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The grounds will be a little bit brighter this holiday season, as the Plantation Bay Community Association Board of Directors unanimously voted to approve raising the holiday decoration budget from $5,000 to $7,500 for the 2014 holiday season, at its Aug. 25 meeting.

Additions to the decorations for the upcoming season include lighting the trees and ponds at the U.S. 1 entrance as well as lighting ponds at the Old Dixie Highway entrance and hanging a wreath on the entrance wall.

Decorations that will not make the cut this year include the ball, which previously sat at the en-trance, and the reindeer.

Decorations will be set out as close to Thanksgiving as possi-ble, as the community will have to coordinate with the schedule of the company that is hired.

“It’s difficult to find people to do this kind of work in this area,” board President Kathy Pounds told the board during discussion.

Also at the meeting, Fran Poggialia and Art Fadde were appointed to the Modifications Com-mittee.

For more on the board’s actions, see Page 3.

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tion process has been com-pleted. We’d like to thank the residents who volun-teered for this important job in your neighborhood. Because the final list will not be available in time for this edition, it will be posted on our new website on Oct. 1.

The address for our website is www.plantation-bayhomeowners.com. You may feel free to look at this site. It is not totally ready yet since there is some editing and loading of information yet to be done. However, we plan on hav-ing our resident databases loaded by the third week of September.

Prior to that, you may request a log in. Simply click on “Request Login.” Some of you have done that already. If you have already requested a login, there is no need to do it again, since the informa-tion has been saved on the site. Once the information for residents is uploaded, we will begin responding to you with login informa-tion. Once you have that information, you are good to go. We would appreciate your input regarding this website.

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A large statue of Mickey Mouse is displayed prominently on a side table in Dave and Pat Abernathy’s dining room. The statue, The Mickey Award, is the first-place trophy the couple received June 14-15, at the Car Masters Weekend at Downtown Disney. The event featured 125 cars in 11 categories.

“It was like an art show,” Pat Abernathy said. “We had to send pictures and information about the car before the car could be put on display.”

The Abernathys’ car, an or-ange 1969 Dodge Super Bee A-12, which was entered in the Classics 1965-1989 category, won them the Judges’ Choice

Award.”The judge came by and was

very impressed we had kept the integrity of the car down to the hubs and wheels,” she said.

The Abernathys also have a notebook full of provenance from the original window stick-

tender loving car By Jacque Estes | Staff Writer

Dave Abernathy waited 42 years, but he finally got his Chevelle.

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WHO GOES THERE?Plantation Bay tennis instructor Dave Brown at the top of his game. PAGE 10

ObserverSEASON SPARKLEShanna Fortier | Community Editor

Board approves $7,500 worth of holiday decorationsAt the Aug. 25 meeting of the Board of Directors, holiday planning was in full swing.

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Pat and Dave Abernathy are classic car fanatics, and they live in Plantation Bay.

Dave Abernathy gives the Super Bee a spot polish. For more on Plantation Bay’s classic cars, see 1. A Cruise In will be held Nov. 16.

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er, copies of the original owner’s me-chanical notes, dealer statement of the original and Polaroid photos of the car.

The win garnered them an invitation to the Winter Park Concours d’Elegance in November.

“You have to be personally invited, and we were invited by a judge,” Dave Abernathy said. “Just being in that kind of show increases the value of a car.”

A friend in high school got Dave into racing.

“He had a ’62 Dodge Polara and want-ed to drag race it, but it scared him, so I raced it and also raced cars for other friends.”

When asked if his mom knew he was racing, he smiled, recalling how his mom found out about his hobby: “She had a ’62 Plymouth station wagon, and she found out when she found a trophy I won stuck under the back seat.”

As a child, he said he did not play with toys in the traditional way, but the prac-tice would come in handy when he be-gan working on cars.

“I was the crazy kid whose parents gave me stuff for Christmas and by that afternoon I would have everything un-assembled,” he said. “I would put it back together as good or better.”

In 1969, while married to his first wife, he decided to buy a silver Chevrolet Chevelle with a black interior. When he

got home his wife had her own news: They were expecting their first child. The car purchase was canceled.

He waited 42 years before a Chevelle just like the one he almost bought was finally parked in the garage.

Six weeks after purchase, the trans-mission had to be replaced, and when he got it back, just like those Christmas toys from long ago — he took it apart.

“I found everything wrong with that car and fixed it,” he said.

The Super Bee is the Award winner, the Chevelle is the car that almost got away, but the 1970 red Toyota Land-cruiser is Pat Abernathy’s favorite.

“It’s hard to explain, but you can hear that car and you can feel it,” she said, adding that she feels like “The Little Old Lady From Pasadena” when she drives it.

Like the Chevelle there is also an emotional connection to the Land-cruiser for the couple.

