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INSIDE THIS EDITION President’s Message

After a busy summer up North, Nancy and I have returned

to Emerald Pointe. The property looks wonderful!! The dai-

ly rain has all the foliage looking lush and healthy. A big

congrats go to our landscaping crew. They have done a great job keeping

everything trimmed and neat.

The Phase I project has begun. There is a crew currently installing the win-

dows and doors on building "A". We expect the crew size to double within

the next week. The contractor tells us the project will be completed on time.

Ben will be returning this year as our Galley Chef. The Galley is being up-

dated with a completion target date of October 12. Notices will be put on the

Bulletin Boards of Ben's opening date.

Being back on site, I will resume the "Talk with Tyler" discussion sessions on

Wednesday mornings at 9:30 in the Club House.

2 Tracey’s Desk

2 Manager’s Report

3 Death Notices

3 BOD Members

3 Clubs, Committees, Mtgs

4 Calendar

5 Social Events

5 Tennis

6 Homes for Sale

6 Book Club

6 Monthly Question

6 From your Editors

7 Travel Log

Emerald Pointe

25188 E. Marion Ave

Punta Gorda, FL 33950

Office 941-637-1150

FAX 941-637-9727

Access

Control 941-637-1136

Galley

Lounge 941-639-8779

Gazette Editors

emeraldpointe.gazette@gmail.com

EP Website:

emeraldpointe.webs.com

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would like one, please ask them to drop us an email and we’ll be sure to add

them to the list. We already have 271 electronic readers. Some households get

more than one and that’s OK since so far, electrons are free :)

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Welcome to Emerald Pointe

Vincent Dellarocco — E-202!

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From Tracey's Desk Greetings to all! I am looking forward to your arrival. I can assure you that you will be impressed with your beautiful grounds, and our most wonderful winter weather. I would like to ask that all owners provide a key to Access Control for your hallway closet in the mid-rises, the reason for this request is because of the water heaters. It is extremely important that we have access to get to them. See You Soon! REMINDERS Season is right around the corner, please be sure to check in with the office upon your return and your leaving, because we need to mark this in our system if you are here or not. If you change a phone number (or discon-nect) or change an address, please be sure to notify us at the office so we can keep our records up to date. Sincerely, Tracey emeraldpointe.tracey@gmail.com

Manager’s Report, Alan Mayo, EP manager

ADMINISTRATION:

The phase I project is finally underway as of last week. So far it has been a slow start; the contractors have

had only a few men on the project for the last week but have promised that we would have at least a 10 man

crew within the next few days. So far a number of windows have been replaced as well as a couple of sliding

doors and one entry door from the hallway.

D building is in need of repair to the roof for $7,592.00. The area that leaked was part of the roof that C.C.I.

worked on and took almost 2 months of roofers coming back several times to find where the leak was corning

from before they found that it was caused by nails driven thru the roofing material. The amount withheld from

C.C.I. will be plenty to take care of all the repairs needed to complete the unfinished work.

I met with the Fire Marshal last week she informed me that we are no longer required to monitor the fire

alarms in the Townhouses'. What that means is that the fire alarm panels can be removed or unhooked by

Protection One and their monitoring will not be necessary any longer. This will result in a savings of nearly

$4,000 per year and countless number of false alarms the Fire Dept. will have to respond to.

MAINTENANCE:

It has been brought to my attention that several of the gates to the pool areas are in need of repair or replace-

ment. I have so far received one estimate from a fence company that pointed out that the fence we have is

not up to code. The issue is that if they replace the gates they might be required to also change out the fenc-

ing to bring the entire enclosure up to code. To replace the gates is around $600 per gate however the cost to

install all new fencing and new gates on all the pools is $26,000. At this time we have about $25,000 in our

pool fence reserve account. I have requested bids from 2 other pool fence companies. I will keep you in-

formed of the progress.

The work to the galley kitchen is almost completed except for the new flooring. The kitchen should be ready

for use around the 15th to the 20th of October.

Look forward to your return. Alan Mayo; EP Manager.

