AUGUST | 2018

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PANTHER PALS

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THE MUSIC MAN

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TALKING STICK

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KITCHEN SWITCHIN'
If you live in District 7, you?ve probably
PAGE 5 seen the Kiefer family on Parkwood Press
FRESH OFF THE delivery days. Like pretty much everything they do,
BOARD they?ve made the monthly task a fun family effort. They
split into two teams, each starting at different ends of
PAGE 8 the route, and they meet in the middle. It?s a pretty good
GARDENER'S CORNER metaphor for any family project.
Charles, Tiffany, and their children have lived in
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Parkwood for quite a while. Tiffany first moved here as a
JULY MINUTES
child, and her parents still own their Parkwood home.
She convinced Charles to return, and they are enjoying
raising their family in our cozy neighborhood.
PARKWOOD
ASSOCIATION OFFICE ?I love the architecture, and the land. We have yards with
trees,? Tiffany says first. And then she gets to what is the
www. parkwoodnc.org
true beauty of Parkwood.
1417 Seaton Road
?We have a strong community vibe here,? she says.
919-544-2161
?People let you get close if you just make the effort.?
pa.office@parkwoodnc.org
Monday - Wednesday 10 AM - 3 PM She and Charles go on to describe their frequent
Thursday 1:30 PM - 6:30 PM neighborhood dinners and area block parties. ?We pick a
Friday 10 AM - 3 PM theme, and everyone brings some food. We have big
picnic tables out back ? the whole block eats together.?
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Last week I was returning from running errands and made
the right off of NC 54 along that yield on to Revere. At the
top of the rise the white and black sign with a 2 and a 5
caught my eye, so I quickly checked my speed and slowed
down. I also happened to notice that I had a very
frustrated driver behind me sitting on my bumper. I am
glad I can not lip read or else I may have learned some
new words since the driver was so close. I kept my
reasonable speed (little over 25) and continued on. At
about the shopping area, I noticed that the car behind me
was no longer there. The driver in such a hurry was most
likely a Parkwood resident!
For the rest of my drive home, I got to thinking of all the
complaints the Association gets from residents about
speeding and how we should have speed humps put in
throughout Parkwood. This brought up my experience
working for the City Transportation Department where
many times our observations were that the speed
problem was neighborhood related. The devices that
people look to lower speed have drawbacks, such as
slowing down emergency vehicles. I would like to know
that a fire engine, the police, or ambulance can get to my distance. (At 30 mph it is 109 feet, and 35 mph it is 136
house as quickly as possible and will not have to slow feet.) Our community is full of children, animals and
down to a crawl every 100 or so feet because of bumps in wildlife that have the tendency to dart out in the street
the road. unexpectedly. Parkwood is also well known to most of us
We have the solution in our own hands every time we and this complacent view breeds non-attention to speed.
drive our neighborhood. Keep to a reasonable speed! At Pedestrian deaths from car accidents are 1 in 10 at
25 mph it takes for normal driver about 85 feet to stop, speeds of 20 mph, 5 in 10 at 30 mph, and 9 out of 10 at 40
but at 45 mph it takes about 196 feet to stop. Not quite mph.
twice the speed but more than double the stopping Many years ago, the Police Department tried to start a
program they named ?Durham Pace Car ?. They gave out
yellow magnetic signs and had a pledge, trying to get
We need your help!! many people to drive the speed limit. Maybe you had one
Please go to or remember seeing the car stickers (mine adorns the
outside of my file cabinet)! Not enough drivers took part
and with lack of participation the program withered away.
bit .ly/ isaw t h edogs The idea is still valid, drive a reasonable speed (within 5
mph of speed) and those behind you will have to do the
And report every time you see the feral dogs same!
roaming the neighborhood.
I noticed a sign in someone?s front yard in North Durham
that read ?Drive like your kids live here,? which was
purchased at www.drivelikeyourkidslivehere.com. That
person gets the point! Let's take the responsibility every
time we drive and keep the speed down! Let's not hope,
See our story on page 5 for more like so many other things, that some device or gizmo can
solve the problem!
information.
Bill Egan
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Have a question, comment, or request for the Board? Don?t wait until the Annual Meeting! We will have a PACKED agenda.
If you have concerns you want brought to the Board, go ahead and do it now. Contact information is always printed in the
Parkwood Press, and we monitor NextDoor and the Google group as well.
The Annual Meeting is a chance for everyone in Parkwood to meet the Board, hear the annual reports from committees,
and vote on important business of the association.
This year members will be voting on some needed changes to the Parkwood Bylaws, and, most likely, some new Board
members.
If you?re unable to attend the Annual Meeting, we encourage you to assign a proxy. Below are some tips for assigning a
proxy and for what to expect at the meeting. We look forward to seeing you at the Annual Meeting!

