Sunset Hills Spring 2013
Greensboro, North Carolina
Annual Neighborhood Events
January
February
March
Easter Egg Hunt
April
Great American Cleanup
May
Annual Pig Picking
June
Summer Fun in the Park
July
July 4th parade and picnic
August
National Night Out
September
Big Sweep Event
October
Halloween party in the park
November
Neighborhood Meeting
December
Lighted Christmas Balls
Food Drive, Running of the Balls
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Co-President’s message
“Change brings opportunity” Nido Qubein
As we go about our busy lives, change quietly coexists as an undercurrent, often only making itself noticeable when it bubbles to
the surface causing ripples in the calm waters above. So what is
causing ripples in Sunset Hills?
Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church has been working on plans
for new construction on its current site. Neighbors near the
church have been especially attuned to blueprints appearing on
the church office’s windows and to the presence of surveyors
taking measurements of the church’s property. How will new
construction impact the aesthetics of the neighborhood? Will
current traffic patterns improve?
At the bottom of Madison Avenue, Kotis Properties is working
on leasing the vacant properties where Ham’s and Southern
Lights once stood. Plans are underway for a new Charleston SC
cuisine-themed restaurant in the Ham’s building, and rezoning
applications have been submitted for parking lot enhancements.
How will dumpsters, lighting, foot traffic impact adjacent residents? Should Madison Avenue be blocked off with a cul-desac? How can these changes promote further vibrancy and appeal within Sunset Hills?
Our Greensboro City Council, Duke Energy and concerned
Greensboro residents are working on changing the current tree
trimming ordinances for our city. The new ordinances, if passed,
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Sunset Hills Neighborhood Association
Board of Directors
Co- Presidents
Joann Strack
Carl Phillips
joannstrack@gmail.com
cwpjr5524@aol.com
Vice-President
kerry.meyers@gmail.com
Emily Herman eeherman@triad.rr.com
Mail dues to: 2512 Berkley Place
Community Watch / Block Captain Head
OPEN
Community Watch / Block Captain Coordinator
bardsley-brune@triad.rr.com
Transportation Committee Chair
Gerry Alfano
mtisdel@att.net 272-3512
Social
OPEN
Alex Elkan elkan.alex@yahoo.com
Garden Club Representative
Mary Jacke maryjacke@yahoo.com
Web site coordinator
timmins1@bellsouth.net
OPEN
Listserv coordinator
cwpjr5524@aol.com
Easter Egg Hunt coordinator
Ashley Goble ashwgoble@yahoo.com
Historian
Katherine Rowe kjrowe@bellsouth.net
VOLUNTEER Opportunities
Thanks to those who have taken positions
since the last newsletter. There are still some
openings. Would you consider filling one?
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Get to know your neighbors in text and print and learn the
news: http://www.sunsethillsneighborhood.org. While
looking at the site, be certain to go to Discussion Group
and submit your email address to be added as a member
of the monitored listserv after your dues are paid.
The neighborhood Facebook page is: https://
www.facebook.com/SunsetHillsGSO
Dues
Dues are due in January. However, it is never too late
to pay for the current year. Please remit your $10
directly to the treasurer, Emily Herman at 2512
Berkley Place. Checks for more than $10 will be accepted as donations to the Sunset Hills Neighborhood
Association.
Play Group coordinator
Carl Phillips
The Sunset Hills Neighborhood Association has a website, Facebook page, and a listserv. Pictures of neighborhood events appear in color on the website and in much
larger numbers than we could ever print in the newsletter.
When you have a question about tradespeople, spot a
stray dog or cat, note something unusual, submit a message to the listserv and the message goes out to all the
members. The listserv is monitored to keep the messages
relevant to this area and on topics about the neighborhood.
Environmental Affairs
Robin Timmins
Mike Pendergraft
Sources of Neighborhood Information
Treasurer
Elaine Brune
Elaine Brune bardsley-brune@triad.rr.com 378-1990
Roger Bardsley rbardsl@co.guilford.nc.us 378-1990
Kristy Jackson feverpitchmusic@yahoo.com
Marlene Pratto mrpsunset@gmail.com
Carl Phillips
cwpjr5524@aol.com
Ellen Wells
ellenwells@triad.rr.com
Representative to the Neighborhood Congress
Secretary
Kerry Meyers
Newsletter Team
New Rates for 2013 Newsletter Advertising
(Corrected)
$20- biz card size
$40- 1/4 pg
$80- 1/2 pg
$160- full pg
Add $10 if your dues are not up-to-date. Once
you have made arrangements for an ad, send
your check to Emily Herman, address above.
Thanks to our advertisers for helping to offset
the cost of this newsletter.
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have the potential to pave the way for much improved ways of trimming trees in Sunset Hills. However, the outcome of
these discussions remains to be seen. If you care about our tree canopy, I urge you to stay informed. Updated information regarding this issue and how to make your voice heard can be found on the Facebook page “Greensboro Respects
Our Trees.”
The neighborhood board also has experienced change. Eric Patton stepped down as president and Carl Phillips has once
again agreed to serve as co-president. As many of you know, having Carl serve in this capacity means enthusiasm, great
ideas and a passion for enhancing his neighborhood in whatever ways he can. Welcome aboard Carl – we’re glad to have
you back. We thank Eric for his dedication and efforts as past president, especially for leading the effort in making the
national historic designation happen in Sunset Hills, among other achievements, during his years of service. Ellen Wells,
our most excellent Community Watch captain and block captain coordinator also has stepped down. Ellen worked hard at
maintaining a strong communication link between the Greensboro Police Department and the Sunset Hills Neighborhood
Association. As block captain coordinator, Ellen served as the crucial link in having newsletters distributed to over 800
residents. Thank you, Eric and Ellen, for your many years of service and dedication to Sunset Hills. Your shoes are big
ones to fill!
