THE VILLAGE VIEWS Living, Playing and Working in Harmony with Nature Since 1971 1 Aspen Circle, Innsbrook, MO 63390 • 636-928-3366 • www.innsbrook-resort.com EDITION: April 9 to 15, 2015 “That’s a Winner” by Dale Collier EVENTS THIS WEEK Fishing Tournament Saturday, April 11, 6:30 a.m., FH Meet at the Oh’Fishal Scale for our annual tournament. Trophies awarded. Free to all. Rules and regulations: The tournament will begin at 6:30 a.m. This is a two-person bass tournament; ten bass 12” or larger. Kids can catch any size and type of fish. Weigh-in will take place at the Oh’Fishal Scale at the Farmhouse at noon sharp. Trophies will be awarded after weigh-in. Ext. 193. UPCOMING EVENTS Historical Society Porch Music Series: Sperreng Fiddlers Saturday, April 18, 2 p.m., LC Take in the colonial sounds of the Sperreng Fiddlers from the Lindbergh School District on a beautiful spring afternoon at the historic log cabin. FREE. Call Dan West at 314-740-5521 with questions. Adopt-a-Highway Saturday, April 25, 9:30 a.m., PMB Join this volunteer clean-up of Highway F. Meet at the PMB at 9:30 a.m. for donuts and coffee! Don’t forget to bring your gloves. Ext. 180. Earth Day Celebration Hike NATURE NOTE Sunday, April 26, 10 a.m., Tyrolean Trail - Alpine Valley In the (Mushroom) Hunt Celebrate Earth Day with a guided nature hike on the Alpine April showers bring… Valley section of the Tyrolean Trail. The hike will be led by mushrooms? April showers and Missouri Master Naturalist Leslie Limberg. Meet at the trailhead warm nights make morels (turn south on Alpine Valley Drive, then take your first right). The (muh-rells) grow and send folks to hike will last about two hours and there will be a break and their favorite mushroom-hunting option to stop after about an hour. Bring water, trail snacks, bug spots. In late spring, watch for spray, etc. Don’t forget your camera! Ext. 180. morels growing on the ground. The top or cap looks something like a Annual Plant Sale - Save the Date! sponge, with a shape similar to a Saturday, May 9, 9 a.m. to noon, PMB tiny Christmas tree. The stem is This popular event will return with spring! Be sure to mark on thick, and when sliced, the whole your calendars the Innsbrook Garden Club-sponsored Plant Sale. mushroom is hollow. Three species The plant donation date is Friday, May 8, from noon to 3 p.m. are commonly found in our area, so at the PMB. Held annually on Mother’s Day weekend, the Plant morels will vary in color from gray to tan or yellow. They come Sale is not only your answer for great spring gifts, but it is also a in a variety of sizes, but most average three to four inches tall. wonderful time to divide and donate your plants for the sale and Like all mushrooms, morels are a fungus; and the part we pick is recycle your gently used garden accessories. Questions? Call Ann just the fruit, so to speak. Morels seem to pop up overnight! They Babington, 314-580-7775 or Cece Luecking, 314-623-5344. usually grow in 24 to 48 hours. Look for morels in moist woods and on south-facing slopes. As with any wild edible, be sure you Mother’s Day Buffet can identify morels before eating them! Either tag along behind Sunday, May 10, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. an experienced morel hunter or take a good reference book along Treat mom to our annual brunch! Reservations required. $26 on your hunt. per adult; $10 for kids ages 4 to 12; kids 3 & under eat free. See -Excerpt from the Missouri Department of Conservation menu at www.innsbrook-resort.com/dining/events. Ext. 0. LOCATION CODES: FH-Farmhouse • AC-Aspen Center • CH-Clubhouse • HC-Harmonie Church • GC-Golf Course • PMB-Prop Mgmnt Bldg • CI-Camp Innsbrook • SB-Summer Breeze Concert • LC-Log Cabin pumps, sewer lines, septic tanks and treatment plants. This causes INNSBROOK NEWS Innsbrook problems, and, by extension, costs you money. It can Construction Updates also cause sewer backup problems that will certainly detract from your Innsbrook experience. Amenity Complex We got another good day of work in at the site of the new Kids’ Horseback Riding Camps Available amenity complex on Wednesday, April 1 before the rains came. Camp dates are: June 1-4; June 8-11; June 15-18; June 22-25 and We will continue to plug away and work around the weather! June 29-July 2. Camps run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. daily. The cost Updates on the progress of the new