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March, 2016 Linkwood News Linkwood Civic Club Officers & Directors: President: Barbara Shurberg Vice President: John Nienhuser Secretary: Brent Johnson Treasurer: Paul Landis Directors: Chad Arnold John Borton Les Halpern Sean Maher Stan Roper Newsletter Editor: Barbara Shurberg [email protected] Next Deadline 6/1/2016 Inside this issue: President’s Message St. Luke’s Church 2 Braeswood Super Neighborhood Dog Owners Budget Blinds 3 Linkwood Ladies 4 Lorian Welsh Your Email Address Village Plumbing 5 City Recycling 6 Cleburne Cafeteria 7 Civic Club Dues New Flags Unfurl City Bike Plan Willow Waterhole Linkwood Park New Linkwood Website 8 9 10 11 12 1950-2016 Linkwood Civic Club Spring Meeting and Dinner Saturday, April 30, 2016 3:300pm – 6:00pm At the Linkwood Park Community Center 3699 Norris Complimentary BarBQ Buffet for All Dues Paid Linkwood Families Guests: $17 per Adult and $12 per Child Payable that day _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Cut here_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ RSVP TO Barbara Shurberg BY April 16, 2016 Email to: [email protected] or drop off this reservation form at 3707 Linkwood Drive (mail slot in garage door). Resident Name: _______________________________________ # Adults _______ # Children _______ Attending Meet and hear from: Larry Green, City Council Member, District K Donald Perkins, Chief of Staff to Councilman Green Barbara Shurberg, President, Linkwood Civic Club Board of Directors and Officers Election Vehicle decal distribution and SEAL Security Yard signs to paid members

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Page 1: Linkwood Newslinkwoodhouston.com/march2016newsletter.pdfThose over 69 can apply for a card that is good for free Metro services. You can get more information on these You can get more

March, 2016

Linkwood News

Linkwood Civic Club

Officers & Directors:

President:

Barbara Shurberg

Vice President:

John Nienhuser

Secretary:

Brent Johnson

Treasurer:

Paul Landis

Directors:

Chad Arnold

John Borton

Les Halpern

Sean Maher

Stan Roper

Newsletter Editor:

Barbara Shurberg

[email protected]

Next Deadline

6/1/2016

Inside this issue:

President’s Message St. Luke’s Church

2

Braeswood Super Neighborhood

Dog Owners Budget Blinds

3

Linkwood Ladies 4

Lorian Welsh Your Email Address

Village Plumbing

5

City Recycling 6

Cleburne Cafeteria 7

Civic Club Dues

New Flags Unfurl

City Bike Plan

Willow Waterhole

Linkwood Park New Linkwood Website

8

9

10

11

12

1950-2016

Linkwood Civic Club

Spring Meeting and Dinner

Saturday, April 30, 2016

3:300pm – 6:00pm At the Linkwood Park Community Center

3699 Norris

Complimentary BarBQ Buffet for All Dues Paid Linkwood Families

Guests: $17 per Adult and $12 per Child Payable that day

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Cut here_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

RSVP TO Barbara Shurberg BY April 16, 2016

Email to: [email protected] or drop off this reservation form at 3707 Linkwood Drive (mail slot in garage door). Resident Name: _______________________________________ # Adults _______ # Children _______ Attending

Meet and hear from: Larry Green, City Council Member, District K

Donald Perkins, Chief of Staff to Councilman Green Barbara Shurberg, President, Linkwood Civic Club

Board of Directors and Officers Election

Vehicle decal distribution and SEAL Security Yard signs to paid members

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Message from Our President

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Linkwood News

Dear Friends,

As I hope you read on page one, the Annual Meeting of Linkwood Civic Club is April 30. This is one of two or three times a year

that we have any opportunity to meet each other, welcome our new neighbors, hear what is going on in our city and our subdi-

vision and elect officers and directors for the coming year. So I really hope to see every one of you there.

There are many of you who have never attended a LCC event. There are many of you whom I have never met in the 6+ years I

have lived here. And I think it is a shame. Yes, I know we are all so busy with work, family, relaxation time, fun time and more.

We have a small subdivision, compared to our nearby subdivisions. So I want to personally invite you to attend the April meet-

ing and enjoy the delicious BBQ dinner catered by Charlie’s BBQ (free to those who have paid their 2016 civic club dues).

