A BIG HUGE THANK YOU GOES OUT TO JEAN SNOKE!!

Venetian Gardens was starting to look like Venetian Jungle.

Thank you Jean for taking the time to attend to over growth and weeds in the entrance of the neighborhood. It is people like you Jean that make a difference!!
We REALLY appreciate you helping out.

The Association is currently accepting bids from lawn maintenance services to regularly tend to the entrance areas. Please contact the Association President, Beth Thomas, at 278-1003 if you have any questions or want to refer a company.

Thanks again Jean!!!!!

Allen's Creek Cleanup Day

Saturday-October 11, 2008

Starts at 8:30AM

Venetian Gardens and El de Oro West are joining together this year to cleanup Allen's Creek.

Looking for some fun with your small boat? Do you also want to get some exercise? A little hard work can even be a little fun, while doing your community a very necessary service.

Allen's Creek Cleanup is scheduled for 10/11/08. This is open to all residents. Residents with boats are especially needed but you don’t have to have a boat to help out.

For boat access, we have received permission to use the boat ramp at 1890 Wateroak Dr.

Keep Pinellas Beautiful to provide, at no cost to the HOA, the use of a giant dumpster, some long gripping tools, trash bags, and other items necessary to pluck debris and trash from our local land and waterways. Volunteers on foot walk the channel edge and pick up trash. Volunteers with small boats, with other volunteers as crew members, navigate all accessible remote areas and clean up everything in sight.

Let's all come out and help make a difference.

Annual Neighborhood Garage Sale

Saturday, March 1st, 2008
8:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.

Join your neighbors and have a garage sale! Check your kitchen, closets, cabinets, and garages for those items which have been set aside to be dealt with "later," but for which the time never came.

Those not participating kindly park your car in your driveway so that traffic can get by.

If you have not yet turned in your updated contact information for the neighborhood registry, association dues and or donations an Association Officer will be walking around and will be happy to collect it.

Mark Your Calendar

Saturday March 1st - Neighborhood Garage Sale
Saturday April 26th - Neighborhood Picnic

Love Your Neighborhood Week is February 10th -16th

Love Your Neighborhood week marks the Associations annual new year kickoff.
All residents are asked to submit updated contact information for the neighborhood registry. Association members are asked to send in their annual dues. Residents are asked to commit to an annual donation. New members recruitment appointments are available.The homeowner’s association is a voluntary organization. Every dollar collected is put to good use.

Donations collected pay for the neighborhood common area maintenance expenses which include, but are not limited to, the following: Progress Energy bill for electricity for entrance lighting, Pinellas Utilities bill for reclaimed water to operate the sprinkler system, general entrance upkeep, maintenance and beautification expenses.

Association dues pay the above expenses if not enough donations are collected. In addition to paying for all association expenses such as general liability insurance policy annual premium, banking fees, annual report filing fee, office supplies, copy expenses, annual picnic expenses and any other association activity expense.

If you are not interested in joining the homeowner’s association at this time but would still like to contribute to the bills and expenses of our neighborhood, PLEASE consider making a donation.
If you can not make a cash donation please consider donating your time.

The dues are only $24 annually.
Please drop off your contact updates, dues or donations in the VGHA mailbox.

Updated resident contact sheet will be distributed once we receive everyone's information. We hope to distribute befoe the end of March.