Tips f or At t en din g t h e An n u al M eet in g
- If you?re planning to attend, you may want to ask
neighbors if they need a proxy.
- Remember, you can only hold FIVE PROXIES plus
your own vote.
- The meeting will follow Robert?s Rules of Order. This
means you will have very limited opportunities to
speak. Please keep your remarks targeted and short.
We have a full agenda, and we want to hear from
everyone.
- For the most part, members can only vote on
important matters that have been included in the
mailing. NC State law is very limited on what can be
voted on without written notice.
- If you have a concern for the Board to address,
please don?t wait until the Annual Meeting. Please let
us know now!
- Eat dinner before you come -- we will meet for
several hours
Tips f or Ch oosin g a Pr oxy
- If you are eligible to vote at the Annual Meeting but
can?t attend, be sure to assign a proxy.
- Anyone can serve as your proxy.
- BE SURE to tell the person that you have asked them
to be your proxy.
- In the mailing about the Annual Meeting, you will get
a list of what will be voted on. Be sure to tell your
proxy how you want to vote.
- You will receive the mailing, which will include a
ballot and a proxy form, in August.
- Proxy forms must be turned in to the office, or your
proxy can bring it to the meeting.
Dear Chef,
Our community garden is AMAZING! If you haven't swung
by after work or on an early Saturday morning, you need
to make this part of your normal routine. This week, I'll be
stopping in to grab a few cucumbers to make one of my
favorite week night side dishes -- a fantastic quick pickle.
My kids gobble it up, and I've found that it goes perfect
with everything from BBQ to pizza!
Write to Dear Chef or share your own family recipes at
dearchef@parkwoodnc.org
Gr an dm a M iller 's Qu ick Pick le
Ingredients
- 2 small or 1 large slicer cucumber
- Half a small red onion
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 1/2 cup white vinegar
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
Instructions
1. Peel onion and slice into thin half moons. Place in
a bowl and cover with cool tap water to make less
pungent (optional). Set aside.
2. Peel cucumbers. Slice on a mandolin, or thinly with
a knife. Place in a medium sized bowl and set
aside.
3. Whisk together sugar, salt, vinegar, and water until
sugar and salt dissolve. If needed, microwave for a
brief 10-15 seconds.
4. Drain onions, add to cucumbers. Pour brine over
cucumbers and onions and refridgerate for 30
minutes before serving.

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On the fourth Sunday of every month, a crowd of outgrowth of a Race Unity celebration at Durham?s
diverse ages, races, nationalities, and religious beliefs Forest Park. Several hundred people enjoyed and
assembles at the Baha?i Center at 5103 Revere Road to participated in that event and it stimulated a desire to
celebrate and worship their Creator with readings and respond to that interest in a way that could be
prayers from many religious traditions, along with sustainable. The Durham Baha?i community responded
stirring music to sing. The atmosphere has created a with the offer of their facility on Revere Road. Soulful
descriptive name for the occasion: Soulful Sunday. The Sunday has steadily taken root since then.
program begins at 10:30 a.m. and typically fills the one Everyone is welcome!
hundred seat meeting room by 10:40 a.m., starting with
?Behold how good and how
music, welcome of guests, scriptural readings from
pleasant it is for brethren to
many religions, and a short talk on a topic of common
dwell together in unity.? --
interest. The topic for August 26 is ?Journey to Unity."
Psalm 133
The program ends by noon followed by a light lunch to
which everyone is invited, providing an opportunity to "You shall hold fast to the
sit down and get to know others who might be not be rope of God, all of you, and
in our usual social circle. do not be divided." --
Quran: 3:103
Soulful Sunday started almost two years ago as an

