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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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