October 2019 Camelot East Village Sun 6300 Queensbury Blvd. • Sarasota, FL 34241 ● 941-923-2311 • 800-843-2311 Toll Free A Cove Community Manager’s Minutes 86 days until Christmas? My, does time fly when we are having fun! Christmas???? October brings in a little cooler weather and lots of events for our residents. We are having a Movie Night, Deck Party, Hot Dogs at the Summer Kitchen (Hot Dogs are a surprise and delight) among other exciting events. What is a Surprise and Delight? Cove wants us to " Surprise and Delight" Camelot East Residents with random acts of kindness. That is why we come to the pool area, on random days and times, to provide beverages, ice cream and snacks to those who are at the pool. This is all done randomly. I will, from time to time, grill hot dogs on the grill for those at the pool area and anyone who is in the building. There will be times we will pick a home and pull weeds at that home. We can't do it all the time and for every home but we do like to " Surprise and Delight" our residents when we can! All “Surprise and Delight" random acts of kindness are done at no cost to the residents. Thank you for allowing us to serve you, our wonderful and kind residents! Camelot East Village the #1 place to reside in Sarasota! At your service, Gail Sterling- Manager Camelot East Village A Cove Community Notes from the Social Director Here we go…my favorite month! For so many reasons I love October. My son Mark turns 20 on the 5th my daughter Amanda turns 26 on the 26th and my best friend Emily won’t mention her age but she shares the same date as my son on the 5th. October also was the month I was hired here at Camelot East Village. Wow, I have been here 3 years already. It has been an absolute pleasure to work with you. Everyone is so kind and many of you are dear friends to me. All of you have made my job very special. I am amazed at our residents and the friendships you all have with each other and how you all do such a fantastic job with all of the great HOA events. Your enthusiasm in all you do is infectious. So, thank you for letting me be a part of your lives here at Camelot East Village. Also, October is the start of cooler weather, it starts bringing our snowbirds back to Camelot East Village! I can’t wait for our snowbirds to see the new Clubhouse and Summer Kitchen and the fabulous Coffee Room. Halloween is a fun time here, I love how everyone has a great time at our Annual Halloween Party. Halloween always brings back memories of my childhood and special times with my children when they were young. Time certainly goes by so fast, my two kids Brooke and Cameron are both in High School in the IB Program at Riverview. Brooke is driving to school now, miss my babies! I got a beautiful Golden Retriever last December, his birthday continued on page 3 2 is October 7th one years old already. He is the best Did you know... dog I have ever had. Now I know when people refer to their dogs as a companion, I understand the 1. We only have 15 homes for sale in the meaning. He is so loving…his name is Ansel and I community. We should have 45 homes for sale also call him my prince charming . Okay, we had most of the time. Way to go sales team! a great time in September, the Labor Day Party was 2. Our average sales price for a home sold in 2019 really outstanding, thank you Arlene Kretzmer for within the community is $44,000.00. In 2013 planning another great event. Everyone enjoyed the the average sales price of a home in Camelot Food Truck and the dessert. Residents also enjoyed East Village was $15,000.00. the Root Beer Floats at our Summer Kitchen. The 3. You can contact your HOA board members Coffee Hour was not quite what we hoped it would to receive a copy of the HOA settlement be, our special guest from the Big Cat Habitat was agreement with Cove Communities. It spells a no show. We still enjoyed each other’s company out the items Cove will be working on in 2020. and the donuts were really good! What a crowd at Thank you to the HOA board for asking for and our first Happy Hour at the Summer Kitchen. It was getting things committed to be done. Thank you a great time. to Cove Communities for the resources to get Coming in October is Deck Party 4th, Trivia 5th, these items done. AARP Driving Safety Class 7th, Ladies Lunch 4. What things??? You might be asking? Ask the Bunch 10th , All American Cookout 12th , Movie HOA