POPSICLES (an d m or e!) ON THE PLAYGROUND - AUGUST DONORS CHOOSE PROJECTS

2ND (5:00-6:30 PM )
Several worthy projects are waiting for your small (or large)
Calling all returning and new Parkwood families! Celebrate donation. Want to make a teacher ?s day? Here are just a
the end of the summer as you enjoy a popsicle, reconnect few of the projects in need of funding through Donors
with old friends, and meet new ones, including our new Choose:
principal, Anna Rusconi. Come explore a fire engine and
- Classroom Supplies
learn about fire safety courtesy of the Parkwood Fire
- Math supplies
Department! Bring your bike, scooter, or skates to
- Wobble stools
decorate and ride around on the blacktop! Please note, this
- Non-fiction texts
is not a drop-off event; an adult must accompany children.
The following link will take you directly to the Parkwood
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Elementary Donors Choose page:
Please take the time to visit and like us on Facebook! tinyurl.com/ParkwoodDonorsChoose
facebook.com/parkwoodelementarydurham/
VOLUNTEERING AT PARKWOOD
JOIN THE PARKWOOD PTA
Ifyou are interested in volunteering at Parkwood you can
PTA membership is open to everyone, including
use the electronic volunteer application located at
community members, and only costs $8. By joining the PTA
www.dpsnc.net/volunteers. This short online application is
you will be supporting many worthy projects that directly
processed within a few days and your approval to
benefit students and teachers. Simply go to
volunteer is good for two years. For questions about
parkwoodelementary.memberhub.com/dues to join the
volunteer opportunities contact the main office at
PTA online. You may contact the PTA by email:
919-560-3962.
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Lit t er Clean -u p an d Com m u n it y Ser vice Volu n t eer s -
Board members explored the possibility of using
probationees (of non-violent, non-invasive crimes) to clean
up litter. However, several barriers (primarily scheduling)
were identified. We are still working on solutions to the
litter issue, and we haven?t completely given up on
community-service volunteers yet. Stay tuned.
Opt in g ou t of t h e pr in t ed Parkwood Press - We are very
close to being able to offer an electronic-only version of the
newsletter. The Communications Committee has worked
to reduce printing costs and increase flexibility. We have
also spoken with our delivery teams to identify solutions
for limiting delivery. We will still deliver paper versions for
some important editions. Stay tuned for how to opt out of
printed newsletters!
St ew ar t En gin eer in g Pr oject - The biggest news from the
Board this month is our receipt of the final report from
Stewart, the company charged with the first stages of our
master plan.
This report is filled with possibilities for the Parkwood
Community. We are looking forward to the coming months
as we decide how to proceed.
Stewart presented a final draft of the report to the Board in
July and will be making electronic versions available soon.
Keep an eye on the NABR site and social media to get your
copy.
An n u al M eet in g f ast appr oach in g - The self-nomination
form for Board candidates is available in this edition of the
Parkwood Press and on social media. Be sure to get all
self-nomination forms into the Parkwood office by 5 p.m .
on Au gu st 10t h. The mailing will go out in late August and
will include important information, including the ballot for
your district. Keep an eye out for the Annual Meeting
mailing!

Please help the Parkwood Community manage the stray dogs (Lotus Pond dogs) in the following ways:
- DON?T STOP f eedin g t h e dogs. IF you are (or were) feeding the stray dogs, please continue to do so if you are
willing. We fear they will become more aggressive if their food source is at risk.
- DON?T START f eedin g the dogs if you weren?t previously. We do not want an added food source.
- DO go to bit .ly/ isaw t h edogs or call 919-544-2161 every time you see the dogs. We are trying to determine their
territory and their movement patterns.
- DON?T ENGAGE t h e dogs. They are very dangerous.
Is this your first time hearing about the dogs? Here?s the story?
We have had two increasingly aggressive, feral dogs roaming the natural spaces of Parkwood for at least two years. We
have seen many posts on NextDoor and the Google group about people who have had difficult encounters with these
dogs.
If you are tracking the story, you also know we have been working with animal control to capture the dogs, but have been
unsuccessful. The initial report was that animal control would not be able to trap them because they are not hungry. As a
result, we learned that community members ? who of course had no idea the dogs were so aggressive ? had been feeding
them.
When the feeding stopped, however, we noticed an increase in missing small-animal pets. We have had additional reports
of the feral dogs being aggressive toward people and other dogs. We are now concerned they are more becoming
aggressive.
We held a community meeting to discuss the matter and we now have a two-part plan.
First, we would like to track sightings to see if we can determine a pattern to their movements.
Then, we will then work with animal control to either trap or dart the dogs when we know where they will be.
We n eed you r h elp t o m ake t h is w or k !

