Director Vacancy (Help Wanted)

KGCL

After 14 years in the neighborhood and nearly 10 with King’s Grant Community League our technology director, Kevin Curry, is moving to Shore Drive. That means we need a new technology director.

Responsibilities are light, and include:

  • Maintaining a Word Press web site and domain name for kgcl.org
  • Posting to our web site, Facebook, and Next Door as needed and desired

It is an easy job and a great fit for anyone with web and social media skills who loves our neighborhood. Kevin will be happy to train and assist until you are comfortable.

If interested, please email board@kgcl.org

King’s Grant Community Yard Sale

KGCL

Spring is here and the King’s Grant Community League is preparing for its 7th annual yard sale at The Triangle in front of 7-Eleven. It will be held on Saturday, May 5th, from 8:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. The rain date will be May 12th.

We will again provide 12’x12’ spaces for a charge of $5.00 for Community League members and $15.00 for nonmembers. You can bring your own tables or rent 8ft. tables from us for a fee of $10.00 each. We’ll also provide a food booth and portable restroom for your convenience.

We ask that you only sell unwanted items that would be sold at a yard or garage sale. We are not licensed to sell things that are made or bought for resale as part of a business.
For more information and to reserve a space and/or tables, please contact Sally Huntington at 404-3503 or by e-mail at kgclyardsale@gmail.com.

We hope you’ll join us this year at our KGCL event as a vendor or visitor to make this our best sale ever.

Buy a Carp, Clean a Lake

Clean-up, Grounds & Maintenance, Open Spaces

Clean Lakes and Carp Donation Project Seeks Support

Update: Click Here to Donate with PayPal

King’s Grant Community League is coordinating community efforts to improve the
quality of our fresh water lakes by collecting money to purchase Carp to be placed in
our five (5) neighborhood lakes. We plan to buy an approved species of grass eating
sterile Carp to be put into the lakes this spring. A mature Carp will eat about 5 pounds
of aquatic greens a day. Their life span is typically between 5-11 years, but it can get
much older. We have about 35 acres of lakes, and we need 6-8 fish per acre. We
have researched various methods of controlling the aquatic weeds in our lakes and
returning Carp to the lakes seems to be the most cost effective and environmentally
friendly avenue by far. Details of this project have been published in our recent KGCL
newsletters.

One Carp cost about $14. Our fund-raising goal is $5,500. This will fund reintroduction
of Carp into the lakes and provide the initial funds for replenishment on a regular basis
(about 20% every two years). We are setting up a special bank account just for this
project that the KGCL will administer.

If each resident who lives around the lakes donates at least $25, we will have raised
enough funds for this project. However, we are looking for the community as a whole
to donate since many of us enjoy the lakes, and also it enhances our neighborhood to
have nice clean lakes. Please consider donating even if you do not live on the lakes.

Our deadline to order the Carp is April 12, 2018.

Donate through PayPal





You can mail or hand-deliver checks/cash to KGCL.

Make your checks payable to KGCL and add Carp to the memo line on your check

Mail to:

KGCL, P. O. Box 9481, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23450

Hand deliver to:

  • Ray Payne, Vice President of King’s Grant Community League
    561 Canterbury Road, Virginia Beach, VA 23452 (ph No 373-4768)
  • Mona Denton, Treasurer of King’s Grant Community League
    3020 Watergate Lane, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23452 (Ph No 377-2370)
  • Susan Ontko, Grounds Keeper for King’s Grant Community League
    3201 Blue Ridge Court, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23452 (ph No 463-2534)
  • Susie and Jack Moughan, Volunteers for King’s Grant Community League
    3104 Watergate Lane, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23452 (ph no 631-1331)

General Meeting Thursday: Project Updates + Pitches!

Grounds & Maintenance, Meetings, Open Spaces

Where can KGCL contribute to our neighborhood?

That’s the topic of our meeting of General Members, this Thursday, February 15, 7:00 PM at King’s Grant Elementary School.

Please note the new start time!!

  • We’ll get an update on the carp restoration project.
  • We’ll learn about installing tide and storm water sensors at Watergate Lane.
  • WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU? What improvement projects would you like to see?

Join us Thursday night.

 

Light the Park for the Holidays

Open Spaces, Parks and Recreation

‘Tis the season that King’s Grant Community League will once again light Witt Park on King’s Grant Road!

Please join us

Our small work crew will be at Witt Park on Saturday, December 2nd 9am-11am and again on Sunday, December 3rd 1pm-3pm.  Any resident able to lend a hand for any brief period would be most welcome (and greatly appreciated). We have all of the lights and power cords needed, but we will gladly accept any donations of white mini-lights that allow us to expand our display.  We are trying to move to LED lighting that is more durable and energy efficient, but we still have an area with white incandescent mini-bulbs.  If you have new or fully functional used light strings that you wish to donate, please drop them at the park during the above hours and we will try to add them to our display.  Most of the work is for adults, but children can help place light strings in the hedges.