The above highlights present just a smattering of the current happenings in Sunset Hills. How these happenings will impact our neighborhood continue to unfold and present to us both the positive and challenging aspects of change. In closing, and since I love quotes, here’s one for further pondering:
"There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about." Margaret J. Wheatley
So I ask, what is it that you care about in Sunset Hills? Do you see these changes as your opportunity to get involved? If
so, please contact me directly.
Jo Strack, Co-President Sunset Hills Neighborhood Association
joannstrack@gmail.com
Plaque for the Entrance to Sunset Hills
The Sunset Hills board is collecting price quotes for a National Register plaque to be placed on the stone entrance wall at Friendly and
Rolling Road. The bronze plaque will read "This neighborhood has
been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United
States Department of the Interior." We should have quotes in by the
end of April, approval and installation will follow.
Katherine Rowe, neighborhood historian
Sunset Hills hosts the City of Greensboro Neighborhood Walk Program on April 29
When the newsletter went to press, this program was scheduled for April 29. As a reminder, The City of Greensboro’s
neighborhood walks program provides opportunities for city staff to meet personally with community leaders and residents, listen to and see first-hand their concerns, and understand what is working well in their communities. The city
council representative, city managers, department directors and key staff walk through neighborhoods in each council
district in the spring and fall, for a total of ten neighborhood walks each year. The program usually consists of a walk,
break, walk format. At the break the residents may decide to present neighborhood concerns to the city representatives,
or may use the time to interact casually with city staff.
Please watch for an email update to the listserv highlighting some of our neighborhood issues discussed with our city
representatives. A big thank you to Emma Keys for once again volunteering to provide snacks for this event.
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Thank you from the Sunset Hills Garden Club
Dear Neighborhood Board,
We will soon have new residents in Sunset Hills. Three bluebird boxes have been installed in the park between
Rolling Road and Friendly Avenue.
Thanks to the support of the neighborhood association and Wild Birds Unlimited this project is complete. Now
we just wait and watch our feathered friends move in.
We look forward to continued partnership with the association as we continue to beautify the neighborhood.
Sincerely,
Catherine Crowder
NEWSLETTER (PDF format)
This issue and all issues of the SHNA newsletter are
Sunset Hills Garden Club
available on the website in full color. See NEWS.
Corresponding Secretary
LISTSERV
Carl Phillips is sending to the listserv the list of addresses where the residents are not on the listserv. If you see your
neighbor’s address, please remind them to join the listserv. Messages are monitored to be certain no “junk” is sent. See
page 2 concerning information about the neighborhood.
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Thank you…and STAY SAFE!
Many of you know that I have resigned the position of Neighborhood Watch Coordinator. It was a decision taken after
much thought and with not a little reluctance, but for several reasons it just seemed time to turn it over to someone younger. Over the
years I’ve enjoyed the contacts with neighbors I otherwise would not have met; learned to appreciate the value of our police department
– their professionalism, concern for citizens, and responsiveness; and appreciated the opportunity to help keep our beloved neighborhood
safe for its residents. Thank you for your support over the years, your willingness to share information, and especially your concern
for your neighbors; you truly are good neighbors, and as Carl is so fond of saying, “good neighbors do indeed make good neighborhoods.” Sunset Hills is the best!
But we still need your help. It seems that no one has stepped up to fill the open position(s). It is not true that I did the
work of two people, but there can be a natural division of labor. We need one person to coordinate newsletter distribution via the
block captains and a second who will maintain contact with the Central Division of the Greensboro Police Department and utilize
the listserv to make residents aware of safety concerns and information. Neither job is at all difficult or time-consuming, and both are
actually very interesting. You get to stay in touch with what is going on in the Police Department, meet and share information with
other folks who serve their own neighborhoods in a similar way, and help to maintain neighborhood safety by passing along timely
information. And you get to meet all the block captains and assist in getting out the newsletter (which right now is happening only
two or three times a year). If you have questions, I’ll be happy to try to answer them for you – just call or email me.
Please consider volunteering. And thanks again for all your help over the years.
Ellen Wells
And we say
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Blue bird houses in the Greenway park.
Have you seen the newest additions to Sunset Hills Park? With the help of
the SHNA, the Sunset Hills Garden Club purchased and installed three bluebird houses in the newly-renovated section of our park. Along with the houses, the garden club has planted bird-friendly trees and shrubs in the park, between Friendly and Rolling, along West Greenway Drive.
This is a joint project between the neighborhood association and garden club,
in an effort to bring awareness of nature and to increase the bird population in
our neighborhood. We hope bluebirds and their habitats will inspire neighbors, young and old, to take an interest in bluebirds. If you have sighted bluebirds, would like to learn more about them, or are interested in tracking them,
please contact Laurie Joslin at lbjoslin@yahoo.com.
You also can keep track of our progress with bluebirds by liking the garden
club’s facebook fanpage at https://www.facebook.com/
SunsetHillsGardenClub
Thank you to our neighborhood association, for supporting this project!
Mary Jacke,
Vice President
Sunset Hills Garden Club
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Did your brown can get a grade? If not, watch for it. The recycling people are checking the contents and providing
grades. If you get an “A” you are entered in a drawing for $50.00. Remember that more can go into the brown can
now. If you have questions, check the City of Greensboro recyclables on line.
List of items recyclable in Greensboro’s big brown cans
 All plastics #1-7, soda/water bottles, milk jugs, yogurt and margarine tubs
 Aluminum cans, foil, pie pans, and roasting pans
 Steel cans with no lids
 Milk and juice cartons
 Pots and pans made of any metal
 Glass food and beverage containers
 Aerosol cans; discard the spray nozzle
 Newspaper
 Office paper and junk mail
 Cardboard unwaxed and uncoated (laundry detergent boxes, pizza boxes, appliance boxes, shipping boxes)
 Chipboard or paperboard with grayish or brownish color inside (cake mix, cereal and cracker boxes, egg cartons)
 Rigid plastic (buckets, laundry baskets, lawn furniture, pet carriers)
HELP WANTED
The Sunset Hills Neighborhood Association is in need of good males and females to assume some of the
leadership positions needed to run the organization. On page 2 note that we have open positions for vicepresident, Community Watch/block captain coordinator, social committee chair, and play group chair. We
can use some people on Saturday mornings to help the garden club in the park and we can use some strong
folks to help get the newsletter moved from car to house and then we need lots of people to deliver the
newsletter. Contact anyone listed on page 2 to express your interest.
