Jockey Club ——-”A Community Helping to Build a City”
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Jockey Club ——-”a community helping to build a city” Jockey Club of North Port Property Owners’ Association, Inc. A Covenant Protected Community Board of Directors JANUARY—EDITION 2016 VOLUME 38 ISSUE 1 Officers Fred McMahan, Pres 16 David Casarsa, VP 16 Guenter Recknagel, Treasurer ‘18 Bil Carlock, Secretary/ City Liaison ‘16 Loretta Stephenson, Beautification 18 Margarete Haefele, Clarion Editor 16 Bill Iiams 16, Maintenance Director Sean Seward16 CONTENTS Board Meeting ————–—pg 2 Performing Arts———-——-pg 2 Updates ———-———-——pg 2 Did you Know————-——pg 2 Snow Flake Dance—---——pg 3 Important Notice—--——-—-pg 3 Report from City Liaison——pg3 Best Christmas Décor—--—pg 3 Comments President———pg 4 Friends Lttle Salt Springs—-pg 4 Recreation Update————pg 5 Cmmunication Loretta——--pg 5 Booster Page—–——-——-pg 6 Elections——————–-—–pg 7 Info /Volunteer Request—–pg 11 Money Talks——————-pg12 Splash News————–—-pg 12 Election 2016——–———-pg 13 Code Enforcement———--pg 14 This is your Community—--pg 15 THE NEXT CLARION IS OUR FEBRUARY ISSUE Our Board meetings are very interesting! Come and check it out. Page2 2 We are free. We are the Board of members of 2016 North Port Performing Arts Events the Jockey Club. We run this Club. You voted us North Port Performing Arts Association tick- in. We have succeeded in taking back our Club. ets may be purchased by calling the box of- Things went smoothly, and we are ironing out the fice at 426-8479 or 866-406-7722, or by going wrinkles. There are many deficiencies, worn out between 10am-1pm and one hour prior to the equipment, and disarrayed files which we have in house box office. The events have been discovered. Over that last few years, there has gaining in popularity, and it may be that they been a loss of records, a compromise of our se- are sold out. curity system, deterioration of our pool and club- CHECK OUT THE 2016 SERIES: house and the absence of programs for Property Concert Band: Thursday, Jan.21, Owners to enjoy. We have begun to clean years 7:30pm “Something Blue” of grime, many volunteers are coming back to Symphony: Sunday Jan. 31 3pm pitch in to rebuild this club. Our first meeting in “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing” December had people smiling, lingering and talk- Season of Stars 2016: Wed Jan.6 7pm ing after the meeting ended. The second one had “Nights on Broadway” us taking stalk of all the Season of Stars 2016: Mon. Jan. 25, 7pm problems we inherited. “Back to Barry, Billy and The Beatles” We have put a good Show of Shows: Sat. Jan. 30, 7pm “50’ team together to go for- &60’s hit Songs by Lotela Gold” ward to tackle all the problems that we see to date. There may be more. It is all a part of rebuilding our club. Updates — Next Board Meeting January 11, 2016 at 7:00 pm. Come and discuss issues at the Jockey Club . Bring a neighbor. In light of the change of daylight savings time, the pool and clubhouse will revert to the winter hours of 6 pm closing time. The rest rooms will be locked from 6pm until 10 am during the winter months. This month we want to hear from you. You can have your say at our monthly board meeting. Bring your membership ID. Did You Know — We have a new email address [email protected] Our phone number is still the same….941-426-3800 3 Page 3 The Snowflake IMPORTANT NOTICE Dance Your annual Jockey Club assessment will be arriving in the mail from FCB Come out to the Clubhouse on Bank. Please pay promptly!! We have the 9th of January at 7pm and dance to reduced operating costs thanks to your the music of our own Mike Starr. Treasurer. Sandwiches and Refreshments included Please come and get your tickets at the of- fice. $10 per couple, $6 for Singles. We look forward to seeing you!!!! Presented by the Rec Committee. Report from Our City Liaison by Bill Carlock This month at the North Port City meeting, the Best Christmas Decor new topic was a new hospital in North Port. Aka YARD OF THE MONTH Many people came to the meeting specifically On Dec 10, 2 judges reviewed all the 127 to support the idea. The Mayor came over decorated homes in the Jockey Club. The and spoke to me after the meeting. She said winning house is owned by Dagny and Dell she would certainly look into the matter. I Scheelk on Nekoosa Street. At the ripe old suggest to the members of the Jockey Club, if age of 85, they covered the front and back you are interested in having a hospital, then walls of their home with lights, mounted a take