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RiverWalk Talk Volume 22, Issue 7/8 A Newsletter Covering Life in RiverWalk July/August 2018 In This Issue What’s So Special About July 4th? By Elaine Confino Treasurer's Report........... Page 2 Calendars................... Page 24-25 The 4th of July is one of our major summer holidays, which today is often Activities .......................... Page 29 celebrated with parades, backyard cookouts, and fireworks displays. But we Clubs/Classes...................Page 38 tend to forget that it is actually Independence Day—that day in 1776 when the Second Continental Congress ratified the United States Declaration of Independence whereby Congress declared independence from Great Britain. Okay, I know this event took place 242 years ago—it’s called “history.” I’m ACC MEETING DATES not up to speed on what passes for American History in our schools these days, but I remember taking that class, and the highlight of the school year Monday, July 23, 10 a.m. was our class trip to Boston to walk the Freedom Trail. Our tour started at the Architectural Control Committee Old Granary Burial Ground and ended with a tour of the USS Constitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides), which is docked at the old Charlestown Navy Yard. I’ve Monday, August 27, 10 a.m. walked the Freedom Trail many times over the years, and it always leaves me Architectural Control Committee in awe of patriots who risked their lives to keep us free. So let’s take a look at some of the history that led to the signing of the Happy Birthday, Declaration of Independence: U S A! 1765 – Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, which the colonies (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Carolina) protested because they had no say in any governing body. When You Need Help: Therefore, it was taxation without representation. 1770 – Heavy British military presence in Boston caused tensions to rise, In an Emergency, Call: resulting in brawls between soldiers and civilians. Troops discharged their muskets, killing three civilians and wounding several others. This event became known as the Boston Massacre. 911 1772 – The HMS Gaspee, a British customs schooner that had been enforcing the Navigation Acts in and around Newport, Rhode Island, ran Non-Emergency aground while chasing the packet ship Hannah, and a group of men led by Police, Call: Abraham Whipple and John Brown attacked, boarded, and torched the ship. 1773 – After officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed 822-1900 tea to Britain, a group of colonists, disguised as Indians, boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing the chests into Boston Harbor. That event has come to be known as the Boston Tea Party. The British responded by closing Boston Harbor, rescinding Massachusetts Bay Colony’s rights of self- government, and caused the other colonies to rally behind Massachusetts. July 4th: Continued on page 4 JULY/AUGUST 2018 RIVERWALK TALK Page 2 The most recent financial statements completed To assist our unit owners with reminders of are dated April 30, maintenance fee due dates, the Treasurer has 2018, and these may proposed the following proactive measures: be located on the HOA website at the following address: • Utilizing the Property Manager’s weekly email blasts to announce maintenance fee billing due dates; • Sending a separate email blast from the Treasurer to alert unit owners of the maintenance fee • http://RiverWalkofwpb.com/ billings; • Resident Login • Displaying a notice on the bulletin board in the • My Community Post Office; and • Forms and Documents • Posting a notice on Channel 63 related to • Financial Document maintenance fee billings. Additionally, our CPA firm has completed the audit for fiscal year 2017. Ms. Nicole Johnson-Pendergrass It is further noted by the Treasurer that any unit owner will be attending the next board meeting to answer can access their HOA account balance by doing the any questions from unit owners related to the audit following: report. The 2017 audit report is also located on the HOA website. • Log in to your account Our cash balances from the May 31, 2018, bank • http://RiverWalkofwpb.com/ reconciliation total $4,885,436. The cash balances • Resident Login consist of the following categories: • My Community • My Account • Account Balance & History • Operating Cash $1,434,784 • Stop by the HOA office and ask the office staff to • Reserve Cash $3,450,652 look up your account balance • Make arrangements to pay any amount due as As of May 31, 2018, we have delinquencies totaling soon as possible $114,958. This is comprised of the following categories: If you have any questions related to this report, please don’t hesitate to contact me via my cell phone at 828- • Attorney and/or bankruptcy status – 14 accounts 575-3970, or