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Volume 6, Issue 2 8380 Laurel Crest Dr, Lorton, VA 22079 March/April 2009
Board Of Directors President
Pete Meincke 703-646-5288
Vice President
Peter Dickinson 703-690-8323
Secretary Craig Griffith 703-599-6300
Treasurer John Glover
703-690-4484 [email protected]
A bi-monthly publication for the Laurel Hill Community ● Written by Residents for Residents
2009 POOL SEASON Well, it’s still winter, but it’s never too late to think of summer and with that brings thoughts of the outdoors and of course, our own community Pool.
Every Member (e.g. family) needs to fill out a Pool Member-ship Form each year. This form collects the information necessary in order to issue 2009 stickers for existing pool members, who still have their Pool IDs, and to issue new Pool ID cards for new Mem-bers or replace lost Pool IDs of existing Members.
It is important that these forms be accurate and complete. The
information on the form is used to issue these Pool IDs and every indi-vidual, Adults and children, need to have their own ID in order to gain entry to the Pool.
Please refer to the LHCA Swim-ming Pool Procedures, Rules and Regulations (March 2009) for com-plete details regarding the safe op-eration of our pool. Copies of this document are available on the com-munity website, www.laurel-hill.org, or at the Community Manager’s Of-fice in the Community Center Club-house.
Associate Memberships (for those families who do not own a home within the Laurel Hill Community), will be available for purchase begin-ning April 1, 2009. The fee remains $300 for the season per family. There are a limited number of Asso-ciate Memberships available, so please let any friend you know who may be interested in using our pool to make their purchase early.
Spring Break is coming and that is an ideal time to make these pur-chases at the Community Manager’s Office in the Community Center Clubhouse.
The Pool Committee recommended and the BOD supported the imple-mentation of extended hours of op-eration this year.
*SEE PAGE 14 FOR POOL FORM*
HELP WANTED We are in need of your help with writing articles for our newslet-ter. Articles could be about any interest that you would like to share with the community. Please contact the On-Site Man-ager, Donna Carlson at [email protected] with any questions. Thank you.
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LH Tritons 2
Save The Date—Yard Sale 2
Elementary School 3
Book Club 5
It’s Me Again 6
Neighborhood Watch 8
Board Of Directors’ Minutes
10
Calendar Of Events 13
Pool Form 14
Inside this issue:
By Michael Gilmore
The Pool will remain open un-til 9pm on scheduled nights to allow for those who may not arrive home until early eve-ning to still enjoy some week-night use of the pool.
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Please join us on May 13th for a Triton Swim Team Registra-tion info night at the community center from 6:00-8:00. You will have a chance to meet the coaches, team reps, swim team vendors and some fellow swimmers and families. The team swimsuits will be on sale from Sports Fair as well as caps and goggles. As the Tritons start our fourth season, we invite all inter-ested to come and enjoy some refreshments and learn about a great way to enjoy your summer in 2009.
During the summer of 2008, the Laurel Hill Tritons, in our third year in the Northern Virginia Swim League, placed in second in Division 15 and were 1st place champions of the Divisional Relay Carnival. The league comprises some 104 teams and has been sup-porting over 15,000 young No. VA swimmers for over 50 years. Swimming is a great way to meet new friends, get some great exer-cise and learn to compete in a friendly, supportive environment. In our fourth year, we will be in Division 15 with 7 meets during our summer season. Swim meets are on Saturday mornings; devel-opmental meets on Monday eve-nings, with one special Wednes-day Relay Meet. Our season prac-tice begins on May 27th and ends on July 25th with our team party.
Our practices start on May 27th in the afternoons after school. Practice times will be divided by age group with older swimmers (12-16 years) swimming 4:00-4:45 and younger swimmers (8-12 years) swimming from 4:45-5:30 in
the evening. Once school ends, we will begin morning practices.
We will also have separate ses-sions for our youngest swimmers, “Little Tritons” (ages 4-7) on Mon-day, Wednesday, and Friday. Our Little Tritons will have special
races throughout the season. We can only accept the first 25 Lit-tle Tritons that register. Please watch for announce-
ments for these practice ses-sions.
