“NateStrong – Save in Seven” Blood Drive

Posted on April 13, 2015 by arrowcreek411

Reno Friends! Mark your calendar for Tuesday, April 28th! It is with great excitement to announce that the parents at Hunsberger Elementary School are doing a Blood Drive in honor of Hunsberger’s little warrior Nate Christy.

Many of you know that our 9-year-old hero was admitted to the hospital in January for what seemed like a routine appendectomy. After experiencing life-threatening complications, Nate endured seven surgeries, three blood transfusions and spent nearly six weeks at Renown’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. The transfusions that helped save his life inspired him to “pay it forward” by hosting a blood drive of his own.

The “NateStrong – Save in Seven” Blood Drive will take place at Hunsberger Elementary School (2505 Crossbow Court, Reno NV 89511) on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from 2:00pm to 7:00pm. United Blood Services of Reno will staff the drive with mobile units and will also offer a complimentary Cholesterol Test with every blood donation.

The event will include festivities for the entire family, including First Responder vehicles from the Reno Fire Department and the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office. There will also be snacks, giveaways and a grand prize drawing of a limousine ride and lunch with Nate.

If you are not a candidate for giving blood, there are other ways to participate! We would welcome donations of cookies and juice boxes the day of the event, and we need help posting flyers throughout town. If you own a business and would be open to displaying a poster in your window or on a bulletin board, please let me know!

The number seven is symbolic to this drive:
• 7: The number of surgeries Nate endured
• 7: The number of actual minutes it takes to donate blood
• 1 in 7: People entering the hospital who will need blood
• 7%: Your percentage of body weight in blood

In just 7 minutes, YOU can help save a life like Nate’s through the gift of blood.

For more information and to sign up for an appointment, please visit www.BloodHero.com and enter sponsor code N1NCS or call 1-800-696-4484. Walk-ins will be accepted, but sign-ups are preferred to help streamline the process and plan for staffing.

See the below flyer for more info, and feel free to spread the word!

This community is NATESTRONG!

Heather Crookston Neal

April Blood Drive

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ArrowCreek HOA Meeting Tuesday Night 5:30 PM at The Club at ArrowCreek!

Posted on April 13, 2015 by arrowcreek411

remember

Don’t forget!

ArrowCreek HOA Meeting Tuesday Night (04/14/15)
5:30 PM at The Club at ArrowCreek!
Agenda

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ArrowCreek Art Guild Meeting Tonight!

Posted on April 13, 2015 by arrowcreek411

remember

ArrowCreek Art Guild Meeting tonight at Tricia Leonard’s home (3682 Spirit Bluff Court) at 6:30 p.m.

Please RSVP to Connie at lulughysels@gmail.com to be counted in!

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Next ArrowCreek Garden Club Meeting April 15 2015

Posted on April 13, 2015 by arrowcreek411

If you wish to attend the Garden Club meeting this Wednesday, April 15, 2015, at 10 AM, please email me or call Blake Williams at 850-4471 ex 209 to make reservations. We had a group of about 40 last month.

I have heard Marnie speak before and she is entertaining as well as informative. She, like many of us, came from N. California or other places where gardening is less challenging.

GC0414pixPrint/See flyer here.

Hope to see you there,
Janet Ouren

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The Club at ArrowCreek Sets Water Consumption Reduction Goal

Posted on April 11, 2015 by arrowcreek411

The Club at ArrowCreek recently sent out this communication on their water conservation efforts to cut 10% off of last year’s water consumption – and challenged the ArrowCreek community to try to do the same water savings.

ACH2O

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Sparks’ D’Andrea Golf Course Up for Auction Again

Posted on April 9, 2015 by arrowcreek411

The Reno Gazette Journal had this article today that was passed on to the ArrowCreek411 webmaster by Paul Burkett this morning.

The D’Andrea Golf Course in Sparks will be sold at auction later this month and the surrounding community is nervous they may never see the property used as a golf course again.

Homeowners say they hope that the golf course, which has gone to seed since it shut down in 2012, will be sold as one unit when Washoe County tries to sell it on April 22, but they fear that the high cost will force the auctioneers to break up the property’s six parcels. That would effectively eliminate the chances of the land becoming a golf course again.

In addition, the new owners will have a hard time building anything new on the parcels since it’s designated to only be used for a golf course. It’s a catch-22 that doesn’t seem to have an easy solution.

Read more of the article here.

There are several rumors going around. Some already had parts of it sold. This article focusses on the people who wanted a golf course in the first place. So, it will be interesting to see what really does happen later this month. RGJ also has many photographs on-line of the state of disrepair that the site is in. I don’t think the land looks any worse than the HOA land I look out on from my house.

Northgate Golf Course is being repurposed. So, who knows what will happen here.

Even if the FOA closes ArrowCreek, I don’t think our situation would be the same as far as defacement is concerned because we are behind a security gate. I believe wiser stewards of the earth are here.