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 Th e M ir acle of Rich ar d Wagn er ?s Rin g
Ken Hoover
In 1843 Richard Wagner began to extensively read a wide The music of the third act of Siegfried is richer, more skilled
variety of sources of Germanic mythology: tales of the in its subtly and power. Yet there is no disruption in the
Nibelungs, Gibichungs, Valkyries and other Nordic story line, the development of characters or in the musical
episodes. In 1848 he completed a prose sketch, ?The language that continues to move it all forward with
Nibelung Myth as Scheme for a Drama,? and set to work on ingenious skill.
the opera that he called Siegfried?s Death. His creative
No other composer in all of music history would have had
ideas were so rich and involved he ended up with four
the commitment, the determination, the incomparable
operas in prose: Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, and
conscious and unconscious inspiration to have spent
Die Gotterdammerung, all together known as The Ring of
nearly half of their creative life on this massive, incredible
the Nibelung or simply The Ring.
work. It was completed in 1874 and first performed in its
The very fact that The Ring even exists today is nothing less entirety at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in 1876.
than a miracle; in fact, a series of miracles. It is a miracle
Not only is its existence a miracle but the compelling
that he didn?t toss out the whole thing as an impossible
genius and power of Wagner ?s music, the sweeping
task at that point. Rather, he began working on the
libretto, the insights into human character and more make
massive project with creative fire. He completed the
Der Ring des Nibelungen the towering masterpiece that it
poem/librettos in December of 1852, and by 1857 he had
is, always giving new insights and great pleasure at every
composed the music for Das Rheingold, Die Walkure and
hearing. It was begun in 1843 as a treatise spelling out the
the first two acts of Siegfried. The music he penned for
evils of the industrial revolution; greed, injustice,
these works represents a dramatic paradigm shift in the
mistreatment of the poor. It ended up, 33 years later as an
whole concept of opera and music in general. They stand
insightful exploration of human nature and the dynamics
alone, incomparable to any other creative endeavor, other
of love.
than perhaps Michelangelo?s Sistine Chapel.
The ultimate miracle of The Ring is the experience of
Discouraged by debts and doubts that he could ever get
seeing and hearing it in a live theater performance. The
The Ring performed and driven by an irresistible creative
Met has scheduled three cycles (all four operas) next
urge, he laid the Ring aside in 1857 and composed Tristan
season. Check it out.
and Isolde, and afterwards, Die Meistersinger.
Write to Ken "Music Man" Hoover yourself at
In 1864, King Ludwig of Bavaria contacted Wagner and
musicman@parkwoodnc.org!
offered him virtually unlimited patronage. Without this
phenomenal occurrence, it is quite likely that Wagner
would not have finished the Ring. Now he was filled with
inspiration. He would complete the Ring and it would be
performed in a theater that he himself designed and built
specifically for this epic work. All this because of the
miracle of King Ludwig?s passion for Wagner ?s music.
So in 1869, twelve years since he had laid it aside, he began
work on the third act of Siegfried. Here is another miracle:
Several Board seats will be up for election this year. We
encourage you to run!

The Board of Directors meets on the secon d Th u r sday

of each m on t h at 7 p.m . Most meetings last only two
hours.

Come be a part of this dynamic and exciting process!

No specif ic exper ien ce is r equ ir ed -- only a love of

Parkwood and a willingness to do the work.

We would love to have you!

