August.

2010
For West Park View, A Scotts Creek Community

"We Love Our Creek Deeply"

COMMUNITY LEAGUE MEETS

PRDlDDiT MONDAY, August 9,2010 @ 7:00 p.m.
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Cream Social at the monthly league meeting this Monday night. Several of
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the neighbors make it homemade and it's yummy. Bring the kids and get to
§E€RETARY know some new folks.
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Jun7~ri?3~aol.c01l1 Our annual picnic was fun in spite of the heat and lots of new faces were
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there. I am always amazed how many new neighbors we have and how
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Peninsula was flooded all the way across in several locations, as were
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other streets. When you cut your grass and are cleaning up, make an effort
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Hurricane season is upon us. See you Monday. Laura Jordan
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CELEBRATE WEST PARK VIEW IllSTORY
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Come to the Annual August Ice Cream Social on Monday at 7:00pm and
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join us as we greet new neighbors, renew friendships and take time to view
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our History in the West Park View Scrapbooks that will be on display.
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You will be surprised at wbat you will discover on these pages as you
follow a pictorial History of our main events over the years. A Hardy
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Welcome to all~!! Virginia Murden - Historian

iiE: DIRECTORY CORRECTI01\S

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Interim Mayor
Bernard Griffin
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We need everyone's help with street clean up. Did anyone notice during
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other streets. \\ben ~·ou cut your grass and ate cleaning up, make an effort
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Hurricane season is upon us. See you Monday. Laura Jordan
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the resi!lent, of West P'!fk View.
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Interim Mayor
Bernard Griffin
P.O. Box 820

Portsmouth, Va. 23705

Vice Mayor
Charles B. Whitehurst, Sf.

Directories are still available call 397-8383 - Brenda Turner

WEST PARK VIEW WEB-SITE

Some of you may not know or may have forgotten we have an official web-site supported by your West Park
View Commuuity League. Ross Creecy has maintained this site for several years now. Please give it a look at
http://www.westparkview.com. The newsletter is put on this site every month along with other information
regarding our neighborhood. While Facebook is fun and you basically can say what you want to say, the
Community League does not support Facebook. If you have something you would like to share on the web site,
contact rcreecy@hotmaii.com. Kathy Cary.

A HEALTHIER PORTSMOUTH

We would like your help in the effort to make Portsmouth a healthier place to live. You are invited to attend
one of two sets of forums - July 20 th with a follow up meeting on July 27 th (which obviously we missed) or
August 10th with a follow lip meeting on August 1711'. You'll need to RSVP to CINCH@evDls.edu. Please
indicate which meeting series you'll be attending. Brarulon Godfrey, Deputy City Manager ·

OWENS CREEK PARK

THE BruCKS ARE HERE! We have finally received our brick order. Please allow us some time to get
them in and then come down to our park to see the new ones. These bricks look great in front of our sign and
really give a nice touch to our park. In the future, we will have two brick orders a year. They will be sent in on
February 1st with installation in March and September 1st with installation in October. Please have your brick
orders in before the 1st. The price of a brick is $50.00. If you would like to order a brick with our September
order we will have order forms available at the meeting or call Jan at 399-3563.

BEAUTIFICATION

Front entrance monitor for August is Richard Brown. Thank you to Jinl Moore for monitoring in July.

YARD OF THE MONTH

Congratulations to our August Yard of the Month:

Ai~D THE WINNER IS:

Cindy Barnes - 1518 Matthews Terrace

Judges will be around the last week of the month through October. Let's get those hands dirty and our yards
beautified.

Please remember to care for your adopt-a-~pot through the hot summer months.

G.-\RDE~T'G TIPS BY DONNA

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:: with our mission of maintaining our oeighborhood' s beauty, we have received
pe:uI1SSIilll from'> ~. 10 !p the. b}· having ,·olunteers trim back me suckers that grow from the root stock
of our Crepe • {ynie trees. These are the shoots that spring from the grouud all around the main trunk. The
trees na';e a mUL mo~e regal ~a..r.mce whe there is one main trunk. This harms me tree in 00 way. These
shoots can be ;rimmed off at any time lhey ap. ear. );eighborlwod voluuteers ha'·e begun trimming trees only on
city property (between sidewalk and street). If you prefer to anend to your own trees, that would be wonderful!
Thank you for your cooperation. DOlUla Wooley

ADVERTISEMENTS

Ki\THY'S KRITTER KAnE NEWSLETTER ADS

If you would like to place an ad in The View, call
of lImn and don't want 10 me or e-mail me by the I ~ Monday of each
Judges \\ill be around the last week of the month through October. Let's get those hands dirty and our yards
beautified.

Please remember to care for your adopt-a-spot through the hot summer months.

GARDE~ThG TIPS BY DONNA

Dear neighbors, In keeping with our mission of maintaining our neighborhood's beauty, we have received
permission from the city to help them by having volunteers trim back the suckers that grow from the root stock
of our Crepe' Myrtle trees. These are the shoots that spring from the ground all around the main trunk. The
trees have a much more regal appearance when there is one main trunk. This harms the tree in no way. These
shoots can be trimmed off at any time they appear. Neighborhood volunteers have begun trirnming trees only on
city property (between sidewalk and street). If you prefer to attend to your own trees, that would be wonderful!
Thank you for your cooperation. Donna Wooley

ADVERTISEMENTS

KATHY'S KRITfER KARE NEWSLEITER ADS

Need to go out of town and don't want to
board your pets? Need lunch time care?
I will care for your pets at your home.
Reasonable rates. Call me. Kathy Cary­
399-8283. cell - 639-9959
If you would like to place an ad in The View, call
me or e-mail me by the I" Monday of each
month. It only cost $5.00 to place an ad and look
how many folks you reach in the neighborhood.
Kathy Cary - 399-8283

NEWSLEITER DELIVERERS: If for any

reason you are unable to deliver your newsletters before the
Monday meeting, please call Brenda Turner - 397-83 83 or
Kathy Cary - 399-8283 and we will make sure your territory
gets delivered.