Kathy Proctor

The Beautification Committee is excited to announce that it is time again for our Spring Neighborhood Cleanup Day, this Saturday, March 24 at 9 AM.  We schedule this event each year right before the Dogwood Trails open to the public (this year trails open  March 31).  We will meet in the church parking lot at 9 AM to pick up supplies (trash bags, gloves, etc.) and then head out to our assigned street or job.  Many people will be picking up trash along all the roads in the neighborhood.  We also have teams that shine street signs; clean signs and doggie waste stations of mildew; spread mulch on common properties; sell Dogwood mailbox bows; pick up filled bags of trash and deliver to the waste station; and someone who prepares lunch for everyone afterwards.

Please join us Saturday for a little light work and then some pizza at the church pavilion by the tennis courts.  You will meet some great neighbors and really do a wonderful thing to help Lakemoor Hills be beautiful.

If you have a certain job that you are interested in doing, or a street that you will commit to pick up the trash, please email Kathy Proctor [email protected] or come to the LHHA meeting on Tuesday night to sign up.  Here are a few of our previous cleanup volunteers.  If you have safety vests, please wear them.

Please join us for our Spring LHHA meeting at Lake Hills Church at 7 PM.  This month we will have a guest, Stephanie Welch, who represents those of us who are city residents on the Knoxville City Council.  (Carson Dailey, our Knox County Commissioner, was not able to attend. He will be joining us at our picnic on May 5).  We will have updates on all the initiatives that are underway and then open the meeting to hear from the members about issues of concern or interest.  We hope you can help us as we develop the LHHA Board’s priorities for next year.  The nominating chair will present the slate of new board member nominees.  If you have someone that you would like to propose for a leadership position, you can do so at this time.  I look forward to seeing many of you tomorrow night.

Kathy Proctor, LHHA President

There is a possibility that there will be an opportunity to name the new roads that will be built as part of the Alcoa Hwy expansion.  There will be a small new “feeder road” on the east of the highway and a much more extensive one on the west side of the highway.  Do we as a neighborhood want to be involved in selecting a name for this/ these roads?  I’d love to hear some comments here and I’ll bring up this issue at the next meeting of the LHHA on March 20 at 7 PM at Lake Hills Church.  If we think it is a good idea, we can form a small group and come up with some great ideas.  Or we can let TDOT name the roads…..and we know how creative they are.

See you March 20 at Lake Hills Church – 7 PM

LAWN DEBRIS PICKUP  Neighbors, Spring is just around the corner (actually it is already here in some of your yards!).  Each year the City of Knoxville in order to support the Dogwood Arts Festival will pick up limbs and yard debris from the homes that border a Dogwood Trail.  Many of the streets in our neighborhood are on the Lakemoor Hills Trail.  You know this because there is a fading pink dashed line painted on the street.  So if your house is located on the Dogwood Trail you can take advantage of this once a year pickup.

Please drag your limbs and yard debris adjacent to the asphalt on your property.  They do not pick up debris from empty lots.  We have not received a schedule yet for the pickup, but you should begin moving those limbs now.  We expect that they will pick up sometime during the week of March 25 as the trails open Easter weekend.

BOWS The lovely pink and green mailbox  bows will be available later this month at the Lakemoor Hills Garden Club meeting (March 15) LHHA homeowners meeting (March 20), and  at the Neighborhood Cleanup Day (March 24).  The bows will be $5.  All proceeds will go towards enhancing the public areas in our neighborhood.  You can decorate your mailbox whether you are on the Dogwood Trail or not, as we have many visitors to our lovely neighborhood during the month that the trails are open.

Thank you for helping make our neighborhood a place of beauty!

NOTICE OF RIGHT-OF-WAY NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING

Thursday, February 15, 2018

5:00 p.m.  –  7:00 p.m.

Sevier Heights Baptist Church (North Campus)

2939 Alcoa Highway

Knoxville, Tennessee 37920

 

The purpose of this meeting will be for the discussion of Right-of-Way acquisition and relocation procedures for the following project in Knox County:

 

S.R. 115 (US 129) (Alcoa Hwy) From Woodson Drive to Cherokee Trail Interchange 

In preparation for the LHHA meeting on Tuesday I have been gifted with some nighttime photos of wildlife in one of our neighbor’s yard.  I know you have posted photos from time to time of other animals that you have seen in the neighborhood.  If you would forward any photos of animals that you have seen, I’ll add them to my powerpoint of the wildlife that graces Lakemoor Hills and have them on Tuesday night for all to see.

thanks

Kathy Proctor  [email protected]

I wanted to relate an incident that occurred yesterday that surprised me quite a bit.  I was the passenger in a car attempting to exit Lakemoor Hills and go north on Alcoa Hwy from Montlake.  The driver of our car saw an opening coming up and pulled out across the southbound lane.  The car on the inside lane going south was flying (no surprise there) and laid on his horn to express his displeasure at having to apply his brakes.    We proceeded across to the acceleration lane and entered Alcoa Hwy headed north.  To our surprise we saw blue lights in the mirrors and were subsequently pulled over and ticketed.  My driver got a ticket for Failure to Yield.  The officer said that since the Alcoa Hwy driver had to apply his brakes and honk his horn, we were causing the problem by not yielding to that driver’s progress.  We pointed out that the driver was certainly speeding, and the officer said, “Yes, I clocked him at 55 MPH but I cannot ticket him unless he is going faster than that”.  What !?!

So I hope you take this lesson to heart, even if it is hard to understand who really is at fault.

 

Greetings Neighbors!

Hope everyone has survived the cold and can begin to navigate around our neighborhood.  There are still icy spots in the shady areas, so take caution wherever you drive in Lakemoor Hills.  I just wanted to remind you that we have two speakers coming to our January 30 homeowner’s meeting that will be addressing both wildlife and domesticated animals in the neighborhood.  Try to reach out to a neighbor that may have never attended one of our meetings or socials and bring them with you.

If you have any issues or concerns  that you would like your LHHA board to address, please contact me. [email protected]  I look forward to seeing you the last Tuesday of this month.

Kathy Proctor

In May of 2018 we will be holding an election to fill some board positions that will become vacant.  Our bylaws state that a Lakemoor Hills Homeowners’ Association (LHHA) board member serves a two-year term and may serve two consecutive terms.  Then they must roll off the board or run for an officer position.  This year we have two members who have served two consecutive terms so their positions will become vacant.   If you have interest in serving in leadership in the LHHA, please contact me (Kathy Proctor 599-7783) or Sharon Gerkin, Chair of the Nominating Committee, to find out more about these roles.

We live in the best neighborhood in Knox County – the quiet side of the river – and there are many opportunities that will be developing to enrich this area as the Alcoa Hwy project (phase I) nears completion.  We have an energetic board that is passionate about this neighborhood.  Please let me know if you have interest in being a part of our future.

Greetings Neighbors,

The LHHA will hold our January meeting on January 30 at 7 PM at Lake Hills Church.  We will have  speakers  from TN Wildlife Resource Agency and Knox County Animal Control that will address issues involving the wildlife and domesticated animals in our neighborhood.  Should you feed that cute raccoon?  What snakes are helpful and what should we avoid?  Does your neighbor have a dog that is pretty noisy?  How can we best coexist with the abundant wildlife and how do we deal with predators?  Bring your questions the last Tuesday of the month and join us to learn more about the animals that live amongst us.

See you then!

Kathy Proctor