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(Community Connections, continued from the cover)
?We love the diversity,? Tiffany adds, pointing out that we have people of all ages, families like hers
that have been here a long time, and new families moving in too.
?I have wonderful memories here,? she says, describing her childhood experiences of going to
Sedwick park and playing near the lake. She adds how much she loves being able to share
those exact experiences with her children now, although she misses being able to attend story
time at Parkwood library. It?s just not the same to drive to new location.
But the Kiefers are leaving their mark on the larger community as well. They are committed to
sharing their good fortune in many ways, including hard work for a student ministry program that is
active on many campuses, including UNC.
Charles describes how their work impacts the lives of about 150 students at a time, across several area campuses. They
coordinate programs with local students and provide hospitality to international students as well.
The Kiefer family also assists with local charity work, with many of their resources going toward the House of Mercy food
pantry and clothing closet. Tucked behind the Cook-Out, House of Mercy serves our community right here in South
Durham.
Their ministry also assists with the Life Center located at the Cornwallis Housing Community. Programs there provide
after-school tutoring as well as family assistance such as counseling around marital crises and abuse supports. Later in
the summer they will sponsor a backpack drive to assist the students there.
As part of their work, the entire family recently took a trip to Paris, where they met a friend doing research on refugee
integration. This energized their passion for helping others and identified a new direction for their support. Recent policies
have slowed the flow of refugees into the area, but local agencies are still kept quite busy.
The Kiefers embody that beautiful Parkwood spirit -- a strong sense of family and community, backed with hard work and
dedicated involvement. Be sure to wave when you see them delivering the Parkwood Press!
Want to help? Contact the Cornwallis Housing Community Life Center for information on becoming an after-school tutor. Also, the
House of Mercy needs volunteers every day to collect food from the Food Lion store in Carrboro. They also need help sorting
clothes at the clothing closet.
http://lifecenterdurham.org/about-us/

