Newsletter 1

Southfork News

“FOR THE RESIDENTS, BY THE RESIDENTS”

Happy New Year January 2015

Here’s to the new year... May it bring more joy and success

And less grief and regret.

To our dreams...

May we never stop believing in them

And taking the actions that will make them a reality.

To our friends, loved ones, neighbors...

May we take the time to let them know

How much it means to us To have them in our lives.

Let us encourage more and criticize less, Give more and need less.

And whenever we can, Let us create harmony and peace.

To new beginnings...

Let us start fresh, right now, To make this the very best year ever.

A very Happy New Year to all of us!

January

January opens a new door for a new year and brings out days that are bright and clear.

It brings out days that are cold and gray, and shouts, “Come see what I brought out today.”

So please review all coming events here in the community that are listed in the monthly newsletter and to all old and new residents, come and enjoy..

Hope this is a start of a New Year with good health and fellowship!

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Newsletter Information

Note, any information to be placed in the newsletter, must be submitted between the 1st and 15th of

every month. Please contact the editor (Phyllis Grossi) at 567-6105, pkaygrossi@aim.com or drop off

the information at 11150 Mesquite Dr. All newsletters can be viewed in color on the web site @

www.floridacommunities.com (click on Southfork at bottom of page.)

Suggestion Box

Suggestion Box is to be used to deposit, Annual Dues, Letters to the Board etc. All letters must

be signed or they will not be honored.

Office of Southfork

10808 U.S. 98, Dade City, Fl 33525

Phone: (352) 523-0022, Fax: (352)523-0611 After Hours: (352)206-4080

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ASSOCIATION OFFICERS:

President Dot Cady 2014-2016

Vice President Tom Geyer 2014-2016

Secretary Carol Wild 2014-2016

Treasurer Mike Gallagher 2014-2016

Directors:

Priscilla Medeiros -2016

Jim McAdams 2014-2016

Harvey Barber 2015-2017

Roger Layne 2015-2017

Mary Freund 2015-2017

Emergency CONTACT NUMBERS IN PASCO COUNTY (911)

Pasco Cty Sheriff 352-521-5131 Dade City Police 352-521-1493

Hurricane Updates 800-427-8340 Dade City Hospital 352-521-1100

Sick List.

Mel Kinney Phyllis Fisher

Get Well Wishes To All!

In Memoriam

.Great month with no reporting of any loss of residents.

Our condolences to the family and friends!

New Residents

Michael & Betty Butler 11039 Maverick

Welcome to our Community of Southfork!

Wedding Anniversary

Rick & Diane Unger 1/3

Bob & Donna Elder 1/7

Bill & MJ Cline 1/27

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Ladies: We need you!!!!

Come play shuffleboard on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3pm. It’s easy and fun and a good

social time!!!

from the Association President

DEAR FRIENDS

SOUTHFORK STARTED THE HOLIDAY SEASON WITH A GREAT

PROGRAM. OVER 80 PEOPLE ENJOYED “THE CHARACTERS OF

CHRISTMAS”.

HUGE THANKS TO RUSS WILD, WHO CREATED, DIRECTED AND

WAS ONE OF THE CHARACTERS. OUR MANAGER, JOHN, MIKE

AND LINDA MILLER AND MARVIN RUSH WERE THE OTHER

CHARACTERS!

SPECIAL THANKS TO JOHN AND SANDI, WHO HELPED RUSS AND

I PUT THINGS TOGETHER!

THANKS TO OUR BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS TREE BUILDERS, TOM,

JUDY, MARY, JIM, JOE, JANET AND MARVIN.

ALSO, THANKS TO MARY JO AND ALL OF THE KITCHEN CREW.

YES, “IT DOES TAKE A VILLAGE”

WE ARE SO BLESSED TO LIVE HERE IN SOUTHFORK! HAPPY

HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE!

