National Night Out, Tuesday October 5th
Join your neighbors and families for a fun evening as we celebrate National Night Out on Tuesday evening, October 5th beginning at 6:30 pm! We will gather at Glenville Park on the Windsong side. We will have the 
Dog Haus food truck (with special pricing courtesy of the NCPNA) the MTA shaved ice truck, games and a visit from our Richardson Police and Fire Fighters around 7:30-7:45. There will also be a performance by the popular Berkner High School Band Drum Line! All attendees will participate in a raffle for some great prizes! Some tables and seating will be available but feel free to bring a chair.
Last year, the city of Richardson won 1st place in the nation for our population and we want to repeat that award! Come out and show your spirit and support to help keep our neighborhood safe!
Halloween Decorating Contest & Trick or Treating
As in past years, we will have a Halloween Themed Yard of the Month and neighborhood trick or treating this year. To maximize the time for decorating, the YOTM judging will occur the weekend of October 23 and 24th so be sure to decorate early if you want to participate. First place will receive a $50 gift card and second place, $25 gift card.
Then join us on Sunday evening 10/31 for neighborhood trick or treating. Last year many residents bagged candy individually beforehand and set-up tables in their yard, which worked great. Feel free to leave your front lights on if you want to participate and we hope to see you out in your yard or walking the streets Sunday evening. It’s a great time for sugar overload and costumes galore!
North College Park Neighborhood Facebook Group
NCPNA has an active private Facebook group. One of the administrators will quickly approve your admission to the group. Click here to go to the group page: facebook.com/groups/ncpna
Yard of the Month
Our dedicated judges again roved the neighborhood looking for yards to feature for the Yard of the month.
The Runner-up for September, Ann Lendvay, 810 Rainbow. She received a $25 Bruce Miller’s Nursery gift certificate.
The Winner for September, Steven Upham, 1113 E. Spring Valley Road, he received $25 Bruce Miller’s Nursery gift certificate.
Book Club Update
Our next neighborhood book club meet-up is Sunday, September 26th from 1:30-3pm. Location is April Anderson’s front yard at 1111 Morningstar Trail. We look forward to discussing “Loving Frank” by Nancy Horan a debut novel about a clandestine love affair between Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright. We’d love to have you with us. You can join any time by emailing April Anderson at adawn0105@gmail.com.
Step-tember
StepTember is off to a great start! A motivated group of steppers has started moving around the neighborhood and we’d love to have you join us. If you’d like to enter, simply post your steps from any tracking device each Sunday on FB (or email April Anderson at adawn0105@gmail.com) for steps completed Sunday-Saturday of each week.
The person with the most steps at the end of the month receives a $50 Amazon gift card and the person with the 2nd most steps qualifies for a $25 Amazon gift card (for the runner-up). You will also be entered in a drawing for an Amazfit Band 5 Fitness Tracker if you submit on time each of the 4 Sundays in September and have all your final numbers submitted by Saturday October 2nd at 3pm. We will have an end of event celebration for all the steppers At Glenville Park once winners and final step counts have been collected (date TBD).
Small Business Spotlight
If you have a small business you want to highlight, please email April Anderson at adawn0105@gmail.com for consideration. We want to support you!
Crime Watch Report
We met with our Crime Patrol officer and he reports that we continue to do very well.
We sound like a broken record, but the major problem continues to be vehicle break-ins. Most of there are just opportunistic, thieves, look in your vehicle windows and if they see someting they will open the often unlocked door and take the item. If locked and item looks promising like a laptop or wallet, they will easily break a window. Simple defense, lock your vehicle and don’t leave anything of value visible.
Be alert for porch pirates and remove your items promptly. Enlist a neighbor to pick up things if you won’t be home. Sign up for the alerting service from the vendors which will alert you by text that a package has arrived.
Stay alert, if you see activity in the neighborhood which does not feel right, call 911. We can always use additional crime patrol volunteers, on foot or in your vehicle. Contact our crime patrol coordinator for more information. Doug Freeman at d1004free@aol.com
Welcome Baskets
Kyle & Chelsea Veater, 1212 Serenade |
Erica Kasper, 1103 Sundail |
The Welcome Basket Committee is made up of Linda Brown 214-693-1612, Ioana Bates 469-396-5480 and Vicki Bean 214-949-7805 V.Bean@att.net. We put baskets with home items and food together for our new neighbors and invite them to join the North College Neighborhood Association. Please contact us if you know of a new neighbor on your block! The baskets are sponsored by the NCPNA.
Booster Signs
If you want a “booster” sign, please let Vicki Bean V.Bean@att.net know and we will get you a sign.
Annual Meeting Postponed
The annual meeting will be held at a later date due to difficulties in finding venue.
Newsletter
This newsletter is the collaboration of several of your neighbors. It would not be possible without their support, thank you!
If you did not receive this newsletter in your email, you can easily sign up to receive your very own copy. We send out a newsletter every month with an occasional special email. We promise to not share your email address and we won’t drown you in emails. Go to http://ncpna.org/enews and fill out the form. Be sure and look for the confirmation email and confirm the subscription.
About North College Park Neighborhood Association
NCPNA is a neighborhood association and, unlike a homeowner’s association, we do not have any authority over anyone’s property. We sponsor activities and projects to help make our neighborhood a more pleasant and safe place to live. Volunteers are always needed, and we look forward to hearing about new ways to achieve our collective goals.
Contact Robert Grinsfelder at rmgrins@aol.com if you can help with any of these activities.
John Slaughter
NCPNA Newsletter Editor