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July 2009
Around the Neighborhood Celebration
July 18, 2009
Enjoy delicious appetizers and cocktails from around
the world, as you meet new neighbors,
support our community park and have a fun night out!
A charter bus will pick you up from a designated Palm Beach Country Estates
bus stop and drive you to four neighbors homes. Homes will have a theme
with corresponding appetizers and cocktails. We will have auctions on
baskets, which fit the theme of each home, and there will be a 50/50 raffle.
Onboard the bus there will be games and activities.
Pick up time from designated PBCE charter bus stop between 5:30 and 6:00
pm.
Drop off to designated PBCE charter bus stop between 10:00 and 10:30 pm.
A chauffeured minivan will be available to drop people off who need to
leave
earlier than their scheduled drop off.
Tickets are $50 per person
Non-PBCE residents are welcome to attend and join us at one of our bus
stops.
Contact Sheri at 601-1647 or sherirmurray@gmail.com for tickets and information.
Many neighbors are available for babysitting on July 18. For a list, please
contact Sheri.
PBCE Community Park
Palm Beach County Commission and Zoning Approved!
OFFICIAL GROUNDBREAKING EVENT
Everyone was invited to the official groundbreaking event on Saturday,
May 30, 2009. There was lots of food, games and fun. The official site
plan for the Community Park has finally passed its last hurdle! After
a brief discussion at the April 23rd. Palm Beach County, Board of County
Commissioners meeting the Palm Beach Country Estates Community Park was
approved. The site plan for the park was approved with a 15 space parking
lot, the Twisty Pines Playground, one large pavilion, two small pavilions,
half basketball court, racquetball court, fitness station and jogging
trail. Each amenity will be built as funds are raised.
New Park Fundraiser
Do you shop online? Do you buy things from Home Depot, Target Macy’s
and Circuit City?
We have recently partnered with ShoptoEarn.com to make money for our
Community Park and Playground.
Here’s how it works: before you shop online go to www.ShopToEarn.net/twistypines
and every time you shop from one of the 700 online stores, the park and
playground will receive cash from a percentage of your purchases. The
first time you go to www.ShopToEarn.net/twistypines it may ask you to
"Enter the User ID of the person who referred you in the box below
and press the "Go" button", just type in "twistypines
" and press "Go". Some of these retailers, such as Home
Depot and Sports Authority, allow you to shop and pay for merchandise
at home and pick them up at the store with no shipping fee. Do this and
you’ll certainly save yourself time and money.
As the holiday season approaches, consider logging on to our Shop-to-Earn
web site first. It won’t affect the cost of anything you buy, but
it will certainly help our park and playground get built more quickly.
Thank you to Roberta Von Der Luft for setting up our site and Bill Slater
for sponsoring it!
Future and current fundraising activities
for the
Twisty Pines Playground Foundation
Over the next few months you will have many
opportunities to meet and mingle with neighbors to support this community-built
park and playground. Here are a few fundraisers we have planned over the
next few months.
July18th, Around the World Event: A charter
bus, or the party bus as we like to call it, will pick up and drop off
passengers at designated neighborhood bus stops to four homes within the
Palm Beach Country Estates neighborhood. Each home will feature food from
a particular part of the world. We will have auctions on baskets, which
fit the theme of each home, and there will be a 50/50 raffle. The bus
will begin picking folks up after 5 and dropping folks off between 10
and 11. Tickets are $50.
6:00 Applegate home, POLYNESIAN
6:45 load bus and head to next home
7:00 Webster home, MEXICAN
7:45 load bus and head to next home
8:00 Angelo home, AMERICAN FIREHOUSE
8:45 load bus and head to next home
9:00 Yedinak home, ITALIAN
10 - 11 drop off
For info, please contact Sheri Murray at 561-601-1647
Adopt-a-tree for the
park: Tree donations start at $100 and will
fill our park with county mandated landscaping. You
will receive a tree marker or plaque to honor your donation. Contact Sheri
at 561-601-1647 for information or to give your donation.
Shopping Bags: We are selling large reusable
shopping bags with the Twisty Pines Playground logo on the front. These
bags are great for taking to the grocery store as well as the beach. You
can purchase these bags form Sheri Murray for $10 at 561-601-1647 to show
your support for the playground.
Online shoppers: Link to www.ShopToEarn.net/twistypines
before you make purchases at your favorite stores. A portion of each sale
will go to the playground!
Business Owners: Remember to check the playground
web site to find out how to sponsor a playground component so your name
can be seen at the playground for many years to come.
