“NOW” NEWS
October 2024: Per email from ISHOA Secretary Peggy Cronin, the following fun news – The Halloween Party will be held on 26 October 2024 from 5:00-7:00pm in the Spring Forest Lane cul de sac (rain date 27 October – same time).
DETAILS🕷️
-There will be games and crafts for the children and we will hold a Trick-or-Treat event before we turn into pumpkins.
-We’d like to have a pot-luck dinner with festive and Fall food consisting of Nibbles, Mains, Salad, Dessert. Non-alcoholic beverages will be provided but feel free to bring your own adult beverage. Chafing dishes will be available to keep food warm.
-Costumes are optional.
WE NEED🌕
🎃 Your RSVP with the number of people attending – please use this link for all party correspondence
🎃 Pot-luck dishes – let us know so we can coordinate food (see list below)
🎃 Decorations – if you have spares and want to share; plus, would love to see some made by the young ones!
🎃 Battery/camping lights – we have some but could use more
PLEASE BRING🍬
-Your own chairs
-Candy for trick-or-treating
FOOD🕸️
Chris Bachman will be coordinating the food. She is on the link above. Currently we have the following tasty treats signed up:
Mains – Baked Ziti; Soup; Chicken White Bean Chili
Salads – TBD – Dee Walsh; Liz Rollo
Dessert – TBD – Chris Bachman
Beverages – Peggy Cronin
10/15/24: From email from Peggy Cronin: Our next book club meeting on November 19th at 7pm will be hosted by Jill Bowyer and Donna Clark and will be held at the Bowyer residence – 6273 Indian Ridge Drive. We will discuss: Killers of a Certain Age – Deanna Raybourn.
This will be our last meeting for the year. After this book club session, we will start the process to select books for 2025. Stay tuned for further information. Please contact Peggy if you want to be put on the mailing list.
https://www.511virginia.org/mobile/?menu_id=conditions
24: The new 2024-2025 Litter Collection Roster has been posted. Thanks to all who have volunteered to keep our entrance litter free.
5/15/24: After a lovely social before the Annual Meeting, many folks wanted to share recipes – so now there’s a “Recipe Section” down below – check it out! Send any recipes you’d like to the Secretary, and they’ll get posted!
As of 5/1/24: Albemarle County is no longer restricting burning to the hours between 4:00 p.m. and midnight – However, all fires must be attended, and located more than 300 feet from any occupied structure. More information about the restrictions can be found here. Also available are the general guidelines for open-air burning in Albemarle. The web-based Google Earth app has measuring tools which might be informative.
As of April 2, 2024, Firefly lists their planned date to deliver fiber broadband to our area (we are in their “Windrift” project area) by Spring, 2025. They carefully note that spring goes to June 20, 2025, and that their connections will BEGIN then. See “Albemarle Map” [https://www.fireflyva.com/partners-albemarle/] for their construction map and the “Construction Plans” [https://www.fireflyva.com/construction-updates/] for the construction plans. To pre-register for Firefly (which should get you on the list for announcements about getting hooked up when they come to our area) go to https://register.fireflyva.com/.
AREA NEWS
From time to time the Board will post information that it thinks might be of interest or helpful for the owners of Indian Springs. If you are interested, please click on the attached links below — and please feel free to recommend additional websites you have found to be helpful! Send your suggestions in an email to secretary@indianspringshoa.net.
Albemarle County Indian Springs Community News The “Community News” feature, found only on the Members Only page, has been reserved for Indian Springs’ members to post information that they may wish to share with the community, like special birthdays, weddings or the birth of grandchildren. It might also include questions for other neighbors about recommendations for painters or plumbers, gardening tips, hobbies or new kitchen recipes. In order to post to this page, please submit your proposed post to the HOA Board secretary. The secretary’s email address is: secretary@indianspringshoa.net. Items submitted for posting should be respectful and relevant to our community; all requests will be acknowledged but the actual posting is at the discretion of the secretary or designated web liaison. Posts are in reverse chronological order. The news list can easily be searched by keyword using “Control F”. Area Resources Covid-19 and Health-Related Information, Chronological Earlysville