board members for a copy of the contract. Night 14th , Supper Club 18th , LeBarge Sunset One hint...new pool area surface... anyone in Cruise 19th, Pastor Ricky’s Corner 21st, Craft 2020? Night 24th and our Halloween Party on the 26th. 5. Cove Communities nor Camelot East Village Let us continue to enjoy each other’s company management or it's employees has any say in and be thankful for all of the blessings here at what the 2020 tax increase is in your lot rent Camelot East Village. Remember to always be kind, increase letter. Cove Communities are in talks you never know what someone is going thru. Tell with the Sarasota County property appraiser’s someone something kind and positive today. Let’s office at this time, disputing the amount of the live our lives with a heart filled with God’s love. increase. The theme of the month is the saying “What goes 6. The residents have been getting over 100 cups around comes around”. A karmatic spiritual energy of coffee per day out of our new coffee maker of correcting wrongs and doing rights. Karma is but in the coffee room! It is the best coffee maker! a reflection of your own spiritual morals, if you do Sorry, the decaf is still outside but you can get not like something within you, don’t disown it, for a shot of froth at the coffee machine to add to that which is disowned causes chaos. Embrace it, your decaf coffee. Cove is checking into getting cleanse it, purify it and turn its previous energies of a decaf bin for our new machine and hope to negativity into positivity. have an answer soon. God Bless…love to all Camelot East Village has the best residents anyone Joyce Russell could ask for. Thank you for continuing to make Camelot East Village the #1 place to reside in Sarasota! At your service, Gail Sterling- Manager Residents, when coming thru the gate please move Camelot East Village slowly so the reader can process your sticker and A Cove Community open the gate. If you speed right thru it does not have enough time to process. 3 Birthday List Gail, Regarding our Birthdays of the month in our Newsletter, if you would like your name and birthdate From each and every one of us, in our monthly newsletter please contact Joyce thank you for being a great leader. Russell. We do not put in the year There have You are our encourager, a bright light been some mistakes as when we changed systems in our day to day lives. Not only a boss but a true with the Cove all of the birthdays were not carried friend. Thank you for ALL you do for us. We are here over. Please accept our apology for missing your going strong because of you. Our work family loves birthday or for putting in a loved one who has passed being “your” team! away. We will strive for perfection going forward. Here is a shout out to everyone here at Camelot East Village…Happy Birthday from all of us to you. HOA MEMBERSHIP The strength of a community is not measured by how many people reside in it, but by how many people come together in support of it. HOA Membership will result in some of the most rewarding times you may ever experience. Share October 2019 in our fellowship, participate in our activities and John Shannon 02 Linda Fouse 19 support our efforts to promote and preserve a Norm Burnam 03 Dennis Radonga 19 community offering a carefree retirement lifestyle. James Monosa 05 Daniel Humphries 19 Each and every $20.00 membership meaningfully Sara Bartlett 06 Edward Hart 20 contributes to this magnificent community where Michael Polise 07 Jenny Zawasky 20 retirement expectations are experienced in reality. David Sheridan 07 Janice Armitage 22 Carmen Craib 09 Janet Squillante 23 Steven Haskill 10 Julia Dedrickson 23 Kathleen Florio 11 Marion Hyler 24 Stuart Garber 12 Charlotte Polise 24 Bette Wittenburg 12 David Adams 25 Lyle Long 13 John Paolucci 26 Linda Horenberger 13 Steve Sheridan 27 Proudly roofing since 1985 Daniel Bromley 15 Jacqueline Ruse 28 Theresa Casterline 16 William Scudieri 28 Susan Baux 17 Marcia Robinson 29 Donna Lucas 18 Misty Vesper 31 Michael Roy 18 • Insulated Energy Star Rated Roof • Manufacturer’s Backed • Financing Available • Roof Leaks Visit our website at comfortcover.org Congratulations to Ed Senna and Mike Davis who will be going on October 22, 2019! FL LIC. #CCC 057091 4 HOA Ticket Sales Effective immediately, the HOA Board has decided that Joyce and/or the Cove office will not sell tickets to our HOA events.