newsletter articles are due by the 20th of the month for the upcoming issue. Newsletter article deadlines are: April 2019 - due 2/20 May 2019 - due 3/20 GRAND LAKES NEWS CONTACT PMG AT 713-329-7100 TO GET YOUR NEWSLETTER It’s that time of year again. It is time to declare your love for your sig- nificant other on Valentine’s Day. How will you express that love? The easiest way is to follow the crowd. Leading up to February 14th, sales of cards, chocolates and flowers will go through the roof! After all, nothing says “love” like a 10-dollar greeting card, a box of assorted chocolates and a dozen roses. Showing our love towards those who deserve it is an art and, like any art, it takes a good deal of practice. For one thing, people respond to love in different ways. Some like to hear words, some need to see loving behavior and others respond best to gestures. Love does not always come in the form of words. Many times, love can be expressed through actions to your significant other. And, as the saying goes, actions speak louder than words. Showing someone you love them holds more weight than a simple one liner of “I Love You.” Many people say these three magically words, “I love you” and expect their partner to feel the same feeling. In order to give love to someone you speak your partners primary love language. The five primary love languages are: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service and Physical Touch. Finding the right language is the key to helping a person feel loved in the relationship. We all want and need love and we all want to receive love in the same way we give it. However, we need to learn our partner’s “love language” and speak it daily. Questions/ comments: email - Carla Brownlee at [email protected]. We’re family helping families! HOA BOARD MEETINGS Grand Lakes monthly Board meetings takes place every 4th Monday of Christy, Linda & Courtney Wade - An Award Winning Family! the month at 5:30 PM at the Seven Meadows Clubhouse located at 23610 Seven Meadows Parkway, Katy, TX 77494. Log on to wwwgrandlakeslife. Christy Wade Linda Wade Courtney Wade McEachern Sales & Marketing Specialist Broker Associate Sales & Marketing Specialist com for up to date meeting information as dates are subject to change. REALTOR® Relocation Specialist REALTOR® Please check Grandlakeslife.com under Upcoming Events for HOA Board 832.483.0630 281.728.7999 832.752.2670 for meetings date changes as they changed often in 2018. All residents of [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Grand lakes are invited to attend the HOA Board meetings each month. Whether you’re interested in buying or selling, Homeowners are encouraged to attend the monthly meetings to hear you deserve a team that puts your interests first... important updates or projects that will occur or happen in Grand lakes. We’ll be there for you! We’ll listen and take the time Homeowners can also voice their concerns to their elected HOA Board to find out what’s important to you and your family. Members about deed restrictions, community facilities that are in need of repair or anything else you would like to see your elected HOA Board When you contact us, we’ll develop a marketing strategy that helps you achieve the results YOU want ... a better bottom line members address or resolve. with the least inconvenience to you and your family. NEWS AND FEEDBACK FROM HOA BOARD Please consider down loading TownSq at https://app.townsq.io/associa/ signup and download the app on their smartphone. This will allow the ©2012 Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate LLC. A Realogy Company. All Rights Reserved. Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate LLC fully supports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act. Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated. Better Homes residents to view information for their property and general information and Gardens, the Better Homes and Garden Real Estate logo are registered service marks owned by Meredith Corporation and licensed to Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate LLC. besides the www.grandlakeslife.com website. 2 February 2019 | Grand Lakes Community Newsletter The feedback from the Board recently was to have the section of the CC&R’s re- garding lot maintenance in the newsletter every month. Article XI. Section 17. Lot Maintenance. Section 17. Lot Maintenance. The Owner of each Lot shall maintain the same and adjacent street right-of-way and the improvements, sod, trees, hedges and plantings thereon, in a neat and attractive condition. Such maintenance shall include regular mowing, edging of turf areas, weeding of plant beds, fertilizing, weed control and watering of the turf and landscape areas on each Lot. Diseased Attention homeowners in Grand Lakes: Best Trash offers or dead plants or trees must be removed and replaced within a reasonable time. garage door service pick up! Best Trash will pick up your On front lawns and wherever visible from any street, there shall be no decorative household trash only at your garage door. Place your trash appurtenances placed, such as sculptures, birdbaths, bird-houses, fountains out in trash bags or trash cans (between 30 and 50 gallons or other decorative embellishments unless such specific item(s) have been approved in writing by the New Construction Committee or the Modifications in size) and must be accessible and visible near your ga- Committee. The Association or Declarant shall have the right, after ten (10) days’ rage. We are not able to go behind gates, so please make notice to the Owner of any Lot, setting forth the action intended to be taken by sure your garbage is not behind a gate. All other trash, the Association or Declarant, provided at the end of such time such action has such yard waste and heavy trash, has to be placed at the not already been taken by such Owner (i) to mow or edge the grass thereon, (ii) curb for collection. All trash needs to be out by 7 AM on your to remove any debris therefrom, (iii) to trim or prune any tree, hedge or planting collection day. This is not a new service or product offered that, in the opinion of the Association or Declarant, by reason of its location to Grand Lakes homeowners. We pay extra for this service or height or the manner in which it has been permitted to grow, is detrimental to the enjoyment of adjoining Property or is unattractive in appearance, (iv) to through our HOA dues and many homeowners do not take. repair or stain/paint any fence thereon that is out of repair or not in harmony, with respect to color, with fencing on adjacent Property and (v) to do any and all things necessary or desirable in the opinion of the Association or Declarant to place such Property in a neat and attractive condition consistent with the intention of this Declaration. The person who is the Owner of such Property at the time such work is performed by the Association shall be personally obligated to reimburse the Association (or Declarant, as the case may be) for the cost of such work within ten (10) days after it is performed by the Association or Declarant and if such amount is not paid within said period of time, such Owner shall be obligated thereafter to pay interest thereon at the maximum rate allowable by law and to pay attorney’s fees and court costs incurred by the Association in collecting said obligation and all of the same to the extent performed by the Association shall be secured by a lien on such Owner’s Lot, subject to liens then existing thereon. Such lien shall be enforceable as any other Assessment lien as provided in this Declaration.HELPFUL NUMBERS FOR GRAND LAKES GRAND LAKES - COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS POLICE/FIRE SCHOOLS Emergency Numbers.... ***911*** www.katyisd.org COMMUNITY EVENTS Fire Department (Emergency) 281-498-2800 KISD Administration 281-396-6000 WINTER FESTIVAL / HALLOWEEN EVENT/ EASTER EGG HUNT/ JULY 4th EVENT Fire Department (Non Emergency) 281-498-1310 Fort Bend Co. Sheriff 281-341-4665 KISD Transportation 281-396-7560 Alexander Rae Elementary 281-237-7100 GARAGE SALE Utilities/Post Office/FT BEND CO. Beckendorf Junior High 281-237-8800 NEWSLETTER Carla Brownlee [email protected] CenterPoint Energy 713-659-2111 Seven Lakes High School 281-237-2800 WOMAN’S ASSOC. Garima Dasgupta [email protected] Reliant energy 713-207-7777 Miller Career Center 281-237-6300 email:[email protected] www.katyisd.org GL GATOR’S SWIM TEAM Reliant energy light outage 713-207-2222 David Garrett [email protected] Municipal District Services ( MDS) LIBRARIES FT. BEND CO.