Sharon Gerkin

There are exciting opportunities for your children, grandchildren, friends and neighbors going on at your neighborhood Church, Lake Hills Presbyterian Church, this summer:

1. Vacation Bible School begins at 9:00 am this TUESDAY, May 31 and will continue through the week from 9:00 am until noon each day, through Friday. Children may register at the door.
2. Additionally, the Summer Recreation Program begins June 6 and continues through July 14, 10:00 am-2 pm, Monday – Thursday each week. This program is an opportunity for indoor and outdoor games, arts and crafts, cooking classes and a world-famous talent show and play for ages 5-13. 

   All young people are invited and we hope they will come and enjoy one or both of these fun summer activities!

   Submitted by Sharon W Gerkin

   Written by Sarah Morgan, Parish Associate of Education

Today is the opening day for the Dogwood Trail and the neighborhood looks beautiful! “Hat’s Off” to all of you for helping Mother Nature look her best with weeding, mulching, feeding, trimming, raking and planting. Everyone has done an outstanding job placing the welcome mat out for visitors and each other.

The Beautification Committee would like to recognize the three residences who have been selected for this year’s Appreciation for Natural Beauty. A sign designating this selection has been placed in their front yard and will remain for two weeks. They are:

Phyllis Walker and Mark Gately.   3512 Bluff Point

Fred and Fran Thomforde.              3616 Circle Lake

Charlie and Geri Mulligan.               3617 Blow Drive

Many thanks to these individuals!

Lakemoor Hills is a beautiful place to be in the Spring! Let’s enjoy it and each other!

It is that time of the year again: Spring in Lakemoor Hills and time for the Dogwood Trail visitors! Many of you have already been at work, as you will see from the Neighborhood Cleanup Day Report below. Kathy Proctor organized and facilitated the cleanup with the assistance of 36 neighborhood volunteers. Many thanks to Kathy and all the volunteers!
Again this year, a selection committee will be driving through the peninsula, selecting 3 residences that typify a natural green or woodland setting. Signs honoring these homes will be placed during the weekend of April 8-10, with permission of the homeowner. This is never an easy task as there are so many choices that could be made!
Be sure to place brush out in front of your home, if you live on a Dogwood Trail street, before April 1st.
Many thanks!
Neighborhood Cleanup Day Report – March 19, 2016

Our annual Neighborhood Cleanup Day occurred March 19, 2016 from 9 AM to noon culminating with a pizza victory luncheon at Lake Hills Church picnic shelter.
This year 36 people participated in the cleanup on the day of the event and another 4 will continue the cleanup on the following days. We saw many familiar faces and some new participants.

Teams were dispatched to pick up trash on Maloney Rd., Maloney Park, and Montlake Rd. with a total of 27 bags collected. This year our TEAM GERKIN collected the trashbags and delivered them to the dump.

In addition to this a massive cleanup effort occurred at Circle Lake Park with bales of leaves and sticks removed. On Bluff Point a team spread 3 truckloads of mulch. At the end of Maloney Rd where the circle occurs, a team of 3 removed years of leaves and trash and uncovered a potential garden.

Some dogwood bows were made available and purchased.

Keep Knoxville Beautiful supplied trashbags, safety vests, gloves, Tshirts and pickers.

Cost to LHHA for the event was $116.30 for the food and beverages.

Kara Hudgens captured the event on camera and has the images posted on her website. We will transfer some to the LHHA website and the LHHA Facebook page.

Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make this possible and help prepare Lakemoor Hills for the Dogwood Festival.

Participants:

Kara Hudgens – photography
Suzan Bowman – food
Marta Vandergriff – Maloney Rd Circle
Linda Haynes – whatever
David & Kristen Bianconi – Circle Lake
Dani & Mike Rasmussen- Circle Lake
Fran & Fred Thomforde- Circle Lake
David & Sharon Gerkin truck to pick up trashbags, Lakemoor
Ann & Dick Graf – mulch / Bluff Point
Kathy Proctor – Montlake
Bob Proctor – Buff Point mulching
John Witherspoon – Maloney Rd Circle
Bill Stoess – Maloney
Mary Cartwright – Maloney
Marcia Finfer – Montlake & bows
Cyndi & Bruce Klass- Maloney
Rosemary & Gene – Maloney
Kathy Riddle – Montlake
David & Carl Couch – Circle Lake
Daphne Norwood & Bella & Nani Fishman – Maloney
Tom & Karen Mecurio – Bluff Point & Maloney Rd. Park
Clay & Emery Aalders – Bluff Point & Maloney Rd. Park
Diane DeRopp – Maloney Rd Circle
Rex Goins– Bluff Point mulching
Terry Kenner- Bluff Point mulching
Pat Shivers – Manor Dr.
Jim & Barbara Kincaid – Lynbrulee
Mark Hill – entry
Theresa Pepin- Wagon, Carriage & Buckboard

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Thanks to everyone in the neighborhood who participated creatively and enthusiastically in this year’s Holiday decorating extravaganza!! So many of you had wreaths on doors, greenery and bows on mailboxes and brilliant lights all around that it was a very difficult decision to make! But here are the three residences selected for recognition this year in no particular order:

Gene and Rosemary Burr     3621 Maloney Road

C.L. and Kim Overman          3516 Bluff Point Road

The Zachary Parham’s            2513 Tall Pine

Additionally, Bluff Point Road residents won the decorating challenge with the residents on Maloney’s Deadend!

The neighborhood is a magical place thanks to all of you!

Happy Holidays!

The LHHA Beautification Committee

 

 

Friends and Neighbors,

The red bows with glistening pine cones have been hung on street signs so now it is time to help us make this a magical peninsula for the holidays! The residents on the “Maloney Road Deadend” have issued a friendly decorating challenge to the residents on Bluff Point Drive creating a fun and exciting atmosphere! A lot of pine needles, holly, bows and maybe even lights will fill the air!