Neighbors,
Watch for another collection
for the Guilford County Animal Shelter. The shelter is
non-profit, and is always in
need of supplies. The most
urgent needs are canned cat
and kitten food, cat litter, dry
dog food, and puppy food.
But the shelter also can use
paper towels, laundry soap.
bleach, and dish soap.
If you are a teen, and would
like to join us in this “just
because” project, please
contact us at
maryjacke@yahoo.com.
Thanks, Delaney, 16 and
Cameron, 13
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Running of the Balls
We here at Running with Horses Events wanted to take a
minute to say thanks to all the folks who helped make the first
annual Running of the Balls a huge success. It is without any
exaggeration that we say that we could not have done it without the folks in the Sunset Hills neighborhood. In our very
first year, we had 1,750 participants, raising $18,500 for Second
Harvest Food Bank. To help you understand how big an impact one night can make, Second Harvest Food Bank can provide 7 meals for each dollar it receives – this means in one
night we were able to provide them with enough money to
provide 129,500 meals to individuals and families. Peoples’
lives are better today because of the silly fun that you enabled
us to offer to folks outside of your great neighborhood.
Now, here’s the good news. We are already gearing up for year
two, looking to make an even better night, with an even larger
impact than year one. The date is set for Saturday night,
December 14th. Due to the interest in this race, we are recommending to cap the event at 2,500 participants this year. This
is out of an abundance of caution and a desire to make sure
that we are good neighbors and good stewards with the opportunity this race provides. Some other things to look forward to
for the 2013 event include a full-5K course (it was roughly 2.8
miles last year), runners and walkers on the course at separate
times (runners before walkers), a better sound system (we’d
like you to hear the good music), more buskers and carolers
along the course, and a bigger emphasis on food donations
from the participants. This upcoming year, we will also give
participants long sleeve T-shirts.
The Running of the Balls website will be up and running in
May, and registration will also open at that time as well. As
was the case last year, residents and sponsors will be provided
with a separate discounted registration to make sure family and
friends are guaranteed a spot in the race. There will also be
opportunities for in-kind sponsors, financial sponsors, groups
and volunteers to be a part of the race again this year.
As a reminder, 100% of the financial sponsorships will go directly to Second Harvest Food Bank.
So, mark your calendars for December 14, 2013 – it’s going to
be a great night for a great cause!
Sincerely,
Nick Loflin and the RWH Gang
Running with Horses Events, LLC
www.LiveBigDoGood.com
To stay in the loop on 2013 Running of the Balls information,
check out either of these spots:
Website: www.TheRunningOfTheBalls.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheRunningOfTheBalls
Live Big, Do Good.
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To Classify or not to Classify
A resident suggested that the newsletter carry classified ads such as house for rent, house for sale, etc.
Send email to mrpsunset@gmail.com with your
vote.
My Favorite Things Mobile
Bicycle Repair
Local, honest and fast.
No job too large or too small
Call anytime
Jackson Lee
336-402-4302
slamt@gmail.com
Mention this ad and get 15% off.
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Fourteenth Annual
PARK PARTY
JOIN YOUR NEIGHBORS
FOR A NEIGHBORHOOD PARTY IN
SOUTH GREENWAY PARK
(between Market and Berkley Place)
SATURDAY, MAY 18
3:00 –5:30 Social Hour and Kid’s Activities
5:30 - 9:00 Pig Pickin’ and Potluck Picnic
What to Bring:
A covered dish to share
Your beverage of choice
Chairs or a blanket
A donation for the barbeque
How to Help:
Call Gary Rogers at 207-3908
We need:
Help on May 18 to tend the fire
Help organizing games for the kids
Folding chairs and tables and tablecloths
(Every Year on the Saturday After Mothers Day)
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HELP REDUCE LITTER IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
CALL AND CANCEL THE CLIPPER
CALENDAR OF
EVENTS
Plan Ahead
Participate
Are you getting an unsolicited advertising paper, the Clipper, delivered to your
home? Are you one of the Sunset Hills residents who immediately put it in your
recycling bin? Or are you not even aware that it is out there and never pick it up?
The Clipper is published by the News and Record and is a source of additional income for the newspaper. Unfortunately, many residents aren’t aware that it is there
and don’t bother picking it up. Many of these papers end up littering the neighborhood. Some of them even get washed down the storm drains.
May 18 Pig Piggin’ Picnic in the park
July 4 Parade and picnic
August 6 National Night Out
According to the News and Record, the Clipper goes primarily to non-subscribers of
the newspaper and they are only delivered once a week. As someone who walks the
neighborhood twice a day, I think that they are delivered more frequently than once
a week to homes on some streets. Whoever is delivering them is not careful about
where they throw them. Sometimes they end up in the street. They also leave them
at unoccupied houses. If I find them on my walks, I pick them up and recycle them.
I have picked up as many as a dozen of these papers.
I assume that most residents of Sunset Hills don’t want to receive an advertising
paper. If you don’t want to receive the Clipper, please call 336-373-5211 and ask
them to stop delivering to your house. We don’t need this additional source of littering in our neighborhood. If you want to receive the Clipper, please remember to
bring it into your home until you recycle it.
Gerry Alfano
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November Lighted Christmas Balls
Making and Launching (see p. 12))
December 14 Running of the Balls
Harvey Herman took all the photos of the 2012 Pig Pickin’.
Thank you, Harvey, for preserving neighborhood memories.
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Special Feature
For this issue of the SHNA newsletter, we asked business owners in the neighborhood to write about themselves and
their businesses. We thank those who chose to participate and we hope you enjoy their stories. Other people said they
would write next time we feature businesses.