“I wooed her in that car,” he said. “That’s the emotional connection for us.”

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After much discussion and input from community members, at the Aug. 18 Plantation Bay Community Association Board of Directors meeting the board members approved the amended and restated CC&Rs pending voting mem-ber approval.

According to board Secretary John Gamin, the majority of the changes in the documents consolidate amend-ments to the article itself.

One community member did not agree with the action taken by the board and spoke out at the meeting, asking them to table their vote until everyone who wants to receive a complete set of the changes has received it.

“It is nonsense. I want to see exactly what the changes are,” Jane Gentile-Youd told the board. “I am very uncom-fortable with the final vote being taken today. You could amend the document to have everyone in Plantation Bay have their own vote. This community doesn’t

involve anyone.”Gentile-Youd went on to accuse the

board of being undemocratic and not transparent.

Gamin responded to the accusations by telling Gentile-Youd that he would not “play her game.”

“There has been nothing finalized. We didn’t do any of this in a secret back room,” Gamin said. “I am doing this the way we have been instructed to do it.”

With this being said, the discussion was ended and community members in attendance were told that the board must approve the changes before the documents are distributed to the voting members.

A workshop for the voting members to discuss the changes made and ask any questions will be set before they make their vote for approval. Once that is done, the discussion will come back to the board and they will go through the voting process once again.

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TO THE VOTERS By Shanna Fortier | Community Editor

The Plantation Bay Community Association Board of Directors unanimously approved amended and restated CC&Rs pending voting member approval.

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at the end of September to residents of the above neighborhoods. These forms will be due back in the office near the end of October. The mailing will include all the deadlines and instructions.

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Plantation Bay tutor Peggy Gallo works with a student at the Youth Center in Espanola.

Studying with a buddy, or, in this case, George Sampson, is always more fun.

A chance meeting a year and a half ago continues to help children in Espanola, a small community west of Bunnell in Fla-gler County.

Kathy Pounds and others who live in Plantation Bay were involved with a food bank program in Flagler County where they met Katherine Jefferson. Jefferson had someone she wanted them to meet.

“She wanted us to meet Rev. Giddens and see what he was doing with the old school house there,” Pounds said.

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“We wanted to support what they were doing. This is their program,” Pounds said. “Francina Marshall is in charge of the Youth Center, and she oversees the operation and is in charge of the chil-dren.”

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Homework help is a popular request.“Some of the tutors who have been go-

ing there for a while have established a rapport with certain children,” Pounds said. “Typically we help them with home-work. School work has gotten more dif-ficult and a little more complicated than

it was when I was in school.”New tutors are always welcome, and a

formal background in education is not required to participate.

“You do not have to be a retired school teacher,” Pounds said. “We do have some who were teachers, but many use their experience from working with their own children and grandchildren. You need to like children and be interested in them.”

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Anyone interested in becoming a tu-tor can call Pounds at 586-6605. She will explain the program in more detail and arrange to have someone take the new volunteer up to the Youth Center in Es-panola.

“We have someone take them up there the first time,” she said. “That way they can find it once they are going on their own.”

Older students in the area who are honor roll students also help the younger children. “There is a lot of talent up there and a lot of children who will do great things,” she said.

Last year a student involved in the pro-gram won a leadership and academic award in school. Tutoring is offered all year long.

“I really want to keep going and work-ing with the children to build their confi-dence level and getting them involved in education,” she said.

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Eleven women gathered around a round table at Club de Bonmont talking about Christmas parties and gifts, not for their children or grandchildren but for youngsters they have yet to meet.

The Plantation Bay Community Out-reach Committee formed in October 2011 by a group of residents who wanted to give back to those in need in Volusia and Flagler counties.

“This committee is the outcome of the question, ‘What are we going to do to make a difference?,’” said Martha Rich-ards, who heads up the committee.

The group’s projects began with sup-porting the Halifax Urban Ministries local food pantry and Flagler’s Angels Christmas Project. The topic at the Au-gust meeting focused on Christmas. In past years the members have delivered the gifts directly to each child’s home.

“This year we are holding a Christmas party, complete with Santa Claus, at the Youth Center,” Richards said. “We call it the Christmas Angel Project.”

The project begins when the Christmas tree, decorated with tags with children’s names and what they want, is put up at Club de Bonmont. Residents are encour-aged to take a tag and shop for the child.

But the support is not just one day; it is the entire holiday season from Thanks-giving to Easter. Families are provided with holiday dinners and Easter baskets. Forty-eight children were adopted in 2013. The number for this season had not been determined.

The party will be held at the Youth Cen-ter at St. Paul’s Missionary Baptist Church complete with refreshments, and anyone interested will be able to attend.

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to the committee. “Flagler County pro-vides laptops to some of the students, but many of these children didn’t have Inter-net at home, so we bought six computers for the Youth Center and six months’ In-ternet service, which we are extending to 12 (months),” Richards said.

