January, 2011

For West Park View, A Scotts Creek Community

"We Love Our Creek Deeply"

2011 OFFICERS
COMMUNITY LEAGUE MEETS
PRESIDENT MONDAY, January 10, 2011 @ 7:00 p.m.
Jim Moore – 483-2420 First Home Health Care
jim.mooreusa@verizon.net North & Williamsburg

VICE PRESIDENT PRESIDENT’S LETTER

Gayle Bartlett – 483-0618
alan.gayle.bartlett@gmail.com
TREASURER
Alan Bartlett - 483-0618
alan.gayle.bartlett@gmail.com
SECRETARY
Jane Lewis- 966-1614
sweetbatina@gmail.com
WEST PARK VIEW
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
Happy New Year to All. May 2011 see us all enjoying good health.
We will not have a speaker for the January meeting. This meeting will be
your basic business meeting. Let us make effort to conduct our business in
a concise and efficient manner. If planning, research, or discussion in
depth are required on a motion, that motion should be referred to a
committee on whose report we will vote at a future meeting.
I solicit your suggestions for speakers and for activities and events that
would be enjoyed by and be beneficial to our community. Agenda now
open; being prepared.

Kathy Werneke - 449-2629 In the WPV website, http://www.westparkview.com/ or in your directory,

Coordinator
Email:
WPVwatch@hotmail.com
WEST PARK VIEW WEB-
SITE
http://www.westparkview.com.
Ross Creecy – Coordinator of
the WPV Web-Site
rcreecy@hotmail.com
NEIGHBORHOOD IMPACT
OFFICER :
Bill Baker 235-5658
page 50, you will read the purpose of our Community League: “To
promote, encourage, improve, and protect the common good and general
welfare of the community or West Park View”. Promote, Encourage,
Improve, Protect. All our efforts are towards these ends. And so, we
have standing committees for Beautification, Benevolence, Security (Night
Watch, Neighborhood Watch), Park, Membership, and we have members
who edit and print the newsletter and who manage the website. If you
would like to promote, encourage, improve or protect our community,
please come forward and volunteer for a year or a month. You will find
plenty of support and as much guidance as you care to endure. .Presently,
we are seeking: Editor for newsletter, Membership Chair, Night
Watch Coordinator. These are positions from which present chairpersons
would like to retire. Simply contact any board member or the chair of the
committee of interest to you.

The View is produced monthly for
the residents of West Park View.
Submissions are due the first
Monday of the month. Email
Kathy Cary with questions or
submissions at
kcary46668@AOL.com.
available at local book shops.
Robert’s Rules of Order: Although our meetings are generally
held and operated under the Rules, I would like to provide a
reminder and refresher. A link to a summary version of the Rules
can be found on our neighborhood website:
http://www.westparkview.com/
or on the internet at http://www.robertsrules.org/ . The summary
is a bit more than two pages, printed. A book of the rules is

ANNOUNCEMENT: Following is an excerpt from letter of Dec. 22,

2010 from Mayor Kenny Wright:

Portsmouth City Council has held Community Meetings each year for the last several years to give citizens an
additional opportunity to bring community concerns to Council's attention. I am pleased to report to you that
Council is planning to continue the Community Meetings in 2011 with two meetings scheduled at Portsmouth
public schools. The first of these is scheduled for Tuesday, January 18th, at I. C. Norcom High School,
beginning at 7 p.m. This Budget Forum is the first of many opportunities for City Council to hear speakers on
Operating and Capital Improvement Budgeting concerns. Citizens may also bring forth neighborhood and
community concerns. The other Community Meeting scheduled this year is on Monday, September 19th, at
Churchland High School. This meeting will also begin at 7 p.m. Any citizen is welcome to attend any or all of
these meetings. Please attend if you can. Thanks. Jim Moore

MEMBERSHIP

Let's start the New Year with a good drive to increase membership in our WPV Community League. It is time
to pay the 2011 dues of $10 per household which is needed to cover our basic budgetary needs and to continue
to provide special events in our community during the year. Our goal is to increase the 2011 membership to
exceed the 106 of 2010. Your help is needed, look around and reflect on what a GREAT neighborhood we have
and show your support by sending your dues to P.O. Box 7942, Portsmouth, Va. 23707. If you would like your
dues picked up, call Brenda Turner 397-8383 or bring to January meeting on the 10th. Thanks for your
support! Brenda Turner

BEAUTIFICATION

CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS CONTEST

COMMUNITY SPIRIT AWARD!! 1700 BLOCK OF MCDANIEL STREET- HIP HIP HURRAY!!!!

BEST DECORATIONS: 1ST PLACE - 1631 Ward Terrace

KIDS DECORATIONS:
2ND PLACE - 130 GUTHERIE
3RD PLACE - 1522 BARRON ST
1ST PLACE - 2 PENINSULA
2ND PLACE – 1629 BARRON
3RD PLACE - 1722 MCDANIEL

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!! SUE CAVALIERI

FRONT ENTRANCE MONITORS – for the month of January – STEVE AND BRENDA TURNER. Thank
you to our December monitors, MATTHEW & ALEXANDRA BARTLETT

OWENS CREEK PARK

The Owens Creek Park committee sends out a big, sincere "Thank you"! The amount of neighbors that showed
up for our work day was fabulous and a lot of work was accomplished in a matter of hours! The park looks
great. We love our park (and creek) deeply! Thanks again and......see you again in the spring!

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We live in a wonderful neighborhood!

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