Le Bauer Physical Therapy
Aaron and Andra LeBauer have lived in Sunset Hills for eight years. We recently jumped at the opportunity to
relocate our business, LeBauer Physical Therapy, from Downtown Greensboro into our neighborhood. We began our
healing careers 13 years ago because we both love the personal connection with our patients/clients and helping others
feel wonderful. We could not be more excited about our short walk to work and providing our very own neighborhood
with the convenience of walking or biking over to get a physical therapy treatment, massage, or to take a private yoga
class.
LeBauer Physical Therapy is a unique facility that offers physical therapy, therapeutic massage and private yoga
to help you move and live pain free, and restore balance to your body so you can return to the activities that you enjoy. We treat our patients in a quiet, private and comfortable one-on-one setting. During your first visit, you will be
evaluated, treated and provided with a unique treatment plan and self-treatment strategies that you perform on your own
at home. Visit our website for more info: www.LeBauerPT.com .
Contact Information:
Aaron LeBauer PT, DPT, LMBT
Andra West LeBauer LMBT
LeBauer Physical Therapy, LLC
319 Smyres Place
Greensboro, NC 27403
www.LeBauerPT.com
336-271-6677
Help wanted
Each November residents of the
neighborhood (and guests) gather
together to make the Lighted Christmas
Balls that are launched into the many
trees in our neighborhood. We have a
group of neighbors who have been
planning and executing this for the
last six years - if you would enjoy
helping with this event, please email
lightedchristmasballs@gmail.com
and Anne will add you to the list of
helpers and will contact you in the
early fall for details of the planning
meeting.
Many hands make light work.
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My Favorite Things Mobile Bicycle Repair
My Favorite Things Mobile Bicycle Repair was born
out of the local movement that exists for such markets as
locally produced food. Interestingly, as a globalized society,
such items that cannot be outsourced or produced in far
away places are increasingly becoming more localized.
Strong communities are being built around neighborhoods
that manage to retain their area's talents. As we live near one
another, we have the opportunity to move from mere neighbors to an interconnected community by supporting each
other through the exchange of talents and skills. As these
lines of communication are established and maintained, we
have the potential to become a group that calls on one another for goods and products that we feel we can trust and
be proud of supporting.
Although I support myself through various painting,
construction and landscaping jobs, my real talent and passion
remain in the area of bicycle repair. The possibility that bikes
have for becoming an integral part of our lives and communities is huge as we inch towards an increasingly localized
world. I love bikes because, no matter why a person rides
one, they always bring pleasure to the person's life. This
pleasure, combined with the positive possibilities for a greener world that bikes possess, are why bikes have been a continual part of my life for the last 17 years. My love affair with
bikes led me to many varied engagements with them. I have
been a bike messenger in New York City, a teacher of bicycle
repair classes, as well as an early idea-man for conceptual city
bikes sold on the internet; but most importantly I have been
a head mechanic in influential bike shops in New York as
well as in Greensboro.
My Favorite Things Mobile Bicycle Repair has
existed for quite some time in an informal incarnation. However, as I notice people's lives becoming increasingly busy, I
In case you missed this resource in another issue:
believe the time is right to ramp up advertising for my
concept. Just as a customer can order a pizza, my business
can provide bike repair by simply calling me, and I will
either set up a time for the repair, or I can simply come
over as you call. The nature of a broken bike tends to render it unrideable, and therefore sometimes cumbersome to
get to a bike shop. My business solves this problem by
simply coming to you! I also have a shop in a building on
my property that I can do repairs from, so if you are more
comfortable bringing it over to me, I am also willing and
able to do the repair in-house. Because I do not have the
overhead of other bike shops, my prices tend to be lower
and I will offer a much more personal interaction. My
customers can tell you that I am intimately familiar with
their bikes, and therefore comfortable repairing and suggesting possible alternatives for their bikes.
Another large part of my business is building bicycles for customers based on their needs. Bike shops can
only offer bikes that are designed by large multinational
corporations and do not cater to our area or needs. Depending on your desires, I can design and build any type
of bike imaginable, and am very adept at designing stylish,
original and useful bikes that suit your needs. Please give
me a call, and let's talk about bikes!
Jackson Lee...My Favorite Things Mobile Bicycle
Repair...336.402.4302
Greensboro Concierge
Sarah Carter
Owner
(336) 202-2997
PO Box 10711
Greensboro, NC 27404
www.greensboroconcierge.com
Email: greensboroconcierge@gmail.com
The online white pages are a useful RESOURCE that
you may need some time. You may use this URL to find
your neighbors or an address in another part of town or
country: http://neighbors.whitepages.com/
Just plug in an address or the guess of an address, and
see what you learn.
PHOTOGRAPHERS
If you are a photographer -professional or amateur- and
you take photos at neighborhood events that you would
like to share, please send them to Robin to post on our
website. We will use some of them in the newsletter. Not
everyone in our neighborhood uses the internet so print is
one way to share with them. See p. 2 for email address
and see photos in the issue for examples.
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I Have Two Jobs
by Karen McCullough
Karen's Web Works is my first job.
Karen's Web Works
(www.karenswebworks.com), my website design and development business, creates websites for small businesses, nonprofit foundations, authors, and others. I work with my clients to develop functional and appealing web
solutions that fulfill their needs and make them
look good.
I came to the web business by a somewhat convoluted career path. Back in the early 1990s, I
burnt out after twenty intense years of computer programming. I moved into software documentation, then writing about computers and
other things. Eventually I got a job with a trade
publishing company, working in circulation and
various editing capacities. When the publisher
decided it was time to create a presence in the
burgeoning new world of the web for his magazines, he looked at my background with computers and decided I was the person for the
job.
Armed with a book titled Teach Yourself HTML
in 24 Hours, I created the first website, completely from scratch. Then I did another, and another. I enjoyed it! Those first
efforts were pretty crude and simple, but I kept refining them and learning new ways to do things. I read everything I could
on web technologies and questioned everyone who was willing to answer.