Please contact Tom Gemma, [email protected] for more informa-tion.
Laurel Hill Tritons Swim Team Kick Off 2009 Summer Swim Season By Tom Gemma
Swimming is a great way to
meet new friends
SAVE THE DATE Community Yard
Sale
The Laurel Hill community yard sale will be held on Satur-day, May 16, 2009. The Ameri-can Veterans, a charitable or-ganization, will pickup any items that haven’t sold from the community center parking lot at 1:00pm. This pickup will be free.
More information will follow in the next newsletter. For ques-tions (or suggestions) please contact Marianne Crooch at 703-217-2196 or [email protected].
By Marianne Crooch
List of Advertisers
Protech page 2
Back In Motion page 5
Zampiello Paint Contractors page 6
Pane E Veno page 7
New York Carpet page 7
Business Market Place page 12
Jeri Selman/Remax page 15
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Elementary School Update By Christine Morin
The elementary school boundary study is finally over our community elementary school has been created! The new boundary will include the entire Laurel Hill HOA and all other nearby communities along Silverbrook Road, from Monacan Road down to Lorton Road. The Lorton Station South community will also be attending the new school; this community is primarily the new neighborhoods that are lo-cated past Shoppers Food Ware-house and Glory Days. The bound-ary creates a conservative and re-sponsible approach to prevent over-crowding the new school and allow-ing for future growth and possible programs. We can all be thankful to our school board members, Mr. Dan Storck and Mrs. Liz Bradsher ([email protected], [email protected]) for the enormous amount of time and effort they took to create six community schools, for getting the school built two years ahead of time, and finally for all their help to get approval and funding to build South County Mid-dle School! Please take a moment and email them with your thanks.
Several community members went to visit the new elementary school principal, Mrs. Suzie Mont-gomery earlier this month and welcomed her to the neighbor-hood. Thank you to everyone who came, brought goodies, water, and a handmade card from several neighborhood children. Mrs. Montgomery’s trailer is currently located in the South County Sec-ondary parking lot. She is very busy interviewing and hiring teachers, ordering school equip-ment and supplies, and getting everything ready to move into the new school. Building construction continues to be ahead of schedule and Mrs. Montgomery is optimis-tic and she might be able to move into the school in the May/June timeframe. Mrs. Montgomery will be looking for a lot of volunteers this summer to help move in furniture, stamp and file books, and help get the school ready to open in Septem-ber. We will be sending out calls for help this summer via the Ya-hoo group, so if you are not on the community Yahoo group, please sign up so you can stay informed.
Don’t forget the upcoming community meeting for sug-gesting names for the new ele-mentary school on Monday, March 2 at 7 p.m. at the South County Secondary audito-rium. Please bring your kids….this is going to be their school!
http://www.fcps.edu/cluster5/laurelhillsite/
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A big thanks to Julie Graham for hosting our last book club meeting. Everyone had a great time. Our next book pick for April is New York Times Best Seller "American Wife" by Curtis Sittenfeld and Deborah Noyes will be our host. (meeting will be held after spring break, date/time tbd). For more information please contact [email protected].
Farmers Market Grand Opening
The first, Lorton Farmers Mar-ket, will be open for business on May 3td. The grand opening will be on May 31st. Location of the Farmers Market will be in the Lorton VRE parking lot and will be open on Sundays 9am to 1pm until October 25th.
By Laura Griffith
POLICY RESOLUTION NO. 2006-04
PET POLICY #7. If a dog eliminates upon the common area or streets of the association, the custodian of said dog shall immediately remove any excrement from the common area and properly dispose of the same in a sanitary manner. Owners shall not allow their ani-mals to eliminate upon any indi-vidual lot. If that occurs, the same clean-up requirement per-tains.
Please adhere to our guide-lines and pick up after your pets. This is becoming an is-sue and we need to correct it.
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Hi It’s Me Again, Your Neighbor
Hi,
It’s me your neighbor again. Well it’s February, it’s dark, dreary, no golf, the Redskins did not make the play-offs, and the only good thing, so far we have had only one day of snow. Our home is warm, the TV works so what more can I ask for.
