Jeannie Blaylock’s “M-Line” Project

Tammy Hopper, owner of “WAVES” wishes to thank those that supported efforts to raise money for Jeannie Blaylock’s “M-Line” project for free mammograms. Jeannie is pictured with Tammy and a few members.

The ladies raised over $700.

Jacquelyn Petersen

Jacquelyn Petersen, 50, of St. Augustine, died March 12, 2008, at Shands Hospital in Gainesville. Ms Petersen was a native of Albany, Ga., and had resided in St. Augustine for the past six years. Ms. Petersen was a graduate of Albany High School and of the Albany State College, graduating as a nurse. She worked for 25 years in nursing while living in Albany. She also worked at the Ocean Blue and The Point Restaurant on Vilano Beach.

Services: A memorial service will be held Saturday, April 5, 2008 from 12 noon until 4 p.m. at 212 Puebla Road, St. Augustine.

Survivors: Her fiance, Big Mike, Treasure Beach; daughter, Janice Petersen, Columbus, Ga.; sister, Janet Permar; Atlanta, Ga.; brothers, Charles Strickland, North Carolina, Ray Strickland, Atlanta; nieces, nephews other relatives and friend.

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December 2007 Newsletter

Merry Christmas everybody!! And Happy Hanukah, too.
I hope you all will have an enjoyable holiday season finishes up with a welcoming into the New Year 2008. We all have much to be thankful. If you are reading this now you are fortunate to be alive. My wife Taunnie is healing very well and we thank you for all your prayers and good wishes for a speedy recovery.

To me the winter season always seems to bring sadness with the passing of someone you knew - like the old fella Bill (we really never got to know his last name) who died on Thanksgiving Day. Bill lived at Costanero and Pizarro. Taunnie and I always stopped to chat with Bill when he was outside. Then there was Barbara O'Connell who passed away in November, as well. We were friends with Jim and Barbara. Actually we met them while singing in our church choir. Barbara had a beautiful soprano voice. The soft angelic sounds she offered gave me goose bumps. Taunnie and I will miss Bill and Barbara.

I hope you noticed our front entrance decorations for 2007 - the Christmas decorations were installed on a Sunday morning by Treasure Beach volunteers Steve and Phyllis Abbott. I would like to thank you both for volunteering to do this job for our community.

Also, have you noticed how our very own Jill Ziebell has designed our planters in front? Looking good Miss Jill!! It looks like you are getting ready to lay down some flagstone to contrast the front wall colors. We are grateful for your time and talent.

The following board members will be installed at our January 4, 2008, meeting at Beachers Lodge. Please make plans to attend this meeting to show your support for their efforts in 2008.

Treasure -- Barbara Warman

Corresponding Secretary -- Rose Larsen

Recording Secretary -- Richard Grubb

Vice President -- Doug Berndt

Vice President -- Paula Murphy

Vice President -- Jim Berrier

Vice President -- Erica Whitley

President -- Charlie Novak

Once again, I would like to thank folks named above for accepting the tasks and duties as officers for TBPOA. I am confident that this body of individuals will work to the best interest of Treasure Beach. I personally look forward to working with these fine people.

Our plate will be full this year with special tasks but we are up to it. The first thing on the list of things to do is our membership letter that will be mailed to every property owner in Treasure Beach - February 2008

We have a planning committee working as I write, to begin repairs to our beach walk. We also have a Treasure Beach Clean up day set for January 2008. We have made plans to accept building materials that you have been wanting to get rid of but did not have the pick up truck to take to the landfill.

Our Canal Committee will be on the job coordinating effort with our county commission and with the help of Mr. Ben Rich our district commissioner. Don't forget to keep him in mind when he runs for a second term.

I will try to steer our tasks toward completion, as long as God grants me the health and sanity to do it.

Neighborhood Watch

Doug Berndt (461-6943) always needs volunteers for the Neighborhood Watch. He is just asking for just one (1) week of your personal time. Look for his column in this edition. Also his time and efforts in the Web Site is substantial. He is hoping that a community member would step forward to take the job of assigning Neighborhood Watch weeks. Please give him a call if you might want to take over this task.

Our Web Site:

Have you taken a Gander at the site??? Please do yourself a favor. Look it over. Doug Berndt has done a great job. We are so proud of you Doug. Good Job!! The web site is WWW.TREASURE-BEACH.NET

Community Clean Up:

Our chairman ,George Pascucci, working with Jim Berrier has set a date in January 2008 for the Neighborhood Clean-up that would include construction lumber/materials but not batteries or volatile liquids or propane tanks and no regular trash or lawn trash that is normally picked up at your driveway each week. Look for signs posted thought your community for the date and place.

