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HOMEMADE LAUNDRY SCENT BOOSTER You can spend a bit of money on the laundry scent boosters that are available in the stores to keep your laundry smelling fresh for weeks, but there is another alternative – make it yourself for next to nothing. Mix 1-2 cups Epsom salt (depending on how much you want to make) with 20-30 drops essential oil (lemon and lavender work great but you can use any you like).

Stir to fully combine. Let the mixture air dry and store in a covered mason jar. Dropping one tablespoon of the scented salt in with each load of laundry will keep your clothes smelling wonderful. Need more scent?

Just add a few more drops of essential oil to the salts.

The added benefit is that the salt helps to soften your looking to get away fabrics as well.

FEATURED LOCAL BUSINESS! SANTORAS There is a great new pizza shop just around the corner that is looking to make you a regular customer. Less than one mile away from Gramercy Villas, it’s a convenient stop on your way home from work, school or just running errands. This family owned and operated pizzeria has been feeding crowds since 1927 and has a variety of traditional, gourmet, and stuffed crust pizzas. In addition to their delicious pizzas, they have calzones, stromboli, subs, wings and Beinn surefor topeople clip out the Review ofmore!

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MAINTENANCE TIP The garbage disposal is a great feature to have available in the kitchen. It helps to ensure that sinks don’t clog up easily. In order to prevent problems with your garbage disposal, keep it working well, and avoid maintenance costs, here are a few tips:  Garbage disposals are helpful for grinding up small pieces of food that may have come off the dishes during cleaning. They aren’t meant to be used in place of a trash can for larger or tough items.  Items like potato or veggie peels, seeds or pits, egg shells, coffee grounds, rice or pasta, and stringy vegetables are major offenders and while easily ground up can still clog the disposal.  Garbage like plastic, paper, and glass should never go in the disposal.  Oils and fats can clog not only the garbage disposal, but the drain pipes as well, so they should not be dumped in the sink.

Cable One Movie Night in Meridian This month’s movies in Settler’s Park are: July 1 – Hotel Transylvania 2 July 8 – Pan July 15 – Emperor’s New Groove July 22 – The Good Dinosaur July 29 – Aladdin Movies begin at dusk, with the park closing 30 minutes after the conclusion of the movie. Be sure to bring blankets, chairs, and snacks.

Whiskey Marinade This versatile recipe can be used on beef, chicken, pork, shrimp or fish.

Ingredients: ¼ cup whiskey ¼ cup soy sauce ¼ cup Dijon Mustard ¼ cup brown sugar ½ tsp. salt ¼ tsp. Worcestershire sauce ¼ cup finely chopped green onions

Stir together the whiskey, soy sauce, Dijon Mustard, brown sugar, salt, Worcestershire sauce and onions. Pour over the meat of your choice. Be sure to marinade shrimp or fish for approximately 2 hours. Beef, chicken, and pork can marinade 24 hours in the refrigerator.

Gramercy Villas July Newsletter Manager Sue Dominiak Maintenance Nate McFain Porter Chase Borchardt Office Hours Monday – Friday 12 pm to 6 pm For afterhours emergencies, please call our office phone at 995-2823 and follow the instructions below: -Press 0 for an emergency -Press 9 to repeat the menu

The Gramercy Villas Leasing Office will be closed Monday, the Fourth of July and Tuesday the 5th of July. We will reopen Wednesday at 12 pm

Manager’s Corner Not sure whether to recycle or to trash? Not sure if it’s allowed in the recycle bin? By recycling we can help, not only on a large scale, by helping the environment, but also on a smaller scale, by reducing the amount of trash in the trash bin, which at times can be loaded to the brim. There are certain things however, that do not belong in the trash or the recycling bin on the property: furniture, mattresses, lamps, electronics, tires and hazardous chemicals.

Not allowed in the recycling are filmy grocery bags, foil lined food containers, pizza boxes, vinyl, glass or Styrofoam. Paperboard boxes, such as the ones used for milk or juice, which have the wax coating, are not able to be recycled either.

There is so much that can be recycled and with our bins, you don’t even have to separate the recyclables out. All plastics with the numbers 1-7 on them are allowed in recycling. Newspapers, magazines, catalogues, empty aerosol cans, cereal and frozen food boxes, envelopes, paper bags, wrapping paper (no foil), school papers (without glue and/or glitter), and junk mail are all recyclable. And of course, cardboard boxes. We do see many residents recycling cardboard boxes, especially after their move-in. The important thing to remember with cardboard is that it always needs to be broken down. One or two relatively large boxes thrown in the trash, rather than broken down in the recycle bin, can take up a large portion of the trash bin causing the trash to eventually overflow when the dumpsters get too full.

We appreciate our residents taking advantage of the availability of the recycling bin, as well as making sure that only items allowed in the trash, end up there.

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY! This holiday let us remember the sacrifices that have been made for our freedom.

“Those who won our independence valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret to happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.”

Louis D. Brandeis

REMINDER LIGHTING OF FIRWORKDS IS PROHIBITED ON THE GRAMERCY VILLAS PROPERTY. VIOLATORS WILL BE ISSUED A LEASE VIOLATION.

THE COST OF KEEPING COOL Hot weather months can be months with high electric bills. Air conditioning usage can account for over 50% of the electric bill in the summer time. There are ways to help keep the temperature, and the electric bill lower this year by following these recommendations:  Find a comfortable temperature on the thermostat and leave it there. The cooling system is most efficient this way.  Give the oven a break. Use the grill, slow cooker, or microwave to prepare your meals. A microwave uses 90% less energy than an oven and doesn’t contribute nearly the amount of heat to the apartment.  Dishwashers and clothes dryers generate heat too. Hold off on doing laundry until you have a full load and start it in the cooler evening hours.  Use the blinds to keep the sun out and reduce the slow heating that the sun can cause in a room. Hang room darkening curtains, which help to reduce sunlight which can heat the room as well.