If it is raining, we will reschedule for the following weekend.

Watch the sign at the park or on this web site for rescheduled times.

President’s News

Board, Grounds & Maintenance

King’s Grant Community League President, Steve Nimitz, recently shared the following updates with the board of directors. The next meeting of the board is December 11th.

  1. A picture of a flag pole in a park

    A flag pole was installed at Witt Park in November 2017

    Stumps at Witt Park were removed yesterday.  The flagpole installation, starting with the foundation, is supposed to begin today.  We might have a flagpole within days.  After that, the scouts will return to work on new benches and site restoration (with new topsoil in some areas).

  2. I stopped at Witt Park this morning to check out the work.  I found the electric meter destroyed again.  This is the 2ndtime in as many years.  There is glass all around.  I did not have  time to pick it up.  I will file the police report and contact the electric company.  Very disappointing.  My guess is that the vandalism happened Wednesday night.
  3. Kevin joined me this morning at8:15 to walk the median that separates KG Road as you enter from the intersection with N. Lynnhaven (at the traffic light).  A rep from the city’s Highway maintenance was there at my request to assess the curb around the median where it is damaged or sunk below the roadbed.  I am optimistic that we’ll see some corrective maintenance done on that.  If you don’t know, KG Road and N. Lynnhaven will both be repaved this year which is why I asked the city to come take a look.
  4. A KGCL member volunteered to decorate the KG walls with large lighted wreathes for the holidays.  I plan to retrieve our Christmas lights from the shed this week, take them home, and test them.  The plan is to decorate Witt Park on 2-3 Dec (we obviously need the power meter fixed before then).

General Meeting Thursday October 19th

KGCL

NEW START TIME: 7:00 PM

A general meeting of members is Thursday, October 19th.

The meeting is open to all residents, including non-members.

This is our annual business meeting to approve the budget.

Topic: Reintroducing Carp to Our Lakes

In the KGCL newsletter recently delivered to all homes in King’s Grant, we wrote about the possible reintroduction of carp in our fresh water lakes as a means to control the expanding problem of aquatic weeds. We will devote our fall meeting to this discussion. Based on the size of our lake system, we estimate that approximately 300 carp would be needed to start, with about 20% replenishment every two years if the program meets expectations.  As a property owner on the lake, the KGCL has a special interest in the water quality of our lakes, and we will engage our membership to determine the extent of our participation, but it remains primarily a task for home owners around the lakes to lead the way.  If you have an interest in the appearance and water quality in our neighborhood lakes, please attend.  Read your newsletter for more information.

New Landscaping at The Triangle

Grounds & Maintenance, KGCL, Open Spaces

As you are driving by The Triangle you will notice that we replaced the landscaping at the intersection of King’s Grant Road and N. Lynnhaven Road.

May Farm Garden Club donated the landscaping as a community project. Elaine Hillers was the point person for the garden club and did all the coordination with the nursery for design and plant selection. Plants were selected as low maintenance and drought resistant.

KGCL will maintain the landscaping, as we have always done. Basically, we will mulch it (Elaine suggested pine straw for the future), spray it, weed it.

A picture of new landscaping at The Triangle

 

Wolfsnare Creek Park

Grounds & Maintenance, KGCL, Open Spaces, Parks and Recreation

King’s Grant Community League’s mission is to maintain open space in the neighborhood for residents and visitors. This park is a tranquil spot on Watergate Lane looking north over Wolfsnare Creek. There’s a sturdy bench where you can sit to look, listen, and think. There’s an access to the water suitable for canoes and kayaks at high tide. Boat trailers and motor boats are not allowed.

http://www.tides4fishing.com/us/virginia/buchanan-creek-entrance

Bench at Wolfsnare Creek Park

 

 

Independence Day Parade and Picnic

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King’s Grant Community League will host its annual Independence Day parade and picnic beginning at 11am on Tuesday, July 4th.  The event is easy to enjoy… just show up and have fun.

KGCL really wants your participation in whatever transportation mode suits your interest:  bikes, strollers, golf carts, wagons, lawn mowers, vintage vehicles, decorated vehicles, tractors, fire trucks, motorcycles, or just walk.  Tell your neighbors.  Assemble in Blue Ridge Court across from Witt Park at 10:45am.

KGCL will give each child 12 years old or younger a large patriotic pinwheel for participating.  We will also award prizes in our bicycle decorating contest.

Independence Day 2017 Flyer (Image)