Last but not least --

Our Christmas Party held at Amici's was very nice and really a lot of fun. No, we failed to get 100 folks to attend; we had about 85 in attendance. Three of our commissioners and their spouse and children, as well as, Col. Art May and his wife of our Sheriff's Department accepted our invitation. I do know that they enjoyed themselves.

The food was very good as usual and so were the desserts. George the D.J. was there to help us dance the night away. Then Evelyn Delaney gathered up volunteers to lead us in song. We also had a great time playing the kazoos to well-known songs of the holidays. Not to forget the duo song presentation by Tom Manuel and Ben Rich singing " Grandma got run over by a beer truck". And let's not forget the wonderful folks from Lighthouse Realty- They are a real "party crowd". It was fun seeing them have fun. You know - Peter Diamond and Karen Lindsey have supported Treasure Beach functions for as long as I can recall. The door prizes of wine ( so lovely packaged ) and the gift certificates for Amici's were absolutely wonderful. Thank you very much.

Oh -- did I forget anyone???? No I did not ...I wanted to give special acknowledgement to:

Evelyn Delaney, Betty Fell and Dot Delaney - may I say thank you for your time and expertise ( in party planning) and your total efforts to make this party a very nice experience.

To those who could not make this affair for one reason or another - I wish you could have attended. You missed out on an enjoyable evening with good food and fun. You missed a chance to sit with and meet your neighbors. You missed a chance to chat with your commissioners and Col. Art May of our Sheriffs Department. Finally, you missed an opportunity to support your very own community and for this I was disappointed.

May you all have a very nice Christmas Season. May your new year be one of good health and happiness .God Bless you all.

Charlie Novak,
President, TBPOA

November 2007 Newsletter

Gosh the time just jumped up and bit me. I am writing at the very last moments approaching our newsletter deadline.
I must regret any losses sustained to our residents property because of all the rain we have received. I know that a few of your bulkheads have failed. If our canal committee has helped you in some fashion, I am pleased.

Our November meeting will be a potluck meeting that begins at 6:00 P.M. It is scheduled for Friday November 9th (the 2nd Friday of the month).

The theme will be "Thanksgiving". TBPOA will purchase the turkey and drinks. You might want to bring roast beef, ham or shrimp along with salads and various veggies.

Also, desserts of all kinds will never be turned away.

The nominating committee will present the nominees for the Board of Directors for 2008 and accept nominations from the floor. After which a vote will take place to select the officers.

A drawing for 2 tickets for the Treasure Beach Christmas Party will be held. Tickets were sold at the last community meeting and will be sold at the November meeting. Spend $5 bucks and take a chance on winning $ 75.00 worth of tickets.

I just spoke to Rose Larsen and she said that our lunch bunch will be held at the Palms Grille at 5:00 P.M. on Wednesday November 14th we will give you an up-date regarding the menu later.

Neighborhood Watch

Doug Berndt (461-6943) always needs volunteers for the Neighborhood Watch. He is just asking for just one (1) week of your personal time. Look for his column in this edition.

Regarding the Canals:

Right now it is a "work in progress" as we wait for the county commissioners to award a Marine Engineering Company to determine the health and well being of the canals. Doug Martin (our canal chairman will keep us advised. I am very up beat about our progress thanks to the leadership of Doug Martin.

Membership:

Our 2007 Board of Directors has unanimously agreed to pursue a membership campaign for 2008. Chairperson Erika Whitley is working diligently to gather the official county mailing addresses of Treasure Beach Property Owners.

Purpose: TBPOA will to send a letter asking that you join as a member of the association. The letter will explain what the association does for you as property owners and why we need you on the membership roles as members in good standing.

Regarding the Ocean boardwalk:

We have discussed a work party to repair/replace the walkway to the beach. We will be asking for volunteers to help us out soon. George Pascucci is our chairman who volunteered to organize a team meeting to discuss plans for this project. We may meet at the Palms Grille on a Friday (to be selected) after 6:00 P.M.We will be asking for your time and talent in the near future. Please say yes when you are asked to help.

