South Four Corners Citizens Association

Be ready to learn more about gardening we have 2 neighbors who are going to show us their gardens on October 6th.  More information to come soon but please MARK YOUR CALENDERS!!!!  Thanks to all of you for your support on this on-gong project!  See you the 6th of October.  Check back closer to the date for more details!

Jeanne Berman is coordinating the first ever plant swap at the same time as the SFCCA Ice Cream Social on October 7th. It will be held at Tenbrook and Godwin streets from 4-5pm.

 Bring a plant, get a plant.

Drop off your plant and get you ticket and then after you have enjoyed an ice cream cone head back over and select a plant to bring home to your garden.

Look now for any seedlings or plants you want to divide and pot up now and swap them on October 7th.

Planting a garden can be a beautiful and fun.

See you on the 7th of October.

The  guest  speaker  for  our  September  10th  meeting  is  State  legislator  and   Silver Spring  resident  Tom  Hucker,  who  is  serving  his  second  term  in  the  Maryland House  of  Delegates.  Mr.  Hucker  will  review  for  us  this  year’s  legislative  activity  in Annapolis   and  discuss  what  he  sees  as  the  state’s  priorities  going  forward.  Among his   many  legislative  interests  are:  strong  environmental  and  consumer  protections,   sustainable  energy  policy,  living  wage  jobs,  universal  pre-­kindergarten,  and   tougher regulation  of  PEPCO.  He  is  looking  forward  to  hearing  your  thoughts   and answering  any  questions  you  may  have  on  these  or  other  state   level  matters.

Join us on Sept. 10 to learn about things happening in our community, meet Mr. Hucker and meet your neighbors.

Meeting will begin at 7p.m. at the Schweinhaut Senior Center located at 1000 Forest Glen Road.

Submitted by Marty Maher

On Tuesday morning, August 28, Jeanne Berman coordinated the latest SFCCA Garden Tour.  Our neighbor, Mr. Lester Viyalta, greeted us with goodies from his native country of  Nicaragua while music streamed from his garden on Gilmoure Drive.

Lester grows and cooks his own produce.  Much of his vegetable garden was maturing so we saw pumpkins, squash, cucumbers, and melons.  Lester also showed our group his native zucchini called pipian. He provided photos and offered seeds for our gardens. The vegetable garden begins on the side of his house and continues through the entire backyard. The flower garden in the front yard was beautiful and filled with sunflowers, zinnias, celosia, cleome, and many others.

Lester was able to grow his own corn and showed us his one remaining corn plant. Butterflies, beneficial bees, and birds were plentiful and so busy that we watched with no fear of stings.

Fall tends to be a busy time of year for many of us so make sure you add these events to your calendar. The South Four Corners Citizen’s Association is planning a second 2012 ice cream social, Halloween Parade, Adopt-A-Road, Tree Lighting etc.

And don’t forget to watch the listserv for upcoming garden tours. We’ll be sure to see some great gardens this Fall.

Click here to print a 2012 SFC Fall events flyer

Click here to see the online calendar.

This summer they collected 88 bags of groceries for the St. Luke’s food pantry in one week. What a remarkable project for a group of 10 year old girls to pull off, and inspiring to see each girl realize how they can make a difference in our community.  These girls really put their hearts into this project and worked hard. It is a good reminder about how each of us can make our neighborhood better.

These girls also placed no dumping plaques on most of the storm drains in the neighborhood to remind neighbors that what you dump- in the sewer, or in the street, or in your driveway- ends up going into Sligo Creek, the Anacostia River, and our State Treasure, the Chesapeake Bay.  As part of this project you might have found information about dumping at your front door, and perhaps saw the girls in action. We should be very proud of these young ladies who placed plaques on 50 storm drains.

We’ve created a “current issues” page to keep the residents of South Four Corners up-to-date. Be sure to check it out from time to time.

http://southfourcorners.com/current-issues/

On Tuesday, August 7, the SFCCA celebrated our 12th National Night Out at South Four Corners Park. The weather was perfect and over 80 neighbors celebrated the evening with popsicles. The evening’s entertainment was provided by six officers from the Montgomery County PD, three officers from the Montgomery County Parks PD and McGruff The Crime Dog! There were too many police cars to count.  Submitted by Marty Maher

On August 7, from 7-8p.m. the SFCCA will host National Night Out at the South Four Corners Park. For the children, there will be police cars from both Montgomery County and the MNC Park Police. Adults will have the opportunity to meet the officers and discuss neighborhood issues. To learn more about the national event visit: http://www.nationaltownwatch.org/nno/