Annual Pot Luck Dinner

Come eat and help the Pantry of Broward

A friend's teenage son, Brooks, recently became Chair of The Pantry of Broward's Junior Ambassadors. Part of his responsibility is to help collect food and raise money to buy food for The Pantry. The Pantry provides food and needed services to area seniors who are raising their grandchildren on fixed incomes. 

According to Brooks, "the shelves at The Pantry are nearly bare and the Junior Ambassadors are reaching out to area homeowner associations to try to get approval to hold food drives in those neighborhoods. " Here's how it works: the Junior Ambassadors will place flyers in grocery bags on door knobs during the week prior to the food drive and then pick-up donations from doorsteps (no knocking on doors involved) the following Saturday morning. 

This sounded like such a fantastic idea and the Board agreed, first how great that these teenagers are doing their best to help others, and second - how timely is the request that Croissant Park paticipate in the food drive for such a worthy cause on the eve of our Pot Luck dinner?

To kick the food drive off we have asked Brooks to come to our pot luck dinner and explain the program. What YOU can do to help is, in addition to whatever dish you might be bringing to the pot luck (or in lieu thereof - but I hate to let you off the hook that easy!) to bring some canned or boxed food to contibute to the Pantry. I'd love to send Brooks home with a car load of food, so please, yet another reason to attend the pot luck dinner - food for us and food for some people who can really use a hand. 

Hope to see you and lots of food of all types on Tuesday!!!!

The Pot Luck Dinner is Tuesday, Feb 26 in the Community Center - 7:00  - Everyone is invited and we will have speakers from the City to address important issues affecting our neighborhood.

Christmas Trees to Benefit Sick & Injured

You don't have to go to Home Depot to get your tree...get it here. The money goes for a worthy cause.

Happy Holidays!

Lenore Goldman
CERT Battalion 2 Chief
954-325-9641

If you wish to purchase a Christmas Tree or Wreath from the Fire Museum, please place your order immediately. If you have any questions, please contact Gene Oppy at 754-224-0894.

Regards,

Freddy Zelaya Jr.

City of Fort Lauderdale

Fire-Rescue Department

Emergency Management Coordinator

Phone: 954-828-6702

Fax: 954-828-6709

Christmas Tree order form

They have wreaths too! Click on the order form for prices.

Winterfest Boat Parade

To the Homeowner Associations,

We are nearly two months away from the 2010 Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade scheduled for December 11, 2010 at 6:30pm. Winterfest would like to see all homeowners team up with their neighbors to secure a boat, decorate it, fill it with festive passengers, and enter it in this year's boat parade ! Entering the parade is much simpler than most people think. Winterfest is here to help you along the way. We can help you with decorating tips, charter suggestions, parade procedures, etc..

We are also excited about implementing a new program into this year's parade. This year we are encouraging every boat entry to represent a charity of their choice. This concept is actively embraced by the local non-profit community and the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, the main event sponsor. We anticipate dynamic parade participation by some of the area's most prominent charities in this year's parade!

This charity participation can be accomplished in one of several forms:

A. Our preferred option involves a charity working with the boating community to secure a boat entry . This evolves from the charity's initiative. The charity can ask a friend or associate to host their charity on their boat or charter their own boat. The charity can help decorate the boat, create the signage, and staff the boat with their own passengers thereby creating a fundraising opportunity. Winterfest is researching a number of cost effective boat charter opportunities to help charities accomplish this option. A private boat entry hosting a non-profit will only be charged a $35 entry fee.

B. Another option involves a charity's banner or sign being displayed on each side of a boat owned by an existing parade entry. This option is at the discretion and preference of the boat owner. Winterfest will ask existing boat parade entries if they would like to represent a charity on their boat with signage. This will not be a parade requirement but if they are receptive, we will give them the option to choose their own charity.

C. Finally, on occasion a special showboat parade entry may present to Winterfest a fundraiser opportunity on their boat. This would allow a charity to charge a designated number of passengers a fee to ride the showboat during the parade. One example of a showboat hosting a charity committed for this year's parade is the WSVN showboat hosting Habitat For Humanity.

If you have any questions with the above , please let me know. I really hope your community can participate in this year's Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade !

John Haley

2010 Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade Chairman

John J. Haley , P.E.
Haley Engineering, Inc.
1680 SE 4th Street
Deerfield Beach, FL 33441
954-260-6194
954-697-0115 fax
www.haleyeng.com
johnjhaley@comcast.net

"2010 Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade Chairman"

BGMC Flea Market

Just a reminder that Saturday, April 17th, we are having the BGMC (Broward General Medical Center) Flea Market. It starts at 8:00am and is located in the parking lot next to downtown pizzaria. There will be antiques, collectibles, nic-nacs, jewelry, crystal, porcelain, ceramics, retro, etc...If you want to sell, call me 954-762-9477 - Donia