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Neighborhood Newsletter • Volume 8, Issue 3 • Fall 2020
SAFE ENTERTAINING TIPS IN A COVID-19 WORLD
distance from one another by creating comfy seating arrangements. You can take it a step farther by asking guests to bring their own chairs and directing each family to set up its space a reasonable distance from the next. Make cleanliness a priority. Create stations with hand sanitizer or wipes. You can also create a makeshift sink to minimize trips to the restroom indoors. Provide a spray bottle or bucket, soap and paper towels near the hose for quick clean-ups. Find more advice for navigating pandemic life at eLivingtoday.com. Photo courtesy of Getty Images #13139 • Source: eLivingtoday.com
OUR NEWSLETTER NEEDS COMMUNITY SPECIFIC INFORMATION! by MyHOA.com
(eLivingtoday.com) Depending on where you live, restrictions on social gatherings may become less strict in the coming weeks and months. However, many experts caution that care should still be exercised when groups of people gather. After an extended period without social contact, it's only natural to crave some interaction, and there's evidence that doing so can be advantageous for your mental health. However, taking precautions to protect your physical health, along with your guests', can make for a more enjoyable event. Keep it contained. Limit your gatherings to a few close friends or family members so if someone does get sick, contact tracing is a simple task. Keep in mind the number of same-household families you invite is more important than the number of people in that family. For example, one family of six that has already been living in close quarters poses a lower risk than three couples living in separate houses. Also be mindful of your guests' approach to prevention; if they've been less cautious than your family or vice versa, there's room for conflict and anxiety. Celebrate outdoors. Indoor event spaces naturally have less circulation, meaning potential airborne particles hang around longer. Planning your gathering outdoors helps ensure more free-moving fresh air and more space for guests to spread out and practice social distancing. Encourage guests to bring their own. It may go against all your good hosting inclinations but hosting a bring-your-own party eliminates shared food and the risk of cross-contamination. You can provide disposable table service (plates, silverware and napkins) and single-serve beverages, but skip the cooler everyone reaches into. Provide ample, well-spaced seating. Encourage guests to keep some
Putting together a newsletter for our community is quite challenging considering there is so much more to include in it than we do. Many residents have interesting news to share about upcoming events, personal milestones, issues of community interest, etc., but we never hear from you! Between our Management Company and the Board of Directors, we try to include items in our newsletter that not only inform owners of important business matters before the association, but we are also attempting to help educate our members on some of the on- going challenges that associations must face on a monthly basis. Issues such as the Annual Audit, Reserve Study, Budgeting Process and Rules Enforcement are included throughout the year in order to help owners understand some of the complexities of running our association. Both the Board of Directors and the Management Company hope that if more members understand why the Board must make the decisions that it does, then this knowledge will help make living in a common interest development more comfortable. Another benefit of increasing the members' awareness of association issues is to help motivate others to take an active role in our community. The more we understand about how our Association functions, the more likely we are to get involved. These generic, educational articles are important, but don't forget that our newsletter is one of the best communication tools available in our community and in order to help our newsletter become more community-specific we need to hear from YOU. If you would like to contribute, please do not hesitate to contact our Management Company.
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7 TIPS TO SAVE MONEY AND HAVE FUN SHOPPING ONLINE by Family Features
Fall 2020
products and more. Forums can be a fun way to uncover more tips for saving online from other experienced shoppers. Vote to lower prices. Fun, interactive features like Woot!'s Deal-OMeter allow you to have a say in how you save by voting to lower the prices of upcoming deals. If a product gets enough votes, the price will be lowered.