DOT

Southfork Annual Association Meeting

What: Our annual homeowner’s meeting is a chance to meet new neighbors,

catch up with old friends and discuss local issues. The January meeting has

been designated by our by-laws to be the first meeting of the fiscal year with

any elections/changes needed and to be voted on. Please plan to attend and

learn what’s happening in Southfork!

Where: Southfork Clubhouse, January 26th, 2015 at 9A.M. sharp!

Why: It’s your neighborhood, too! With our combined efforts, we can

continue to make our community a better social environment with better

communication to everyone. We need everyone’s support to help and vote on

issues that everyone is happy with! It is next to impossible to please everyone

but there are ways to try and appease most of the people.

Who: You, the homeowners, must have your yearly dues paid by January 15th

in order to vote on any issues. The annual yearly dues is $20.00 per

household and only one (1) member of each household is eligible to vote.

Submit payment to Secretary, Carol Wild, 11108 Maverick Dr or place in the

suggestion box in the lobby of the clubhouse.

How: No need to RSVP, just show up!

Reason: Come and interact with friends and neighbors. So, if you want

“change” this is the time to do it!!! Please, come and submit those ideas that

you may be thinking about. If you do not speak up, you will never know if it

is something that can make a change. We wait to hear from you, our

members.

Southfork Phone Directory

Just a reminder that the phone directories should be delivered to the management office by

the first week of February.

They will not be delivered to each home and each resident must come to the office to pick up

their copy.

Please note if any changes, deletions or additions must be made, remember, that the

management office does not give me any phone numbers to be published but all this info

must be given or sent to Phyllis Grossi, 11150 Mesquite or send via email to

pkaygrossi@aim.com by the resident.

Any changes given now will not be reflected until the next directory in year 2016.

Thanks, Phyllis Grossi

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What the Snowbirds missed this Summer

Easy access to 301 – no traffic

Seeing and hearing the mowers, mowing and blowing grass weekly

Beautiful sunsets

Ladies breakfast outings each month

Card nights at the clubhouse

Days with thunder all day long, but no rain

Monthly activities

Hundreds of flashes of brilliant lightning

Wondering where the customers were in many stores with empty parking lots

Daily pool visitors and almost having the pool to themselves.

Women’s Club

On December 3rd, 42 Members of the Women's Club went to the

Golden Corral for the annual Christmas Party.

This meal paid for by the club was for all the members in

recognition of their generosity and their work during the

entire year.

We had a good time and thank you to Tanya for the 4 gifts she

donated that we raffled.

Next month on Jan 7th we will have our 1st meeting of the new

year in the Clubhouse at 9:30am.

We have a lot of things to discuss and also don't forget your

2015 dues which are due.

Happy New Year to all,

Marielle

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BINGO

Let’s start the New Year 2015 with a lot of new winners at our Bingo on

Wednesday evenings. It does not seem possible we are into another new year

so if you have nothing to do on Wednesday evenings, come join us in a game of

bingo.

Doors open at 5:15pm and the selling of the bingo sheets stops at 6:15pm. The

games start at 6:30pm with a 50/50 starting off the evening.

SOUTHFORK’S CHRISTMAS PAGEANT , December 6th, 2014

A special thanks to all that helped decorate the hall, decorate the beautiful Christmas tree

and joined in the lighting of our tree. Thanks for the cookies and drinks. Now we were told

we would be viewing Christmas Characters, well assuming the usual suspects, Santa, Rudolph

and possible a few elves we all waited patiently for their arrival.

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We were certainly surprised at what followed. Russ Wild, a western preacher,

known as Marshall Curly Clupepper, arrived to tell his yarn of being in the

plains, needing food and finding himself surrounded by a pack of wolves.

Taking a knee and lowering his head, he asked to be saved. When he raised his

head, he found the wolves had abandoned him, only to circle the Lamb of God.

Mike Miller, as the Grinch, try hard as he might, and he did try very hard, found

he could not take the Christmas spirit out of the town of “Who.” The spirit

remained with no toys, no trees, but the joy of the day.

