October 2010 Newsletter - Geist Landing Neighborhood Assiciation

Volume 16, Issue 2
GEIST LANDING NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
Geist Landing News
October 2010
President’s Corner ——————————————–—— Wes Hamilton
It is fall once again and time for our annual meeting. Please join us at the McKenzie Center on
November 11 at 7:00. This newsletter is chock full of news and information, so I will keep my
Check out our website:
www.geistlanding.net
Inside this issue:
comments short this time. Please read on to find out about our successful block party, information
about the financial status of the association, Yard of the Month winners, more information about
recycling, etc. If you have any questions, contact me at president@geistlanding.net
A Special Thank You ————–—————————-— Larraine Snider
I must say I was overwhelmed by the generosity of our neighborhood retailers on 96th street. They
Recycling
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were all very happy to participate in our GLNA Block Party. The total of their giving was well over
$1000. WOW! Please be sure to thank each of these retailers when you are in any of these establishments. They need to know we are supporting them. Below is a list of all the donations.
Haunted
House
Financial
Report
Block Party
Fall Festival
Yard of the
Month Winners
Important Dates
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Donatos Pizza - 10 assorted pizzas (total $100+) delivered @5:30—Plates, napkins and Pizza coupons—Jason
Hall- Mgr
Simply Chic – 2 necklaces( fliers for new customers20% off) - (total $20+) - Holly- Mgr
Time:
November 11, 7:00 pm
Location:
McKenzie Center—Cafeteria
7250 E 75th Street
(75th between Shadeland
and Hague)
Express Alterations – 5- $10 Certificates (total $50) Hanna- Mgr
Blimpies – 50+ Coupons Paul- Mgr
Cookie Cutters – 2 free haircut—Authorized by Michelle Raffaelli, Anita Graham- Mgr
Ruby Tuesday – 4- Free Appetizer (total$40) Kevin
Gen- Mgr
Starcrest Cleaners - $30 Gift Certificate—Kelly
McNult- Mgr
Applebee’s – 5-Free Kids Meals Maya- Mgr
Tuchman Cleaners – Free Drop Off Express Bag
Lather Spa & Salon – Certificate for Haircut and Eyebrow Wax Debbie Browder- Owner
Carroll Company - 15 Black Aprons—Michel PascalOwner
Five Star Dance Studio – 2 Half Hour Lessons—Sean Mgr/Instructor
Starbucks – 3- 1 # bags coffee - 1 pair Starbucks coffee
mugs—Kelly Gray- Mgr
Beauty Brands Salon-Spa-Superstore Gift- ghd Thermal Protector Gift - Redken quick dry 18 7 – Gift Sample Bags Lauren Rasor- Mgr
Portraits N More – 2 Certificates worth $56[1-8x10,25x7,18wallets] (total $112+) Coupons for 1 pose special—Veronica- Photographer
Natural Nails – 30% off any service $15 or more
GLNA Annual Meeting
Tijuana Flats Burrito Co. – 6- Free Big Bombin’ Burrito—John Rowe- Mgr
Yats cajun. creole. crazy. – 3- $20 Gift Certificates
(total$60) Chase- Mgr
18-certificates worth $3-$7(total $60+) - Mike- Mgr
Sahm’s on 96th St- $10 Gift Certificates($20) ChadMgr
Magoo’s California Pizza – 3- Certificates for Large
Pizza of choice—(total$45+)
Meijer - $50 Gift Card for GLNA Party Food and
Supplies Alan Koke- Mgr
Joe’s Grill – 2- $10 Certificates(total$20) - KeithOwner
Marsh - $25 Gift Card for GLNA Party Food and Supplies Kevin Barnard- Mgr
Stop-N-Go Tan – 2-$25 Certificates—20- $7 free Tan
Cards(total$190) - Carolyn Hubbard- Owner
United Artists Galaxy Theatre – Three huge bags of
popcorn for GLNA Party
Falkirk
Fearscape
Our Neighborhood ’ s Own Haunted House 9503 Falkirk - See Page 2 for Details...
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Recycling ——–————————-——————-————————–———–———-——— Wes Hamilton
Recycling has become more popular as the concern for the environment has
grown. Recently the Indianapolis Recycling Program has made a change that replaces the small red recycling totes it previously used with much larger blue and
gold cans. These containers hold quite a bit more recycling and reduce the amount
of recycling that is blown out and into the street. This program is offered through
the city and Republic Waste Services at a modest cost. See the Sustain Indy website at http://www.sustainindy.org/curbside-recycling.cfm for more information.
If you prefer to avoid the service fee for having your recycling picked up, but would
still like to recycle, there are several “drop-off” locations where you can take the
items yourself. A list of locations can be found at http://www.sustainindy.org/
drop-off-locations.cfm. The nearest location to our neighborhood is Sahm Park,
6801 E. 91st St. The container is located in the farthest back parking lot.
Neighborhood Business Owners —–————-——————-————————–———–———-———
Snow Removal Special For Geist Landing Residents
BILL CLEM
IMAGE COTRACTIG
Cell 317-523-8671
Fax 317-436-7300
"The Image You Deserve"
AUSTIN LAWN SERVICE
Mowing / Landscaping
George Rogers
(317) 332-2452
8720 Ginnylock Dr
austinlawnservice1@rocketmail.com
Great Prices For Geist Landing Residents
Driveways plowed for only
$25, a savings of $10 for
all Geist Landing
neighbors!
If you have a small business and would like to promote it in the newsletter, just contact us and we
will try to find space to advertise in the newsletter.
We would like to help GLNA residents reach out
to other neighbors with their business’ goods and
services. A small advertisement will be free to any
resident who has paid their dues for the year.
