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THE ACORN
FEBRUARY
2012
MANAGERS REPORT
Hello everyone & welcome back to our northern
friends! It is good to see all the familiar faces around the park. I’d like to
take this opportunity to remind everyone about the rules on dogs. I have been getting more than a
few complaints from people who are upset about the increasing numbers of people who are not using
the two dog walks located in the park, but instead are walking along the roads and using the drainage culverts or property
owner’s yards to let their dogs relieve themselves. You are not allowed to let your animal relieve
itself on someone’s property or in the drainage culverts. Your pet must also be on a leash.
Dogs are great animals, but can be a source of very hard feelings if they are not properly controlled or exercised
in the proper areas. I’d also like to ask everyone to please contact the Okeechobee post office if
you have any questions or concerns about your mail. You may come to the Ancient Oaks office to get your
mail box opened or to buy stamps, but any other dealings, need to be done with the Post Office. Their phone
number is (863) 763-3616.
Thank you & have a great season, Ron Zobel-----Park
Manager
OHIO NIGHT ---CANCELLED FEB 4th 2012 ---
SUPERBOWLFESTIVITIES FEB 5th 2012---
Grills (stoves) will be available for cooking whatever
you choose to bring up to put on the grill, and bring a covered dish to share. Chow time will be around
12:30 pm. A signup sheet is in the clubhouse for the shuffleboard tournament. Partners
for shuffleboard will be picked at 6:00pm on Sat. Feb. 4th at the clubhouse. Shuffleboard tournament
will start at 9:30am on Sun. Feb 5th. Other games will be available in the afternoon.
Super bowl Pool Boards $1 and $2 will be sold at poolside starting at 10:00am on Sunday the 5th.
FLEA
MARKET
The Ancient Oaks flea market will take place on the first Monday Feb 6th
starting at 08:00am in the clubhouse.
50th
ANNIVERSARY PARTY
If you have been married for at least 50 years, please join us on Feb 19th
at 1:00pm in the clubhouse. We will be serving a wonderful meal catered by the Golden Corral.
There is a signup sheet in the clubhouse, please put your name on the sheet as soon as possible.
VALENTINE’S
DANCE
This year’s Valentine’s dance will be held on Saturday Feb 11th at 7:00pm
in the clubhouse, featuring the Sophisticates.
STROKE SUPPORT GROUP
And all other survivors of
“ MS, CP, TBI, Open heart zipper club, etc. Sharing our experiences –learning from each other,
caregivers are welcome to come. We meet @ 12:00 noon on Mondays in the clubhouse card room.
If you have any questions you can call Phyllis Walsh at 860-861-7531.
KNIT & CROCHET
GROUP
Meets on Tuesdays from 1pm to 3pm in the clubhouse card room. Beginners welcome if you have any
questions call Carole Findley at 863-763-1935
BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION
There is a large manila envelope
on the bulletin board in the clubhouse for box tops for education. Please cut out the appropriate box tops
and the SAC board will see that they are given to the local schools.
MISS ACORN PAGEANT
The social activities committee is trying to get a feeling on how the park feels about having
the Miss Acorn Pageant which is scheduled for Saturday March 3rd 2012. In order to hold this
fun filled event we need at least 4 male contestants. If anyone is interested please contact any member
of the SAC board. Come on ladies, you can persuade your man to enter.
ELVIS
RETURNS (JIMMY SMITH)
Jimmy Smith, the Elvis impersonator returns to the Ancient Oaks stage on Saturday February
18th at 7:00pm. At his last appearance here in Ancient Oaks two years ago, his show was sold
out, so hurry and get your tickets before they are all gone.
FUN
NIGHT SHOW
by (Maudene Powell)If you haven’t been to one of Maudene’s shows you don’t know what
you’re missing. Come and watch some of your neighbors perform a variety of different acts, each one
better than the other. You won’t be disappointed. This year’s show is scheduled
for Saturday Feb 25th at 7:00pm. In the clubhouse.
ART & ARTISAN SHOW AND
SALE
This event is scheduled for March 4th 2012. I
hope you have all been busy creating the lovely items you make for our show. Happily I can ensure you,
that we are doing everything necessary to prepare a comfortable area for you to display your arts and crafts for another wonderful
show. There will be a sign up sheet in the clubhouse on the bulletin board around the 15th of
February. Please choose the table(s) you want and sign up. Thanks to all artisans (vendors)
for bringing finger foods to share at our previous shows, it would be greatly appreciated if you can all do that again for
this year’s show. The snack area will be set up and partitioned away from the tables as usual, and
drinks will be furnished. If anyone has any questions you can call Alice Steiner at 863-824-0835.
PHOTO CONTEST
Have you remembered your pictures for the photo contest? Pictures
of your travel here or abroad. They will be put up in the club house permanently. Any
questions contact Jeanne Larkin at 863-467-1127.
LADIES LUNCH
The January
ladies lunch was held at Mangrove Mattie’s in Fort Pierce, it was attended by 40 ladies from Ancient Oaks.
The February lunch will be on the third Wednesday which is Feb 15th. The location is to be announced.
