October 2012 Latest: Yard Sale & Newsletter info

See what you're missing out on:

Nextdoor.com - This private site REPLACES our quarterly newsletters. Currently we have over 150 members in 121 households – which is over 20% of our community. This site is helping us keep current and connecting with news, activities and recommendations. You have full control of your own information.

Current upcoming activity is a Yard Sale on Saturday, Oct 13^th from 8am-noon. There are some restrictions so you need to see if they affect you.

Plus this month we are having a membership drive contest.  Where we need to grow our members by at least 40 more. If we reach our goal, we will be entered into a drawing for $500 to go towards a community party.  Also allowed is if you and your spouse/partner use separate email addresses you can add the other person.

So if you Own-Rent-Lease it’s okay to join.  There is a verification process to secure our privacy.

https://hillpointfarms.nextdoor.com/join

Your flyer code: 25E08

See you on nextdoor.com

Sat, Oct 13, 2012 - Community Yard Sale

Saturday, October 13, 2012

8am to Noon

Let's clear out our garages & closets! 

This will be our first Fall community-wide fall yard sale. 
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**PLEASE NOTE: If you live in THE VISTA'S or THE WOOD'S - your by-laws state that you CANNOT have a yard sale at your dwelling. 

If you do have items to sell you have three options. 

1. List items in the "Buy/Sell/Free" section of this website or, 

2. If you know of someone that already lives in one of the other sub-divisions in Hillpoint Farms - ask them to share their driveway with you. (That's a good excuse to visit with them as well.) or, 

3. Make yourself known by "commenting" here on this event that you would like to share space with another neighbor. Maybe we can find someone that has a similar theme to their items (like: baby stuff, exercise equipment, etc) or, 

There's always room in our driveway for someone else to sell, but you'll need to be here to sell your own goods. 
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Don't have much? Share a driveway with a neighbor. 

After the sale we'll have an organization come out to take the remaining items that didn't sell. 

If you have large items, or items of special interest, you can also list them in our Buy/Sell/Free section of Nextdoor.com. 

Here's a map link to give to your friends for location: 

MAP: http://goo.gl/maps/4pVBH 
(Note: The Vista's & The Wood's are NOT included in the area for Yard Sales) 

Questions? send an email at: hillpointfarms@live.com

Community Carnival & Picnic Sept 30th 2-5pm

ALL-in-the-Hillpoint Farms Community Carnival & Picnic

Sunday, September 30, 2012

  2:00pm - 5:00pm

Location: Events Field - on Hillpoint Blvd (same place as other community events)



A sweet and simple afternoon for everyone's enjoyment.

What we'll have: 

Southside Baptist Church is suppling the carnival games. Creekside Community Church is hosting the carnival games. 

We have lots of treats and prizes we didn't use for National Night Out 

YOU Bring: 

Your own food (picnic); Chairs or blanket 

Available at the Picnic:  We have some condiments - ketchup, mustard, relish 
Other - Chips, soft drinks & water 


Music: ??? – Your ideas. 

Questions?
send email to: Cusi at hillpointfarms@live.com

To know the latest information on this event or other things going on in the community, join us on:

hillpointfarms.nextdoor.com  This site for now, REPLACES Hillpoint Farms newsletter.

Also, since this site is private and only available to residents of the community, there is a verification process.  (So if you rent, lease or own in the neighborhood in any of our subdivisions, you'll be able to join.) As of Sept 9th, we have over 17% of the community on the site (over 112 residents on it.) 

     https://nextdoor.com/invite/46e5c7b0536dc03af815

Next Event: ALL IN THE FAMILY CARNIVAL PICNIC

Next Event:  All in the Family Carnival Picnic

This is a community event and ALL input and participation is appreciated and encouraged.  I love doing things to help bring us together for events but it does take a lot of work. 

Our weather for National Night Out wasn’t the best.  As a result, we have LOTS of prizes and things we purchased for the carnival portion but were unable to use.   

