Tag: july 2022

Coyotes have been seen in Huntington Woods.
According to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, this is not a cause for alarm. Attacks on people, including children, are very rare. Normal coyote behavior is to be curious, but wary.

Frequent sightings mean we should take steps to prevent conflicts for it and other wildlife.

• Don’t feed or try to pet it. If it loses its natural wariness of people, it may become bold and aggressive.
• Protect pets by keeping indoors and leashed when outdoors.
• Feed pets indoors or remove food when your pet is finished.
• Keep bird feeder areas clean so as not to attract small rodents that coyotes will see as a food source.
• Don’t be intimidated by a coyote. Maintain its wariness by throwing a small object such as a tennis ball, a loud noise or spraying water at it.

Mac and Sylvia McLendon, #1755, moved here in August of 2020, so it has only taken me two years to get around to interviewing them. Life intervened shortly after they moved here and I took a hiatus from doing the newsletter. For me it is better late than never, because I enjoyed my visit with them both.

They moved here to be near their son, Scott McLendon, my next door neighbor. Scott is the owner of Tri-County Insurance Company.

Military service has been important in their family. Mac was in the Air Force and served as a communication specialist in the Pentagon. Their son, Scott, served in the Marines and their granddaughter, Hannah, was in the Air Force’s aerospace/early warning systems.

They are both native North Carolinians and following his discharge from the Army, his professional career began in Greensboro with General Motors/GMAC. When he was promoted to District Representative, they were sent to Lenoir in Caldwell County, a place they had never heard of. Fortunately they loved it and lived there until moving into our community.

Mac loves golf, which led them to make their home in the Cedar Rock Golfing community where he was an active golfer and a two-time Cedar Rock Golf Club champion. He moved into golf rules officiating and was selected to be a member of the Carolina Team in the Carolina vs Virginia Captain Putter Cup. Carolina won and it was the highlight of his golfing career when they won! This led him into a 25-year professional career as a golf rules official. He was Vice President of Rules and Competition for the E-Golf Professional Tour. Some of the players in the E-Golf Tour who qualified for the PGA Tour included Billy Horschel, Jason Kokrak, and Gary Woodland. Mac is proud to say that he mentored and helped these players, together with many others, as they succeeded in the game. His career also included doing rules for the PGA Tour up until his retirement two years ago. According to Mac, golf rules officiating was his favorite and the hardest job he ever had, with thousands of decisions to make.

Sylvia’s career was also a demanding and challenging one in nursing. Mac made it clear at the start how proud he is of the work she has accomplished. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Western North Carolina School of Nursing before working in the surgical floor at Frye Hospital here in Hickory as the Clinical Coordinator. The next step in her career was to pass the necessary exams and become certified as a nurse in oncology. She was with Dr. Richard Orlowski at Carolina Oncology Specialists for 26 years. During that time she was in charge of the Carolina Oncology satellite office in Lenoir, before returning to the Hickory office to work in clinical research. Mac, always Sylvia’s greatest fan, said that her patients loved her!
Her work in research required a lot of travel for her that included Mac. Included in their travels were Hawaii, San Fransico, Paris and Bermuda.

A voracious reader, Sylvia now spends a lot of time reading the over 1,000 books on her Kindle e-reader and enjoying relaxing on their screened porch.

Mac and Sylvia shared with me that they had another son, Eric, who was killed in an ATV accident. They love of both their sons and their granddaughter was evident.
Congratulations to both Mac and Sylvia for their sixty years of married life together! We are happy to have you in our community.

Financials

May 2022 was a catch-up month, financially, for Huntington Woods. During the first three months we incurred the cost of replacing the roof on Building 2, replacing the lining in the swimming pool, and the additional normal cost of mulch as we prepared our lovely neighborhood for spring. Upcoming expenses will include the replacement of the dangerous deck on Building 2, repairs to Building 9 along with removal of several trees. The balance in the two bank accounts at the end of May was $44 thousand in the Reserve, and $47 thousand in the Operating Account.
Joan Long, Treasurer

Landscaping

I will be getting estimates in the next several weeks to have several large trees removed due to disease, have limbs cut away from some buildings and some trees limbed up. I also walked the creek line with the City Stormwater Engineer.
He schedules waterway cleanup and will put us on the list for maybe fall. He also stated there will be three detention ponds and we should see one third less water than we see now. Charlie continues with trimming and weekly mowing.
Kaye Owenby, Landscaping Chair

Architecture

Just an update of projects beginning next week. The Unit 1770 deck replacement will begin along with a gutter repair. There are also a few items Richard Thompson is working on. He is replacing boards on the bridge and painting. He is also repairing the screen on the lower dumpster. There will also be soffit repairs on Building 2 and several chimneys where birds have made holes in the wood will be repaired. Hopefully within the next several weeks, I will be getting estimates from GW Witherspoon Construction, King Construction and Hodge Home Improvement for the refurbishment of Building 9, which hopefully will commence in the fall. We will begin working on Unit 1712 as soon as I am contacted by the owner.
Feel free to contact me through Allison & White with any repair requests or concerns you may have. I plan to be available on Tuesday in Huntington Woods. Sooner if needed.
Tavia Ornsby, Architectural Chair

If any resident wants the HOA to provide the paint for a deck to be painted, it’s important that an Architectural Approval Short Form be sent to Allison & White for approval.
There is a shortage of our specific paint, because Sherwin Williams Super Deck Paint
is not available. Eric Peake ran out of paint before finishing painting a deck and is checking to see if he can locate the paint to finish.

Thank you to the residents who were able to came out to our open community
meeting in June. Your participation and attendance are important to the betterment
of our community.

The next open community meeting will be October 11 at 6:30 p.m. The July, August and September meetings will be Board only executive meetings.
The weather in October should be comfortable enough to try again to meet at the gazebo. I look forward seeing you then.

Happy Fourth of July to everyone, have good and safe summer.
Best regards, Sabina