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Dogwood Trails – Roll down your car windows or pop that top – slow down and take in the beauty of our peninsula and our city.
Part of the Dogwood Trail experience is specially selected Open Gardens. These are homes, historic sites or area gardens you are allowed to stroll and enjoy. These are open during daylight hours until April 30th.
We have six open gardens in our neighborhood:
1. Thomfordes 3616 Circle Lake
2. Dr. Gillespies 2117 Manor
3. Bill Stoess & Mary Cartwright 4000 Maloney
4. Grafs 3505 Bluff Point
5. Gerkins 2300 Lakemoor.
6. Lakemoor Legacy Park & Gardens at Circle Lake

https://www.dogwoodarts.com/2019-open-gardens-camera-sites/?fbclid=IwAR0kGKRTVkiXjW3hVZFTPSBkK4BwmfCKhk9a-_l4VqXx1sQ4j3_zC_vMwLM

Great to see so many neighbors attend the Association Meeting last Thursday night. What a nice tribute to Charlie Mulligan,.
Everyone enjoyed the social time before the meeting along with the wonderful finger food supplied by Family Meal. They are a nice and talented couple that would love to hear from anyone interested in their food services. Below is the link to their website also in the photo section I have pics of their card. http://www.familymealdfh.com

Return of the Caladiums … WAIT don’t buy them at a retailer.
The Garden Club will again be offering high quality Caladiums at a lower price than Garden Shops and Box Stores. Direct from the grower they perform much better than the ones you get from a retailer. Details on availability coming soon.

Some of you may have received an email that appeared to come through our Lakemoor Hills list serve with the plea asking you to provide money to a child that needs help through a Go Fund Me fund. This is the second time that that particular scam has hit our website and was distributed. Do not respond to the fund request that says Ronnie Recovery Fund.

We are working to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.

Kathy Proctor

We thought they were all taken, but found one more!

Thanks to the generosity of LHHA member Sally Branson, we were blessed with over 20 prints of the beautiful painting by Lloyd Branson of Blow’s Ferry.  If you would like to have this print, please contact Tim McLaughlin . The high quality print  is 24″ x 10″.   The price is $50 and payable to LHHA.   All proceeds go to fund the Alcoa Hwy beautification project.

It is time for our Spring LHHA meeting on Tuesday, April 16 at 6:45 PM.  We are doing something a little different this month starting with a reception to honor one of our residents that has made a huge impact on our neighborhood – Charlie Mulligan.  Please come and join us with delicious appetizers, fellowship and friends.

We will start the LHHA meeting at 7:15.  This month we have news on the upcoming neighborhood picnic in May, the election of new officers and board members, a word from our county commissioner – Carson Dailey – , updates on our neighborhood projects (dogwood trail, security cameras, Alcoa Hwy construction, Legacy Park) and much more.

Here are the members that have been nominated to fill 2019-2021 positions:

• Mike Parker, President
• Suzan Bowman, Secretary
• Dawn Thomas, Board Member (2nd term)
• Wendy Warren, Board Member (1st term)

We still have an open position for President-elect.  We are happy to take nominations from the floor also.

I look forward to seeing you next Tuesday evening.

Kathy Proctor, President

Greeting Volunteers,

I wanted to give you an update on what was accomplished yesterday during Neighborhood Cleanup Day.  We had 48 volunteers do 65 hours of service, collect 25 bags of trash, clean 5 miles of roads and 4 acres of parkland.  And we pulled weeds, raked leaves, collected walnuts, treated soil and spread 20 bales of pine straw.  What an amazing neighborhood we have!!!

I’m turning in a report tomorrow to Keep Knoxville Beautiful, who loaned us the equipment and trash bags, and one thing they have asked is what weird stuff did we find along the sides of roads or parks when picking up trash.  Please post here what you found.

Thank you from all our neighbors for your hard work.

The LHHA Beautification Committee

3-22-19

We are testing a new enhanced camera system at the Alcoa Hwy and Montlake location.

If you have an event that requires the Sheriff’s Department:

1. please call law enforcement directly with the details (911)
2. email Lakemoor Hills Emergency Response Team at [email protected] the information.

When discussing information with the Sheriff, be sure to tell them that Lakemoor Hills has the Vigilant camera system that is directly connected to their main system so data is immediately available.

Helpful information for the Sheriff includes:

• Event description
• Time and Date of the Event
• Vehicle description
• Partial or full license tag number

Hi, my name is Wendy Edwards and I represent the group Knoxville BMX. My husband, John Edwards, is the president of Knoxville BMX. We both grew up in South Knoxville and graduated from South- Doyle. This community is dear to our hearts. As you may have heard in the news this week, the county mayor has stopped the BMX project at South-Doyle Middle School. Knoxville BMX is deeply upset at this outcome due to not only the nearly half a million dollars that will be wasted, but also the huge economic loss this will mean for South Knoxville. The BMX track was already invited to host national events through USABMX, which would generate 1.5 – 2 million dollars for the local economy for each single event. Knoxville BMX had plans for programs to reach underprivileged children, go into the local schools with STEM programs, Ride to Read programs, and bring Olympic athletes on Knox County schools campuses. Our mission is to get kids on bikes and bring families together through the sport of BMX. The benefits of this project were far reaching for children, families, residents, and small business owners in South Knoxville and Knox County as a whole. Unfortunately, the mayor shut down our project prematurely based on a bid from a General Contractor with no BMX experience. The bid was at least a million dollars to high and we attempted to have the project rebid with a contractor that had experience in BMX tracks and could do it within the designated budget. The mayor wouldn’t listen to our suggestions, but we think that he will listen to the people of the Sourh Knox community if we make our voices heard. Knoxville BMX will be speaking this Monday March 18th at the Knox County Commission Meeting at 5. Commissioner Carson Daily has encouraged all residents in South Knoxvillle and the city of Knoxville who want this project to move forward to come speak at the meeting. Citizens can call 215-2524 and request time to speak at the meeting. If you don’t want to speak, we still encourage people to show up in support of this project. South Knoxville shouldn’t get pushed to the side, for money to be spent elsewhere in the City. We invite you to share this with your neighbors and would love to have all the neighborhood association presidents or board members speak too. We want anyone who wants their voice to be heard on this matter to speak. Officials need to be held accountable for how our taxpayer dollars are spent. We appreciate any support!