WE SERVICE MOWERS
Giving Your Lawn The Care It Deserves, At A Reasonable Price
Contact me at president@geistlanding.net
Haunted House ——–————————-——————-———————–-—–——————— 9503 Falkirk
As you may have already noticed, one house in our neighborhood goes all out for Halloween. The house at 9503 Falkirk Drive has
been set up for a haunted house this year. Shane and Anna Fisher, who live at the house all year round, enjoy Halloween so
much, they decided they want to set up their own haunted house. So was born Falkirk Fearscape. They are using this opportunity
to help others as well. They will be collecting non-perishable food items for Gleaners Food Bank and cash donations for the Hamilton County Humane Society. Tour of their display is free.
Check them out on the web at www.wix.com/Batman917/Falkirk-Fearscape.
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Financial Report —————–————————————--————–——————- Katyann DiSalvo
As of October 12th, we have received dues from 202 homeowners. Thank you
to each one of you! We have also received an extra $880.00 from 26 homeowners. Thanks to all of you, we have offset our very snowy winter expenses. As
you can see below, we were over budget for snow removal by $1,500.00.
Thankfully, we were also over budget in the dues we have received. This is
great news especially in the current economy. We have worked very hard to
keep our expenses down so that we can end the year in the positive. Thank you
for helping to make that happen! For a more detailed report, please visit our
website at www.geistlanding.net.
Number of
Projected
Actual
180
202
$9,000.00
$10,980.00
$950.00
$619.50
Street Lights
$4,200.00
$3,096.06
Number of Dues Paid:
Total Income:
Paid Homeowners
Business Expenses:
2002
180
2003
207
News Letter
$400.00
$102.02
2004
204
Block Party
$500.00
$536.76
2005
212
Insurance
$567.00
$567.00
2006
199
Landscaping
$1,800.00
$1,892.07
2007
206
$500.00
$2,065.00
Security
$0.00
$0.00
2008
199
Reserve
$0.00
$0.00
2009
181
$8,917.00
$8,878.41
2010 to Date
202
$83.00
$2,101.59
Snow Removal
Total Expenses:
Income - Expenses:
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2010 Fall Festival GLNA Block Party —————————————––———— Wes Hamilton
The 2010 GLNA Block Party held on Saturday, September 25, 2010, was a great success. Once again, we had the very popular
Rock Wall supplied by Climb Time Towers. There was plenty of food including corndogs, snow cones, and caramel apples. Meijer donated a $50 gift card which was used to purchase food and supplies and Marsh donated a $25 gift card that was used to
purchase food. Donato’s donated an assortment of pizzas and United Artists Galaxy Theaters donated three huge bags of popcorn. We also had balloon animals, button making, an assortment of games, and science and astronomy exhibit. We even had a
small bouncy house for our littlest guests. Thank you to all the volunteers and neighbors along Applehorn Way. We could not be
successful without you! Soon I will post all the pictures from the party on the website.
Pictures contributed by Andrea Preston
Volume 16, Issue 2
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2010 Yard of the Month Winners and Nominees ——–————————— Linda Sillery
The GLNA board members once again want to
acknowledge our neighbors who received
nominations for Yard of the Month. During
the spring to late summer, one residence was
given the award each month. This is in appreciation of those property owners who are able
to spend the extra time and effort to increase
the aesthetic value of our neighborhood. We
all benefit from their work.
Late in the summer of this year we increased
our monthly awards to three so that more
home owners could be acknowledged. Winners are not to be repeated within a three year
time period, so some of the yards that were
well tended were not eligible.
May Winner:
May
June
July
August
September
9310
9451
9359
9250
8546
9424
8818
9310 Monte Lane
Anthony & Cindy Gatto
2010 YOTM Winners
Monte Lane
Anthony & Cindy Gatto
Falkirk Drive
Allen Opsahl
Haddington Dr W
Ron & Sheryl Brown
Powderhorn Lane
Rick & Stacey Combs
Applehorn Lane
Alice Kaufman & Ellie Kampovsky
Hadway Drive
Ramon & Sheryl Saksons
Burwick Drive
Colleen Whitehead
2010 YOTM Nominees
8843 Powderhorn Way
8711 Ginnylock Drive
9202 Champton Drive
9203 Champton Drive
8815 Burwick Drive
8711 Ginnylock Drive
8815 Burwick Drive
9345 Champton Drive
9463 Helmsdale Drive
8710 Ginnylock Drive
June Winner:
9451 Falkirk Allen Opsahl
Geist Landing Neighborhood Association
2010 GLNA Board
Important Upcoming Dates
President
Wes Hamilton
Vice President
Secretary
Barbara Schauland 570-0308
Bill Vassiliou
289-4289
Treasurer
Director
Katyann DiSalvo
Jocelyn Gonzales
514-5019
598-8938
McKenzie Career Center
Director
Director
Mike Kistler
Deb Malloy
915-9172
578-3024
7250 E. 75th Street
Director
Director
Dennis McKearn
Michel Pascal
845-8877
842-9940
Director
Director
Andrea Preston
George Rogers
570-1054
845-1946
Director
Director
Linda Sillery
Larraine Snider
841-0741
849-4016
GLNA Annual Meeting
November 11 , 2010
7:00 pm
The Neighborhood Association will have
its annual meeting at McKenzie Center
Cafeteria on 75th Street (between Shadeland and Hague) this year. Please join us
for election of officers and board members
and other important topics.
845-4293
Visit our website: www.geistlanding.net
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effort to save money, we would like to email the newsletter. If you would like to receive
this newsletter through email, please send a request to president@geistlanding.net.
PO Box 501765
Indianapolis, IN 46250
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