Check the bulletin board in the clubhouse for the location and the sign-up sheet.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
There are so many activities that go on in the
park each day, there are just too many to list in the Acorn. Please check the monthly calendar for the
daily events and also check the bulletin boards located around the park. The schedules are shown on Social Committee website
- www.aoaks.net
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The Acorn
January 2012
Manager’s Comments
Hello, Everyone! I hope you enjoyed a great
Holiday Season. It is good to see our park’s snowbirds returning. I’d like
to let all of our residents know a little history on a couple of contractors we choose to use for a lot of work here in the
park.K Builders and Bass Electric
are often seen in Ancient Oaks. I consider them both an invaluable tool in managing the Park’s maintenance
and accomplishing special projects. While they are not always the least expensive, they consistently do
quality work, which passes all required inspections. As you probably know, the County is always on a hunt
for building violations, and for park employees to take on certain jobs would put the park in violation of some building codes.Both of these contractors are time-responsive
to our needs. We are never put on a list to wait weeks for paperwork and the job the start.
They are respected by the County, and have a smooth track to getting required permits and engineering drawings.
Several times, we have been put on a short-time requirement by the State of Florida to accomplish certain changes or
additions within the park, or be fined or forced to shut down the system, such as the water plant. Times
like that have proven the value of using quality contractors like K Builders and Bass Electric to meet a deadline.An example of this type of work will be the
installation of the handicap lift at the pool in 2012. The State has mandated that all public pools have
a lift installed by this coming spring. Our pool is considered to be public because we have people who
rent units in the park. This equipment and the installation will be thoroughly inspected by several agencies.
It will require detailed installation drawings, and must be done by certified individuals. I could
bob-and-weave for months and not get it approved, or contract this out to a qualified contractor and have no problems with
inspectors.On another note, I’d
like to remind everyone of our Annual Meeting coming up. It will take place on January 11, 2012 in the
Clubhouse at 10:00 a.m.
I hope to see you there!
Do You Want to Dance?
Our Wednesday afternoon dance sessions will
begin the second Wednesday in January, the 11th, from 3 to 4:30. We’ll have diversified
instructors and dance steps--waltz, polka, sixteen step, jive, etc. Mark your calendar and keep Wednesday
afternoons free to join us. We’ll guarantee you loads of fun, and you’ll meet some interesting
members of our park. Don’t have a partner? Don’t know how to dance?
Don’t let that keep you from joining us. There will be others without partners, and we’re
all learning some new steps or practicing some old ones.
Hope to see you at the clubhouse at 3 p.m.
on the11th.
Painting
Class
The Painting
Group will meet Thursday, January 5th, at 8 a.m. to determine what they want to paint, and, hopefully, to meet
our new instructor.
Classes will start January 12th at 7:30 a.m., which gives us 30 minutes
set-up time. Hope to see you there. If you have any questions, call Vickie Oliver at
357-3768.
Needles & Thread By Barb Reasor
Needles and Threads Group will meet Friday, January 13th,
at 11 a.m. in the clubhouse. Please join us and bring your ideas for projects as well as dates of events
the group may want to attend. For questions and information, call Barb Reasor at 467-7202.
III Night
Join us on January 21, 2012 for III Night.
Please check the bulletin boards for more information.
Just a Reminder…
January 30th the great states of
South Carolina and Tennessee will
hold their annual evening of dinner and music. A great time and good ole country cookin’ will be
on the menu. Hope to see you there.
Luminaries By Carolyn Gibson
Thanks to all who helped with the Luminaries. I thought they made the park look beautiful.
I’m always looking for someone to take care of their block to make sure we get every street covered.
If you would be willing to help with this project next year, please call Carolyn at
447-0542.
Line Dance Corner By Maudene Powell
Welcome back everyone! Come join us for line
dancing on Tuesday mornings and Thursday afternoons. If you’ve never danced before, I work with the
beginners for about an hour beginning at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesdays; however, all dancers are welcome to join us anytime during
the 2-hour session. All dancers are also welcome on Thursdays, but there is not a beginner
class.
Old Time Gospel Jubilee By Maudene Powell
Get your songs and music ready for the Gospel Show on Saturday,
January 14th. If you play the guitar or other instrument, we need you. We
will have a practice session the Sunday before, January 8th. Watch the bulletin boards for details.
You may call Maudene at 357-7575 for more information.
Kentucky Night By
Maudene Powell
Come on down
and have dinner and some fun with us on January 28th. Watch the bulletin boards for information
on ticket sales.
Important Paper Recycling Information
SP Recycling Corp. has forwarded information
on the quality standards for acceptable materials, which includes newspapers, magazines, catalogs, white paper, and shredded
paper. Please place only these paper materials in the recycling bin.
Unacceptable materials include telephone
books, boxes or cardboard, plastic bags, brown kraft bags, and trash (plastic, wood, metal, glass), which produces poor quality
for the finished product.SP Recycling
Corp. can only continue to recycle our paper products if we provide them with good quality paper, so please cooperate with
them by placing only the acceptable materials in the bin.Thank you!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
A grouch is a fellow who has sized himself up and then is sore about it. One of the hardest secrets for a man to keep
is his opinion of himself.
