April Newsletter

CHESTER VILLAGE GREEN HOME OWNERS' ASSOCIATION



P.O. BOX 835


CHESTERFIELD, VA 23832


804-356-7999 EMAIL: cvghoa@gnlail.com


MEETING: WEDNESDAY APRIL 7 AT 7:00 PM


Welcome; Carl Whittington @ 4413 Village Park Ave. our new neighbor


Spring is finally here!!!!! LANDSCAPING NEWS


MULCH: I hope you have noticed the fresh mulch in your yards, if you have not the workers are on their way. Due to wet weather they have been slow.


MOWING: Unlimited plans to start mowing this week, weather permitting.


SPRAYING: They plan to start spraying this week. The spray will have crabgrass pre-emergent, selective herbicide for weeds, insecticide, and liquid fertilizer in the mixture. The spraying will take approximately 4 days (weather permit, wind and temperature changes). SHRUBS: Unlimited will start spraying shrubs this week for insects


Backflow re-certification & starting irrigation systems: They plan to start that next week. PLANTS: PLEASE NOTIFY ME IF YOU HAVE DEAD PLANTS, SHRUBS OR TREES.


REMINDERS:


PLEASE SECURE RECYCLE MATERIALS ON "PICK UP" MONDAYS. The gusty and often strong winds of early Spring can blow items throughout the neighborhood. "GIVE A HOOT-DON'T POLLUTE."


NOW THAT IT'S SPRING, PLEASE LOOK OVER YOUR YARD AND HOME - CHECK SCREENS ON YOUR HOME (ARE THEY ALL ON, OR ARE YOU MISSING ONE?) HOW DOES MY FRONT PORCH LOOK? HAVE I PICKED UP MY RECYCLE BOX FROM the FRONT?


I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL OF YOU DOG OWNERS FOR BEING RESPONSIBLE IN WALKING YOUR DOG W/LEASH AND PICKING UP AFTER YOUR DOG. YOU ARE GREAT NEIGHBORs. I STILL NEED TO REMIND SOME TO WALK YOUR DOG W/LEASH AND PICK UP AFTER YOUR DOG, AND TRY NOT TO LET YOUR DOG USE YOUR NEIGHBORS YARD OR SHRUBS.


---Florence Harrison, Manager
 

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ANIMAL CONTROL LAWS RULED INVALID

All Home Owner Asso. covenants and all local laws requiring dogs to be kept on a leash and requiring owners to pick up after their dogs have been ruled invalid.

An irritated animal owner in Oak Grove, Va., mounted an exhaustive search of the entire Code of Virginia Law for all references to dogs and other animals. He came across a long-forgotten law enacted in 1867, just two years after the War of Northern Agression (known in the North as the Civil War). It was put into the Virginia Code by the Yankee carpetbaggers who ruled Virginia at that time, as part of their campaign of revenge to teach "Rebels" a lesson.

The newly discovered law forbids any restraint on any animal, and owners are not allowed to pick up after their animals. Severe penalties are attached for violations. The law can be found in the Code of Virginia at Chapter 14, Emblements, #113.

Our Home Owners' Asso. plans on calling an  emergency meeting soon to revise our Covenants accordingly.


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THE GEESE ARE GONE!

BEFORE:

AFTER:

HOORAY!!!  Our plague of pooping geese have been gone for several weeks now, thanks to the work of the Border Collies from Windchazer Management Company. Thanks also to our HOA Board for hiring Windchazer and to Mitchell Patterson for his work on this effort.

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Our Area Is Ahead in Census Returns

As of the end of business on April 2, our area of Chesterfield County had a higher rate of census returns (65%) than most of Virginia (62%) and the rest of the nation (56%).

Mailing in your census form saves the government a great deal of expense, since it will not have to send an enumeratgor to your house. It also saves you time. Also, subsidies from the federal government to our state and locality depend upon the official size of our population, as recorded by this census.

A census is requiried by the Constitution. In Article 1, Section 2, the Constitution includes the phrase:


"[An] Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct."



If you would like to check the rate of returns for us or any place in the country, click on the following link:
http://2010.census.gov/2010census/take10map/

There, the data is updated daily.

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Verizon FIOS, a PS

Verizon FIOS is Baaaaaack! This time to dig and lay fiber optic cable to a house on Village Garden Dr. that they forgot when they did all that digging and laying of cable back in September!     (Click on these photos to make them larger.)     

                  
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