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Our Village Voice


        VOL. 31 NO. 4                                           www.seabreezepublications.com                                               APRIL 2020


       Good Time In South Florida To Spruce                                                                  Bill’s Box


       Up Curb Appearance Of Your Home!                                                                     By Bill Thompson


                                                                                                            Annual Shores Association
         The easiest face-lift you can give the                                                             Meeting
       exterior of your home is landscaping!                                                                  Our  Annual  Meeting,
         With sunny, spring weather upon us, now                                                            held  on  March  12,  was
       is a great time to beautify your flower beds                                                         highly informative. Reports
       and the curb appeal of your home which will                                                          from board members were
       provide you pleasurable outdoor living in the                                                        impressive in detail. I sensed
       upcoming summer months.                                                                              a feeling of appreciation from
         Southeast Florida  is  known for its                                                               audience attendees. After all the reports, Vice President
       beautiful environment. However, even the                                                             Emily O’Mahoney opened the floor for questions, which
       most natural looking lawns and landscapes                                                            showed a lot of interest in maintaining properties to keeping
       take an extensive amount of work! Your                                                               The Shores a development of envy – a top choice among
       property won’t turn into an outdoor haven on                                                         buyers. Concerns were expressed about garbage cans
       its own, which is why you need to be vigilant                                                        being left by the road at days end after pickup. Ongoing
       with maintenance.                                                                                    street parking was frowned upon. Attention was brought to
         Here’s how: Refresh those planters.                                                                vehicles parking directly across the street from another car.
       Breath new life into that neglected landscape                                                        That violates common sense and creates a safety hazard. The
       by mulching, pruning, planting shrubs and                                                            street is narrow so traffic cannot move through unless one
       flowers in your plant beds.                         • Clear away leaves, branches, clutter.          car stops to let the other go first. Aggravating.
         Cleanup such as weeding, leaf removal, branch and twig     • Check irrigation system.                Board member Emily O’Mahoney wears several hats,
       removal bring beauty to your landscape, encourage growth     • Prune bushes and trees.               chair of our landscaping committee being one. She was
       and the health of your plants.                      • Clean gutters.                                 praised for one of her recent projects – her creative and
         Don’t let plants overgrow and take over your lawn; trim     • Re-edge and clean garden and flower beds.  artful features of large stones and plantings at corners of
       and maintain your plants. Use them to soften the edges of     • Redefine the borders of the lawn.    intersection within our community. That project enhances
       your home and blend in with the surroundings to have the     • Re-seed or patch damaged areas of the lawn.  our natural beauty.
       maximum effect in beautifying your landscaping.     • Aerate.                                          Art Cummings detailed a newly developed plan to enforce
         Tips for landscaping your Florida home is sunny spring:    • Fertilize plants and sod.             violation of the association architectural guidelines. The plan
         • Mulch is the best thing you can do for your plant beds.     Although our winters aren’t as harsh as up north,   had input by other board members, prominently Andrea
       It conserves soil moisture, influence soil temperature and   Floridians still look forward to the arrival of spring months   Paralta and Emily O’Mahoney.
       controls weeds.                                   to invigorate their landscape.                       Steve Jackson reviewed his infrastructure activities. One
                                                                                                            big accomplishment was working out corrective measures
       Little Library In Playground                                                                         with FPL to prevent outages to a large number of homes.
                                                                                                            Ninety comes to mind. Infrastructure is an all-encompassing
                                                                                                            area of responsibility. In addition, Steve has undertaken the
        The Little Library had been is disrepair for quite some                                             treasurer’s job, a huge responsibility requiring a variety of
      time. It was brought to our attention that the post finally                                           critical skills. I refer to Steve as “a man for all seasons.” Steve
      rotted,  and  it  had  fallen  over.  Mike  Stevens  picked  it                                       has proved to be quite knowledgeable of law enforcement
      up at the beginning of February. He and his brother-in-                                               and has taken on the board’s responsibility for Crime Watch.
      law, Dwight Hanners completely rebuilt the library and                                                While I have a keen interest in that area, Steve is and will
      reinstalled it the beginning of March! They used PVC                                                  be of much better service with coordination with the Jupiter
      board, a PVC pipe and were able to reuse materials from                                               Police Department, which by the way is the finest, not just
      the playground improvement!                                                                           in Jupiter but anywhere, in my opinion.
        It should be completely weatherproof and last a long                                                  Mike Stevens has served as board treasurer for many
      time! If you get a chance, please go see and support the                                              years of his long tenure on the board of directors. He was in
      Little Library!                                                                                       fact a board member of The Shores’ first board of directors
                                                                                                            in circa 1988. He took off a few years but came back on
                                                                                                            the board a few years later due to high demand for his skill
                                                                                                            level. During all that time, Mike has had a job that requires
                                                                                                            all of his financial planning and management skills. He also
                                                         Dwight Hanners and Mike Stevens                    performs a critical role as vice chairman of the the board of
                                                                                                            Palm Beach Atlantic University. In short, he needs a break
                Call Jupiter Police Department immediately                                                  and has resigned from The Shores Board. Our board has
                          to report suspicious activity.                                                    always known what an asset Mike has been to The Shores
                                                                                                            and until this year has been successful in persuading him to
                                  (561) 799-4445.                                                           continue. Finally, in Mike’s interest and his family’s interest,
           The sooner called  the sooner they can help. 911 is for emergencies only.
                              Keep cars and house locked.
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