Reflecting on the past holidays, it was a great family time, but our kitchen during meal preparation was transformed into a stage. Several years ago I decided that cooking for 12 to 14 people was too large a task for my wife (I’m not
allowed to help except to mash the potatoes). In order to solve this problem I assigned each one of the family members a task. Carl to bake one turkey and to deep fry another, Gene to bake the pies and cheesecakes, our daughter-in-law Chris to make the vegetables, our niece the salad, my wife to do the dressing, and of course me to mash the potatoes and select the wine.
We have done this for the past several years, but when the time comes to put this annual master-piece together, that is when our kitchen transforms itself into a stage. With only two ovens, one
microwave, a four-burner stove, and three refrigerators, and at least 500 sq. feet of kitchen space, there is not enough equipment or room for 4 or 5 cooks in the kitchen. Didn’t someone once say something about how many cooks there should be in the kitchen? That’s when the great ballet be-gins as each specialty cooks moves for position, time, equipment, and space. At times I think I saw a few elbows aiding a cook getting into position. All the while that this act is being conducted, my wife, who is above it all, is acting as the conductor of this ballet. She urged one cook to hurry, an-other to use a certain oven, and another to add more salt. Unbe-lievably at the appointed time all is ready. The last event is to carve the turkey. Carl, who at times thinks he is the Emeril of the north, labors over the birds and each year is frustrated by the fact that the knives are not long enough or sharp enough. Some-how the turkey gets carved and we move from the “National Thea-ter” to the dinning room for an-other wonderful family holiday dinner.
Our home here at Laurel Hill is large enough, except for the kitchen, for this annual affair to house and entertain the 12 to 14 dinner guests. Judging by the amount of cars parked on our streets, I am sure many of our neighbors also enjoyed their fami-lies during the past holiday ses-sion. I hope that you & your fami-lies were able to share the warmth and closeness of your families at holiday time this year and I hope next year as well.
Thanks for listening,,
Bill Brown
P.S. Carl bought his mother a new expensive set of carving knives for Christmas.
By Bill Brown
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EASTER EGG HUNT
Come join us for The Laurel Hill Connection children’s Easter Egg Hunt and Easter Bunny meet and greet.
What: Easter Egg Hunt followed by snacks and a visit by the Easter Bunny in the Com-munity Center.
For: Children accompanied by
By Laura Griffith
ADULTS up to age 10***
When: Saturday, March 28th at 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Where: 2:00 Easter Egg Hunt: Common/Tot Lot area on Native Violet Way in the Pulte Section of Laurel Hill
2:30 Easter Bunny Meet and Greet: Community Center
Bring: A basket or bag for your child to collect eggs and your camera!
Questions?
Email or call Laura at 703) 690-2224 or [email protected]
***For each child attending, please donate 12 eggs stuffed and taped shut with child safe items, such as
wrapped candy (NO NUTS), stickers or small toys. Eggs can be dropped off at 8143 American Holly Rd. by 3/27. Please try to limit each child to 12 eggs during the hunt.***
Silverbrook PTA Blood Drive
On Tuesday, April 14, from 1 pm - 7 pm there will be a Blood Drive at Silverbrook Elementary School in the gym. What a convenient opportunity to help alleviate the area's blood sup-ply shortage! It's easy and painless. If you'd like to make your lifesaving appointment, please call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE. If you have any questions, call Michelle Haase at 703-690-8161 or e-mail [email protected].
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By Diane Hampel, Coordinator
JOIN US FOR TRASH BASH 2009!! UPDATE
With spring just around the cor-ner now is a good time for us to spruce up Laurel Hill. I know that there was neighborhood clean-up a couple of years ago, and now that we have our neighborhood watch program up and running, I would like to in-stitute the Laurel Hill Trash Bash each year as a part of this program.
In order to keep our community safe, it is important to keep it clean. You’ve all heard of the “broken window” theory. If you let a neighborhood get run down, crime will soon follow. When I attend the meetings the police department has for neighborhood watch coordinators, I keep hear-ing how important it is for us to keep our neighborhood well
maintained in order to deter crimi-nals from visiting our area.