A few years later a larger publishing company hired me to take over their small but growing web presence. Over the next
five years I took a single website getting a couple of thousand visitors a week and grew it into a group of sites that drew
close to a million visitors a week. By that point, though, the job had become less hands-on and more bureaucratic, which
didn't really suit me. I left to start my own web design company.
Because I have a lot of contacts in the writing and publishing world, when I mentioned I was available to create websites,
several people jumped at the chance. They liked the results and began to tell their friends and acquaintances. I quickly had all
the work I could handle.
The technologies behind website design and development have changed significantly since I created that first simple HTML
site some fifteen years ago. It's been a challenge to keep up with them, but that's part of what keeps the job interesting. But
the principles of good design remain pretty solid. I love the way the business requires both technical and design skills.
I have no artistic background or training, but I was fortunate that when I created that first website, I was able to consult
with the magazine's excellent art director, who gave me a crash course in design. That has been a huge help.
I now do both website design and maintenance, as well as some other graphic design projects like creating banners, Facebook headers and book covers. My current client list numbers around 100, including authors, nonprofit organizations, and
small businesses. I currently take only a limited number of new clients. More information about the business is available at
my business website, http://www.karenswebworks.com .
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Karen McCullough, Author of Fantasy, Mystery and Romantic Suspense Novels
I'm Karen McCullough and I write novels as my second job. Some days that
feels like a boast; other days it's more like a confession. I make no pretensions
to writing anything important. My novels are unabashedly genre novels, meant
primarily for entertainment. I'm fortunate that a number of them have actually
been published.
I wrote my first mystery story at the age of 11, after reading through all the
Nancy Drew stories I could get hold of. My story was five pages long and involved a stolen teddy bear. It wasn't great literature or even a very good mystery, but it was a start.
Fast forward 20 years or so and while I was writing software documentation
for a living, I began writing short stories on the side, mostly for my own
amusement. At the urging of others I submitted a few to magazines and small
-press anthologies. To my surprise, a couple were accepted and published.
That motivated me to keep writing, and after a while I noticed that my stories
were getting longer and longer. Eventually I took the leap and tackled my first
full-length novel. It was bad. Really, really bad. But I learned a lot in the process of writing it. My second novel was better--enough better that I ventured
to submit it to several editors and agents. It bagged a lot of rejections, but a
couple of editors and one of the agents actually said nice things about the writing and the story. In the end, though, it was in a genre that wasn't selling at the
time so they would have to pass on it.
And that moved me even more to keep trying. I wrote more novels, submitted them, and collected rejections. But then an
agent actually took on my fifth novel and came very close to selling it, though the deal fell through. In the meantime, I got a
surprise response from a query I'd written to an editor in New York over a year before. She wrote back to say she wanted
the book I'd described in the query.
I finished it in about six weeks, sent it off, and got a phone call from the editor a few weeks later to tell me she loved it and
was sending me a contract for it. That book, The Night Prowlers, was published in hardcover in 1990 by Avalon Books. Over
the next few years I sold three more books to Avalon, and since then I've had several more novels and shorter pieces published.
My most recent release is the ebook version of a mystery novel that was first released in hardcover by Five Star/Gale
Group/Cengage. Mass market paperback rights for A Gift for Murder were contracted by Harlequin/Torstar for their Worldwide Mystery Library. But in both contracts I retained electronic rights and by the time you're reading this, it will be available as an ebook for Kindles, Nooks and other ebook readers.
Although much of the actual writing of a novel involves both art and craft, I try to approach managing my books as a business, by reserving time each day for writing, spending some on
promotion or marketing the books that are available, and just
keeping up with the business in a fast-changing world. I've managed to retrieve the rights to most of my published backlist and
I'm releasing those as ebooks as fast as I can get them scanned,
re-edited, reformatted and new covers made.
ALL TYPES OF GLASS
510 N. Spring St. 27401
336-273-1791
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http://www.kmccullough.com .
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Jonathan Smith & Co
By Jonathan Smith
Jonathan and Anne Smith formed Jonathan Smith & Co., an investment management, financial consulting and planning
firm in 1987 after Jonathan’s 11 years in the brokerage business and Anne’s 14 years as a software engineer with Bell Labs
(and AT&T). They welcomed son Justin Smith, CFA® CFP®, a native of Sunset Hills to the firm in 2005. He is presently our chief investment strategist, and was a TEDx Greensboro speaker on April 16th about the Lighted Christmas Balls
community phenomenon and the Shine the Light on Hunger project. For 25 years, we have helped client families make sense
of financial issues while delivering sustainable results to them. One of our core beliefs is that our clients have more time to
focus on their professional and personal interests by trusting their asset management and financial decisions to us.
As a firm we know that every day we walk in client shoes and every dollar we manage has our clients’ picture on it – we
feel as though we’ve sent a dozen kids to college, birthed many babies and been separated, divorced and remarried more
times than we can recall. We’ve had cancers, heart disease, Alzheimer’s and mental illnesses. We’ve survived the deaths of
spouses and of parents. We’ve bought and sold homes, refinanced mortgages and paid off mortgages. We’ve invested in
countless charities, established numerous trusts and wills and powers of attorney. We’ve moved to so many independent
living, assisted living and skilled nursing facilities that the senior centers know us by name. We’ve retired over and over,
died seven deaths and were once mistaken for the decedent’s pastor. We have experienced exuberant bull markets and we
have been at the helm through seven bear markets.
We are always glad to give you a second opinion on your portfolio or plans. Located 2.5 miles from Sunset Hills in Fisher
Park; we keep an extra seat at the round table for visitors. Just give us a call to make sure we are available. 336-272-9488.
Anne and Jonathan Smith -Toad Hall – corner of Madison & Ridgeway.
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Landscape Designer
By Lee Rogers
When I first moved to Sunset Hills in 1988, I worked for Dennis Mullane, a local landscape architect with a small office over
the Suds and Duds. After deciding on a career change, I completed a two-year vocational training program in Landscape
Gardening at Sandhills Community College, fully convinced that I would become an estate supervisor, maybe for some
splendid place like Reynolda Gardens or Dumbarton Oaks. But after getting some hands-on experience in landscape design, I never looked back.