The center has also received indoor and outdoor games, and Richards hopes the committee will be able to renovate the Youth Center. “We don’t want to take it over, it’s their community place. We want to make it better,” she said.

The group also became aware of home-less students, seniors who did not have the means to get a yearbook or go their prom, and Seniors Helping Seniors was born.

In July, the committee put out an ap-peal for others to join the group through NextDoor.com. The request worked, as the membership tripled to 19.

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Fletcher was hired in 2007 to open the facility and oversees a staff of eight and contract service providers.

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Do you want to modify?Talk to the committee

The neighborhoods of Plantation Bay owe their aesthtic appeal to a small dedi-cated group of volunteers — The Plantation Bay Modification Committee.

The committee of five is guided by Su-sanne Armstrong of the Plantation Bay management staff. Currently the interim president is Frank Karin, but he will step down when the new group of five selects someone from their group.

To be on the board, interested individuals have to submit applications that are then reviewed by the management staff. Accord-ing to Armstrong, there are generally not a lot of applications.

“It’s a lot of hard work and little thanks,” Armstrong said.

The current committee includes an art-ist, a real estate agent and a homeowner.

“It is a very eclectic group. We have a good mix right now,” Armstrong said. “They try to keep it fun.”

The group starts their work anytime a homeowner wants to make a change to their home or property. Homeowners are required to submit an application to the board before they begin any painting, roof-ing, fencing or landscaping projects.

“They have to apply before they do any-thing,” she said. “Our goal is to keep ev-erything flowing. This is a beautiful com-munity because you can’t just do what you want.”

The board members receive a list of homes and projects about 10 days prior to a board meeting. This allows the members to drive by the properties and see for them-selves what the homeowner wants to do. The committee meets at 9:30 a.m. the first Monday of each month.

Homeowners painting their homes are

asked to paint a 2-by-2-foot section of the proposed main color with a 2-by-1 section of the proposed trim next to each other on an area of the house where the committee members can see it from the road. It is rec-ommended that the painting be near the roof to see how the colors blend with the existing shingles or tiles.

“We want to make sure they flow in their neighborhood,” she said. The goal is to keep the areas natural. If you are using the same color scheme, the approval process will most likely be faster.

“Each area has certain colors, and they keep within those colors. If you are looking for beach house colors this isn’t the place for you,” Armstrong said.

When replacing shingle roofs, tiles that are 130 mph hurricane rated must be used.

All contractors have to be licensed, in-sured and are required to provide a list of the people who will be working with them on the project.

“A lot of people love living here because it’s restricted,” she said.

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FROM THE SECURITY DIRECTORSchool is open, so please yield to

all children walking to or from their bus stop.

All traffic laws are in effect in Plantation Bay to stop for all school uses with blinking lights. The safety of all children is each driver’s responsibility.

Holidays are approaching, and this time of year is busy for all. Please notify security of any guest you may be expecting. If we can assist you with any information, security can be reached at 437-2496 or at the U.S. 1 gate, 672-5680. You may call 206-1105 to leave your visitor’s information.

This is the time of year many residents will have their lawn ser-vice perform extra maintenance. All yard waste and shrubbery debris is to be removed by your lawn service. All tree removal requires approval from the Modification Committee for Plantation Bay, or the ARC commit-tee for Westlake.

Vendors are required to have signage on their vehicles, place cones when parked and park in the direction with the traffic. Remind your vendor they must abide by the community restrictions. Security will issue tickets to vendors when a vio-lation occurs; a vendor who receives three tickets will be suspended from the community for one week for the first offense. Habitual offender may be suspended from the community up to 30 days. Signage is required for all vendors.

Notice: At both resident gates there are stop signs; you are required to stop at the signs. Anyone who has been experiencing difficulty with their transponders being read by the RFD reader, we have found the entry speed does not allow the reader the required time to read the

transponder. Stopping at the stop signs enables the reader to read your transponder. When clearing the gate arm, all residents are to yield to the visitor lane at all times. The officer on duty does try to release the visi-tor gate arm at a delay when they observe a resident coming through the resident lane. There has been several close incidents which could have ended poorly if the driver didn’t slam on their brakes.

Speeding in Plantation Bay has increased. Passing on residential roads is not allowed. Rolling stop signs or blowing through the stop signs is not allowed. Law enforce-ment will be in Plantation Bay to issue citations.

The board may take whatever actions are necessary to assist with the problem. If anyone should have any questions or comments please contact me via email or phone. My email is [email protected] and my phone number is 437-2496.

Please notify the management company and security with any phone number updates and vendor changes. Current telephone numbers are important to you and security; there have been incidents where we could not reach the resident to verify access.