my RiverWalk Director email address at totaling $75,975 [email protected]. • All other past due accounts to include active collection, demand letter, and reminder notice Respectfully submitted, status – 248 accounts totaling $38,983 The third quarter 2018 maintenance fees and billings Arthur C. Morris, will be due and payable as of July 1, 2018. Please locate your payment coupon book and be prepared RiverWalk Treasurer to pay on the due date. JULY/AUGUST 2018 RIVERWALK TALK Page 3 We have a benefit with the Xfinity Please try out our new Centanni Café at RiverWalk. system that I haven’t used until lately. The café looks very different since the latest renovation, Editor's It’s called “Music Choice,” and appears and we do want to make our restaurant a success. I dined Note from Channel 801 to Channel 850. at the café recently, and I highly recommend the Hot I watch all my shows from the DVR; Antipasto Starter. It’s a meal in itself! Remember, there is I hate commercials, so I keep the also a great takeout menu. channel selector set on Channel 847 for “Singers and Swing.” These are all the I’m sorry to report that we have no President’s or beautiful songs with vocals that I heard as a Manager’s Reports in this issue. The Board did not meet, child. (I believe that RiverWalk uses Channel 848, Easy so no reports were given. Listening, as the background for Channel 63.) With 50 channels available, there has to be some music that suits Patricia Bird your mood. Take a trip though the channels and find the Editor in Chief one that works for you. To assist our readers, a list of the available channels and the type of music they deliver, is on page 18. The RiverWalk Talk is a monthly newsletter. During the summer, it is a bimonthly publication. All that we can do is present you with the best information that we have at the time the newsletter is sent to the printer. The staff does its best to be accurate, but things do change after the RiverWalk Talk is printed. We do what we can. RiverWalk Talk Mission Statement RiverWalkA newsletter covering life in RiverWalkTalk The purpose of the RiverWalk Talk newsletter is to provide community information to the RiverWalk homeowners. The newsletter also will do its best to include interesting articles and ads. However, any claims in the ads have not been investigated by the staff, and they are not endorsed in any way. Editor in Chief . Patricia Bird Associate Editor..Elaine Confino It is the responsibility of the reader to check the claims in the ads and whether Advertising Manager . Kathy Wolf the business’s licensing is current. Activities Director. Ilissa Shannon Activities Editor...............Fran Shay Any report of the President, Treasurer, or Property Manager will be Accounts Manager . Ron Frano printed with no changes by the editors but for spelling and grammar thereby Calendar. .Fran Shay maintaining the integrity of the article and the author’s meaning. Minor Contributing Writers. Steve Bucar, changes to an article’s length could be requested by the editors. Greg Christoph, Len Fintzy, Bea Fries, Lisa Gammon, Dianne Golder, Betty Handel, No personal attacks will be printed, and coverage of Association meetings Phyllis Kingsbury, Marianne McCann, will be reported as accurately as possible. Sandra Masters, Pat Minkler, Heather Sandarr, Steve Wolf Photo Editors.........Elaine Confino, Nancy O'Keefe, Steve Wolf Graphic Design & Layout. Patricia Bird The Editorial Board reserves the right to edit all submitted copy, except for the articles mentioned in the Mission Statement, for fit and content according to policies set forth by the Board of Directors of the RiverWalk of the Palm Beaches Homeowners Association. RiverWalk Talk will accept feature articles, news items, club reports, photos and other items that are of interest to the majority of our residents. All such pieces should be placed in the RWT box in the main office or sent to the Editor at Patricia Bird at [email protected] Articles should be in Word format, photos in .JPG or .PDF. Include your name, email address, & phone number. All queries concerning advertising should be directed to our Advertising Manager Kathy Wolf at 242-0329. JULY/AUGUST 2018 RIVERWALK TALK Page 4 July 4th: Continued from page 1 1774 - The First Continental Congress was a the Mississippi River and south of the Great Lakes, with meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies who Great Britain retaining control of Canada, and Spain met in September and October at Carpenters’ Hall in taking Florida. Philadelphia. It was called in response to the “Intolerable So, this July 4th, please take a moment to think about Acts” passed by the British Parliament, which the British the patriots who risked everything in order to gain referred to as the Coercive Acts, with which the British freedom and independence for us all.