Slate of Officers for 2008:

Treasurer -- Barbara Warman
Recording Secretary -- Richard Grubb
Corresponding Secretary -- Rose Larsen
4th Vice President -- Doug Berndt
3rd Vice President -- Paula Murphy
2nd Vice President -- James Berrier
1st Vice President -- Erika Whitley
President -- Charlie Novak


If you would like to run for any of the above duties please submit your name to Taunnie Novak (Nominating Chairperson) anytime before the beginning of our meeting on Friday November 9,2007. Taunnie's phone number is 471-1579 and her email is cnovak6@bellsouth.net
Our Web Site:

Our very own Douglas Berndt has agreed to begin the process of up-dating our Web Site.

If successful, we may have our site up and running before Christmas??? We will then have a monthly up-date of Treasure Beach News accessible anywhere in the world, free classified ads to members in good standing and we will be selling advertising space to folks who want to advertise their business on our site (there will be a discount to members in good standing). The advertising banners sold will be a way to offset the cost of maintaining our site. Once this site is up and running we will be adding another web-master to assist Doug Berndt.

Treasure Beach Christmas Party:

We have signed a contract with Amicis' Restaurant for our Annual Christmas Party. The event will take place on Saturday December 1,2007 at 6:00 P.M.

We received so many great complements from those who attended last year that we decided to do it again. Evelyn Delaney, Betty Fell and Dot Delaney are kicking in again this year to decorate and coordinate this event. Contact Evelyn Delaney about tickets. Make your reservation soon. It's not that far away.

For Sale Announcements:

My offer still stands - I will take an email from those who wish to sell or give away items they do not want until our Web Site is up and running. I will take your requests and broadcast to our Treasure Beach residents. For those who are on my email broadcast system this service is free. I just want to give a value added item for Treasure Beach. My e - mail address is CNOVAK6@BELLSOUTH.NET

Community Clean Up:

We have a chairman (George Pascucci) who is looking into a Neighborhood Clean-up that would include construction lumber/materials but not batteries or volatile liquids or propane tanks. We hope to get this set-up after January of 2008.

Our Newsletter /Publication:

We are so appreciate the time and talent of Doug and Sheila Martin (our newsletter editors) for making our newsletter so successful. I believe that we have a distribution of nearly 7,500 households in southern St Johns County. I can recall that only 2 = years ago we had only 5 or 6 pages. Today the newsletter distributed contains nearly 40 pages.

Respectfully Submitted,
Charlie Novak
President TBPOA

Special Notice Regarding Your Home

Take advantage of this program- it was created by our elected legislators!! I did not meet the elgiblity for totally free grant but I am going to check out the Florida "match" of up to $ 5,000.

My Safe Florida Home program

Did you know?

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3. Save money on your hurricane insurance premium. Protecting your windows and doors, including garage doors, may help you save more that 10 percent on your hurricane insurance.

The My Florida Home program was created by Florida Legislature in 2006 to help Floridians strengthen their homes against hurricanes. You may be eligible for a free wind inspection, which will tell you how you can best protect your home. Additionally, if you receive an inspection and meet certain requirements, you may be eligible to apply for a matching grant of up to $ 5,000.Also, you may be eligible for a full grant (cost free) if you make the annual earnings limitations.

To learn more or to apply for a free wind inspection, log onto WWW.MYSAFEFLORIDAHOME.COM or call the My Safe Florida Home program toll-free at 1-866-513-6734.

For FREE INSPECTION use the following CODE:A-01

The above information was put out by:

Alex Sink

Chief Financial Officer

State of Florida/Administered by the Florida Department of Financial Services

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August 2007 Newsletter

Hope you are enjoying your summer. Once again the community meetings are on hold until September 2007 at the Beachers Lodge.

We will sponsor an "Ice Cream Social" that evening. Bring a friend, bring a neighbor -- we have a special deal. Bring a friend/neighbor residing in Treasure Beach that has not been for a while or has never attended a meeting and your name plus the person you brought will be eligible for drawing of a cash prize. So, there may be some cash in it for you. Our Community Meeting begins at the regular time, 7:30 P.M. Friday September 7th.

We will have 2 guest speakers at this meeting. Our Sheriffs Office will be on hand to talk about our community safety and scam artists. Our second speakers will discuss their plans for the 6 home development at Desoto Road. Our meeting agenda will go like this:

Opening remarks

Guest Speaker- Sheriffs Office( 1/2 hour)

Guest Speakers -- Desoto Road Planned Development ( 1/2 hour)

Ice Cream Social -- 1/2 hour

Short Business Meeting

Lottery Ticket and cash prize awarded.

We will be out no later than 9:45 P.M.