Any resident who will be absent from their residence, please stop at the gate and request an absentee form to complete. Please return the completed absentee form to security. Absentee forms may be used for a day or any extended time you will be away from your home. This helps security help you with access to your residence and contact you while you are away in the event of an emer-gency.

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Dave Brown, USPTA Master Profes-sional tennis director at Plantation Bay, beams as he talks about the changes at the community tennis club.

Prior to accepting the position at Plan-tation Bay, he was the director of tennis at the Florida Tennis Center on LPGA Bou-levard.

“There are 15,000 in the USPTA teach-ing organization and probably about 1% who get to be master professionals,” Brown said. “It didn’t happen overnight. ... I came to Plantation Bay five-and-a-half years ago, and there wasn’t an active tennis program. There were four teams then, and there are 12 teams now.”

He added, “People will say to me, ‘I wish I knew someone I could play with,’ and I find someone. I’m the matchmaker. Every court was filled this morning. We had 40 players out there.”

Four of the 10 clay courts are lighted for those who want to play some tennis after the sun goes down. The courts are open daily 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Brown’s goal is to get others to do what he did when he was 5 years old — pick up a tennis racket.

Upcoming programsTwo upcoming programs are designed

to do just that. The Pathway Tennis After School Program is being offered to 7- to 10-year-old children from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in Septem-ber.

“This is a perfect time to get kids play-ing tennis,” Brown said. “The best part

is it is absolutely free. ... This is even for those who live outside the community and those who are not members.”

Adults can also take advantage of the free offer from 5:45 to 7 p.m. to play using free loaner equipment and receive free instruction.

The new junior tennis program is de-scribed as ROGY with a Red ball (bigger) for 8 and younger; an Orange ball (regular size ball but softer and slower) for 10 and younger); a Green dot ball (regular size

but still softer and slower) for 12 years and younger; and the regulation Yellow ball for 12 years and older.

The Start and Restart tennis program is a noncompetitive class for those who want to learn or relearn the game.

Brown also offers private classes throughout the year.

“You don’t have to join to be in the in-struction program but if you want to play on your own you need to join the club,” he said.

Tennis Matchmaker of Plantation BayMEET DAVE BROWN By Jacque Estes | Staff Writer

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Dave Brown admires some of the rackets he has played with over the years.

DAVE BROWN AWARDED DAYTONA DISTRICT USPTA PRO OF THE YEAR FOR 2014

The U.S. Professional Tennis Association and the U.S. Tennis Association held their annual and semiannual conventions jointly over the weekend at the Club Med Sandpiper Bay, in Port St. Lucie, and named Dave Brown the Pro of the Year for 2014 for the Daytona District.

Dave Brown is the director of Tennis at Plantation Bay Tennis, Fitness & Spa in Ormond Beach. Brown’s involvement in local USPTA Community Service included serving as tournament director for the USPTA Champion of Champions that pro-motes tennis in the local community and raises money for the United Way agency, Volusia Literacy Council. He also served as program director for Pathway Tennis, an after school pro-gram for kids 10 and under to help grow tennis in the district.

n addition, he was recently elected as president to lead the Greater Volusia Tennis League, a local com-munity tennis organization that provides tennis league play for over 1,000 players in the Volusia/Flagler counties. Brown is also a Master Professional and an active participant in USPTA/USTA tournaments and holds national USPTA rankings in singles and USTA rankings in father/son doubles with his son, Aaron, also a USPTA tennis teaching professional.

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As the temperatures dip and it is once again comfortable to come out from the air conditioning, many may be looking for different activities to enjoy with their spouse, family and friends.

Janet Gallant, the events director, has organized the second-annual Plantation Bay Classic Car Show. The show will be from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Fitness Center parking lot.

This year, the event is being expanded to include all interested car enthusiasts in the Plantation Bay community.

“Last year the show was only open to club members,” Gallant said. “This year anyone who lives in Plantation Bay is in-vited.”

Classic cars are a common sight in the community, with many residents who have the vintage cars in their garages or stored outside the community.

“We had 23 car entries last year,” Gal-lant said. “It’s a very casual day, and we want to show off the classic cars in the Plantation Bay community.”

The three-hour event boasts more than classic cars. There will also be food and beverages available, and everyone can jam to the classic tunes with DJ Phil.

There is no entry fee, but those inter-ested in entering a car in the show must preregister due to limited space. Gallant expects many from last year’s show will participate again this year.

“The more the merrier,” Gallant said. “It’s a community affair just like the An-nual Art show in March.”

ENGINGES THAT CAN

CRUISIN’ IN By Jacque Estes | Staff Writer

The Cruise In will be noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16.

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Jim White shows off the engine in his 1967 red Corvette Stringray.

Jim White drives his 1956 white Thunderbird. He is one of the many car enthusiasts and collectors expected to participate in the Plantation Bay Cruise In.


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