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Saturday

July 11, 2009

2 - 4 pm

All members of the club are invited to attend. We will have the clubhouse opened for those who need relief from the heat. There will be hotdogs, sandwiches and drinks provided. You can help by bringing a dish to share.

LAST NAME BRING

A – G Salad or Veggie

H – P Chips and Dips

Q – Z Fruit or Sweets

***If you have an ice cream maker and are willing to show off your favorite homemade recipe, please bring it along***

A flyer about the party here.

If you are planning on attending and can help out with this, please let me know by giving me a call at 291-2980 so I can plan appropriately. Jan Chiles

Pool Opening Party

Lake Sherwood Acres had its annual on Saturday, May 31^st and it was a huge success. It was organized by Vera McCray (standing second from left). Over 125 members and guests attended to enjoy an afternoon of meeting friends and neighbors. The afternoon included lots of food, a 35 foot slip/slide and dip inflatable, 2 pinatas, a water balloon war, a relay race and a coin toss. As a member of Lake Sherwood Acres, you can participate on the swim team, take tennis lessons, have fun at our various parties, enjoy our Wine Socials, and many other club events.

Please Note the Changes
Beginner Tennis Lessons at Lake Sherwood Club

Location: The Lake Sherwood Club (3831 Lake Sherwood East)

When: Session 2 : July 20 – 30^th Mon-Thurs
Time: 9:00am – 10:30am

Cost: $50/child for club members (per session) $75/child for club non members (per session)

Lessons offered to children ages 8 – 13 years old.
Limited to 12 children per session.
For more info, call 302-5498 email – veramccray06@yahoo.com or the club @ 292-1007

Summer 2008 Tennis Highlights

Vera McCray is moving

Vera was instrumental in organizing many of our social events, including but not limited to: Wine Tasting Social, Easter Egg Hunt, Lake Sherwood Club parties and many more. She also was responsible for organizing the Tennis lessons for the children and last but certainly least, she was in charge of changing the Lake Sherwood Acres signs at the front of our subdivision.We probably need at least 3 people to replace her but will settle for as many as are willing to volunteer. According to Vera, changing the signs is a very simple task. She planned out what is going to be put up and put the letters into muffin tins. That way all the plastic letters are sorted out for each board. It takes about 20 minutes to put the letters up.If you are interested, please contact
Don Frattini, djfrattini@cox.net or 291-5295 or
Lynn Rogstad, lynnrogstad@cox.net or751-3548.

If you see Vera, please thank her for all her activities and wish her well with her move.

TWO DPW PROJECTS

Dear residents,

I received the following update this morming from Nottingham Construction:
Scott Shean

Good morning Scott,

By now you may have noticed that the sweet sound of hammering has stopped in your neighborhood. It appears that the cofferdam sheeting is driven to the proper depths. The excavation has begun and you may see a little dump truck activity hauling off spoils. We will be mobilizing another pipe crew to begin Line “C” in about a week. This activity will not really affect your neighborhood. From a design stand point we are working out issues with Line “B” and I will give you some notice before we mobilize for the micro-tunneling.

As soon as the excavation of PS136 is completed we will pour a “dry” bottom and begin to form the walls for this lift station.

Hope this gives you some insight.
Thanks, for your support,
Mike Nolan
Nottingham Construction Co., LLC
13073 Plank Rd.
Baker, LA

Dear Fellow Residents,

As some of you have already noticed, there is extra activity in our subdivision because of the upgrade of the sewer lift station and lines in our area. The most noticeable will be the equipment and work on the property east of the Club, the movement of old concrete foundations and dirt by dump truck through our subdivision streets, and for the residents along Weiner Creek, the clearing of brush along the top of the bank of the creek.

Following is an update on two DPW projects in our area.

Dam Maintenance Project

During our routine inspection of the dam, Leif Grotness and I observed erosion on the banks and on the floor of the apron where some of the 2007 DPW repairs have failed. We contacted Tom Stevens of DPW and he visited the site last week. He saw the damage and agreed that some work needed to be done to protect the west bank and floor. He committed to performing the work this summer.

Since the meeting with Tom Stevens, we have learned that there will be a new sewer line installed on the Weiner Creek servitude that will cross the end of the dam. Considerable work is planned to protect the line in that area from the erosion by the dam discharge, and the two projects will have to work together. Overall, it should be to our benefit to strengthen the area.

Sewage System Upgrade Project

The DPW has let contracts for the upgrade of the sewage system in our area. Last week, Lynn Rogstad (President of the Club Board), Leif Grotness, Dick Hevey, and I (SLA Directors) met with Mike Nolan, Project Manager for Nottingham Construction Company-Baker, LA, which has been awarded the contract from DPW to construct the new large sewage lift station next to the Club property. The project includes replacing the existing lift station with a large station built mostly below ground. It will require a "coffer dam" of sheet piles that will be driven into the ground to allow excavation to a depth of 40 feet. The piles will be removed after the construction. Also included is the upgrade of the lift station on our ZZ property (Near canal at Lake Sherwood Ave. East), as well as the lines to and from the main station and the buried line across the discharge of LSA dam.

Work has started on the main lift station and the right-of-way for the sewer line upgrade in Weiner Creek is being cleared of all brush and small trees less than 6 inches.

Mike Nolan will be attending the SLA April 6th Board meeting to make a presentation and answer questions on the project. Our emphasis to him will be to keep our streets clean, obey our traffic laws, and to repair any damage resulting from the construction. In this regard, I ask your help in monitoring their performance in these areas, and in letting us know of any problems that they are creating for the subdivision and its residents.

Status: Speed Humps

3/26/2009
Dear fellow residents,

Last month, on behalf of the SLA Board, I wrote to you telling you that the DPW had completed the traffic study for Lake Sherwood and had proposed a plan to install "traffic calming" devices in our subdivision. We asked for your input on how we might modify the DPW proposal to better fit our neighborhood.

A number of your responses urged us to delay the decision until the construction on Coursey and Sherwood was complete to see what impact this project has upon our traffic patterns. After some deliberation, the Board agreed that a delay of a couple of months was a reasonable course of action. We have since contacted the DPW, and they have agreed to conduct a second study after construction is complete.

Work on the Sherwood Forest-Coursey intersection is moving along well, and the left turn lanes were reopened yesterday. The official ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled for Friday April 3rd. During the next couple of weeks, the DPW will again deploy traffic meters to measure traffic through our subdivision. A few weeks later, the data should be ready for their analysis and they will provide us with an updated report.

In the interim, we will continue our current level of enforcement of our the stop signs and speed limits.

We thank you for your responses and we will keep you informed.

Scott Shean, President

February 28, 2009

Dear Neighbors,

For some time, we have been plagued with excessive traffic in our neighborhood, and with a certain percentage of that traffic ignoring our stop signs and speed limits, the odds are increasing that we will have a serious, maybe life-threatening accident. Attached is a letter from the Directors of the Sherwood Lake Association describing our past efforts and our current plans for addressing this problem. After reading the attachment, If you have comments, we want to hear them and incorporate them into our future plans.

Sherwood Lake Association

Free Standing Generators

We have had many requests for permits to install free standing permanent generators in Lake Sherwood Acres. Attached is the necessary information from EBR Permit and Inspection Division on the standards required for obtaining a building permit from the city/parish for the installation of a Generator. 389-5205.

Our permit is in addition to the city/parish requirements. This can be done via e-mail to Dick Hevey(rhevey@bellsouth.net) using the permit application that can be found on the website here.

Alternative Energy Policy Updated on SLA Council Page