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Clubs, Committees, and Meetings Landscape Committee

First Monday

3:30 PM Carl Schneider (941) 505-1497 carljschneider@aol.com

Tennis Club First

Tuesday 4:00 PM Gordon Peterson (941) 347-7046 gpeterso@eidnet.org

Advisory Committee

Second Tuesday

9:30 AM Stan Gorka

Dan Jamrose (941) 637-8271 (941) 575-7793

twogorkas@yahoo.com rets_dir@yahoo.com

Fishing Club Tuesdays 9:00 AM Charlie Sampsel (941) 505-1402 ciotti38@aol.com

Yacht Club Second Tuesday

4:00 PM Tyler Hiatt (317) 694-3225 tylernan12@gmail.com

Social Committee

First Wednesday

3:00 PM Sheila VanderLinde

Pat Mills

(941) 639-8207 rqlake@aol.com pmillshazelwood@gmail.com

Emerald Pointe Board

Last Wednesday

9:30 AM Tyler Hiatt 317-694-3225 tylernan12@gmail.com

Book Club Second

Thursday Lunch @12;

1:00 pm Judy Schade 260-668-0472 cnjschade@gmail.com

Board of Directors (BOD)

Tyler Hiatt President 317-694-3225 tylernan12@gmail.com

Carl Schneider Vice President 941-505-1497 carljschneider@aol.com

Megan Crossin Secretary 941-916-9753 margaret.crossin@sbcglobal.net

Bob Henry Treasurer 203-644-4732 rr3henry@aol.com

JoAnne Jamrose Director 941-575-7793 joanne25188@gmail.com

Joan Lasley Director 941 505-1865 jwlasley@embarqmail.com

Mick McGee Director 586-945-7049 ep.bod.1@gmail.com

Some very sad news this month.

Jim VanderLinde has passed away after treatment for a summer-long heart problem. He was

at his granddaughter's home with his family who held a small service for him. He contributed

a lot of time to activities at Emerald Pointe in the Tennis Club and was the Construction Man-

ager when the new docks were installed. Our heartfelt condolences to Sheila and the rest of his family.

He will be sorely missed by his Emerald Pointe family.

We also learned that previous owner Henry Jacques lost his battle to cancer last month.

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Sun. Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat.

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-Mah Jongg 1-4

upstairs Yacht Club -Crafts 10am -Tennis Mixer 9am

-Happy Hour 5pm

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -Ladies Bridge 12:15

-Landscape Mtg 3:30

-Potluck 5pm

-Fishing Club 9am -Ladies’ Coffee 10am

-Poker 6:30pm

- Talk with Tyler 9:30am Clubhouse

-Book Club 1-2:30

-Mah Jongg 2:30-4 upstairs Yacht Club

-Crafts 10am -Tennis Mixer 9am

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 -Ladies Bridge 12:15

-Potluck 5pm

-Fishing Club 9am

-Advisory 9:30

-Ladies’ Coffee 10am

-Yacht Club Mtg 4pm

– Poker 6:30pm

- Talk with Tyler 9:30am Clubhouse

-Mah Jongg 1-4 upstairs Yacht Club

-Crafts 10am -Tennis Mixer 9am

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 -Ladies Bridge 12:15

-Potluck 5pm

-Fishing Club 9am

-Ladies’ Coffee 10am

-Poker 6:30pm

- Talk with Tyler 9:30am Clubhouse

-Mah Jongg 1-4 upstairs Yacht Club

-Crafts 10am -Tennis Mixer 9am

25 26 27 28 29 30 31 -Ladies Bridge 12:15

-Potluck 5pm

-Fishing Club 9am

-Ladies’ Coffee 10am

-Poker 6:30pm

-Board Meeting 9:30 -Mah Jongg 1-4 upstairs Yacht Club

-Crafts 10am -Tennis Mixer 9am

-Halloween Party 5pm

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- Talk with Tyler 9:30am Clubhouse

-Happy Hour 5pm

by: Linda Wilkinson

October 2015

Water Aerobics

Mon – Fri

8:30 & 9:30

By: Suzanne McGee

Want your event on the calendar each month?

Contact us at emeraldpointe.gazette@gmail.com

Please include event, dates, time, and location

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Social Committee Calendar Oct 22 Italian Night Patty Hyatt

Oct Alzheimer’s Foundation Lecture Guest Speaker

Oct 31 Halloween Party P. Bramwell/ C. Forsgren/ S. VanderLinde

Nov 8 Bike Tour V. Raymond/ D. Meikle/ S. VanderLinde

Nov 28 Xmas Decorating- Yacht Club & Outside (Volunteer Coordinator needed)

Dec 9 Boat Trip S. VanderLinde/ J.Phillips/ M. Crossin

Dec 12 Xmas Open House (Volunteer Coordinator needed)

Dec 31 New Year’s Eve Party (Volunteer Coordinator needed)

Jan Mystery Tour M. Schneider/ S. VanderLinde

Feb 14 Valentines Party (Volunteer Coordinator needed)

Feb 20 Talent Show Bob / Kathryn Gould

Feb Triathlon (Volunteer Coordinator needed)

Mar 17 St. Patrick’s Day Party (Volunteer Coordinator needed)

Mar 31 Commodore’s Ball D. Kemp

Apr Pool Party (Volunteer Coordinator needed)

Apr Farewell Party (Volunteer Coordinator needed)

Please check bulletin boards monthly for event updates

Emerald Pointe

HALLOWEEN PARTY

Annual Halloween costume party on Saturday, October

31st at our clubhouse.

