South Four Corners Citizens Association

Please join us for our annual neighborhood-wide yard sale!

When: Saturday, May 20, 2023 8am – 12pm

Where: Many yards within South Four Corners! See below for list of addresses; but be on the lookout for many other participating yards.

June 24, 2023, 1:00 – 5:00 pm

For general information, to order a lawn sign, or to view the porch menu map, click http://tinyurl.com/sfcmusicfest

October 8, 2022, 1:00 – 5:00 pm

For information on the event and to sign up to perform, click on https://tinyurl.com/sfcmusicfest

(Rain Date: Oct 15, 2022)

South Four Corners kids and adults are invited to gather in costume for our Annual Halloween Parade on Sunday, October 24th at 4pm. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis, masks are strongly encouraged.

When: Sunday, October 24th at 4pm (rain date Saturday, October 30th)

Where: Schweinhaut Senior Center, 1000 Forest Glen Road

Route: The parade will leave on foot a few minutes after 4pm from the front of the Senior Center, walk up Portland Road, turn right through the Lanark Way bioswale, and come down Dallas Avenue to finish back at the South Four Corners Park. Non-paraders are welcome to cheer us on along the route!

Treats: Following the parade, participants will receive a pre-packaged treat at the South Four Corners Park.

Volunteers: If you would like to donate a pre-packaged snack (bags of chips/pretzels, bags of mini-cookies, juice boxes, etc), and/or volunteer to set-up or clean-up the event, please complete this Google Form.

Looking forward to a wonderful (ahem–spooky!) community event!

What: South Four Corners Community Yard Sale

When: Saturday, May 15, 2021 8am – 12pm (Rain Date: May 16)

Where: Dozens of participating yards* within South Four Corners!

*Masks and social distancing will be required

Please see PDF below for more details, including our Featured Yards and Items!

Due to the continued closure through September 2020 of the Schweinhaut Senior Center, our bimonthly SFCCA meetings will not take place during the summer and early fall. Along with March, the May, July and September meetings have been cancelled. We hope to resume in November with the meeting scheduled for November 16. Any changes or updates will be posted here. Thank you, and stay well!

Click SFCCA 20 May-Jun for our Coronavirus Special Edition newsletter.

Dear neighbors,

As a preventative measure against possible community spread of the coronavirus, Montgomery County government is closing all of its senior centers for an “indefinite” period of time. This then is to inform you all that the South Four Corners Citizens Association’s (SFCCA) community meeting scheduled for 7 PM Monday, March 16 at the Schweinhaut Senior Center has been cancelled. Our next bi-monthly meeting is scheduled for Monday, May 18, same time, same place, same speaker. Hopefully, we will be able to proceed as planned by then.

With Optimism,

Laurence Dickter
SFCCA

If you have never been victimized by the scam artists and fraudsters who are becoming increasingly sophisticated while taking advantage of new technologies, it is probably not because you haven’t been targeted. Whether it is online, over the phone, or door-to-door, scams succeed because they look or sound like the real thing and can catch even the savviest person off guard.

Please join us at our upcoming SFCCA meeting as we welcome Tracy Rezvani, Investigative Program Administrator for the Montgomery County Office of Consumer Protection. She will describe some of the scams we can expect in our email, over our phones, in our mailbox, and at our door, and what steps we can take to protect ourselves against those who are out to steal our identity and our money. Ms. Rezvani is an attorney with over 20 years’ experience in consumer protection law. She has authored numerous consumer protection publications, managed law firms specializing in consumer protection class action litigation, and advocated on behalf of individuals and non-profit clients. She also has extensive experience as a researcher, as well as in interpreting and applying consumer protection statutes. It is our good fortune to have an outstanding advocate like Tracy Rezvani come to our neighborhood to share her insights and wise counsel with us. We hope to see many of you there.

There’s no place like home. By a wide margin, surveys of Americans 50 and older show that they want to remain in their current residences and communities as they age. Enter Silver Spring Village, part of the national village movement that provides volunteer assistance and a wide variety of enrichment activities to adults who wish to “age in place”. While each Village is unique, they all share the same vision: Caring neighbors of all ages helping older neighbors to thrive.

Please join us as we welcome Doug Gaddis, Executive Director of Silver Spring Village, Inc. to SFCCA’s upcoming community meeting. Mr. Gaddis’ presentation will focus on the Village’s activities, services and volunteer opportunities, while briefing us on its recent decision to expand its current reach into our neighborhood. Mr. Gaddis brings more than three decades of related experience to his leadership role in the Village. He completed coursework at American University towards a master’s degree in non­profit arts management, but has spent most of his career working in resource development for agencies focused on education, leadership development, disabilities and now seniors in the Washington, DC region. A native Kentuckian, Mr. Gaddis currently lives in Kensington and keeps active in the arts world as a professional lyric tenor.

Learn more about Silver Spring Village in our most recent Jan/Feb 2020 newsletter, https://southfourcorners.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/sfcca-20-jan-feb.pdf, page 7. And find out how to join and/or volunteer for Silver Spring Village by attending the meeting!

You’re invited! The Tamara Kucik Team is holding their bi-annual Go Green Day!

Free Shred, Donate, Dump event benefiting A Wider Circle. Please bring non-perishable canned and boxed food donations, such as stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, canned vegetables, boxed potatoes, mac & cheese, vegetable broth, cornbread mix, and/or Giant and Safeway gift cards (for perishables). Then jump right in on these FREE services:

• SHRED sensitive documents
• DONATE gently used household items, furniture and professional clothing to A Wider Circle (tax receipts provided)
• DUMP your junk—anything that can’t be reused will be properly disposed of or recycled
• DINE on fresh coffee and donuts!
• WHERE: 1030 Forest Glen Road at Argyle Park

Questions? Contact tk@tamara4homes.com