February 2024 Newsletter
MYERLEE CIRCLE NEWSLETTER
February 2024
| 6945 Dog Leg Way, Fort Myers,FL 33919
Phone 239-481-8387 board@myerleecircle.com |
Editor: Julia Tepper | |
MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD
The Board of our Association is working diligently to ensure that all the necessary day-to-day tasks are being accomplished so that we can continue to improve and provide the best services to our community.
Our Grounds Director, Charlie Flugger, has been busy ensuring that trees are being trimmed, and that stumps and dead bushes are being removed. More tree trimming and removal is expected in the near future.
Our Pool/Clubhouse director, Cynthia McComb, has fixed the edges of the pool table that were coming off. She also sanded and painted it to ensure that there are no more snagged clothing as you walked by.
Along with the Women’s Club, Men’s Club and other volunteers, Cynthia helped to organize the clubhouse for the annual Trash and Treasures sale.
Meanwhile, our Unit Director, Tom Kaiser, and Grounds Director, Charlie Flugger, have worked together to dig a trench to run new electric lines to the Circle sign. The lights have now been repaired, and we are extremely grateful to them for their hard work and dedication.
We are currently reviewing the lanai contract before signing it.
Please note that the rebuild will take some time, as engineering and permits will come first before
construction can commence. We kindly ask for your patience during this process.
We will continue to work our hardest to make Myerlee Circle the best it can be.
Your Board,
Noreen Bailey, Pearl Prevoir, Linda Fentner, Tom Kaiser, Cynthia McComb and Charles Flugger.
NOTICES:
From the Unit’s Director:
The Board would like to remind you that the rear of your condo is not to be used for storage. We would ask that you please take time to remove things such as sandbags, empty pots etc.
If you need help with this, please call our maintenance man, Mike at 630-774-0496
Thank you,
Tom Kaiser
From the ground’s Director:
Temporarily, the Board has agreed to prohibit the planting by owners at the rear and front of their units without Board approval.
Thank you.
Charlie Flugger
TRASH AND TREASURES SALE:
Our annual trash and treasures sale was a great success.
Thank you!!
Our thanks to all residents for their donations, in particular to Sandy and Steve Levinthal for their very large contribution. Without our residents’ donations, there would be no trash and treasures sale.
Our thanks also to the Women’s Club, Men’s Club and to all the volunteers that worked so hard to make this T&T sale a big success. 👏 👏 👏
All the profits from this sale go to improvements to the interior of the clubhouse and for community events.
The Myerlee Circle Women’s Club
WOMEN’S CLUB MEETING:
The Women’s Club meeting will be held on Monday, February 05.
Meetings are held on the first Monday of the month at the clubhouse at 10:00 am.
From 10:00 to 10:30 am we will have a social time with coffee and pastries. Meeting will start promptly at 10:30 am. Come and join us. All are welcome.
MEN’S CLUB BREAKFAST:
The Men’s Club breakfast will be held on Saturday, February 10, from 8:30 am- 9:30am
Join your friends and neighbors for a delicious breakfast of pancakes, eggs, sausages, cinnamon styks, fruit, and coffee. The cost is $5.00.
BOOK CLUB
The Book Club meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 13, at 11:00 am.
In February we will be reading a selection of our own.
For any questions or more information about the Book Club, please contact Kelley Bless at 239-437-2050.
All are welcome
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
The next Board meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 20, at 1:30 pm at the clubhouse.
Board meetings are held on the third Tuesday of the month. Owners are invited.
Owners should notify the Secretary if they want to be on the Agenda.
Please leave your name and message, including the topic you would like to discuss. @ (239) 481-8387, by Friday before the board meeting
NEWS FROM THE LIBRARY:
The rear library has been cleaned up and reorganized. The front one will be done shortly. please when you return a book, put it in the basket, not on a shelf.
In the rear library, there is now a display of featured books. The current display is books by bob kranich, who is the cousin of our own Noreen Bailey. Several books by his mother are also on display. I am also trying to get a collection of books by Scott Wiecezorek, a friend of mine from NJ. If anyone has an author they would like to feature, please let me know! You may call at 239-437-2050. Thank you.
Kelley Bless. Librarian
WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
Don’t forget these groups meeting every
week at the Circle Clubhouse for fun activities
The Myerlee Circle Art Group: will continue to meet at the Clubhouse every Thursday at 1:00pm.
If you wish to join us please contact Julia Tepper at ocmjulia@gmail.com
Strength & Balance Chair Yoga Class: Chair Yoga classes are held every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9:00 to 10.00 am at the Myerlee Circle clubhouse. If interested, please call Jane Lowry at 504-669-6396.
Water Aerobics: Water Aerobics classes will be held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, we meet at 10:00 am to 11:00 am. (except for the first Monday of the month.
For any questions, please call Noreen Bailey at 612-247-5275
Happy Hour: Meets every Thursday at the Clubhouse at 4:30 pm. Bring a snack of your choice along with your beverage and get in on the latest scoop.
Bocce Players:
Is Friday afternoons around 4:00 pm,come out to the Bocce court for some fun and laughs. It is right behind the clubhouse. If you wish to use the court at any other time, you are welcome.
The balls are in a silver case in the pool’s utility closet and the broom used to smooth the court is also in the pool’s utility closet
The shuffleboard Courts are ready for your use.
The cue-sticks are in the clubhouse pantry on the side of the shelf next to the inside door.
The pucks are in a box on the floor just below the cue sticks.
For any information you may email Paul at phsalvagin@Gmail.com
– There is also corn hole, and the game equipment is in the clubhouse pantry behind the door. Bean bags for corn hole are in a canvas gag on the shelf
in the pantry. Help yourself if you wish to use any of the equipment.
You can set this up on the lawn to enjoy.
Please return what you used to where you found it. –Thank you
NEW CHAIRS FOR THE CLUBHOUSE
The Myerlee Circle Women’s Club is happy to present you with the new chairs for the clubhouse. Finally!!
They are here waiting for assembly, which will start this week.
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY
A Valentine’s card from around the turn of the 20th century. Guess we now know the origin of “Jove” in tennis.
World’s oldest written valentines
Early messages of love relied on poetry and romantic verses more than fancy decorative embellishments.
The oldest surviving Valentine’s letter was penned by Charles Duke of Orleans supposedly to his wife, Bonne of Armagnac, in 1415 while he was imprisoned in England. The letter was never sent and, in fact, is considered bY. some to be an impersonal tribute to courtly love. Because of that, the oldest surviving Valentine’s letter award might go to Mfilgw Brews, a noblewoman who wrote to her betrothed in 1477.
The world’s oldest Valentine’s card. believed to be sent in 1797, sold at auction in 2019 for £7,000, or about $8,500 U.S. dollars. Jakki Brown, editor and co-owner of a greeting card trade magazine in London, bought the card and vowed never to sell it.
The message on the front reads: “Farewell you sweet and turtle dove. On you alone, I fixed my love.And if you never can be mine, I never can no comfort find!”
| ARCADIA TRIP
Wednesday, February 21 Transportation Included – $15.00 each Depart from clubhouse at 9:00 am Lunch at Margaret’s Tea House Return by 5:00 pm Contact Beverly Chandley by February 10, for questions or to sign up. 239-910-3790 Maximum attendees: 12 |