I have scheduled this years Trash Bash 2009 for Saturday, March 21, 2009 from 9:00 am to 12:00pm. Please stop by the Laurel Hill club-house at 9:00am sharp where we will assign work crews. Remember to wear boots or shoes that you won’t mind getting a bit dirty and bring gloves if you own a pair. I will provide large trash bags and disposable gloves for people who need them. I will also provide re-freshments for all those who help.
If you are a member of a boy or girl scout troop in the area, please consider making Trash Bash 2009 a community service project for your entire troop. High school students needing community service hours are
welcome to participate as well. Just remember to bring your forms with our so I can sign them when you are finished working. The rain date will Saturday, March 28, 2009.
If we all work together for just a few hours we can probably get most of the trash picked up, and together we will continue to make Laurel Hill a beautiful and safe place to live, and a community we can all be proud of!
Feel free to contact me at [email protected] or call me at 703-690-7429 if you have questions about Trash Bash 2009 or the neighbor-hood watch program. We are always looking for new members to help pa-trol.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THE 2009 LH EVENTS
March (tbd) - Rocknoserous
April 25th - International Pot Luck
May 16th - Yard Sale
May 17th - Spring Fling
June 13th - Luau
July 4th - Lorton Parade
August (tbd) - Kindergarten Meet n Greet
September 7th - Ice Cream Social
October 31st - Halloween Party
November 7th - Diwali
December 13th - Hanukkah Party
December 20th - Christmas Party
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Thanks To All The Businesses That Contributed To Our Casino Royale Event
COMMONWEALTH HEATING
& AIR CONDITIONING
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MINUTES
President Peter Dickinson pre-sided over the December 17, 2008, meeting of the Laurel Hill Com-munity Association (LHCA) Board of Directors. He called the meet-ing to order at 7:04 p.m. in the Laurel Hill Community Center. Board members present were: Vice-President Pete Meincke, Sec-retary Craig Griffith, Treasurer Greg Lyle and Member-at-Large John Glover. Also present, repre-senting Cardinal Management, were Terry McGuire and Donna Carlson. President Dickinson de-termined that a quorum was pre-sent in compliance with the By-Laws of the above named corpora-tion.
Ms. Ryan submitted the minutes from the Board of Directors’ Meet-ing on November 19, 2008, which had been circulated to all Board members. A motion was made to approve the minutes as submitted. The motion was seconded, and passed unanimously (5 Yes – 0 No – 0 Abstain).
A motion was made to write off delinquent account amounts that are less that $30. The motion was seconded, and passed unani-mously (5 Yes – 0 No – 0 Abstain).
A motion was made and sec-onded that the Board adjourn to Executive Session to conduct a hearing and to discuss delinquen-cies, collections, violations and correspondence. The motion passed unanimously (5 Yes – 0 No – 0 Abstain). The Board ad-journed to Executive Session at 8:28 p.m. The Board returned from Executive Session at 9:45 p.m.
Motions were made and seconded to fine three accounts $50 for re-strictive covenants violations – yard maintenance which are now in compliance. The motions passed unanimously (5 Yes – 0 No – 0 Abstain).
A motion was made and sec-onded to fine an account $50 for a restrictive covenants violation – trash receptacle which is now in compliance. The motion passed unanimously (5 Yes – 0 No – 0 Ab-stain).
A motion was made and sec-onded to fine an account for a con-tinuing restrictive covenants vio-lation – trash receptacle $50 ini-tially and $10 per day starting seven days after notice is sent. The motion passed unanimously (5 Yes – 0 No – 0 Abstain).
A motion was made and sec-onded to fine an account for a con-tinuing restrictive covenants vio-lation – unauthorized change or alteration to lot (deck) $50 ini-tially and $10 per day starting seven days after notice is sent. The motion passed unanimously (5 Yes – 0 No – 0 Abstain).