Our neighborhood has changed and is changing more daily. We have many new homes that have been built and others under

construction. We are going to embark on an exciting and well needed street repaving and drainage project which will enhance

our area even more.

We are pleased to welcome Blair and Suzanne Martin and O.P. Banks—our newest residents. And more new people are mov-

ing in all the time. Hopefully, if everyone attends the annual meeting, you will have the opportunity to meet them!

I found this quote from Sela Ward, American actress, author and producer, that kind of expresses what I am trying to express:

“For me, when living in Los Angeles and New York, where I don’t know my neighbors, where people don’t necessarily care if

they know their neighbors, I’m missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger...the exchanges between people, the

caring and the shared history with people”.

See you April 30,

Barbara Shurberg

President, Linkwood Civic Club

St. Luke’s Presbyterian

Church

713.667.6531

www.stlukespres.org

8915 Timberside Dr.

St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church

Rev. William S. Harbison, Pastor

Sunday School 9:00 a.m. Worship 10:00 a.m. Fellowship 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School for adults, children, and youth begins at 9 a.m.

Weekly Bible Study Class—Women of the Word—WOW meets on Wednesdays from 5:30-7 p.m. Call the church office for more info (713.667.6531).

Worship at 10:00 a.m. blends contemporary and more tradi-tional music and liturgy. We hope you will join us to experi-ence worship in fresh and exciting ways every Sunday!

Holy Week at St. Luke’s

3/20 Palm Sunday Service @ 10:00 a.m.

3/25 Good Friday Service of Darkness @ 7 p.m.

3/26 Easter Egg Hunt @ 11:00 a.m. Bring your Easter basket!

3/27 Easter Worship @ 10:00 a.m.

St. Luke’s Welcomes You!

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March 2016

News from Braeswood Super Neighborhood Submitted by John Nienhuser, President

The following website shares information that should be of interest to Linkwood residents. Planhouston.org provides information that has been accumulated in the process of generating the first ever general plan for Houston. The plan was adopted by the Houston City Council on September 30, 2015. This website includes a data base of all the plans that were submitted to the planning committee by the various organizations throughout Houston. If you search that database, you can find two specific plans that impact Linkwood. Another item that may be of interest to Linkwood residents is that Metro does provide discounted fares for Houston riders who are sixty-five and older. Riders who are 65 to 69 can apply for a card that provides a 50% discount of the fare. Those over 69 can apply for a card that is good for free Metro services. You can get more information on these programs at ridemetro.org or by calling 713 635-4000. The Willow Waterhole is sponsoring their 2016 Music Fest with a Jazz festival on April 23 and 24. There will be 17 pro-fessional bands and ten area schools participating in the event. It will be open from 11 am to 10 pm on the 23rd and from10:30 am to7 pm on the 24th. A craft market will feature more than 30 vendors and six of Houston’s finest food trucks will be on site. See flyer on page 11 of this newsletter. The next meeting of the Braeswood Super Neighborhood will be at 6:30 on Thursday, April 21 at the Linkwood Park Community Building. We will be trying a new format for the meeting and working to get greater participation from all of our subdivisions so that the BSN can be a more effective advocate for our area.

REMINDER FOR DOG OWNERS

In case you were not aware, in Houston there is a noise ordinance that makes it a petty misdemeanor to allow a dog to bark for more than 5 minutes if the barking is plainly audible from a distance of 100 feet. Some dog owners might not realize that when they let their dogs out in the backyard and they continue to bark, that it is very annoying to your neighbors. Actually your neighbor can call 311 and file a com-plaint against you or even hire an attorney to write you a letter threatening to sue because your dogs are a nuisance. Respect your neighbors with the same respect that you would expect!

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Linkwood News

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LINKWOOD LADIES SHARE THE LOVE AND ALSO ENJOY GOOD FOOD!! The Linkwood Ladies shared some Linkwood love at their February meeting held at the home of Suzi Phelps. The ladies enjoyed a delicious lunch, followed by some heartfelt craft-ing. Colorful handmade valentines were sent to former Linkwood Ladies who have moved away or are unable to attend LWL meetings. It was a fun morning of big hearts. The March Linkwood Ladies meeting welcomed writer, speaker, and recognized culinary

expert Elizabeth Escobedo for the program Herbs: From Garden to Table. Chef Elizabeth, to-gether with Linkwood’s own Anna Highnote, teamed up to deliver an aromatic meal that in-cluded herb pesto, mushroom and sage risotto, lavender-lemon shortbread, mint lemonade, and lavender dark chocolate truffles. In addition to the herb presentation, Linkwood Lady E Jane Myers contributed to the natural meeting theme and shared the benefits of Essential Oils.