John Bartoszek, our manager, portrayed a saloon patron who told the story of

the barkeeper, who took cash from his own cash drawer to help a young lady

get home for the holiday.

Linda Miller, portrayed an angel and projected what Christmas is really all

about.

Dot Cady, our president, with her keyboard, brought 80 Southfork residence

into harmony singing Christmas carols and wishing all a Merry Christmas.

Marvin Rush, last but not least, came with his jingle bells and Santa outfit

distributing candy canes and wishing each and every one of us a Merry

Christmas.

I don’t use this word often, but all I can say is “Awesome.”

Subnitted by, Kathy Gallick

In the New Year, we as neighbors, wish all of you the best year you’ve ever had,

and that each New Year will be better than the last. May you realize your

fondest dreams and take time to recognize and enjoy each and

every blessing!

Happy New Year and many more!

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Message from the Editor

Your help is needed!! Please keep the Southfork News in mind as you attend

fun events at the Clubhouse or hear any funny story. You can send your photos

and/or stories to me at pkaygrossi@aim.com. You might enjoy being a silent

reporter who adds a little pizzazz to our newsletter. See your name in print or

be anonymous, your choice.

I will need all submissions by the 15th of each month. It takes me a few days to

get everything together and I always send the newsletter to print by the 19th. I

send it early so the newsletters are delivered back from New Port Richey the

last week of the month and everyone here has their copy by the 1st of the

month. Thanks, Phyllis

7th

ANNUAL HAND AND FOOT TOURNAMENT

SATURDAY, JANUARY 24th, 2015 AT 10:45AM. There will be

cash prizes and a lot of good tasty food/snacks.

Deadline for paying entry fee is January 19th

, 2015. Entry fee is

$5.00 per person paid in advance.

Please see Phyllis Grossi if you are planning on participating!.

All entrants, please bring a finger food and your own beverage.

Coffee will be served!

Thanks in advance to everyone who will help make this a success

and hopefully it can still be held each year.

Any questions, call Phyllis @ 567-6105

“COMING TO SOUTHFORK”, JANUARY ENTERTAINMENT

“CAHAL DUNNE”

TUESDAY, JANIARY 13, 2015, 7PM

New Year Ticket pricing - $7.50 per person!

This man is entertainment at its finest. Cahal is known as “IRELAND’S HAPPY

MAN”.

Cahal Dunne has appeared on the David Letterman show, PBS, Entertainment

Tonight and has performed for several American Presidents.

Cahal Dunne’s Irish humor and songs are not to be missed. He will be dressed in

green (maybe) and we will be talking green thereafter, not that I am partial to

Irish. We will set up in auditorium style seating – no tables.

Sponsored by Southfork Association.

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Southfork Ambulance Program membership

Reminder – Southfork residents who wish to join or rejoin this program for 2015, must have

their dues of $15.00 per person, paid by December 31st. Mary Freund is our new Treasurer

and will be recording all funds and billings, issuing new receipts and checks.

A new SAP service is going to be offered by Nancy Steding. She will compile a list of “walking

aids”, canes, crutches, walkers, chairs, etc. We have numerous forms of rehab equipment

stored around our homes, not being used. If you are of a mind to loan any equipment of

yours, please contact Nancy (352-567-9339). A listing will be stored on a clubhouse kitchen

cabinet.

Lastly, a decision was made at our Dec 5th membership meeting to increase the annual 911

ambulance service by one call. For the up-coming year 2015, we will on a trial basis, offer

two emergency runs.

Thank you, Jim McAdams

SATURDAY, Jan 3rd @ 8AM TO 9AM

$3.00 PER PERSON

SAUSAGE GRAVY/BISCUITS, SCRAMBLED EGGS &

HASH BROWNS, Coffee, Tea and O.J.

Take home is available. Can’t get to the clubhouse? We will

deliver!