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Posted on April 8, 2015 by arrowcreek411

Some play the game, others change the way the game is played. (Howard Putnam, Former CEO, Southwest & Braniff Airlines)

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Somersett Amenities Report Includes ArrowCreek References

Posted on April 8, 2015 by arrowcreek411

Over the weekend Somersett United provided a Somersett Owners Association SOA Amenities Update that would interest many residents in ArrowCreek so I am reposting it on ArrowCreek411. ArrowCreek is one of the communities in the report comparisons. This is FACT, NOT FICTION NOR INUENDO. Jeanne Tarantino, the ArrowCreek Associa HOA Manager is given acknowledgement and thanks as a source in the report.

Here is the original March 11 article on the Somersett Amenities Assessment Report .

Both articles contain the link to the 42 page report.

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Look at the original data yourself – then make your decision

Posted on April 7, 2015 by arrowcreek411

Look at the original data yourself – then make your decision
by Ben Collins

(Webmaster’s comment: The problem these days is that so many people are so busy that they prefer to follow people they trust rather than take the time to think out a difficult problem themselves. Example: Republicans and Democrats. We have an identical situation here between Mr. Collins and Mr. Duncan. Statisticians can always make the data claim what is desired. That is why the ArrowCreek411 webmaster hates statistics and takes it with a grain of salt. Same exact data, different processes – both men with justifiable reasons for manipulating/analyzing the data the way it was done and both men feel they were earnest – and were earnest – in their calculations. Same as in the Pingle report, which was reported here when it was released in this post with files UNR_STUDY 1 of 2 and UNR_STUDY 2 0f 2) as well as with the link to the ACHOA website. ALL of it is boiled down to human opinion of facts viewed from hundreds of different life experiences. Why can’t we meet in the middle and find a compromise? Just ask the Republicans and Democrats currently in office in Washington DC.)

The 411 site is not impossible trash. It tries to share ARROWCREEK pertinent information – which includes ACHOA and Golf Club information. It is intended as a forum for people to share their views based on comments, experiences and emails from the neighborhood that indicated that the ACHOA website was not meeting their needs. The ACHOA is adamant that an open line of communication, a.k.a. forum/blogsite, is totally outta sight beyond Pluto for risk of litigation.

Here is Ben’s item to put on the “inaccurate” 411 website for today. Is it any more “fact” than anything else here? To use Ben’s last line: “We all need to look critically at what is being posted on the 411 website.” No, duh! Just as critically as anything posted on the Associa website, or on any website, or on radio, or on TV!! The hard part is deciding for ourselves (oh, my! that means thinking for myself, ok, big breath) what it all means to us as individuals, as families, as communities and as stewards of the earth or whatever…where can the compromises be made where it is a win-win for everyone involved? Oops. There are those Democrats and Republicans again….)

This is a big file and may take more time to load than you would expect. Please have patience!

Look at the numbers yourself

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Control of YOUR Pocket Book Part II

Posted on April 7, 2015 by arrowcreek411

Speaking of Pocket Book Issues….

There’s a bill going through our legislature, SB260, which will REQUIRE HOA Owners to carry an impound account to pay for HOA fees! When the HOA raises your fees, the bank just increases your payment to cover the impound account amount. I personally don’t like anybody touching my money without my specific permission!

Follow the links on the bill below and register your voice!

SB 260 –
This bill requires lenders to establish escrow accounts for the payment of assessments for all new loans in community associations after January 1, 2016. Associa is a member of Community Association Institute (CAI). CAI is supporting this bill as they believe this will help to resolve issues with the super priority lien, as well as greatly reduce association delinquencies.

You can read the full bill SB260/2015 on-line here. Pay particular attention to page 3 with the redlines for association assessments, special assessments and contributions for capital expenditures.

Download or print a pdf file here.

As the bill travels through the government bodies, its tracks are left here. The last track as of yesterday: “Senate Judiciary – Apr 06, 2015 – Amend, and do pass as amended” — The minutes and redlines haven’t been posted yet.

Back in March at the original hearing, the Nevada Credit Union League registered their opposition in testimony here. Mark Leon of southwest Las Vegas registered his testimony for the bill here.

YOU can also tell Nevada lawmakers how you feel about this bill. One easy way to voice your opinion is to take advantage of a powerful legislative online web tool:

Click on: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Opinions/78th2015/A/.

Select your view (For or Against) on this bill SB260. You can also leave comments. You will also be leaving your personal contact information.

Additionally, you can also reach out directly to those members that sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee and let them know your thoughts:

Chair Greg Brower ( Greg.Brower@sen.state.nv.us ) – District 15
Vice Chair Becky Harris ( Becky.Harris@sen.state.nv.us ) – District 9
Scott Hammond ( Scott.Hammond@sen.state.nv.us ) – District 18
Aaron Ford ( Aaron.Ford@sen.state.nv.us ) – District 11
Ruben Kihuen ( Ruben.Kihuen@sen.state.nv.us ) – District 10
Tick Segerblom ( Tick.Segerblom@sen.state.nv.us ) – District 3

You can also reach out to our (ArrowCreek) State Senator
Ben Kieckhefer – District 16
( Ben.Kieckhefer@sen.state.nv.us )

You can also reach out to our (ArrowCreek) State Assemblyman
Randy Kirner – District 26
( Randy.Kirner@asm.state.nv.us )

Talk to your neighbors, friends, and anyone you know that owns a home within a community association in our state and direct them to this post. Their state representatives can be found by typing their address in the blank at this link: http://mapserve1.leg.state.nv.us/whoRU/

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