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SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 2021
NORTHDALE CIVIC ASSOCIATION COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER NORTHDALE CIVIC ASSOCIATION OPEN LETTER TO THE COMMUNITY FALL 2021
Dear Northdale Residents, We the Board of the Northdale Civic Association are writing to you for a call to action. Many of our residents have expressed to us that they’d love to get involved in doing good for our neighborhood, but do not have the time to commit to being an actual board member. Well here is an opportunity to be a great resource for (and great help to) yourselves and your neighbors. The NCA Board is coming face to face with the reality that as wonderful community events and ideas kick back into gear, after parts of this pandemic are behind us, we are only a group of 12-13 people, and it’s nearly impossible to get everything done to better serve this community of over 2500 residences. So, we are asking for volunteers to help (help!) in the form of an advisory group to the board. The help is wide-ranging, and generally falls into the following categories:
As eyes and ears of your neighborhood, and helping with the neighborhood watch program. By volunteering at any of the community events we’re planning, which do need a lot of work (*kids volunteering hours can be applied to
their Florida Bright Futures efforts with Hillsborough County Parks and Recreation, with whom we cosponsor many events). By helping with the effort to get a revised website effort going (this will require more interaction with the NCA Board by its nature). By being an interactive liaison with the business communities around Northdale (CABA is one example). By being an interactive liaison with the local neighborhood schools around Northdale. By being the neighborhood representative to our elected officials for various issues and events. By being attentive to and bringing up to the Board any neighborhood issues, and hopefully some potential solutions, that the Board doesn’t always hear about, specifically OTHER THAN deed restrictions. We’re talking about how do we as residents see things, how can we better serve this great community of ours. By representing the various ethnicities in this great neighborhood (this can be a multiperson group) and creating, in an inclusion-minded effort, events to celebrate our differences and similarities.
We’d love to hear back from any and all of you. We’re hoping people will contact us and sign up for any of the above areas of interest, even if its simply to help out at any one of the community events. Those are listed below. But beyond that
level of help, which is fantastic, are the deeper things that will help to make Northdale a model for other neighborhods to look at and think “what a great place to live“. We’re so hopeful and excited for this next phase for Northdale. To become a volunteer, please send in your contact information to: bluesuiter62@gmail.com. Yearly Community Events: July 17, 2021 Community Garage Sale October 16, 2021 Community Garage Sale October 29, 2021 Trunk or Treat October 30, 2021 Pumpkin Run December 10, 2021 Movie & Tree Lighting at the Park December 19, 2021 Holiday Lighting Contest April 16, 2022 Easter Egg Hunt April 23, 2022 Family Funfest As always, residents are always welcome to attend the monthly Board Meetings, typically held at the Northdale Park building ‘B‘. Thank you very much fellow residents.
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