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Volume 41 Number 3
Lakewood Beautiful returns!
Lakewood Beautiful promotes well-kept homes and yards.
Nominate your house! Nominate a neighbor’s house! The Lakewood Beautiful program is ready to recognize Lakewood residents who take extra care to keep their homes and yards (and local neighborhoods) looking great! Studies show that home upkeep and beautification by caring, committed residents keeps crime rates low and property values healthy, thereby benefitting the whole community. You can help honor those Lakewood residents who go “above and beyond” to keep their home and yards looking beautiful. There are three ways to honor your home or a neighbor’s home in the Lakewood Beautiful program: • Beautiful Home Award. This is the city’s most tra-
ditional award, which has honored hundreds of Lakewood homes over three decades. This award recognizes the front facing exterior and landscaping of a home, displaying exceptional care and pride of ownership. • Jackie Rynerson “Transformation Award.” This will honor homeowners who have remodeled the frontfacing exterior and landscaping of their property within the past three years. The rejuvenation need not have been expensive or elaborate, but something that improves or enhances the overall property. To be eligible, the bulk of the improvements must have been done or overseen by the current homeowner, not a prior homeowner. Nominations must include both “before” and “after” photos to demonstrate the transformation
(digital photos may be uploaded to the online nomination form). Homes being marketed for sale are not eligible. Jackie Rynerson was an original Lakewood resident who helped organize her fellow citizens to form the City of Lakewood in 1954. Jackie served as a city council member from 1978 to 1990, and she created the original Lakewood Beautiful to inspire and honor Lakewood homeowners. • Water-Wise Award. This honors beautiful homes nominated in one of the first two categories that deserve extra recognition for landscaping that utilizes waterconserving irrigation devices and plantings. Past winners’ homes were distinguished not just by attractive style, but for displaying exceptional care and pride of ownership, such as: • Neat, clean and wellmaintained exteriors • Landscaping design of front yard and parkway in harmony and balance with the home • Good use of plant variety, texture, color • Attention to detail • Overall consistent care of property and landscaping (Cont’d. on Pg. 6)
March 2021
Good Neighbor program sponsors meals for neighbors in need
Mayor Rogers making deliveries to home-bound Lakewood seniors.
The Lakewood Meals on Wheels Good Neighbor Sponsorship program offers individuals and businesses a way to help provide meals to their homebound neighbors in greatest need. Meals on Wheels offers services to all clients regardless of income or ability to pay. The annual donations of Good Neighbor Sponsors help subsidize free or reduced-cost meals for those low-income Lakewood neighbors who can’t afford the cost. When you become a Good Neighborhood Sponsor, your annual contribution will provide the following number of meals for a homebound neighbor: $80/year = 10 meals $160/year = 20 meals
$400/year = 50 meals $800/year = 100 meals $1,600/year = 200 meals $2,400/year = 300 meals Donors receive a recognition certificate for their participation. Lakewood Meals on Wheels is a non-profit, community agency supported by many private contributors. Contributions are tax deductible and may be made online at www. lakewoodcity.org/DonateMOW or by mail to Lakewood Meals on Wheels, 5510 Clark Ave., Lakewood CA 90712. For more information about how to join the Good Neighbor Sponsorship Program, contact Lakewood Meals on Wheels at 562925-8784. ♦