A Vacation from Business:

Your Board of Directors took off for July for a well-deserved break. We will start-up our Board Meetings on August 20th.

Doug Berndt (461-6943) always needs volunteers for the Neighborhood Watch. He is just asking for just one (1) week of your personal time.

Regarding the Canals:

In July Doug Martin (our canal chairman) accompanied by Ron Larsen and myself attended a meeting at the County Purchasing Office regarding the selection of a Marine Professional Company who would inspect Treasure Beach canals and assess the bulkheads (regarding physical condition). As information - there were 5 companies who submitted their credentials and bids. We voiced our concerns regarding the selection process letting it known that we did not want one specific individual contractor to be any part of this process.

I believe that our remarks were taken seriously by the committee .We now await the County Commissioners award. We think the selection will benefit our community.

Regarding the Ocean boardwalk:

This subject will resume at our August Board Meeting.

The Annual Bowling Outing:

Well, there was apparently no interest. The outing was a bust. No Shows(except for me). Oh well maybe another time.

Our Annual Treasure Beach Party:

We did not have too many neighbors attending; maybe it was the heat wave we have been experiencing. Those who attended forgot to bring their camera for that Kodak Moment. We learn by our mistakes. Next year we'll try to improve out announcement of this venue.

Our Front Entrance:

I would like to take this time to thank all the residents who have donated their "Dirt" to get things going for our entrance beautification chairperson Jill to start planting. I see that we are still short the dirt that is needed for the planters.

So, run out to the garden center and donate your bag of dirt if you haven't done so. We are depending upon you.

Treasure Beach Christmas Party:

We have signed a contract with Amicis' Restaurant for our Annual Christmas Party. The event will take place on Saturday December 1,2007 at 6:00 P.M.

We received so many great complements from those who attended that we decided to do it again. We will remind you about tickets in the next month or so.

For Sale Announcements:

I will take an email from those who wish to sell or give away items they do not want. Until our Web Site is up and running. I will take your requests and broad cast to our Treasure Beach residents. For those who are on my email broadcast system this service is free. I just want to give a value added item for Treasure Beach. My e mail address is CNOVAK6@BELLSOUTH.NET .

Respectfully Submitted,

Charlie Novak

President TBPOA

July 2007 Newsletter

Hope you are enjoying your summer. Once again the community meetings are on hold until September 2007 at the Beachers Lodge. I believe that we will sponsor an "Ice Cream Social" that evening. Bring a friend, bring a neighbor -- we have a special deal but you will find out later in this newsletter .All I can say is that there may be some cash in it for you. This is not an early meeting -- regular time, 7:30 P.M.

Even your Board of Directors took off for July for a well-deserved break. We will start back in August.

I am sure that Doug, our Vice President in charge of Neighborhood Watch, has had his hands full with the reports of summer mischief going on. Remember, if your property is vandalized or property is missing --CALL the sheriffs office and make a report. One of my neighbors down the street stopped by and told me of what had occurred on our street and another across the canal from us. I asked -- did you report it? (Answer =yes). Next- did you report it to Doug Berndt? (No but he will). REPORT _ REPORT _ REPORT. You know that phrase from the Sheriffs office. They can't attempt to help unless you let them know what's happening here in our community.

Doug Berndt (461-6943) always needs volunteers for the neighborhood watch. He is just asking for just one (1) week of your personal time. Once again, if just half of our property owners participated, you wouldn't have to do it again for 4 years later. Yes, that's right --once every 4 years. Come on, help us help you. Sign up for a week today.

We had a wonderful time last month when all our children and their children spent some time with us. It's been three years since we were able to do this back in 2004. Taunnie and I also had to opportunity to watch our youngest grandchild -- Jackson- while his brother Adam and sister Emma took a trip with their Mom and Dad (Faye and Vince) to the Curacao Islands in the Caribbean. Our other children are Kimberly who has a daughter Sierra and Mike and Jocelyn who also have a daughter Jessica. Taunnie and I are truly blessed with a lovely family. Vince and Faye make their home in Ashville, N.C and Mike and Jocelyn live here in St Augustine at the Shores while Kimberly and Sierra live in Mandarin.

On another note:

It seems that the majority of us were spared damage from the big storm that passed through a month ago. We had some photos taken by Doug Berndt of the damages to some of our neighbor's property. George Pascucci told me that winds were clocked at 120 mph on the 206 Bridge.