Coming in April, Linkwood Ladies will enjoy a hands-on art presentation by one of its new-est members! Artist Kim Falconer will share her talents with the group the morning of Wednesday, April 13th at the home of Rhonda Needham. Contact Linkwood Ladies VP of Communications Jenna Arnold at [email protected] for more information on this fun group of neighborhood women.

February Meeting

March Meeting

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Please make sure we have your email address. We are sending more and more things out to our residents via email. Our security alerts go out by email also.

So please send your email to [email protected] today. It will only be used for Linkwood items.

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Linkwood News

Recycling to Continue but Glass no Longer Accepted

The City of Houston and Waste Management have reached tentative agreement on a new 2-year contract that will allow the city to continue offering recycling services without any disruption. The only change in service that Houstonians will notice is the elimination of glass from the list of items that are acceptable for placement in the green curbside single-stream recycling bins. Glass, currently has no value on the commodities market, breaks down during collection and transportation and is unduly destructive to the processing equipment. Residents will still have the option of dropping off glass for recycling at the City's neighbor-hood depositories. In announcing the tentative agreement, Mayor Sylvester Turner thanked Waste Manage-ment and Houstonians for being willing to engage in shared sacrifice during a time of fiscal challenges. "This agreement makes good economic sense for the city and for Waste Man-agement," said Turner. "We want to reaffirm our commitment to recycling but we don't want the city tied down to a long-term contract that we cannot afford." The new arrangement, which City Council voted and passed on March 23, offers $2 million in savings over other options that had been on the table. The City's 6 Neighborhood Depository/Recycling Centers are located at: 9003 N. Main St. 77022 14400 Sommermeyer 77041 5565 Kirkpatrick 77028 2240 Central Street 77017 5100 Sunbeam 77033 10785 SW Freeway 77074 More information on the hours of operation and the materials that are accepted at the Neighborhood Depositories/Recycling Centers is available at http://www.houstontx.gov/

solidwaste/depositories.html Page 6

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Linkwood News

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Our thanks to all the residents of Linkwood who paid their 2015 Civic Club Dues. It is a new year and we appreciate everyone shown (by address) below who has already paid their 2016 dues . Add your name to the list today by sending your check for $275 made out to Linkwood Civic Club to Paul Landis, 3819 Linkwood, Houston 77025. Please note that we now take Credit Cards. There is a $10 fee to do so. Contact Paul with your card information at 214-850-9007. Also, when paying your dues, we encourage you to also pay the streetlight assessment. Options are $100 per year for 3 years or $300 in one payment. Thank you!

LTERRACE

9/15 = 60% 8707

8711

8716

8719

8723

8727

8731

8734

8735

3710

3711

3714

3717

3722

3723

3726

3730

3731

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3802

3803

3809

3810

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LMEADOW

13/26 = 50% 8611

8615

8702

8703

8707

8710

8714

8719

8722

8802

8811

8815

8822

LVIEW

17/24 = 71%

LFAIR

2/6 = 33% 8710

8719

LLEA

8/15 = 53% 3811

3814

3815

3818

3819

3822

3823

3834

LCOURT

3/4 = 75% 8818

8918

8926

S BRAES

2/15 = 13% 3711

3831 We welcome our new residents:

Blair and Suzanne Martin

and O.P. Banks

LPASS

3/9 = 33% 8610

8702

8802

OVERALL TO DATE:

73 PAID OUT OF 146 OWNERS = 50%

We are halfway there!!!

LWOOD

16/30 - 53% 3626

3627

3702

3703

3706

3707

3711

3715

3810

3811

3815

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NEW FLAGS AND FLAGPOLES FOR LINKWOOD AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD

In case you did not know, the Linkwood Civic Club is responsible for the 3 flags and flagpoles at the corner of S. Braeswood and Stella Link. We are proud of our new poles and flags that

really welcome people to the neighborhood!