Personalized Fence Pickets: Routed with your
name or message, these pickets will surround the playground. Individual
or family pickets $30 each. Business or corporate pickets $50 each. Check
the web site for order form.
Personalized Bricks: Laser engraved with
your name, message, stock clip art, or company logo. These bricks will
pave the entryway to the playground. Check the web site for prices and
available sizes and order form.
Aluminum Collection Drive: Aluminum Drop Off Sites--
Debbie’s: 16432 77th Trail N. PLACE CANS IN BAGS AND LEAVE BESIDE
GARAGE fgavin0829@bellsouth.net
Chris’: 15610 73rd Ter. N PLACE CANS IN BAGS AND LEAVE ON THE SOUTH
CORNER OUTSIDE OF THE FENCE reinharm@bellsouth.net
Barry’s: 14731 67th Trail North PLACE CANS IN BAGS AND LEAVE IN
THE BLUE RECYCLE CONTAINER BESIDE THE GARAGE DOOR barryjbenjamin@yahoo.com
Duane’s: 15087 80th Dr. N. house is on the Corner of 150th and 80th.
PLACE CANS IN BAGS AND DROP OVER THE FENCE ON RIGHT SIDE OF DRIVEWAY dlongphoto@aol.com
For info on any of the fundraisers or if you have ideas to share, please
contact Sheri Murray at 561-601-1647
*** Park/Playground Committee Letter ***
Neighbors and friends,
For those of you who are new to the community, we have contracted with Leathers & Associates, a design firm that specializes in community built playgrounds. It was this company that helped the people of Jupiter plan and build Imagination Station. They did the same at Bryant Park in Lake Worth, Science Center in Boca, and Tiger Shark Cove in Wellington.
Twisty Pines Playground will be located in the new Margaret Berman Memorial Park. The park is at the northeast corner of 69th and 155th in Palm Beach Country Estates.
“Community-built” is an interactive process that involves
the local community in the design, organization and construction of projects.
We encourage residents of all skill levels and ages to come join in. This
is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that will bring our community together
for the equivalent of a modern day barn raising.
Now is the time to get involved. Bob Berman has donated the land for the
community park, but it's you, the community, who will turn it into a fantastic
play place for our children.
We are going to accomplish this in two phases. First create the park, then build the playground. Ground breaking has begun on the park. We have started to clear the vines, brazilian pepper and some of the palmettos. We will be moving the oak trees from the front entrance to the park before the Jog Road extension construction eliminates our front entrance. The road construction is due to start at the end of 2008.
We also need 12-20 volunteers NOW for the playground steering committee. Each person on the steering committee will be a chairman or co-chairman in charge of a particular area, such as lining up donated materials, providing childcare or finding volunteers.
You do not need to be skilled at carpentry or construction to help build the playground. We need many, many volunteers. There are a variety tasks that must be done. If you can rake or sand wood, there is a job for you! There is something for everyone of every ability. Some of the jobs which need to be filled are:
Volunteer Table - Staff our Volunteer table and help volunteers sign in
Food Service - Setup for meals in the food service area
Tools Trailer - Help check tools in and out of the Tools Trailer
Childcare - Lend a hand in the childcare facility
Build - You will be assigned to a team of 3 or 4 persons. Each team has ONE skilled person. The definition of a skilled worker is someone who is able to use a circular saw. Skilled workers will wear a colored name tag for identification. You will work with your team to complete tasks assigned by a captain. Captains are assigned different areas of responsibility by our Site Supervisors from Leathers & Associates. If you are interested in being a captain, please email Bill Meyers at bjmeyers@bellsouth.net. Captains will help their teams by assigning tasks, ensuring quality, and helping wherever necessary. This is a special job requiring much dedication. A captain is an individual who commits to be part of the build from 7am to 9pm for the duration of the build or a good part of it.
As they say on the Leathers web site, the community-built experience
is greater than the sum of its parts. Volunteers working together over
several days make connections that wouldn't normally occur. New friendships
begin that will last a lifetime. People will have a new sense of commitment
to each other and to the community. Community-built projects inspire everyone
who participates with a sense of ownership, so much so that they become
a focus of community life. People describe them as the experience of a
lifetime. Families who helped build will return for picnics and bring
out-of-town guests to show them what the community accomplished together.
And this first community project is often just the beginning.
If you would like to volunteer for a Steering Committee or for further
information call Chris Reinhardt at 561-762-1281 or email at reinharm@bellsouth.net.
Thank you.
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