The Virginia Beach Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Presents…

The State of the Dream

MLK DAY America’s Sunday Supper

Sunday January 20, 2013     6 o’clock p.m.

Old Dominion University Webb Center—North Café

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. community leaders from various backgrounds will come together to discuss Dr. King’s dream, its relevancy in contemporary culture and if the dream is a tangible reality. Panelists include:    Dr. Carlos Campo, Regent University President;  Wanda Cooper, Founder/CEO of Cooper Law; Helen Sommer, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity South Hampton  Roads;   Wil Laveist, Award Winning Journalist; Vivian Page, Local Political Analyst & Blogger, Marsha Lockard, Vice President, Suburban Acres Civic League

The event is free, but an RSVP is required.  Here’s the flyer…

Here’s the first issue of The Suburban, newsletter of the Suburban Acres Civic League, for 2012.

A special THANK YOU to the Norfolk Christian High School Ambassadors Jazz Ensemble and director Doug Earlenbaugh for the great entertainment at our Christmas party in December.

Our January meeting is Monday evening January 14th; doors open with refreshments at 6 pm and the meeting starts at 6:30.

Our guest speaker is Chief Deputy Commonwealths Attorney Brent Johnson (rescheduled from earlier this year).   Brent will speak about programs and work done by the Commonwealths Attorney’s Office, and the new satellite office/community collaberation center that opened in November at the Workforce Development Center at Wards Corner.  Join us!

Whatever you’re doing, people are interested in it!

www.suburban23505.com

The Suburban Acres Civic League Web site had about 2300 individual views in 2012 through December 9th, according to Word Press, our site host.  WordPress.com is a free, easy-to-use, blog-style site; the civic league pays a modest site hosting fee each year.

Many visitors were referred from internet search engines (searching on our civic league or neighborhood name).

• WardsCornerNow.com and Facebook were the two top-referring Web sites with direct referrals (we have links on both sites).
• 1805 of our 2400 views originated within the United States; the rest were from 31 other countries.

We intend to keep adding to and improving the web site.

www.slideshare.net

Our blog-style web site is not conducive to posting and allowing browsing among multiple pictures.  SACL at one time had photos posted in slide shows (Microsoft PowerPoint format) on a site called slide.com; unfortunately that site has closed its doors.

We are now posting photos of our events and activities on www.slideshare.net/suburbanacres.   We started posting on slideshare with pictures from the annual 4^th of July parade and picnic, and since have posted pictures from Halloween in the neighborhood, and flooding and damage from Hurricane Sandy.

In our first year of posting on slideshare.net we received more than 1400 views!  1179 of those visits were to the slide show of hurricane flooding.

 So stand by for more posts and pictures.  If you take great pictures of the neighborhood that you would like to share, please send them to suburbanacres@gmail.com

In full anticipation of our holiday party,

We must apologize since the newsletter is tardy!

Lots going on in December, but we hope you can make it out to the holiday meeting of the Suburban Acres Civic League Monday night December 10.  Doors open at 6 for refreshments and music; year -end civic league review is at 6:30.  Our musical guests are, back by popular demand, the Nrfolk Christian High School Jazz Ensemble, playing your holiday and big band favorites.

Have a great December!

Please come join us!  This only takes an hour or two.

Santa at Halloween??? Yes!  It’s Santa Owen!  Spooky! Thanks, Kiernan family, for the Halloween photos.  Hurricane Sandy might’ve blown away Harvest Fest this year, but the weather was clear enough for trick-or-treating.

All the photos are posted on slideshare.net at:

http://www.slideshare.net/suburbanacres/suburban-acres-halloween-2012

By the way, we’ve had MORE THAN 1000 VIEWS of our July 4th Parade/Picnic and Hurricane Sandy pictures on slideshare!

Here’s the special Hurricane Sandy edition (November) of The Suburban…just before the ‘noreaster hits!  Stay safe, warm, and dry while reading about our October shenanagins.

This month’s meeting is Monday evening November 12th, which is observed as Veterans Day.  Since Suburban Park Elementary is closed for Veterans Day, we are meeting at Norfolk Collegiate School (use the Suburban Parkway entrance).  Doors open with refreshments at 6 pm; meeting starts at 6:30.

Please bring non-perishable food items for the Suburban Park Elementary holiday food drive, which benefits needy students at SPE.  We’ll also make the league’s holiday cash presentation to SPE, which again this year is being matched dollar-for-dollar by the Zenarolla Family and Tinee Giant Food Stores.

Our guest speaker is Randy Wright, who will delve into regional transportation issues.  See you there!

Congratulations to the photogenic residents of Suburban Acres!  Our slide show with pictures from the annual 4th of July parade and picnic reached 100 ‘views’ last week on slideshare.net.  The blog-style format of our neighborhood web site doesn’t led itself particularly well to uploading multiple pictures, so I put a slide show of 4th of July pics on slideshare.  I just now uploaded some pictures taken this morning shortly after our highest tide of Hurricane Sandy…here’s the link:

http://www.slideshare.net/suburbanacres/hurricane-sandy-suburban-acresoct-2012

Lafayette River just almost reaches Kirby Crescent after high tide this morning, Monday Oct. 29. This shot is looking from Kirby across a branch of the Lafayette toward Gunn Court.

See you this Saturday! 

Come out and bring your best crock pot recipe (we’ll provide the electricity!) vote on the best crock-pot dish, and cheer on the kids’ costume contest…Crafts and neighborhood fun.  Suburban Acres Civic League Neighborhood Harvest Festival, this Saturday afternoon 2-4 pm at Suburban Park Elementary School.  See you there!