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HOUSTON BIKE PLAN The City of Houston has released the draft of the Houston Bike Plan, the next step in the City’s efforts to help make Houston a safer, healthier, and more accessible bicycle-friendly city. “I’m pleased to release this ambitious, yet realistic plan for making Houston an outstanding place for riding a bicycle,” said Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. “Providing safe, convenient means for cycling to parks, schools and jobs is an important part of providing healthy mobility and recreation choices for Houstonians. I urge residents to review the document and then send us feedback. Your input is essential to ensuring we have a comprehensive plan for moving forward.” Once fully implemented, this Plan will triple the existing bikeway miles and provide six times more high comfort bikeways miles than what exists now.

The Plan includes:

Recommendations to create 328 miles of high-comfort bikeways through modest investments in short-term pro-jects such as street restriping and wayfinding signage on low-volume, low-speed streets.

Adding 86 miles of high-comfort bikeways through Key Connection Projects to help connect neighborhoods and activity centers to a city-wide network.

Establishing a long-term vision to add 861 miles in high-comfort bikeway facilities, including nearly 600 miles that will be developed over time as streets are reconstructed.

A Bicycle Toolbox that contains comprehensive approaches and recommendations for the design of bikeway pro-jects, a policy framework, and programs that will educate and encourage more people to bike.

With the draft Plan complete, the City is seeking feedback from Houstonians. Several online tools and activities are available to gather community feedback on the Houston Bike Plan website at houstonbikeplan.org. Please give us feedback on the plan by completing a brief online survey located at houstonbikeplan.org/participate. The Bike Plan website includes: An Interactive Plan Walkthrough of the draft Bike Plan, Draft Plan and Network Maps, Brief Survey and Interactive Map, a draft letter of support for individuals and for organizations to submit to the Mayor and Council Members, and a calendar of meetings and events where the Bike Plan will be presented. Please consider attending a CIP meeting in your area where the Bike Plan will be presented to the public! As a pilot project, the City will also be hosting a neighborhood workshop in the Gulfton and Sharpstown neighborhoods to develop and refine the draft plan to suit the community’s needs.

The public comment period closes April 11, 2016. The City will then modify the draft Plan based on the feedback re-ceived. Funding partners for the project include BikeHouston, Houston Parks Board, Houston-Galveston Area Council, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT).

For questions or comments, please email [email protected].

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SPRING HAS SPRUNG IN LINKWOOD PARK!!!! Submitted by Jenna Arnold

In an effort to raise money for Linkwood Park renovations, a milestone total of over $50K has been raised to date. APPLAUSE! This total includes a generous donation from District K Council Member Larry Green’s office, and of course donations from neighboring residents and businesses. Recently, Joe Turner, Director of City of Houston Parks and Recreation, toured Linkwood Park. As a result of this meeting, Houston Parks and Recreation and Houston Parks Board met with a landscape architect to review fees and answer scope questions on the Linkwood Park renovation plan. A design plan is in place, and Friends of Linkwood Park representatives will meet with the City of Houston and Houston Parks Board in April to review documents and understand the scope of implementation. In the meantime, fundraising efforts must continue. The 2nd Annual Pics and Picks in the Park is scheduled for Sunday, April 17 from 4-7pm. Art and music come together for an afternoon of park fun! Neighbor-hood photographer Joanna Brandt will be back to capture some family pics in the park (pets welcome too) -just in time for Mother’s Day gifts! Enjoy food trucks, fun and fabulous entertainment from neigh-borhood musicians – what more could you ask for on a Spring Sunday afternoon! Watch for more de-tailed information on this great event. Stay informed: Email [email protected] to get on the Families of South Braeswood email distribution list. Visit the blog at familiesofsouthbras-wood.wordpress.com, and “Like” Families of South Braeswood on Facebook! Thank you to all who have generously donated to this effort. For more information on the Linkwood Park Renovation plan, visit http://houstonparksboard.org/projects/linkwood_park. Checks can be made paya-ble to Houston Parks Board, 300 North Post Oak Lane, Houston, TX 77024 (note Linkwood Park on memo line of your check). All donations to the Houston Parks Board, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization, are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

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Thanks to Paul Henley, Linkwood Resident, the Linkwood Civic Club has a new website. You can read news of happenings in the neighborhood and download club items such as deed restrictions, bylaws, newsletters and more. Take a look at:

http://linkwoodhouston.com

Please send any news items concerning future or past events to [email protected].

Pictures are always welcome.