Our neighborhood was chosen among several in
Durham to be the recipient of a Neigh bor h ood
Im pr ovem en t Ser vices Healt h Gr an t in the total of
$2,500. This money will go towards reclaiming the
overgrown area in the Tot Lot, and transforming it
into a natural play space using hardwood logs
donated from a family in Wake Forest.
This is a big project, and it will need big helpers! Here
is how you can get involved.
First, contact the committee. You can
hang out with us on Facebook by
joining the Par k w ood Fam ily Fu n
group. You can also email the
committee at
playgrounds@parkwoodnc.org
Next, consider how YOU! (yes you!)
are specially talented for this project. Here are the
tasks we will need to complete to get this playground
up and running in just three months:
- Repairing damaged chain link fence
- Removing invasive plant species and clearing
out underbrush
- Cutting large logs down to size
- Digging lots of holes
- Drilling lots of holes
- Spreading mulch and soil
- Planting beautiful new native plants for Jr
Parkwoodians
If any of the above sounds like something you (or
someone you would like to volunteer) would love to
do, please get in touch! It takes a village, and our
village is WORTH IT!
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We encourage the community to visit the garden near the
HOA office and pick some produce. CUCUM BERS ARE
READY! Come and get a few before they get too big and
have to go in the compost. Hunt around under the leaves
on our big trellis. Step on the boards if you duck inside the
trellis. There are radishes growing under there. They are in
bed 1.
There are various stages of mild and HOT PEPPERS to pick
now. The more you pick the more will grow for later. There
is some BASIL at the end of that bed as well. We have
RAINBOW CHARD, some LETTUCE M IX and newly planted
CHIVES. There will be a pair of shears hanging on the sign
post to be used to snip and trim the chives, chard, lettuce
and herbs.
We encourage cutting the leaves with the shears and
leaving 2-3? of the plant growing.
You can break or cut the outer two to three layers of leaves
close to the bottom of the plant and leave the central
portion intact. Over the next couple of weeks the central
leaves will become the outer leaves and will continue to
lengthen in size. Repeat this cutting and regrowing cycle
until the plant?s new growth slows. Once it has slowed
significantly or shows signs of bolting (or going to seed),
pull the entire plant and enjoy as a final meal.
Succession planting every one to two weeks for four to six
weeks total works very well with these HEAD LETTUCE as
well as the BABY LETTUCE to allow for harvesting of some
of the plants while the freshly cut ones rest and produce
new leaves. We have planted CURLY KALE to harvest in
August and September. The same snipping technique is
used with the herbs. It?s like giving the plant a little haircut
to encourage it be regrow and stay bushy. The next crop to
harvest will be the ITALIAN BUSH BEANS that are planted
along the firehouse side of the garden in the long bed.
Some are ready now and with the succession of plantings
we will have a longer harvest.
The TOM ATOES are still green but should start reddening
up soon. There will be lots for your BLT?s and salads. OKRA
is getting bigger and the SQUASH and ZUCCHINI are
getting flowers. Cross your fingers the bugs don?t get them.
Enjoy the flowers as well.
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Summar y of Boar d Meet ing Minut es for July 12, 20 18
Call t o Or der by John Jack at 7:00pm
St ew ar t Pr esen t at ion
[Editor?s comment: Stewart Engineering Group presented their
findings to the Board. Electronic versions of their final report
will be available soon.]
Execu t ive Com m it t ee
- We?ve begun communication with PPM re: what
documents they need and when in order to get our
annual mailing out. Jenny will give more details in the
Annual Meeting Committee report.
- We will be creating final records of our minutes over the
next few months. Right now, all of our minutes are in a
writable format. They have never had a PDF created and
then the writable version deleted. Paula will be creating a
PDF of each month?s minutes; Hannah will then sign
those minutes electronically (with a time/date stamp);
and the writable version of the minutes will be deleted.
- Paula to organize a meeting with the tech?s for the
printer and the b/w issue; another Communications
member will join to give her backup. John can discuss
this more during the Communications Report if people
want details.
- We are editing the Community Center Rental Agreement
to include verbiage about emotional aid service animals.
We will be requiring people to provide a letter from their
therapist stating that their animal is a service animal, in
advance of them bringing their animal into the
community center.
Fin an ce - No meeting for July.
Com m u n it y St an dar ds En f or cem en t - Leslie Meier
Two reports for July. Referred to NIS.
Par k s, Law n s, Ball Field - Bill Mitchell
- Fisheries Assessment The committee decided to ask
Foster Lake and Pond to come to the next committee
meeting to provide additional information on the
recommendations in the report.
- Replacing and Expanding 1417 Seaton Rd Parking Lot.
Tim Summerville of Stewart Inc expects to provide design
drawings for the expanded parking lot by the middle of
July. Once we agree on a design plan, it will take 6
months just to get the permit from the City.
- Removing the Parking lot Dumpster PA pays Republic
Industries $1,350 annually to lease the dumpster. Rescue
Lawn Care (RLC) uses it to dispose of the trash bags it
removes weekly from 14 trash cans on parkland. A
Republic Industries truck empties the dumpster every
two weeks. It is one of the major causes for the damaged
parking lot surface. According to Tim Summerfield
(Stewart Inc.), removing the dumpster would save many
thousands of dollars in the cost of resurfacing the
parking lot. It would remove a source of very unpleasant
odors. RLC is willing to dispose of the trash bags at an
offsite facility at an annual cost of $1,900.
Passed M ot ion (Bill Mitchell) - Amend the contract with
RLC to authorize RLC to dispose of the trash bags offsite at
an annual cost of $1,900.
- Dragonfly Pond Works 2018 Site Visits DFPW has
completed 3 of the 6, 2018 scheduled water body
inspections and submitted the associated reports. They
have found and treated the ponds for algae and invasive
plants, removed trash from the Emerald circle overflow
grate and the lake spillway and noted some erosion.
- Tree Removal Two dead pine trees threatening houses
on Holmes Circle were cut down at a cost of $500. The
committee discussed how the need to remove multiple
diseased/dying trees at a single location is now a
common occurrence and how to budget for this in the
future. The committee discussed conducting a study next
year on the health of the trees on parkland that could fall
on homeowner property.
- NOTE ? On Tuesday, July 10, the EC approved an
emergency request from the committee chair to
authorize Donald Allen to remove 6 trees from parkland
near Newhall Rd at a cost of $2,200. Part of the trunk of
one of the trees had fallen onto a house and other trees
were a threat this and other houses.
Playgr ou n ds - No report.
St r at egic Plan - (See Stewart report, above)
Even t s -
- The Parkwood Volunteer Fire Department?s absorption
into the City of Durham Fire Department has begun. The
city had a kick-off event to connect with our
neighborhood, and the HOA helped out by advertising
the event.
- We?ve started communicating with Parkwood
Elementary?s PTA about future events for the
neighborhood, some of which will involve the Fire
Department. One big one is their ?Popsicles on the
Playground? event, which we are hoping to turn into a
bike to school promotion. We are hoping to have 2 big
bike to school days in the 2019-2020 school year, and
this event would be a warm-up to that.
- Hannah will be working with James Beidler to create
maps of ideal bike routes in Parkwood for getting to
Parkwood Elementary for the school to hand out to
families.
- The cub scouts have started plans for their Halloween
Hoot on the ballfield in October. We will be having fun
with that again this year, and are hoping to have a blood
drive on that same day.
- Capt. Reardon is very interested in having Parkwood
participate in National Night Out -- this year we are too
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 late to really get anything going for advertising,
organizing (it?s the second week in August and these are
BIG events), but we will absolutely be doing it next year.
Com m u n icat ion s - John Jack
- Biggest news is that we have a new Chair. Jenny will be
Chair of the Communications Committee.
- The Communications Committee is working very closely
with the Annual Meeting Committee to get information
out to the community.
- We will be putting up signs, like we do for events, in the
neighborhood to advertise the annual meeting.
- We will also be orienting new board members beginning
at the Annual Meeting. I will also be emailing you some
documents related to that for your review.
Gar den - Chris Classen
No official meeting. Garden is doing well. See our article in
the Parkwood Press.
An n u al M eet in g - Jenny Edwards
- I am emailing out the documents that are relevant to the
meeting. The most important is to please please please
submit committee reports. Last year, only four
committee reports were included in the annual mailing.
- We will have verbal committee reports at the meeting,
but I would like to have the reports go all together, and
then have time for questions after all the reports. We can
keep the committee reports short if you provide me with
the written report. We have 10 committees - if they all
stick to five minutes, that's still an hour!
- If anyone is willing to not give a verbal committee report,
we can have summary reports (given by one person) for
some of the committees. We would NOT do this for
Finance.
- I will be asking for volunteers to write down ALL
questions that come up during the meeting so that we
can get back to people thoroughly after the meeting. I
may be approaching committee chairs with specific
questions in the weeks following the meeting.
- We will also have questionnaires for attendees to give
them an opportunity to ask questions and request more
information, which will be followed up on after the
meeting.
- We will be having a short orientation at the beginning of
the meeting. We also have some huge new business --
the bylaws votes and the information from the Strategic
Plan. So anything we can do to shorten the yadda yadda
will be good.
- The meeting is September 11th at 7. Please be sure and
reserve the date.
- I would love to foster a meeting culture of positivity,
kindness and compassion. Anything you can do to
contribute to this would be greatly appreciated.
Bylaw s Review - Jenny Edwards
No report.
Un f in ish ed Bu sin ess
Passed M ot ion (John Jack): To move Events and
Communications Committees to Standing Committees.
New Bu sin ess
John Jack (VP) moving to CA.
Adjou r n m en t at 8:45 pm.
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How Can WE Get In volved in Par k w ood?
- Join a community class, or attend a committee We want to hear from you! Get more information by
meeting - check our community calendar on the emailing board@parkwoodnc.org
back page.
- All board meetings are open to the public and all /ParkwoodNC
guests shall be heard.
- Email communications@parkwoodnc.org to find
out how to join the committees.

