Although we had planned to have a meeting every single First Monday of the month, we are observing Labor Day today and as such, tonight’s meeting is canceled.

However, after long consideration, and new schedule developments, I am considering shelving the remainder of our scheduled meetings (through December of 2008). No meetings had been planned for 2009.

I am a student at Rider University, and have classes on Monday and Tuesday nights, and as a result, will have a conflict for the remainder of our planned meetings. If anyone should want to take over the leader responsibilities, I will be happy to extend my help in them doing so.

I will make calls to the core group of people that has attended our meetings in the past to request comment and suggestions, but unless there is great opposition, the Hillwood Manor Community Group will not meet regularly any more, and may meet from time to time in the future under new leadership.

It has been a pleasure to serve as a leader for this group, and I am proud to have been a part. Thanks for your participation.

Beautiful Maple

Hillwood Manor Community Meeting, July 7th, 2008 (police training room past courtroom)

Agenda

Welcome and Sign in – Contact List updates,

Monthly reminders:

• All are welcome,
• Meeting regularity,
• http://hillwoodmanor.wordpress.com Blog and Password – minutes, news, photos, updates available on the blog – please create a network of information amongst ourselves to spread the word.

Recap of last meeting:

• update on fliers and neighborhood celebration
• update on hole at Alexander and Susan
• update on work and road conditions
• Bakun Petition (tabled permanently)
• Radar Schedule arranged by Cliff
• designing fliers.  (Special thanks to Sarah Williams)

New Business:

• fliers delivered – thanks everyone.
• neighborhood party now more likely National Night Out participation (August 7th, 2008)
• hole at Alexander and Susan still present
• update on radar placement (thanks, Cliff)
• any suspicious activity?

Delegation of Responsibilities:

• Sign (Special Thanks to Nancy McMillin – who’s next?)

Presentations:

• Latest Police Blotter Report – Lt. Ed DeAngelo (?)
• Lyme Disease – John LeMasney

Question of the month:

• What can this group still help us to do? Do we still need this group past December?
• Open Questions, Reports, Concerns

Thanks!

I just spent this evening walking around with my wife and boys delivering notes of invitation to lots of houses in Hillwood Manor. For those of you who don’t know about our group, we’ve been meeting for a few years, and we’re glad that you’re considering joining us. As the note says, there is no cost nor obligation to be a part of the group, we are simply interested in getting together, helping each other, and having some fun enjoying each other’s company. Have an issue, or problem? Maybe together, we can solve it.

To find out more information, you may want to take a look at the meeting schedule, our past meeting agendas or our strategic plan.

Welcome, and we hope to see you at the next meeting, Monday, July 7th, at 7 PM, in the Ewing Township Municipal Building.

John LeMasney

Hillwood Manor Community Group is having a meeting to discuss the following topics on Monday, June 2nd, 2007 at the Ewing Township Municipal Building, in the Council Meeting Room.

Agenda:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dckfm9fw_329f7g3r65f

Looking forward to seeing you all there – all are welcome!

Hillwood Manor Community Meeting, May 5th, 2008

Agenda

Welcome and Sign in – Contact List updates,

Monthly reminders: All are Welcome, Meeting regularity,

http://hillwoodmanor.wordpress.com Blog and Password – minutes, news, photos, updates available on the blog – please create a network of information amongst ourselves to spread the word.

Recap of April meeting: new signs, Lt. Ed DeAngelo, speed bumps, block party, and neighborhood festival, adoption of Strategic Plan.

New Business:

update on signs

update on fliers

update on hole at Alexander and Susan

update on water work and road conditions

any suspicious activity?

Who’d like to host the sign next month?

Who’d like to help with fliers? Special thanks to Sarah Williams

Presentation: Latest Police Blotter Report – Lt. Ed DeAngelo

Question of the month:

Open Questions, Reports, Concerns
Thanks!

We will be having a Hillwood Manor Group Meeting in the Council Meeting Chamber at 7 pm on Monday evening. May 5th, 2008.

All are welcome, the meeting is free. We will address current happenings in our community, and consider future directions for our plans.

John.

Hillwood Manor Community Group will be meeting on Monday night at 7 pm in the Ewing Township Municipal Building. Specifically this month we will be meeting in the Officer Training Room (entrance by the Courtroom) rather than our regular meeting space (the Council Meeting room)

We look forward to seeing you there, and remember, all are welcome.

John.

Just a reminder for our group members – We have a meeting tonight (3/3/2008) at the Municipal Building at 7 pm in the Council Meeting Room (upstairs) – Looking forward to seeing everyone there.

John.

I got an email a few days ago from one of our collective friends and a potential key to revealing our history:

I recently visited my mom and read the article in the Ewing Observer. I can verify that my dad,  Alexander Savonick, did indeed name the streets in Hillwood Manor after his family: Alexander (Drive), my mom Alice (Way), my sister Nancy(Lane), my brother Tom (Thomas Place) and me — Susan (Drive). He named Bakun Way after his good friend Marty Bakun. The rest of the streets up the hill were named by his associates Herb Moore and Bob Lang. He started building [Hillwood Manor] around 1952 on farm land that he purchased from Mr Drake and Mr Snook. I still hold Hillwood Manor dear to my heart — even though I [now live elsewhere]. Thank you Carol (Susan) Savonick Petruska

I was touched by the message and decided to write Carol back:

Carol, I’d really like to share your story on the blog and our group, if that’s all right with you. I’ll make sure to keep the details of where you live and your email private, but I think we’d all love to know these details are facts rather than the relative rumor we have right now. Would you mind?

For instance, for starters, I think we’d all like to know how Bakun is properly pronounced. Some say ‘Bacon’ and some say ‘Bakoon’ Others, usually who live on the street say ‘Bocken’ which is the supposed ‘right’ way. Can you clarify?

Thanks so much for your kind email – we all hold Hillwood Manor dear to our hearts too, and have a great debt of gratitude to your family for the wonderful places that we all live.

John LeMasney, Hillwood Manor Community Group Coordinator.

Carol was gracious in her response:

I have no problem with sharing the info. I grew up in the 50’s and early 60’s on Nancy Lane. My dad used to have a water company there that supplied well water (long gone) to the neighborhood and I used to read the water meters for my dad. I recognize the Kalafut’s name as there were 2 families in Hillwood Manor — one on the corner of Nancy Lane and Alexander Drive and one on Bakun Way..(pronounced Bah {as in sheep} and kun rhymes with gun). Definitely not Bacon. I will be in Ewing the first of April – maybe I can get to meet some of the neighborhood. Thanks for letting me “tell my tale”. Carol