We’ll have live music, dancing, good food, games and

prizes for best costume! Also this year a PUMPKIN

CARVING/PAINTING CONTEST. Bring your finished

work of pumpkin art to the party to enter into the fun!

Dinner by Ben features Chicken Francaise, salad, rolls,

rice and vegetable; Dessert by Eva & Co.

Times: 5:00 – 5:45 Happy Hour (BYOB); 5:45-6:30

Dining, 6:30-9:00 Music & Dancing

Cost: $15.00 per person. Take your payment to Eva

Forsgren A-309 (checks payable to Emerald Pointe

Social Committee). Don’t delay – seating is limited.

ITALIAN NIGHT!

Let's kick off The Season.

Thursday, Oct. 22. 5:30 till ?

All you can eat Spaghetti, Meatballs, Salad and

Bread.

Afterwards enjoy an ice cream sundae.

$14.00 per person. BYOB

RSVP BY Oct 13

Checks payable to Emerald Pointe Social Commit-

tee. Call Patty Hyatt. (941) 575-2283. D 412.

Interested in Playing Tennis This Season?? No Experience Needed!!

Come on out to the tennis courts most days and introduce yourself!

We’re a friendly group. More information soon!

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Don’t miss the first Yacht Club Meeting of the Season

4pm on the Second Tuesday of October.

Emerald Pointe

Talent Show 2016

Start getting your thinking caps on and

be a part of the Talent Show.

It will be on Saturday, February 20th,

2016

More details to come at a later date.

For more information pls. call

Bob or Kathryn Gould at 941-347-7815.

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If you would like your

For Sale By Owner

property added to this

list, please send your

information to

Linda Wilkinson by the

20th of each month at

the following email:

Dusty007@aol.com

Please include the subject

line: EP - For Sale By

Owner - so she'll know not

to delete it as an unknown

sender.

Mick and Suzanne McGee

Don’t forget to submit your “Where Ya From” article for the November Gazette. The deadline is 15 October. Last month Mick highlighted his roots, and we are asking our readers, “Where ya from?” And more importantly, what’s the story behind your answer?

For your advanced reading

plans, Judy Schade reports that

the November book is ‘Pilot's

Wife’ by Melanie Benjamin and

the December book is ‘Cocktail

Hour Under the Tree of Forget-

fulness’ by Alexandra Fuller

Where did the summer go?

We didn’t get much input for our “what did you do this

summer” question, but what we got was interesting and

entertaining—thanks Joan and Dave!

Joan and Dave Phillips

We came North via the auto train in early May to our home in

Ocean City, NJ. This is the same house that I grew up in, but

renovated and added to...Ocean City is an island resort one

island south of Atlantic City

We left,the next weekend to enjoy

Daves 50th college reunion at Eastern University in St. Da-

vid's, Pa. Once back in OC we kept incredibly busy with visits

from family and friends....including Ron and Janie Res-

sel. Then our daughter and I departed to the Royal Henley

Regatta in the UK. Number two grandson was competing in a

quad for Harvard. Number one grandson already had two

Henleys behind him, but took a mini break from his summer

internship to meet us over there for a long weekend. If you

have read "Boys in the Boat", this was living it....and by the

way, Yale beat U of Washington... which was a huge upset.

After returning, more company and lots of beach, biking, golf,

concerts etc., late in July we drove to Charlotte, NC and spent

a delightful weekend boating, ATVing, playing at my brothers

summer home on Lake Norman. From there we visited the

Ressels at their son's home on Smith Mountain Lake for more

swimming, boating,etc. Returned back to OC to our son's

family vacationing here. All three kids are seriously into surfing

which is a passion of our son.

It is good we have packed so much into the front part of the

season as Dave is having total knee replacement August 10

and so our wings will be clipped for a while.....although we are

expecting a visit from townhouse neighbors Cindy and Jim

next week. Our current plan is to return to EP early in October.