Here’s the basic plan:

I’ve casually talked with some of you about having a simple-to-prepare-for, Fall event.  The idea is to have a carnival type of event and combine it with a big family picnic.  What do you think?

Entertainment:

Creekside Community Church would still like to host the games at the event and we also have access to a dozen or so games that are owned by Southside Baptist Church.

Food:

Picnic! Bring Your Own Picnic. We’ll provide the chips and some drinks that were not used at NNO.

Music:

??? – Your ideas.

Other Entertainment:

??? – Pet parade?

Puppet show

Law enforcement visit? (Fire trucks)

Date:

We can’t please everyone, and we know MANY kids are busy with sports. So we need to have a general consensus of what day would be best:

Saturday or Sunday AFTERNOON on:  Sept 22/23; Sept 29/30; OR  Oct 6/7

Why these dates?  Weather is usually more comfortable during this time; everyone's back into regular "school" mode including myself.

Let’s see what we can come up with.   

Reply to this or send me a message at hillpointfarms@live.com

by the way, if you're not on hillpointfarms.nextdoor.com we have 99 members on it and several groups have formed.

Virginia Pilot's article on Hillpoint Farms and Nextdoor.com

Here's the article on Hillpoint Farms and Nextdoor.com


http://hamptonroads.com/2012/08/suffolk-neighbors-use-social-network-help-build-community

Newsletter Replacement

We have been asked and we just want to let everyone know in Hillpoint Farms that the hillpointfarms.nextdoor.com site IS a replacement of our quarterly newsletters. The reason for this is because our editor is moving away from our community. Plus with this website we can (all) post things as they come up and we save on postage. 

What you're missing right now: We have people selling items, a couple of groups started, a neighbor looking for someone that offers piano lessons, updates as they come up for upcoming events and meetings. 

We are also planning a day to have a community "carnival" make up day since we we're able to do this during the National Night Out event.

Hillpointfarms.Nextdoor.com has over 83 households/over 90 members on it and growing.  So if you live, Rent, Lease, Own in the community (any of the subdivisions) you are welcome to join. Keep in mind there is a verification process to help keep our site private.

This is the Nextdoor Manifesto. 

The Nextdoor Manifesto

We are for neighbors.

For neighborhood barbecues. For multi-family garage sales. For trick-or-treating.

We're for slowing down, children at play.

We're for sharing a common hedge and an awesome babysitter.

We're for neighborhood watch. Emergency response. And for just keeping an eye out for a lost cat.

We believe waving hello to the new neighbor says, “Welcome” better than any doormat.

We believe technology is a powerful tool for making neighborhoods stronger, safer places to call home.

We're all about online chats that lead to more clothesline chats.

We believe fences are sometimes necessary, but online privacy is always necessary.

We believe strong neighborhoods not only improve our property value, they improve each one of our lives.

We believe that amazing things can happen by just talking with the people next door.

We are Nextdoor. We are simply you and your neighbors, together.

https://hillpointfarms.nextdoor.com/invite/46e5c7b0536dc03af815

National Night Out - Still ON - Just scaled down a bit

Sometimes we have to make adjustments when weather and other things are out of our control. So here's what we decided to do.

We decided to have the event on a scaled down version.

Went to the church this morning to pick up the games but with so much rain, we nor any truck would be able to get to the container. So unfortunately, we will NOT have games.  We can schedule some other time to do a mini carnival for a future event.  

We also decided not to have the DJ since we weren't sure what would happened with the weather.  

We do have:

FOOD - Hot dogs (LOTS), chips, drinks, cotton candy, snow cones & Rita's samples

VENDORS - some have prizes to give out, gifts and giveaways for all.

Bounce house still coming

7:30-7:40 - The City of Suffolk Motorcade will arrive - fire truck, police, city officials, etc

We have three canopies/awnings for food and if you have one we can borrow for the couple of hours ANY SIZE, we'd all be greatful. 

Hope to see you all there for some, part or all. 

Will still need volunteers for setting up (Rick is out there right now), taking a trash bag home, and clean up.