I know that we all have some kind of tale about the storm we had a month ago. I thought that I would share our story. We live on Pizarro Road. Our electric power went out at 11:30 a.m. and was not restored until 12 hours later. The electric was restored about 12:30 midnight so I went ahead and re-set all the clocks and timers in the house and went to bed. No big deal.

At 1:00 A.M there was a knock on the front door. Answering the door I was greeted by one of our Deputies who knew me by name (from the Neighborhood Watch) .He said, Mr. Novak I wanted to tell you that your little car parked out front of your house is being showered by sparks from the electric wires above. I just did not want your car to burn up. You may want to consider moving it to another place. Looking up at the wires I saw what he was talking about. It looked like the 4th of July celebrations with flames and sparks reining down on my Honda.

I promptly moved my car and return to talk with him. The deputy had already called our Fire Department. Within a half hour the fire truck came. I watched the firemen crew and the deputy assess the problem with sparks flying and my tree branches burning. The branches were shorting out on the main overhead FPL wires. The head fireman then told me that they would have to call FPL for emergency tree cutting. At 2:00 a.m. along came FPL and a tree cutting company and they proceeded to cut the limbs over the wires but not before the electric was cut off for safety. Once again Pizarro Road was without power.

By 3A.M. the limbs were removed and power restored once again. The next day the tree cutters cut additional limbs and removed the entire cuttings, which was a lot.

Needless to say I didn't get much sleep however I am thankful for the courtesy of the Deputy who initially saw the problem. Heck, our car could have caught fire.

Last week my son Vincent and I took my boat out for a spin in the inter-coastal after my neighbor Brian Stephenson got my motor cranking after a year of non-use. Brian is in the business of servicing boat motors locally and has his own business. He is a professional who sure knows what he is doing. He's been in business for 35 years and will come to your house if you need him (377-5900). Brian quickly diagnosed the problem and got my motor running. So if you ever need a boat mechanic just call Brian .He lives right here in Treasure Beach on Pizarro. His company name is Island Boat Sales. Brian is just a down to earth nice guy.

Well as I was saying, Vince and I took out for the inter-coastal and the motor stopped. I called Brian on his cell and he offered to come bring me back to my dock. With Brian's

Prompting Vince and I crippled our boat to Treasure Beach's main canal that runs parallel to the inter-coastal and the engine died again. We tied up to someone's dock off.

I check my fuel gauge and it showed "FULL" ...Guess what - the fuel gauge was wrong as we discovered later. My tank was empty.

Along came one our neighbors Larry Hunt with his boat who lives on Basque. Larry was very kind to tow us back to my dock. Larry I thank you so much.

You know, we have some really nice folks here in Treasure Beach and Larry is just one of those considerate people who would come to your need at a drop of a hat.

Enough of me-

The construction of our Front Entrance has been completed. Looks like the final figures hit $5,000. I have submitted to the insurance company for reimbursement. Steve Abbott has just placed the "Hospitality Pineapples" up on the top caps as a finishing touch. The electric has been installed and working. Doug Berndt our Vice President is preparing to get some fill dirt in the planter boxes for Jill Ziebell (our Chairperson of the Front Entrance Beautification Committee). She will be attending to the beautification portion shortly. She is just waiting for the dirt to arrive.

I want to take this time to thank Nancy Gaj who turned over the chairperson duties to Jill Ziebell. Nancy, I would like to say that you have done a wonderful job and your efforts have not gone without notice by the Treasure Beach Community. You are truly a great neighbor and a dedicated member of this association.

Jill we look forward to your award winning ideas and designs that was recently noted by the Florida Horticultural Society. Thank you in advance for volunteering your time and efforts. By the way, if anyone would like to assist Jill in her efforts with our front entrance just give her a call at home (471-7239). She will gladly accept your assistance.

Regarding the Canals:

There is nothing new to report at this time. The county has advertised bids for the assessment of the canals by marine professionals as reported last month.

Regarding the Ocean boardwalk:

This subject will resume at our August Board Meeting. My June message in the newsletter said we were quite concerned about Seychelles's showing no desire to work with this community. We are considering legal council.

Finally, your Board of Directors are continuing to look for a replacement to the soon to be vacant position of President of TBPOA. My job duties will end the first week of January 2008. Anyone who would like to be considered for this position and make a difference in Treasure Beach please contact any one of the Board members whose phone numbers are shown in this newsletter. You will have a lot of support from your Board including myself who will stay on as an adviser for 2008. So, step forward -- Don't be shy. Be the leader that you know you are! - You can do it! We can help.

Respectfully Submitted,

Charlie Novak

President TBPOA