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2009 Survey

Help set our Civic League goals for 2009.

The SACL Executive Committee needs to know what is important to you as we plan for the coming year.

It’s important that neighborhood issues are addressed and good ideas incorporated.  With a few hundred families in our community, not everything can be included in the 2009 plan, but the Executive Committee will be charged with assessing and prioritizing what is presented.

Please complete survey in the recent newsletter (or print it from this link) and bring it to the January meeting,  or email the following details to the Civic League by 15 January.

  • Your ideas and/or concerns
  • [optional]   Your name, phone #, address, and email.
  • Indication whether or not you would like to be contacted to support an event or participate in a committee

send feedback to:  suburbanacres@gmail.com

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SACL Meeting Notification

Civic League Meeting Signs are here!

In addition to the email notifications and this website, Suburban Acres Civic League is now posting four (4) meeting signs (seen below) to give neighbors a gentle reminder.  Beginning in January, the Civic League will meet at Suburban Park Elementary  on the second Monday of EACH month.  (A vote in January will be held to move the time up to 6:30PM)

Sign Locations:

  1. Thole St median near Tinee Giant
  2. Thole St median in front of Suburban Park Elementary
  3. Virginian Dr @ Louisiana Ave
  4. Suburban Pkwy @ in front of Suburban House (near Norfolk Collegiate)

* Thanks to those neighbors who are helping to manage the display of the signs.

The board is looking into procuring a couple more signs to cover the Granby Park – Fife St area.

SACL Meeting Sign

SACL Meeting Sign

* The attractive signs were created by Suburban Acres’ own Elizabeth Emmons (owner of Bayview Signs).

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Suburban Park Elementary Food Drive

Suburban Park Elementary is organizing a food drive with the goal to make 30 baskets to ensure needy families in their school have a wonderful feast to celebrate this Thanksgiving. The Civic League will be supporting this food drive, and we ask the members of our community to help us out. We will collect canned goods at the November 10th Civic League meeting and we will be making additional donations, such as turkeys, potatoes, onions, fruit, and pies.

If you would like to make an additional contribution to this cause, please contact your Civic League by emailing suburbanacres@gmail.com, or call Tim Fox @ 338-0439.

Thank you for your generosity!

Below is a link to the letter from the school requesting our support.

suburban-park-food-drive

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Neighborhood Mermaid

You’ve seen them all over Norfolk, decorated with many creative and unique designs; each representing something symbolic of its location.  Norfolk’s mermaids add a sense of beauty, art, and city-pride.  Suburban Acres is launching an initiative to embellish our neighborhood with one of these beautiful icons of a great city!

In your evening stroll through the neighborhood, you’ve probably noticed the three-foot 2D mermaid awarded to the ‘Yard of the Month’.  It was crafted by Suburban Acres’ own Jack Sanderling, and beautifully hand painted by Chris Alexander.

Now imagine a full-sized 3D Norfolk Mermaid representing our lovely neighborhood!

Stay tuned for announcements regarding 1) fund raisers to purchase the mermaid, 2) location designation, and 3) a contest for the design idea.

The initial fund raiser is by way of the 1st Annual SACL Golf Tournament in October.  All proceeds will go toward the project.  Donations from our community are also being accepted for the mermaid fund.  Checks can be made to ‘Suburban Acres Civic League’, with ‘Mermaid Fund’ in the memo.  Contact Bruce Larson for details.