The Parkwood Press is published monthly by the
Parkwood Association. It is powered by YOUR neighbors
and the following fine members of the Communications
Committee:
Jenny Edwards (chair), Hannah Hiles, Don Bryson, and
Paula MacLeod.
Special contributions this month came from Ken Hoover,
Chris Classen, and Bill Egan.
Please mail submissions to for the Parkwood Press
to the Parkwood Association Office or email to
pa.office@parkwoodnc.org
Su bm ission s f or t h e Sept em ber issu e m u st be
r eceived by Au gu st 17t h .
Heron art on cover provided courtesy of Bell+Funk.

Com m u n it y Even t s
Boards
Boar ds &
& Com
Commmititttees
ees Com m u n it y Even t s
AUGUST 5, SUNDAY AUGUST 2
Playgrounds @3 PM Beading group @6:30 PM

AUGUST 6, M ONDAY AUGUST 8 & 22

Stitching group @8:00 PM
Communications @7 PM

AUGUST 6, M ONDAY AUGUST 19

Community Play Date @3 PM
Parks, Lawns & Ballfield @7 PM
Ballfield

AUGUST 9, THURSDAY
Board of Directors @7PM AUGUST 24
Beer with the Board @6-9 PM
The Glass Jug Beer Lab

All meetings and events are held at

the Parkwood Association Office AUGUST 14, 16, 21, 23, 28 & 30
unless otherwise noted. Power Yoga @6 PM

SATURDAYS
South Durham Farmers' Market @ 8 AM
Greenwood Commons Shopping Center

Community Garden Workdays

9 AM - 11 PM

Running Group @ 9 PM
Sedwick Park
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