Eight Emerald Pointe Properties are for Sale

as of September 22, 2015

Submitted by Linda Wilkinson –

from the Charlotte County MLS, Multiple Listing Service

Unit Sale Price

D 402 $ 75,900

D 307 $ 79,900

D 203 $ 89,900

E 101 $ 247,700

TH 1045 $ 249,000

TH 1022 $ 249.900

TH 1007 $ 255,000

D 108 $ 259,900

And from your editiors, we’ll add a quick Summer

Activity update—After returning to warm and sunny

(ha ha) Michigan in May, we traveled to St. Louis,

Las Vegas, then got to work with our photo compa-

ny with some portrait work and three art fairs. Typ-

ical of Michigan weather, we got wet during two of

them.

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Local Trips--to the Lipizzans

Tucked away in the countryside east of Sarasota is a horse farm with a rare breed of horses--The Royal Lipizzan Stal-

lions. The public is invited to watch these powerful, magnificent animals train Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and we

took advantage of the opportunity to see one of the sessions that take place in February and March before they start

the road tour of America. The route to the farm was circuitous, and we did a few U turns before we arrived at an unim-

posing, dusty field with 200 or more cars parked in it. Ahead was a white-fenced training area ringed with sunny alumi-

num bleachers filled with spectators in pastel colored, warm weather Florida-ware. Most had a head cover of some sort:

bonnets, cowboy types, sailor hats, visors, and even handkerchiefs. We passed the souvenir stand, the hot dog/cotton

candy/soda stand, and lucked out by finding some seats high up at about the 50 yard line of the football-style field with

the sun at our backs.

Some Lipizzan history:

Zenophon, a Greek, started breeding these horses; taken by the Romans, their cavalry horses in Spain were crossed

with Arabians and only a few hundred existed at one time. In 1564 they were recognized as a breed which preserved

their unique blood lines into contemporary times. Austrian Archduke Charles established a breeding farm at Lipizza (in

Yugoslavia--now Croatia) and provided mounts for the Hapsburg Royals and the military aristocracy. Known for their

use as war horses, they possessed the athletic ability to carry the army’s General and rear so he could see over the

heads of his troops to learn what was going on. Another talent was the ability to propel itself with all four hoofs off the

ground; while in the air, they had the ability to kick out with the back legs (which could decimated the foot soldiers in the

area). When wars were no longer fought with cavalry, these special animals (500 of them) were sequestered in Austria.

Near the end of WW II, just prior to the Russian invasion, General Patton and his Third Army smuggled the Lipizzans to

safety, so the Russian’s plans to kill them were foiled. This story is told in the Disney movie “Miracle of the White Stal-

lions.” I have read a fictional mystery called Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart, and have wanted to see them

since then. Who would guess that some had been brought to the U.S. and were training near our own winter home?

I am not sure when/how Colonel Ottomar Herrmann (Knighted into the Order of St. George by Alfred von Hapsburg for

his dedication to the preservation of the Lipizzan breed) acquired some of the animals and brought them to his ranch in

Florida, but after he passed away, his daughter, Gabriella, became the manager. The Training:It takes about 7 years to

teach the Lipizzans their skills. The Haute Ecole of equitation we watched started with the head trainer (Gabriella) and

an assistant controlling the youngest horses (age 6 and 7) from the ground with long lines--reins and a whip; they took

them around the ring in prescribed patterns such as circles. The adult stallions are white--body, mane and tail, but the

younger ones have the white body with a dark mane that turns white when they are about eight years old. Next, these

two walked and trotted and then reared on queue learning to strike out with their forelegs (striking enemy foot soldiers).

They were rehearsed together so they would be companionable when they became part of the show. When it was time

to have them kick with their front legs, the trainers stood well back as 1,500 lbs. of steel-shod hoofs could be a serious

problem. After the two had learned their training exercises, two more horses would be added and then two more where

they would eventually execute a Military Quadrille with six or eight stallions.

When the “kids” had completed their training, the "older guys" came in--still in hand (with the long reigns). They pre-

sented The Levade-in-Hand which is raising onto the hind legs, keeping the front tucked into the chest to protect the

heart. The Courbette requires the stallion to lift onto his hind legs and leap into the air, landing back on his hind legs

from one to four times. The Capriole maneuver involved pushing off the ground with all four hoofs, then kicking out

with the back ones.The Show:

The animals that had completed their training on the ground appeared next and demonstrated all the moves under sad-

dle and then with two, then four horses in the ring. The finale was performed by the most experienced horses/riders--a

Military Quadrille where they executed all the moves in a tandem performance which was a military ride to music with

six animals leaping and kicking like a ballet team to a clapping crowd. I probably won’t take advantage of the offer to

learn to ride the stallions, but my wish has been fulfilled--to see the famous Lipizzaners in action.

Marcia Schneider

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