Authority
does not make you a leader; it give you the opportunity to be one. A lot of people believe in law and order as long as they can lay down the law and give the orders.
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The
ACORN
December 2011
Board
President’s Letter
Welcome Back!!!
As my wife and I walk around the Park every morning and evening, we are delighted to greet all our old and new friends.
Many of you have commented on how nice the Park looks and that you are so glad to be here. We too
feel very lucky to be able to spend some of our Golden Years in such a fine facility.
Ron and the maintenance
crew have worked really hard over the summer on the sewer system, roads, and marina, besides trying to keep up with the grass
mowing.
We hope you have a most enjoyable 2011-2012 Season with friends, fishing and golfing buddies, and participating
in the social activities. If you need activity schedules, etc., stop by to see the girls in the office.
They will be happy to assist you any way they can.
Happy Holidays!
Robert Christensen
Manager’s Report
There is a persistent
rumor going around the park that there will be another special assessment in the next budget.
It is
being promoted by people intent on scaring park voters.
There will NOT be a special
assessment next year nor in the foreseeable years, and there is no rate increase planned for next year
nor anytime with the information currently available to us. The
costly equipment replacement/maintenance work demanded to keep the Park functioning has been completed, and our pro-active
maintenance schedule will keep everything running efficiently and economically. There is a State
Mandated program that the park will be working on over the next few years. It is a CROSS Connect Control
project, which will involve installing many backflow-prevention valves, among other things. It will not
be cheap, but it will be worked within the limits of the existing budget. We have had an engineering study
completed, and this will allow setting up the state mandated compliance program.
I wish everyone a Hearty
Welcome Back and Best Wishes for the Holiday Season!!
Ron Zobel
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Annual Christmas Dance
By Maudene Powell
Please join us on December 2 at 5 p.m. to kick up your heels as we kick off the Christmas Holiday.
Bring a CD of your favorite dance music and we’ll make sure to play it.
Of course,
what’s a party without food? Bring along a dish of finger food to share. We’ll
provide beverages, so we can visit and snack before the dance. No tickets needed.
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Saturday Morning Breakfasts Begin Dec. 10th
Watch the bulletin boards for details, and please remember to bring your
own plates and dinnerware.
Christmas Caroling
By Bob Steiner
The date and time of our Annual Christmas Caroling is December 22 at 6 p.m. We will sing throughout
the park while seated comfortably on a large flatbed trailer towed by Ron Zobel’s truck.
After
we return to the clubhouse (approx. 6:45 pm), there will be refreshments for all carolers and non-carolers who wish to join
us.
Please bring a finger food to share, and Alice Steiner will prepare enough of her famous “After-Caroling
Chili” for everyone.
Come and join us for a festive evening of your favorite Christmas Carols. Words to
songs will be provided. Music will be provided by a portable CD player.
Dress warmly.
Remember, you’ll be riding around in the open air for approximately 45 minutes.
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Okeechobee Blood Roundup By Jol Creech
Florida Blood Centers would like to thank all that gave blood and helped
from Ancient Oaks during the roundup on November 19 and 20.
The goal of
600 units wasn’t reached, but they are very pleased with the 532 units that was collected from the Okeechobee Community.
That will go a long way toward providing the holiday’s blood needs.
Remember,
the BIG RED BUS will be in our clubhouse parking lot on January 19th.
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Aerobics and Tai Chi By Jol Creech
We are currently
doing walking DVD’s with Leslie Sansone on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9:40 a.m. We will also
be doing Yoga, weight training, and anything else we want to do to stay fit. Tai Chi will be at
11 am on Wednesdays. Tai Chi is a variety of simple movements and stretches. It is excellent
for improving balance, flexibility, and lung function. We all need to exercise so we can enjoy life.
Please come and move with us!!!
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Watch the Bulletin
Boards for Christmas dinner
and ticket sales details!
January’s Calendar
includes….
January 5th - Thursday
Hamburger Lunches Begin
January 14th
- Gospel Show
January 21st - Indiana,.
Illinois, Iowa State Night
January 28th
- Kentucky Night
January
30th - Tennessee Night
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Don’t forget the Photo Contest. Take your photos
to Jeanne Larkin, BL
21 L9 or call 467-1127 for details.
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Bus Trips - Linda Vick - 357-9962
- Please pay ASAP
“The Full Monty”
- 33 seats available for a bus trip that will take you to Riverside Theatre leaving the clubhouse at 11:30
a.m. on Feb. 4.
Bus will arrive at 11:15 to begin boarding.
Cost per ticket
for bus and show is $85.
Please sign up at the Clubhouse and pay Linda Vick
as soon as possible.
Based
on the smash-hit British film, The Full Monty is a feel-good, uproarious musical comedy about six unemployed Buffalo steelworkers
who come up with a bold way to make some fast money after watching their wives’ response at a “Girls Night Out.”
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Take Note in Special Event section
of the
1st Annual Cookie exchange Dec 17 th, 2011 @ Clubhouse.
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