The role of a landscape designer is to help homeowners understand, organize, and develop their yards. Much of the
work involves getting people to think carefully about how they want to spend their time outside and to prioritize accordingly. I generally encourage clients to tackle their most annoying landscape problems first. I help them to find affordable design solutions and an appropriate contractor to handle the project. Elaborate hand drawn renderings mean very little to
most people if they can’t see physical improvement in their surroundings, so I keep my drawings simple. And that’s also
why I stick around to manage the installation and make sure it meets expectations. I only work with the best craftsmen and
contractors available.
But the real reason I love landscape design is that it’s never boring. I get to meet interesting people and solve different problems on every job, from planning display borders for an heirloom daffodil collection to hiring the Goatscapers to
clean out an ivy-filled gully. (They ate it to the nub, by the way.) What I most love, though, is to try out new combinations
of plants and building materials on other people. Even though I have one of the best lots for gardening in Sunset Hills, it is
still not enough space to do everything I’d like to do. So in many ways, I consider working on your yard and garden an extension of working on my own. It's been a philosophy that has served me well. And even though I secretly believe that people should spend all their available resources on gardens, I also realize that I am badly spoiled by my exposure to the wholesale nursery industry. I have learned to exercise self control in my plant purchases and am no longer the Imelda Marcos of
the horticultural world.
KNOW A NEIGHBOR
This issue contains stories by our neighbors who are in business. We have featured artists and “foodies” in the past and
plan to feature other specialty areas as
well.
Send us your suggestions for a specialty to
cover. It can be your own or your neighbor’s! If you can’t identify the specialty of
your interesting neighbor, why not interview him or her and write a story for Know
a Neighbor.
Please email Jo Strack at
joannstrack@gmail.com or call 333.9796.
Send your story or ideas for a story to
mrpsunset@gmail.com .
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The Reinvention of Two Baby Boomers
By Sallie White
Bob Dylan said it best: “The times they are a-changin’.” And for those of us who have carved out careers as free-lancers,
entrepreneurs and small business owners, perhaps the most important lesson we can learn is to pay attention to these changing times and be willing to change along with them. I’ve always believed that the most fulfilling work calls on our core
strengths, interests and passions. Jan and I have been fortunate to have built careers that allow us to exercise our natural
gifts and talents…his, as a life-long artist and equestrian painter and mine, as an interior designer and painter. But we were
both feeling the need to branch out a bit…to hold on to the core of our careers, yet venture into some new territory.
We began talking about how we might co-mingle our talents into a business of some kind. I love to cook…perhaps a food
truck business? No…too much start-up. We kicked around more ideas. Popsicle business? (Don’t laugh…I make some
mean paletas.) We continued brainstorming. In fact, we talked about business ideas endlessly, often while we were antiquing
or going to estate sales. Our passion for mid-century modern furniture had taken on a life of its own.
And then it finally dawned of us….we were already doing what we loved and could turn it into a business! With Jan’s vast
knowledge of art history, my design skills and our mutual passion for art and vintage furniture, why not start our own estate
liquidation business? It was the perfect fit for our skills and a service that is both helpful and necessary as folks age, transition or simplify. At last we had our business! After that it was simply a matter of getting the word out before the calls started coming in and Lukens & White LLC was born! (www.lukensandwhite.com) And our ever-growing collection of midcentury furniture has taken shape as a small retail venture called “also modern.” Check us out on Facebook!
The times may be changing, but if our lives and work are to stay relevant and meaningful, so must we. Here’s to learning,
growing and changing with the times.
Sallie White, Jan Lukens and their dog Jim live on Kensington Rd.
Independent Beauty Consultant
Sunset Hills is my home! I grew up at 1908 Madison Avenue which was the "Ellis house" for a time. I am the youngest of 5
children. I turned cartwheels, rode a unicycle, skateboarded, played tennis and rode my bike with no hands all over this
neighborhood. Yes, I was a Friendly Frog. I was a tomboy, but girlie when it was convenient. Raising my own family in the
neighborhood, and having my own business here has brought me much pride and joy.
I have been a Mary Kay Independent Beauty consultant for over 10 years. Consultants do not have stores, however we
operate our businesses from our homes. I came into the business to earn extra money, but I love that I have the opportunity everyday to help other women feel good about themselves on the inside, as well as their outward appearance. I am a
Future Director and I lead a team of consultants dedicated to help women who have been affected by cancer, and the
negative results radiation and chemotherapy have on the body, skin and hair. I often hold appointments with individuals
or groups in my home or the client’s home. We share stories, share products by means of a makeover, allowing a women to
try before she buys. I enjoy seeing a woman happy with her appearance and the self-confidence that follows. I love that the
products are 100% guaranteed so I never have to worry about quality. Mary Kay has also made it possible for consultants to
have an online business and secure website for online ordering! I can even offer a Virtual Online Makeover! Now that is
convenience!
Mary Kay Ash started this company 50 years ago to help women become the best they can be by implementing the
philosophy of the golden rule, and life priorities of God first, Family second, and Career third as our business model. I am
very proud that our products are American made in Dallas, Texas, and our company is now touching lives in 37 countries
worldwide! Because of this firm foundation Mary Kay, Inc. was recently recognized by Forbes magazine as being one of the
top 10 businesses for women. Being part of this growing company and opening my front door to this beautiful neighborhood bring me pride and joy every day! I love calling Sunset Hills my home!
June Ellis Curlott, Independent Beauty Consultant
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Sunset Hills Neighborhood Association Board Meeting
March 13, 2013
Treasurer Report & Dues
290 households paid dues and made contributions in 2012 (including 42 households that paid dues in 2012 for 2013)
Discussion about dues and ideas to encourage Sunset Hills residents to contribute annually, as well as join the SHNA
email listserv.