A motion was made and sec-onded to fine an account for a con-tinuing restrictive covenants vio-lation – unauthorized change or alteration to lot (patio) $50 ini-tially and $10 per day starting seven days after notice is sent. The motion passed unanimously (5 Yes – 0 No – 0 Abstain).
A motion was made and sec-onded to fine an account for a con-tinuing restrictive covenants vio-lation – installation of an unap-proved fence $50 initially and $10 per day starting seven days after notice is sent. The motion passed
unanimously (5 Yes – 0 No – 0 Ab-stain).
Motions were made and seconded to write off the balances on three accounts. The motions passed unanimously (5 Yes – 0 No – 0 Ab-stain).
Motions were made and seconded to write off the bankruptcy pre-petition amounts on three ac-counts as uncollectible. The mo-tions passed unanimously (5 Yes – 0 No – 0 Abstain).
A motion was made and sec-onded to approve a payment plan on an account. The motion passed unanimously (5 Yes – 0 No – 0 Ab-stain).
A motion was made and sec-onded to close an account with legal counsel and to write off the balance. The motion passed unanimously (5 Yes – 0 No – 0 Ab-stain).
Motion were made and seconded to authorize counsel to retain pri-vate investigator service to try to locate bank account information on two accounts at an approxi-mate cost of $85 per account. The motions passed unanimously (5 Yes – 0 No – 0 Abstain).
Motions were made and seconded to have counsel proceed with legal action on two accounts. The mo-tions passed unanimously (5 Yes – 0 No – 0 Abstain).
A motion was made and sec-onded to adjourn the Board of Di-rectors’ Meeting. The motion passed unanimously (5 Yes – 0 No – 0 Abstain). The meeting was adjourned at 10:00 p.m.
By Karen Ryan
December 2008
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Board of Directors’ Minutes
continued from page 10
January 21, 2009
President Peter Dickinson pre-sided over the January 21, 2009, organizational meeting of the Lau-rel Hill Community Association (LHCA) Board of Directors. He called the meeting to order at 10:10 p.m. in the Laurel Hill Com-munity Center. Board members present were: Mr. Dickinson, Pete Meincke, Craig Griffith and John Glover. Also present, represent-ing Cardinal Management, were Terry McGuire and Donna Carl-son. President Dickinson deter-mined that a quorum was present in compliance with the By-Laws of the above named corporation.
A motion was made to nominate the Board members for the follow-ing offices: Pete Meincke, Presi-dent; Peter Dickinson, Vice-President; Craig Griffith, Secre-tary; and John Glover, Treasurer. The motion was seconded, and passed unanimously (4 Yes – 0 No – 0 Abstain).
A motion was made and sec-onded to approve a specific re-quest from a community center renter for an extension of one ad-ditional hour at the usual hourly rate for the purpose of cleaning up after an event ending at midnight. The motion was seconded, and passed unanimously (4 Yes – 0 No – 0 Abstain).
A motion was made and sec-onded to adjourn the Board of Di-rectors’ Meeting. The motion passed unanimously (4 Yes – 0 No – 0 Abstain). The meeting was adjourned at 10:20 p.m.
*This version has been abbrevi-ated from its original text. Full copies are available in the Man-agement Office.
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∗ 3/9—PFC Meeting 7:30pm at the clubhouse
∗ 3/17—ARB Meeting 7pm at the club-house
∗ 3/18—Board of Directors Meeting 7pm at the club-house
∗ 3/28—Easter Egg Hunt 2-4pm
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 * 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 * 18 * 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 *
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March 2009
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 * 4 *
5 * 6 * 7 * 8 * 9 * 10 * 11 *
12 * 13 * 14 * 15 * 16 17 18
19 20 21 * 22 23 24 25 *
26 27 28 29 30 31
April 2009 ∗ 4/3 - 4/12
Spring Break ∗ 4/13—PFC
Meeting 7:30pm at the
∗ 4-14—1-7pm Blood Drive
Clubhouse ∗ 4/15—Board of
Directors Meeting 7pm at the clubhouse
∗ 4/21—ARB Meeting 7pm at
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ADDRESS LABEL HERE
8380 Laurel Crest Dr Lorton, VA 22079