the time to write to the Mayor to let her star on the old TV ariel, and placed a man- know your opinion. ger on the front lawn. The judges decided his was the best representation of the rea- On the corner of Elyton Drive and Elyton son for the season. Court the street light went out. FPL was con- They were given a $50 certificate at our tacted for repairs. I am pleased to report , the Annual Christmas Dinner. Next year we light has been repaired. will be looking for a new judge to add a My wish for all of you is a Healthy and Happy different twist to the lucky home New Year decoration. Page4 4 Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jockey Club Commu- new signs-got the trees trimmed, just to mention a nity and fellow Board Members, few. Going forward, we have much to do which in- cludes updating our security system-recruiting a It's that time of year again (the very beginning) so, fining committee-reviewing and updating our by- Happy New Year to all. Before we rush into 2016, laws-hiring a reliable janitor and filling positions on let's take a moment to reflect on the past nine our committees (with volunteers) so they can do months - nine months in which we (the BOD) have their work. Of course we have elections in March of worked hard to keep our promises to this Communi- this year, and no doubt we will elect some new ty. Among those accomplished are taking charge of Board members. It is very important that in any our affairs by eliminating Lighthouse as our manag- electoral transition that we all work to make it as er. In doing so, we have our own accounting firm. smooth and effective as possible, never forgetting We've improved our banking status. We have our that we're here to represent your interests. own competent staff. We manage all contracts and vendors. We've updated the solar panels-installed Fred McMahan; President, Jockey Club HOA Don't Miss the January Friends of Little Salt Spring Meeting The Friends of Little Salt Spring would like to thank the Jockey Club for being responsible neighbors to Little Salt Spring. As some of you are aware the discharge from Little Salt Spring flows alongside the western boundaries of the Jockey Club. Some of our newer residents may have no idea that they have fresh spring water flowing though their back yards on its way to the Myakka- hatchee Creek. Little Salt Spring is one of only three year-round flow- ing springs south of I-4 in a State known for its springs. Like Warm Mineral Springs and Nona Spring (although Nona Spring was filled in to a depth of 8’ by the General Development Corpo- ration it still flows year round) in North Port. Little Salt Spring is, a giant overflowing collapsed sink hole, a geological formation known as a cenote. Both Warm Mineral Springs and Little Salt Spring are over 200’ deep. Little Salt Spring sits on an 112 acre tract of land called the Little Salt Spring Ecological and Archaeological Pre- serve located at the end of Pan American where you turn onto Spring Haven Drive. Because of the preservative qualities of the site, evidence has been found of humanity’s utilization of the spring for at least 14,000 years. This pristine preservation al- lows us to look at humanity in a time-frame and with such detail found nowhere else in the world! The Friends of Little Salt Spring are currently meeting three times a year at the Jockey Club Clubhouse and will be holding our next meeting January 25th at 7:00 pm. Our guest speaker will be Jeff Moates, President of the Florida Anthropo- logical Society and West Central Region Director for the Florida Public Archaeology Network. Jeff will be speaking about current archaeological public education projects surrounding Little Salt Spring. Our meetings are free and open to the public, so please bring a friend. Bill Goetz Friends of Little Salt Spring, Vice President 5 Page 5 A great time was had by all at our 37th An- By Joanne Carlock nual Christmas Party. We had 111 guests arrive which 11 of them were girls ranging The New Year starts off with some new ideas. from 6-9 and boys ranging 2-12 with 5 teen- On Jan 9, 2016, at 7 pm we will be having the agers for dinner. It was spectacular. It was served by Englewood #300 Eastern Star, Snowflake Dance and they did a great job,. It was hard for the girls to make sure that our dinner was hot Bring your dancing shoes, as our entertainer since the stove in the kitchen was not work- Michael Starr is looking forward to get your toes ing well, but we did it and it turned out just tapping and then lure you out to dance on our new fine.