Expenditures YTD:
Blue Birds Boxes for the Greenway $351.06
July 4th Parade Permit
$25.00
New Business:
Discussion about term limits, and current open SHNA Board Positions: president, Community Watch captain, block captain, and environmental affairs committee member. The upcoming newsletter will have information about remaining open
board positions.
Motion made and approved by board of directors: Joann Strack will serve as the new president of the Sunset Hills Neighborhood Association board of directors. (In a follow-up motion on March 27th, the BOD voted in Carl Phillips to serve as
co-president with Joann Strack, through spring 2015.)
A Zoning Commission public hearing is scheduled for April 8th. Kotis Properties will be presenting rezoning requests for
the locations at 1704 Madison Avenue and 105 Smyres Place. (The corner of Sunset Hills where Ham’s and Southern
Lights used to operate.) Each property is currently zoned R-5 (Residential-Single-Family) and Kotis Properties would like
to rezone to CD-C-L (Conditional District-Commercial Low).
The Running of the Balls was a huge success in December, and a confirmation date is being set for it to take place in Sunset Hills again in 2013.
The Garden Club will have upcoming spring workdays in April and May.
Discussion about recruiting volunteers for future SHNA events.
Submitted by Kerry Meyers, Secretary
Picnickers of all
ages at the 2012 Pig
Pickin’ in the park.
Photo by Harvey
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Fourth of July
Sunset Hills Events
Parade at the tennis courts: 4:30
Musical entertainment: 5 to 7:30
Bring chairs, food, beverages for a picnic for
your family or your friends.
There will be games for kids., including a
balloon toss.
Attention Musicians: If you
are interested in an open
mike event, contact
Scott Harkey
scott@windshieldglass.com .
Thank you Scott for
Organizing this event. Watch for
more news on the listserv (another good
reason to make certain you are on the listserv. Need
we say more?)
Anne and Jonathan Smith. The very
large Lighted Christmas Ball that forms
the background for this picture was
later removed from the tree and
taken by vandals.
Thank you
Advertisers
Writers
Farmer’s market comes to the corner of
Elam and Walker.
On Saturdays from 8am to 12noon the corner of Elam and
Walker is host to a weekly farmers’ market. Anchored
by Faucette Farms, the market will provide a venue for
regional producers to show and sell their products year
round. Bestway showcases local producers such
as Guilford College Farm, and Sticks and Stones is open for
Saturday brunch. Other providers are already arriving,.
These include Reedy Farms, local breads, and Elam
Gardens. Currently stalls can be found at the parking lot of
Sticks and Stones, with a vision of expanding to other
venues, creating a local community hot-spot for Saturday
mornings.
Submitted by Claire Morse
Editors.
Without
You
There
Would
Be
No
Newsletter.
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Membership and Treasurer’s Report
As of April 18th, we have 232 paid households. Dues are now $10. Membership entitles you to use the listserv, a wonderful
way to stay in touch with the neighborhood; ask for help; sell/give away stuff; get vendor recommendations from your
neighbors; and help reunite the occasional lost dog/cat/bird with its frantic owner. Check out the front page of this newsletter for annual events that bring neighbors together for social occasions and work projects that help to keep our neighborhood looking good. If you haven’t already done so this year, please send a check made out to SHNA for $10.00 to me,
Emily Herman, 2512 Berkley Pl. If you use two names and want to be listed that way or use a name other than the one on
your check, please let me know. Call me at 275-6015 if you have any questions.
Mike & Audrey Albright
Jim & Betty Allen
Ellen Ammirato
Maureen O'Keeffe & Paul Ashby
Leanette Averna
Diane Aycock
Lee & Denise Baker
Rachel Barger
Vance & June Barron
Beverley Gass & Anthony Bartholomew
Carl & Linda Bass
Dezree Bass
Reto & Emmy Biaggi
Rebecca Black
Sidonna Black
John & Mary Ann Boelhower
Philip & Brenda Bowman
Rebecca Perry & Donna Brandon
Nick & Ronni Brownlee
Stephen & Deborah Bryant
Jamie Presson & Phil Bullington
Jim & Cindy Butner
Peggy Byrd
Chris & Sandra Canipe
Cynthia Carrington
Michael & Lisa Carter
Diane Cashion
Brigitte Chauvigne
George & Frances Cheek
Hilton & Catherine Cochran
Denyse Coker
Chip & Sarah Cook
Michael Cooke
Wendie Cousins
Sarah Cowan
Michelle Dowd & Michael Cowie
Dava Cox
Catherine Crowder
Elizabeth Brennan & Bill Cummings
Joe & June Curlott
Teresa Dail
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Bradley & Margaret Davis
Susy Wrenn & Rodney DeBusk
Bill & Linda Denmark
Rick & Carol Diehl
Rick & Valerie Dodd
Frank & Ann Dorner
Rodger & LuAnn Durham
James & Patricia Elder
John & Linda Englar
Gwendolyn Erickson
Betty Everhart
Margaret Avery & Jerry Everhardt
Jim & Helen Farson
James & Marnie Fenley
Timothy & Melissa Fleming
Robert & Kate Foster
Randal Furches
Lee Zacharias & Michael Gaspeny
Nevill & Amy Gates
Jim & Susan Gentry
Susan McMullen & Bob Gingher
Leah Giovan
John & Brenda Glenn
Lawrence & Shirely Glisson
Dana Harris & Linda Goolsby
Brooks Graham
Anne Beatty & Adam Graham-Squire
Kelly Cutts Grimsley
Melissa Greer
Elaine Talbert & Ken Gruber
Thomas Guthrie
Graeme & Catherine Hampton
Ricky & Robin Hardy
Scott & Jane Harkey
Sherry & Bob Harris
Pricey Harrison
Ann Harvey
Clay & Elizabeth Hassard
John & Gail Hedrick
Alice Haddy & Ed Hellen
Rhonda Hensley
Susan Hensley
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Thank you, thank
you, thank you!
