Tag: march 2023

ADVANCED DIRECTIVES
West Hickory Senior Center
Call: 828-328-2269
Julie Packer, RN, MSN, Director of Professional Relations with Carolina Caring, will be at the West Hickory Senior Center by appointment to discuss these with you, have forms available, and to notarize documents. A living will is a legal document that allows you to make prior decisions about whether your life should be prolonged by certain medical procedures. A health care power of attorney is a legal document in which you give someone power to make medical decisions for you if you are not competent or if you are unable to communicate.

MAXIMIZE YOUR SMART PHONE
West Hickory Senior Center
Call: 828-328-2269
Monday, March 6, 2:30 pm
Chanda with the County Library will conduct this FREE class.

BINGO
Highland Recreation Center
1451 8th St Dr NE, Hickory
Call: 828-328-2269
Thursday, March 9, 2:00 pm
Prizes will be awarded!

DIGITAL SKILLS CLASS
West Hickory Senior Center
Call: 828-328-2269
Thursday, March 16, 9:30 am
Ricky Handoo with the WPCOG Area Agency on Aging will be leading digital skills classes. In March, learn how to protect your personal information online.

VIRTUAL BINGO
Call 828-328-2269 to receive phone number, link or bingo card
Wednesday, March 22, 1:30 pm
FREE! Prizes will be awarded! You don’t have to have a computer or smartphone to participate.

TRIVIA THURSDAY
West Hickory Senior Center
March 23, 1:30 pm
Call: 828-328-2269
FREE to compete with a team for prizes and fun.

TECH CONNECT—CUT THE CORD ON CABLE
West Hickory Senior Center
Call: 828-328-2269
Thursday, March 30, 2:00pm
Back by popular demand! Learn tips and tricks to reduce your cable bill or switch to streaming services for your entertainment purposes. Everyone is invited to bring their cable bill!

A new community directory will be published in March. If you want to change your phone listing and/or add an email address, contact:
Rachel Parnell
828-838-1465
parnell443@gmail.com

FINANCIALS
At year end, our bank accounts reflected, all together a total of $137,888.02.
Note: During the transition between management companies, two landscaping invoices were overlooked and were not paid for the months of November and December. They have now been paid and will be re-flected in the first quarter expenditures. There were no major expenditures during the month of December. The new management company is currently working with Kaye Owenby to insure all bills are current that may have been missed during the transition period.

Joan Long, Assistant Treasurer

LANDSCAPING
I know everyone is enjoying this warm weather and hope it will still be warm when you are reading this. The landscapers started spreading mulch today and will continue this for the next week. They will also put pine needles next to the units. We are scheduled for a weed and feed treatment this week and then if weather holds warm, may be able to put out some grass seed middle or end of March.

Kaye Owenby, Landscaping Co-Chair

Hello Neighbors,
I would like to thank everyone for their patience while we transition to our new management company, Cedar Management Group. The Board is excited that we now have the choice of accessing our accounts on line, pay our dues, and put in requests on our Vine account; or continue to choose to mail our payments and requests for repairs, etc.
Cedar Management will be a more hands on company in assisting our HOA in community upkeep. It is expected that they will drive through periodically assessing work that may need to be done on buildings, roofs, etc., follow-up on homeowners work requests, as well as our adher-ence to our association rules. This support from Cedar will help us all pay more attention keeping our community looking uniform, unique, and help maintain our property values.
If you have any questions about our Association rules, please refer to our Architectural & Common Usage Manual. These manuals were given to each homeowner several years ago or when you purchased your unit.
The Manual addresses a wide range of items including outdoor furniture, signs, flower pots, plantings in mulch areas, storm doors, satellite dishes, parking, etc. We all need to review this and especially now that we are com-ing up on Spring season and will be spending more time outside.
I look forward to working with everyone to help keep our community one of the best kept secrets in Hickory.

Kaye Owenby,
HOA President