My thoughts on our c

My thoughts on our community’s future projects...

Ron Thomas

Our community is growing projects in many ways and with that growth comes an opportunity for more volunteers. Here are some of the projects some of our folks are involved in outside of LVH:

Our local hospital has quite a few volunteers from LVH with some putting in thousands of hours a year.

Same thing with the Aquarium in South Beach.

Our local fire department has a volunteer fireman from the community as well as 13 for the CERT program.

Some of our folks give their time to the Hatfield Museum in South Beach.

We have volunteer State Police who help that agency by freeing up officers from some of their duties.

Other folks volunteer for the annual Seafood and Wine festival.

Here we have lots of unfilled opportunities to help within the community. Most notable are the positions with the Social Club which will have a large turnover rate next year.

Here are some things we would like to see happen at LVH:

• We would like to see the Neighborhood Block Captains and their assistants meet every once in awhile to discuss issues that might help each other and review what does and does not work.


• A group that keeps up the calendar for the community. We would be willing to teach the group how to do it.

• A group to keep up the Bulletin Board and learn how to make posters on their computers.. We would volunteer to teach them how.

• A group that would organize physical activities for the community. Maybe Tai Chi or low impact aerobics.

• A group that would perform maintenance on our Emergency Red Light System. We would teach how to do it.

• A different person put the Neighborhood Watch Patrol signs on their car every month.

• Computers from some donating source for computing classes and the folks to teach the classes. With Windows XP operating system installed.

• 1 highspeed internet connection for the clubhouse... and a network installed so any computer can operate on the internet in the clubhouse at any time. This would allow for classes on how to use the internet

• A Wi-Fi station supplying all residents high speed internet for pennies instead of dollars.

• Our own low powered radio station.

• A security camera and recorder on the front gate.

• A hand held gate opener just like a garage door opener to open the front gate.

• An LVH community association to form with monthly or annual fees to direct non-social activities of the park.

It takes $$, It takes volunteers, it takes training, it takes trainers..

Just because you have retired, can’t walk, can’t see, can’t here, can’t , can’t, can’t..... does not mean that you are not valuable. There are many things to do ... Their are many levels of participation from active to at home kinds of things.