Many thanks to the following
people who included a contribution with their dues this
year: Jim & Betty Allen, Vance
& June Barron, Beverly Gass
& Anthony Bartholomew, Sidona Black, Jim & Cindy Butner, Chris & Sandra Canipe,
Michael & Lisa Carter, George
& Frances Cheek, Denyse
Coker, Teresa Dail, Margaret
Avery & Jerry Everhardt, Robert & Kate Foster, Leah Giovan, Dana Harris & Linda
Goolsby, Melissa Greer,
Elaine Talbert & Ken Gruber,
Christopher & Elizabeth
Jones, Percy & Nora Jones,
Steve & Mary Lewis, Sallie
White & Jan Lukens, Charles
& Anne Lyons, Janet Boseovski & Stuart Marcovitch,
Amanda McGehee, Jane
Mitchell, Thomas & Susan
Molony, Emmett & Lee
Morphis, Robert & Lee Moses, Charles & Martha Newland, Jerry & Deborah Pifer,
Marlene Pratto, Cassidy Price,
Kevin & Eileen Prufer, Christopher & Ginger Shields, Elizabeth Smith, Michiko Stavert,
Bob & Jo Strack, Kelly Swindell, Geraldine Alfano & Merrill Tisdel, Herb & Ellen Wells,
and James & Janet Windham.
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Harvey & Emily Herman
Dason & Heather Hill
Claude Hoffman
Bobbie Hoover
Mary Louise Smith & Cheryl Hopkins
Troy & Sarah Hopkins
Anthony & Stephanie Hudnell
David Hudson
Raymond & Nancy Hunt
Robert & Mary Jacke
Tori Cavenaugh & Kimber Johnson
Jennifer Rogers & Michael Job
Christopher & Elizabeth Jones
Percy & Nora Jones
Todd & Laura Jones
Bailey & Cathy Jordan
David & Laurie Joslin
Paul & Janet Kershaw
Candace Kime
Horace & Cathy Kimel
Dianne King
John & Beth King
Reaves & Layne King
Reid King
Bill & Pam Knight
Daniel & Jennifer Koenig
Jean Paul & Marvella Koenig
W.S. & Kristen Lancaster
Derrick & Anne Lankford
Leonard & Deborah Lasek
Katherine Lautermilch
Rene Lawrence
Aaron & Andra LeBauer
Ronald & Emarita Leitner
Steve & Mary Lewis
Carole Lindsey-Potter
Michael & Georgia Lineback
Ella Mae Livingston
Lillian Lovings
Sallie White & Jan Lukens
Charles & Anne Lyons
Ronald & Kathryn Mack
Trawin & Melissa Malone
Janet Boseovski & Stuart Marcovitch
Nancy Mohney & John Martin
Tom & Kathy Martinek
John & Patricia Martinez
Daniel & Leah McCoy
Jim & Karen McCullough
Amanda McGehee
Marcy McHenry
Sheila Wells & Gregory Meyerson
LeAnne Brugh Miller
David Mingia
Jane Mitchell
Valerie Vickers & Paul Mitchell
Thomas & Susan Molony
Keith & Deborah Monroe
Phil & Mary Mac Moore
Emmett & Lee Morphis
Larry & Claire Morse
Robert & Lee Moses
Deborah Mott
Ron & Monq Neal
Teri Nelson
Charles & Martha Newland
Larry & Susan Osborne
Chesley Kennedy & John Overfield
Todd & Laura Oxner
Barbara Parret
Eric & Donna Patton
Carl & Helen Phillips
Jerry & Deborah Pifer
Larry & Gerry Pike
Andy Pilcher
David & Donna Plyler
Robert Powell
Marlene Pratto
Cassidy Price
Kevin & Eileen Prufer
Betty Purcell
Terrie Reeves & Wilson Radding
Greg & Karen Rechtin
Linda Haitt & Peter Reichard
Christopher & Michele Reisdorf
Virgil & Caroline Renfroe
John & Monique Reynolds
Loyl & Libby Rick
Rachel Richardson & David Roderick
Sharon Weber & Michael Roberto
Healther Gert & John Roberts
Leigh & Melanie Rodenbough
Gary & Lee Rogers
Lyn Rollins
Jeri & Katherine Rowe
Olav & Martina Ruppell
Wally & Marlene Sanford
Steve Scott
Gardner & Beth Sheffield
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Christopher & Ginger Shields
Thomas & Wendy Sibley
Michael & Jacquelyn Sigmon
Brandon & Leslie Singerman
Joe & Michelle Soler
Joe & Barbara Small
Ron & Victoria Small
Elizabeth Smith
Jonathan & Anne Smith
Mark & Lynn Smith
Jane Younts & Wayne Smith
Thomas & Leslie Stainback
Mark & Elizabeth Stauffer
Michiko Stavert
Jim & Janet Stenersen
Eric & Jenny Stickrath
Drayton & Jane Stott
Bob & Jo Strack
Mac & Linda Stroupe
Kelly Swindell
Andy & Marti Sykes
Scott & Jackie Tanseer
Craig & Anna Taylor
Kelli Kupiec & Joe Tillman
Paul & Robin Timmins
Geraldine Alfano & Merrill Tisdel
Maggie Jeffus & Ted Thompson
Bryan & Billie Toney
Herb & Jennie Tucker
Tom & Lisa Tunstall
Randall & Lisa Underwood
Sheila Sanders & Craig Van Deventer
Paul & Judy Walmsley
Elizabeth Wanek
Kathy Turner & Lisa Weaver
Patricia Webb
Herb & Ellen Wells
Chris Morris & Jeff West
Phyllis White
Wayne & Gail Whitworth
Mark & Valerie Wilkerson
Linda Rhyne & Paul Williams
Scott Michaels & Steven Willis
James & Janet Windham
Chris Winfree
Scott & Kishie Wyatt
Elizabeth Woody & Carl Yardley
Anna Yates
Erol & Lisa Yurtkuran
Michael Gaspeny & Lee Zacharias
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