OK, it is almost April (One week from yesterday) and the lake is still completely frozen.
Soon (we hope) the ice will melt and the weather will turn warm. There is a good video for all to watch about boating and remembering others.
Take a look at it located here and brought to us by Water Sports Industry Association.
We recently had a resident spot a Snow Owl in the Association. The spotting was over by the boat launch and the photos below were captured by our residents the Rappuhns. Thanks for the photos!
One of our residents recently lodged a complaint with Consumers Energy with regards to the loss of power 3 times in the last 2.5 months. They asked for root cause analysis and also recommended that if they did not have good plans to alleviate the problem. Some of our residents are fed from Jenison and some are fed power from Hudsonville. A better plan would be to tie all the sub from the main coming out of Hudsonville which has not lost power over the same time frame.
He was just contacted by the Consumers Field engineer today. They are going to take the suggestion and move the Northwest portion of the subdivision onto the same grid as the rest of the subdivision. Currently this section is at the end of the Jenison Main and is overburdened.
This change is tentatively scheduled to occur 12-19-2013. It will be a HOT changeover, so we should not loose power during this change.
Hopefully this will rectify the power outage issues we have been facing.
here is the contact info for future reference.
Consumers Energy Field engineer Todd Hollen ph 616-530-4399
Best regards
Tom Parrish 1512 Ponstein Dr.
Again we feel that it is necessary to remind residents to SLOW DOWN. Soon our kids will not only be playing in yards and near the streets but also waiting near the roads for School Busses and getting off in the afternoons. There are speeders in our neighborhood who are not from the association but there are also those of us who mean well but are in a hurry and not thinking of our speed. Please think, each time you enter our association boundaries, that it is MY JOB to make sure the car I am driving is going the speed limit or below in my neighborhood.
Recently a flyer was placed in the press boxes by a resident that has some difficult statistics for all of us to hear that at 20 MPH 9 out of 10 persons who are hit by a car survives but at 40 MPH only one person survives. A link to the full color pdf is here. The PEDS.ORG web site also has some other good resources and one is titled 10 Good Reasons to Make Your Community Walkable. Please go check it out and maybe next time you drive the streets near home you will think more of your speed and even slow down the speeding driver behind you.
Thank you
EGSLA
ANNUAL NEIGHBORHOOD GARAGE SALE
The garage sale this year for Georgetown Shores will be Thursday April 11 from 9-4 and Friday April 12 from 9-4!!! Please abide by the posted times ONLY!!!! We have to allow school buses to get through so please do not open early!!!!!!! If you would like to participate this year please get $5 and details of any items you would like posted in the ad, with your name and address to Kim Scholten @ 5956 16th ave by Tuesday April 2 so the ad can be sent in to the Advance by the deadline!!! I do need to replace a bunch of broken signs this year that’s why I am asking for $5 to help defray that cost for me!
… any questions contact Kim Scholten at 667-9290!!