amenity complex will be is $250 per child. $100 nonrefundable deposit per child required. posted on our website at Ages 6 and up (no adults, please). Ext. 300. www.innsbrook-resort.com/property-owners/amenity-complex. Contact [email protected] with questions or comments. INNSBROOK CLUBS Aspen Center Ladies Tennis Swing by the Aspen Center to check out the new seating areas Ladies tennis on Fridays at 9 a.m. at the stables courts. If you and fire pits on the patio overlooking Lake Aspen. Also, would like to play, we would love to have you! Not serious, just construction will soon begin on a wheelchair ramp to the patio. fun. Call Mary Jo Zara at 314-570-1072. Other new additions include life-size Jenga and cornhole, which will be available weather permitting. Ext. 0. Monday Night Bible Discussion Group Fitness Center Join us at the home of Larry and Linda Buschman at 500 Woodlake Dr., on April 13 for a discussion of the book of Luke. We ordered brand new, state-of-the-art fitness equipment for our Everyone is welcome! 636-745-3141. Fitness Center! We’re also giving it a fresh coat of paint, and new carpet and lighting. The Fitness Center will be closed April 18-30 Patriot Packages for renovations. Ext. 0. Packing for the soldiers will be Friday, April 10, from 9 a.m.- Innsbrook Hail Storm Damage? noon at the Warrenton Armory. It doesn’t take long and the fellowship and sense of doing a worthwhile task is very pleasant. A severe thunderstorm brought damaging winds, hail and All are invited to come and participate in sending a little bit of torrential rainfall to Innsbrook on April 7. We encourage you to home to those young men and women deployed so far from their inspect your Innsbrook property for damage as soon as you are loved ones. We are in desperate need of travel-size toothpaste and able. If you can’t make it out to check your property and have travel-size Kleenex. Any and all donations are greatly damage concerns, call Innsbrook Services at ext. 191 or email appreciated, and may be left in the barrel inside the Property [email protected] for assistance. Management Building, or call Bob Braendle 636-745-9492 for Road Work in Warren County pick-up. Resurfacing on about five miles of the outer road of Interstate Garden Club Spring Membership Meeting 70 west of Warrenton begins this week and continues until the The Innsbrook Garden Club invites all members and prospective end of April. Route H at Wright City between the outer road and members to their Spring Membership Meeting on Friday, April Route M will be resurfaced during this time, as well. The road 17 at 10 a.m. at the Aspen Center. Our guest speaker will be will be one lane while under construction, and motorists will be Leslie Limberg speaking on “Low Maintenance Shade taken through the work zone by following a pilot car. Work will Gardening”. Membership dues of $20/family may be paid at that be done between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. during the week, unless a time. Please RSVP to Shirley at 636-745-0088 or weekend is needed due to weather. Daily and weekly road work [email protected]. by county is available at www.modot.org/northeast. Welcome New Executive Chef Jimmy O’Brien Green Hats Luncheon Ladies, in the mood for Italian? Then join us for lunch at Rizzo’s Innsbrook would like to extend a warm welcome to our new in Wentzville on Tuesday, April 21 at 11:30 a.m.. We will have Executive Chef, Jimmy O’Brien! Jimmy was born in St. Louis a private dining room and be able to order separately from the and has been working in kitchens since he was 15 years old. He menu. Make reservations to Barb Powell at 636-745-8746 by has worked at Pietro’s on Watson Road and Charlie Gitto’s on Friday, April 17. the Hill, where he was trained by Charlie himself. He has also worked at various restaurants in Clayton, downtown St. Louis Weekly Bluebird Report and at country clubs. Ext. 801. Our Innsbrook bluebirds have spent a busy week house building. Flex Your Green Thumb with a Garden Plot! We now have 41 completed nests. Fourteen of our nests contain eggs, with 41 eggs laid in all. More eggs should be laid this week. A limited number of plots are available in the Innsbrook If you would like your nest box included in our weekly report Community Garden. Plots are 10’ x 15’ and are $60 per plot. A please contact Shirley at 636-745-0088 or one-time fee of $60 is also assessed to new gardeners.