The Beautification Selection Committee will be driving the roads between now and the 16th of December, enjoying and selecting three residences as especially festive. The results will be posted on this website on December 17. Signs will be placed in the yards after permission has been granted by the homeowner. Additionally, the winner of the “Street Challenge” will also be posted on this Website. So now it is time to really get moving!

Thank you for participating and making this a particularly fun and enjoyable time of the year!

It is that special time of the year again, a time to pull our decorations out of the attic and the basement and create a beautiful festive neighborhood atmosphere during the holiday season. The Beautification Committee has been working to help in this effort.

Several neighbors have met together to make lovely bows to adorn all the street signs. They will be hung this coming weekend for your month long enjoyment. There will also be additional decorations in various parts of the neighborhood.

Again this year, a selection committee will drive the streets during the week of December 7-14 to choose three residences that are especially festive. The selections will be made, announced and signs placed in the yards on Monday, December 14.

We encourage everyone to contribute to the festivity making this a special Holiday destination for friends and family. This has been a wonderful year and it is nice to celebrate by lighting a tree or a candle. I know we are all grateful to be living on “the quiet side of the river.”

Happy Thanksgiving from the Beautification Committee!

 

 

Join Jim Gray for a discussion of Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology and the Fate of the Nation by James Howard Kuntsler in the East Tennessee History Center auditorium on Wednesday, November 18 at noon in the East Tennessee History Center auditorium at 601 South Gay Street.

Gray says “Too Much Magic is the latest in James Howard Kunstler’s effort to understand American life and to look into our future. It is an update of his best-selling The Long Emergency and a continuation of work that dates back to the early 1990s in The Geography of Nowhere.”

“Too much magic” is what Kunstler sees in the bright visions of a future world dreamed up by optimistic souls who believe technology will solve all our problems. Their visions remind him of the flying cars and robot maids that were the dominant images of the future in the 1950s. Kunstler’s image of the future is much more sober. With vision, clarity of thought, and a pragmatic worldview, Kunstler argues that the time for magical thinking and hoping for miracles is over, and the time to begin preparing for the long emergency has begun.

“Too Much Magic is essentially about the need to get the facts—and our thinking—straight about America’s (and the world’s) future,” Gray says.

Gray is co-founder and Executive Director of the East Tennessee Permaculture Research Institute. Since coming to Knoxville in 1995 Gray has worked at a variety of positions including Operations Supervisor for the United States Census, chair of the Knox County Democratic Party, and Operations Manager of Socially Equal Energy Efficient Development. He has also produced—and sometimes hosted—Democratic TeleVision, a weekly talk and call-in program on Community Television, for eleven years. Gray is developing a book proposal based on a recent essay entitled “Farming as an Act of Rebellion.”

As you drive through the neighborhood, please appreciate the hard work of the Knox County Inmate Services, their fine deputy, Mike Dowell and the many volunteers who helped make it happen. Between July 29-31, multiple sites of chainsawed  logs and removal of huge brush piles were completed by 9-10 inmates and their deputy. The County Inmate Services provided truck, trailer, fuel, equipment, water and this team of hard-working individuals. They worked from 8:30 each morning, stopping only for lunch, finishing around 4:15 on Friday.

Many Thanks go to:

Mr. Ivan Harmon, who made it possible to schedule this service for our neighborhood.

Deputy Mike Dowell, who worked side by side with the inmates or “his boys”, not asking them to work any more than he did himself.

Randy Kerns, Chair of the Project and Jim Gray, Associate Chair, who secured the services, mapped out the many sites and roads for work, secured an off-site location for proper disposal of debris and followed the project through to completion.

Cindy Klassen, Ann Graf, Geri Mulligan, Linda Haynes and Sharon Gerkin, who contributed food, time and talents to each day’s lunch.

Dick Graf, Homeowner’s President, for meeting at lunch each day with the team of workers.

Lake Hills Presbyterian Church for allowing us to use their facilities during the time for lunch.

Now we are asking you to show your appreciation in two distinct ways:

First, we ask you to give a DONATION to the Homeowner’s Association to help defray the cost of this project. It would  cost thousands of dollars by a commercial company to have completed the same tasks. It benefits all the neighbors who live here since the natural beauty will be displayed rather than piles of debris.

Second, we are asking EVERYONE, please, do NOT cut brush or wood to pile on a vacant lot along our roads. The Beautification Committee is committed to keeping our roadways litter and brush-free, with everyone’s help.

Thank you,

Sharon W. Gerkin, Beautification Committee Chair

 

 

The Beautification Committee would like to begin a “Spring Tradition of Appreciation” to the entire Lakemoor Hills Community for all the efforts made by everyone to enhance the natural beauty of our surroundings.

The park-like setting with majestic trees, flowering shrubs and flowers, native plants, squirrels, birds, chipmunks, turtles, long shaded drives, open sunny spots, lake and river, green lawns, walking trail, lakeside park and common gardens makes Lakemoor Hills a most desirable place to live. To give appreciation to specific areas of natural beauty, 3 residences are being highlighted:

Marcia Finfer at 3416 Timberlake Drive

Fred & Fran Thomforde at 3616 Circle Lake Drive

Bob & Jacqueline Christie at 2400 Trillium Lane

Each spring, three residences will be highlighted. Since this will become a yearly tradition, everyone will have an opportunity to be “especially appreciated.” A small flag of appreciation will be placed in the front yard to identify these residences.

Many thanks to EVERYONE for making this such a special and beautiful place, “this quiet side of the river.”

Happy Spring to All!