(Family Features) Online shopping allows you the ease of getting items Face off to score deals. If you enjoy the delivered directly to your door. Not only thrill of a friendly competition, you don't is online shopping convenient, but it also want to miss the Woot-Off. It's a day-long allows you to discover sites that help you gauntlet of unannounced deals, with new save money while shopping. offers launching every 30 minutes or less. Credited with being the original daily Woot-Offs don't happen often, but when deals site, launching in 2004, Woot! makes they do, you'll want to check back so you it easy for shoppers to save - and laugh out don't miss the super-cheap prices, limitedloud - while browsing for items they need, quantity offers and the elusive Bag o' Crap. want and everything in between. Consider these ways you can save and Take advantage of special pricing. have more fun while you shop. Another fun way to get items for low Shop daily deals. Offering daily deals for prices, the WTF (Woot!'s Totally Funthe last 16 years, you can find staff-picked tastic) Pricing promotion showcases deals every day across categories including limited quantities of a deal, raising the home and kitchen, electronics, computers, price every 10 minutes until it sells out. tools and garden, sports and outdoors, If you arrive quickly at the deal page, you shirts and gourmet food. While daily deals can get products for as low as $1. can help you save on items you didn't even know you needed - such as TVs, laptops, Combine membership perks. If you power tools, sneakers and custom graphic shop online often, there's a fairly good t-shirts - other household necessities are chance you, or someone who you know, also easy to find. is an Amazon Prime member. As a subsidiary of the e-commerce site, Woot! Expect the unexpected. Most of the offers special perks to members including time when you shop, you're looking for free shipping and exclusive discounts. something you already know you need or want, but a website like Woot! also allows you to step into the To share in the savings and fun, visit woot.com or download the unknown and buy a mystery box of items, referred to as a "Bag o' app. Crap." These "BOCs" are random items that are silly, fun and can Photos courtesy of Getty Images #15191 • Source: Woot! sometimes be exactly what you need to make your day and help you save. Join in on the forum fun. You can find various forums online that cover a variety of topics, including some for the online shopping community. For example, some sites allow you to engage in discussions on threads, swap different items, share reviews of
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THE BENEFITS OF ACCENT LIGHTING by Sally Giar, Decorating Den
Fixing up your room with new furniture, decor and other accessories will put you on the right track to a successful makeover, but accent lighting can bring the theme together and make the space feel complete. Whether you’re interested in wall sconces, floodlights, recessed lights or tracking lighting, there are dozens of options to choose from that can cater to the look you’re going for. Best of all, as simple as accent lighting may be, it can make a large impact on the overall feel of the room. 1. IT MAKES A STUNNING FOCAL POINT
Turn your guests’ heads as they enter the room with the perfect accent lighting. Certainly, the point of this fixture is to focus light on another area or object, but it can be an attraction zone on its own 2. IT CAN ACCENTUATE YOUR WALL DECOR
Or, if you want the room to revolve around a certain piece of wall decor, accent lighting can make this happen. Relying on overhead lighting or floor lamps to bring attention to decorations doesn’t work well because it isn’t focused in on them. With accent lighting, the fixture can hug your wall decor effortlessly. 3. IT CAN IMPROVE THE ATMOSPHERE IN YOUR ROOM
If you’re looking for a subtle way to set the right tone in the room, accent lighting can do the job for you. This especially holds true if you’re interested in dimmers – lights that can dim and brighten manually – as they can transform a room from dark and romantic to cozy and welcoming. 4. IT’S THE PERFECT YEAR-ROUND DECOR PIECE
Many of your pieces of decor likely have a timestamp – they’re either out for one season or seemingly dull halfway through the year. Accent lighting, however, can make the perfect decoration year-round. Talk with a professional about what style of fixture would look best in your room, regardless of the time of year. 5. THERE ARE SO MANY STYLES
As stated earlier, there are ample styles of accent lighting fixtures to choose from. This allows you to be versatile and make the best decisions based on the atmosphere you’re trying to evoke. Moreover, consider getting in contact with a design consultant from Decorating Den Interiors. He or she can come over to your home and provide a free consultation to properly assess the space and offer design suggestions. This educated assistance can help you make the best decision toward sprucing up your space.
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WHEN TREATING A HEART ATTACK OR STROKE, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. EVEN DURING THESE TIMES. Don’t hesitate when it comes to getting emergency treatment.
Even during a pandemic, you still need to be treated immediately if you have an emergency. Debating whether or not to risk going to an emergency room during a heart attack, stroke or other health emergency—waiting even a few extra minutes—could be harmful. That’s why in all BayCare hospital emergency rooms, patients who have symptoms of COVID-19 are isolated from other patients. This helps keep emergency room patients and our team members safe. So if it’s an emergency, don’t wait. For more information: BayCareEmergencyCare.org
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