Contact, Tom Robinson…..Cell 1-540-529-8247

NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION FOR EVERYONE

This year seems different somehow, despite the traditions and holidays as they have been for years

some families have lost loved ones, gained new grandchildren etc, that’s part of life. Expected losses

and gains have made the year memorable as we close the calendar of 2011. There is something

different in the air with the political parties, economy, job losses and fear of not knowing what the

future holds for all of us. Fear, but also patriotism and it’s time for America to change back into the

nation it once was and always has been.

This calls for a New Year’s resolution for everyone. Love your neighbor. Cherish your family.

Appreciate your Country (USA) for its rights, its freedom and its values. This is a resolution everyone

should be thinking about now. The world has changed, America has changed and so must

we……………………….

Happy New Years to all!!!

After Christmas

Twas the week after Christmas, and all through the house, nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.

The cookies I’d nibbled, the eggnog I’d taste, At the holiday parties all had gone to my waist. When I

got on the scales there arose such a number, when I walked to the store (less a walk than a number)

I’d remember the marvelous meals I’d prepared, the gravies and sauces and beef nicely rared. The

wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese, and the way I’d never said, “No thank you, please.”

As I dressed myself in my husband’s old shirt and prepared once again to do battle with dirt, I said to

myself as I only can, “You can’t spend a winter disguised as a man! So away with the last of the sour

cream dip, get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip. Every last bit of food that I like must be

banished.

“Till all the additional ounces have vanished” I won’t have a cookie, not even a lick. I’ll want only to

chew on a long celery stick. I won’t have hot biscuits or corn bread or pie. I’ll munch on a carrot and

quietly cry. I’m hungry, I’m lonesome and life is a bore, but isn’t that what January is for? Unable to

giggle, no longer a riot,

Happy New Year to all and to all a good diet!

Old Christmas Cards

Please save all the covers from your Christmas cards (any

greeting cards) and place them in the designated box in our

Library.

They will be sent to a group who uses them to decorate

Christmas stockings for prisoners. They used our cards from

last year and distributed over 1000 stockings. They sent

Southfork a very nice thank-you.

Thanks in advance!!

Carol Barnett

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Don’t know the woman’s name

HELP-- help me please.

At the bazaar at the clubhouse a lady bought two of my ruffled

scarves. She said she wanted another one made to order. I've

been paid for them and she said she would come by to choose the

scarf. I'm waiting for her to choose her color.

Thank you Jeanne Bittman 352-437-5139

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A Christmas Pageant

By the Southfork Players

Those of you who were too busy to attend this event, missed an excellent show. We can only

hope that the team of Russ Wilds and Mike Miller return with another offering.

Sheriff “Curly” and the “Grinch” were awesome and tremendous supporting roles were

provided by Linda Miller, John Bartoszek and Santa (Marvin Rush). As it turned out, Santa

needed a bigger sack and maybe more Elves.

Submitted by, Jim McAdams

To All!

At this time, I am not taking new customers. I would like to express a heart felt "Thank You" to all the wonderful residents of South Fork who have used my services." Sincerely, Sherry Morvatz ______________________.

Let Me Fix That

Car Detailing, Minor

Plumbing Repair, Minor

Electrical Repair, Minor

Structural Repair, Minor Roof

Repair, Window Screen

repair, Ceramic Tile

Installation, Laminate Floor

Installation, Gutter Cleaning,

Pressure Washing, Solar

Tube Installation, Skylight

Installation.

Jim Morvatz

C 843-222-2713

H. 437-4782

Will rake your lawn @ $5.00

per bag.

Bobby Hahn 567-7125

Handi-Lady at your service

My name is Debbie and I

am a resident of Southfork. I

would like to help you with

things you need done

around your house. No job is

too small. My rates are very

reasonable. Based on a flat

fee. References upon

request 336-202-2829

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Avon: Catalogs are

available. Call Tanya or

Bobby 567-7125

tbhahnfl@yahoo.com

Retired Master Electrician

Available to do electrical

jobs at reasonable rates.

