Summer is over and the leaves will soon be filling our yards and streets.  Please keep your street gutters free of leaves, as these will eventually work their way to the waterways through the storm drains. 

 Clera and I have been doing the Newsletter since May of 97.  We both feel that a new editor might add a fresh perspective to reporting civic events and neighborhood news.  We have enjoyed our work on the newsletter, but feel it is time now to pass the baton to an new runner.  If you or anyone you know would like to take the reins we will provide you with any assistance you might need including a CD of past newsletters.  Just call us at 473-8258 or talk to us at the next civic league meeting. 

Fall is on it's way. The kids are back in school. Halloween is just around the corner.  Mark your calendars for SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30TH.  This will be the 14th year the Civic League has sponsored the Annual Halloween Parade.  For those new to the area--all ages are invited to join in the parade and march through the neighborhood following the band to the park.  A party at the park follows the parade. Fun for all.   If you don't want to march please join us along the route and cheer on the little ghosts and goblins.  October’s newsletter will give you the parade route and additional information.   As always we need cookies, apple juice or apple cider donations and VOLUNTEERS to help out at the park.   If you choose to make a cash donation, please contact Belinda Nash at 490-2504   or Gerry Richter at 497-5243

While we are still cutting grass now, leaves will soon be falling.  Grass clipping and leaves that are blown or allowed to remain in your gutter END UP IN OUR LAKES.  Anything and everything that goes down the storm drains go directly into our lake system.  It not only pollutes the lakes but becomes unsightly and affects everything living in the lakes.  Clean gutters certainly improve the appearance of your home so PLEASE keep your mind on your gutter.

Pack 475, the Cub Scout Pack chartered by the Civic League, will be participating in the Tidewater Council’s Scouting for Food Drive by canvassing the neighborhoods belonging to the Pembroke Meadows Civic League, Hudgins Shores and Old Donation Farms.

Flyers and donation bags will be distributed to homes September 11 to September 15.  Donations will be picked up from doorsteps on September 18 beginning at 9:00 am.   Food donations may be cans or sealed dry goods.  All donations go to the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia. 

Additional information about the food drive or joining Pack 475 is available from Jan Harris, 499-2791

Anybody interested in forming a little knitters/crocheters social group? 
We'd get together for light refreshments and gabbing while each person works on her own project -- or we could do a group project if the group wants to.  Maybe share patterns or ideas -- maybe have a small door prize --  Whatever.   Let's get it started and see where it goes.

Loretta 497-2130.

Thank you to the following Block captains: Jan Browning, Eileen Byman, Pat Cook, Chris & Katie Fertig, Bobbie Furedy, Clera Hall, Fran Keeling, Danielle Kreassig, Teri Mikulka, Daphne Sanders, Carole Scott, John Sheadel, Rosemarie Staggs, and Ted Young, and residents of Pembroke Shores for their cooperation in helping to update our Neighborhood Watch lists ensuring that we will keep our Neighborhood Watch signs.

A very special thank you goes to our NEW Block Captains, Bobbie Furedy, Chris & Katie Fertig and Danielle Kreassig.

Please remember to follow the rules of good crime prevention and engrave your valuables (TVs, VCRs, stereos, computers, etc.) with your social security number preceded by USN, USAF, etc. if you are in the military, or VA if a civilian, and continue to keep an eye out for, and report to the police, anything out of the ordinary that you may observe in our neighborhood. 

If you are a new resident, please contact your Block Captain or me for the Neighborhood Watch brochure.  If you need to borrow an engraver please call me at 497-0565.

Thank you for making our area one of the premier neighborhoods in Virginia Beach.

 If you bring your checkbook or cash, you can take care of your 2005 membership dues for the Civic League during the Halloween Walk.  I hope to have a little table set up at the park.  I'll issue receipts to those who wish them.

To sign up for median strip duty, call Jim at 499-5115 or e-mail at jdprice@Cox.net. 
 

 If you have acquired a new pet over the summer or have not registered your pet with the LOST PET PROGRAM please pick up a form at our next Civic League meeting.  Include a picture of your pet when returning the form for visual identification. 
You can call Belinda Nash at 490-2504 for additional forms.
On average we return 6 pets per month to their owners with this program.

Sorry - that was really bad!  The director of Samaritan House needs cans of  tuna for the residents (homeless.)  If you can help out, bring a can of  tuna  to the next Civic League meeting.  Tomato sauce (cans only --no jars, please) is also always in demand.  Remember, "There, but for the grace of  God, go I."

Bless us all. And thanks.--Loretta Watkins

On behalf of The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, our community is again commended for  volunteering for Clean the Bay Day. We could not have made this step toward our goal of "Saving the Bay" without your help. This year more than 3,560 volunteers helped to retrieve 157,350 pounds of debris along 180 miles of waterways throughout the Hampton Roads area. 

Our own efforts included 71 neighborhood volunteers who picked up approximately 6,000 pounds of trash from our local lakes and waterways.  Our efforts included the waterways of the Lynnhaven River, Old Donation Creek and Cove, Thurston Creek, Lake Pembroke and Lake Meadows.  The following volunteers participated and their efforts are much appreciated:

Area Coordinators:  Bob Lukeman, Frank Mulcahy, Jim Hall, Jim Willenbrink Jr.,  Fred Willis and Debbie Evelyn.

Participants: Roy Aubrey, The Ashe family, Jim  & Jeannette Brown, Ed Campbell, Valerie Davis, Jimmy Eddings, The Jim Hall family, Ed Hughes & Son, John Jeanguenat, The Lukeman family, The Mike Moore family, The Mulcahy family, The Jim Price family, Jeff & Yanna Sias, L. St.Claire & Son, Sid Sward, Dawn Thames, Doc Webbner, Three Willenbrink families, six visitors, and fifteen volunteers from the Old Donation Farms Homeowner’s Association.

The participants from the Old Donation Farms Homeowner’s Association deserve special commendation for their exceptionally diligent and arduous efforts.  Cordinated by Mrs. Bevvie Evelyn, their group picked up approximately 4,000 lbs of debris and trash comprising many huge pieces of lumber,  some so large that they had to be towed and dragged up their community boat ramp to the collection site. 

Well done to all participants! 

Nellie Pafford, longtime resident of the Meadows and a familiar face at our Bayside Library, died July 26th.  Many of our children and grandchildren have been served by Nellie over the past 21 years.  She has brought books back and forth from the library to many shut in or ill residents.  Funds are being collected towards a bench in her Memory to be placed at Ferry Plantation House in the formal garden area.  If you would like to make a donation towards this memorial you may  drop off a check payable to FOFPH-NelliePafford Memorial or mail it to FOFPH, 4336 Cheswick Lane, Va Beach.