Don't forget our next meeting is Aug. 31st!

Hello Neighbors!

I hope you had an enjoyable summer and am excited to see you again at the Cypress Elementary School cafeteria on Monday evening, August 31st at 7 pm. We have a lot of great things on the agenda. If you cannot attend, a summary of the meeting will be posted on this blogsite and more formal minutes will follow in an email.

We will not distribute flyers for this meeting because the effort drains our energies, both in terms of cost and time. Please tell your neighbors about the meeting, especially if they are not on our email list. Our email distribution list is at 83 entries. We will distribute flyers for our next non-meeting event, which will be a Neighborhood Cleanup Day, complete with a Fiesta before your Siesta, on the first or second Saturday in October. (Details to be discussed on Aug. 31st!)

Our gatherings have won the attention of several groups in the community and I have been approached for endorsements and support of various projects. I look forward to sharing these with you and believe it is time that we draft a mission statement to keep help us stay focussed on our priorities. We will focus on the mission statement and our goals for the year at the October 5th meeting.

This is an exciting time to grow a neighborhood organization like ours. In a time of police force cutbacks and economic stress, our local crime watch groups and community-building efforts are more relevant than ever. We want to continue to support local businesses and among other things, would like to create a "Neighborhood Skills Bank," or a way for any interested neighbors to market their skills. The next time you need a plumber, you could call a guy down the street. This would be just another way to support our neighbors and get to know one another better.

We hope you can attend a meeting, or at least join our mailing list. If interested, please email me at moniquegaido@gmail.com or call me at 229-9348.

Sincerely,

Monique Gaido
Chairperson, Garden Tract Society