Contact Jerry McClellan

11040 Maverick Drive

Home: (352) 437-5219

Cell: (352) 999-2908

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Handyman Repairs by

George

Free Estimates. Warranty on

all work.

Home: 352-437-5300

Cell: 410-852-6663

Your neighbor here in

Southfork.

Pressure Washing

See Andy @Clubhouse

$65.00 per house, $25.00 for

Green side only

Help Available

Let me help you keep the

sun shining in your world.

Compassionate

Professional and Discreet

Care.

Retired nurse will assist you

with bathing, shower, apply

lotion to skin. File nails,

shampoo/set/comb-out

hair, simple cleaning,

grocery shopping, errands,

comfort care.

Will sit with loved one while

you go out. Will check on

loved one if you live out of

town and I will report

conditions to you. Discuss

your other concerns/need s.

Additional info posted on

board in library and I live in

Southfork. Call Jean at

352-437-5139. Suggested

donation: $10.00/hour.

Weekly Calendar of Events

Sunday Church of Your Choice…”May I” card game @6pm

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Monday Coffee Hour @8am…Line Dance @10am…Poker @12 noon

(Fall/Winter) Men’s Shuffleboard @1pm… Hand & Foot @6pm

Euchre @6pm

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Tuesday Trash Pickup AM…(Fall/Winter) Mixed Shuffleboard @9am…

Exercise @10:30am…Sequence @1pm…(Fall/Winter) Men’s

Shuffleboard @1pm…(Fall/Winter) Ladies Shuffleboard @3pm

Bowling (Zephyrhills) @noon…Dble Pinochle @6pm…Poker @5:00pm

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Wednesday Blue bag Trash pickup 1st & 3rd Wednesday…Men’s Golf @10:00am…

Quilting @9am… Bridge @1pm…(Fall/Winter) Men’s

Shuffleboard @1pm…Bingo@6:30pm, doors open @5:15pm

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Thursday Hand & Foot @9am…Dominoes @1pm…(Fall/Winter) Men’s

Shuffleboard @1pm…(Fall/Winter) Ladies Shuffleboard @3pm

Poker @5:00pm…”Alley” Board game @6pm…

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Friday Trash pickup… (Fall/Winter) Mixed Shuffleboard @9am…Exercise

@10:30am…(Fall/Winter) Men’s Shuffleboard @1pm…Poker @12noon

WII FIT @9am

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Saturday “TOPS” Weight Loss @9am…Bocce @10am…”65” game @7pm…Poker @5pm…

Jan 2nd (Fri) Men’s Breakfast group 9am

Jan 3rd (Sat) Pancake breakfast 8 to 9am

Jan 4th (Sun) Card Bingo 6pm (bring $2.00 in dimes)

Jan 7th (Wed) Women’s Club 9:30am (Bring 2 cans food for needy)

Jan 13th (Tues) Cahal Dunne musical entertainment 7pm

Jan 18th (Sun) Card Bingo 6pm (bring $2.00 in dimes)

Jan 19th (Mon) Assn officer/directors 9am

Jan 24th (Sat) Hand & Foot Tournament 10:45am (don’t forget your snack)

Jan 26th (Mon) Assoc membership meeting 9am

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Tick Tock

I’m writing this in a state of shock, Watching the clock—tick tock,

tick tock, Advancing, approaching, relentlessly, A brand new year; Oh, can it be?

The calendar says the same thing, too; Time races, vanishes for me;

Boo hoo! No, wait! If time flies, I’m having fun! A year of fun! It’s

gone! It’s done!

I now embrace the blur of time, Because it simply means that I’m Too busy with pleasure, joy, delight To mourn the passing days’

swift flight.

So I’m wishing you fast, happy days, Pleasuring you in myriad ways,

Filled with happiness and cheer, Oh Happy, Happy Bright New Year!

By Joanna Fuchs