Rules and Regulations Rule 4.1.a: The individual home owners shall make a rea-sonable effort to maintain their front yards, including the side yards forward of any fences enclosing the backyard (for corner properties it will include the entire side yard facing the street) to at least the same level and quality as the play grounds and en-trance landscaping of Summerwind. This maintenance shall include weeding, fertiliz-ing, watering and mowing as required to retain that quality. The watering may be cur-tailed during periods of officially declared water shortages.

Annual Summerwind Neighborhood Garage Sale—Friday and Satur-day, May 21 & 22, 9AM—

4 PM. Just put your stuff out and people will show up.

A notice will be p u t o n

Craigslist and about 30 directional signs to Sum-mewind will be posted.

Street Picnic—Thursday, June 24th, 5—7:30 PM If you are one of the 900 + people who helped cele-brate the grand opening of Duvall, we’re going to gather again somewhere near by. Watch for more info and location.

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Debra Mikolaizik, Editor: 425-417-6149 Cell, 425-430-6580 Work, E-Mail newsletter@summerwindrenton.org

Flashlight Easter Egg Hunt

Good Friday April 2nd

8 PM Kids under 8 yrs

8:30 PM Kids over 8 yrs

Drop off 12 filled eggs per child at 5024 NE

23rd St by 6 PM

Puget Sound Security Pa-trol (PSSP) (425-454-5011 24-Hour) Report all inci-dences to them, our hired security company, after call-ing 911 as necessary.

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City of Renton Neighbor-hood Liaison Jerry Rere-cich, 425-430-6615 or jrere-cich@rentonwa.us. Contact Jerry if you have any ques-tions for the City and he can help direct you to the right person or department to assist you. Go to www.Rentonwa.gov and features a lot of upcoming events.

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Welcome to Spring! It’s time for all of us to take an extra look at our yards and make sure we are all looking as good as can be. I’m very proud of everyone’s effort to make Summerwind a great place to live. Please remember that you can e-mail the board with any questions you might have.

The Seahawks 12K at The Landing will be held on Sunday, April 11 and will start at 8:30 a.m. at The Landing. This year’s event will offer participants three different run options, as well as a community block party to cap off the family-friendly event.

Seahawks 12K Run –8:30 a.m.�The route will start and finish at The Landing, run along the southeast shore of Lake Washington and offer participants a unique opportunity to run around the Seahawks headquarters and training facility, the Virginia Mason Athletic Center.

Valley Medical Center 5K Run/Walk –9:00 a.m.�The 5K Run and Walk will start at 9:00 a.m. at the same location, but runners and walkers will utilize the Cedar River Trail to make a scenic route around the South Lake Washington area of Renton. The 5K Run/Walk is dog-friendly and stroller-friendly too!

BECU Half-mile Kids Run – 10:30 a.m.�The Kids Run is a half mile, non-competitive run, fully contained within The Landing and starts at 10:30 a.m.

Block Party – 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. The Block Party at The Landing will round out the festivities with live entertainment; the BECU Kids Zone with bounce houses, interactive games, face painters; an interactive contest; the Seattle Humane Society’s MaxMobile pet adoption van; a local art show and more.

Proceeds for the event will benefit the Renton Skyway Boys and Girls Club.

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Before you jump into your new project or re-roofing your house, don’t forget to get approval first.

The ACC Process:

1. Plan Your Project. Project Applications and pre-approved material lists are listed on our commu-nity website. 2. Submit Your Request/Plans to the ACC @ acc@summerwindrenton.com. Include material samples for non pre-approved items such as paint chip and drawings for landscape, etc. 3. Receive ACC Approval. Usually takes 7 to 10 days. If the item is of an urgent matter, such as a leaking roof, contact the ACC and Property Manager to ensure a rapid response. You’ll receive a sign to post in your yard stating “Summerwind Approved Project.” 4. Start Your Work 5. Return your sign to ACC Chair for reuse.

Remember that rockeries, retaining walls, and other major landscaping renovations, along with roofing, painting, out-buildings, and other exterior alterations to your home visible from the street need to be submitted for review and approval before work begins.

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Steve O’Brien, 206-240-4885, acc@summerwindrenton.org

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Brent Walton, 425-228-9942, bmlmwalton@hotmail.com

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Cindy Leenknecht, 425-235-3787, membership@summerwindrenton.org

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Jason Cook, 425-687-4910, traffic_and_safety@summerwindrenton.org

We have a couple of street light connection boxes where the wiring was cut recently and copper wiring stolen. There have been other cases in the neighborhood. The Renton Police Department said that the culprits come during the day in vans looking like utility workers. Please report any unmarked utility vans to the police.

If you have trees/hedges growing into the sidewalk, it's your responsibility to keep them trimmed. There are several that are overgrowing the walkway now that the weather has started clearing up. Have you tried using vinegar on your driveway and sidewalk cracks to kill those pesky weeds? It’s very a very affordable and is better for the environment than the harsh chemicals in commercial weed killers.

Welcome to all you new Summerwind residents! Don’t be shy—knock on your neighbors door and introduce yourself if they haven’t already knocked on yours. We love our neighborhood and we hope you grow to love it too!

The on-line Renton Reporter has a new feature—My Ren-ton. It breaks Renton down into sections. Summerwind is listed under the Highlands grouping. A lot of the links there pertain to Renton in general from their newspaper articles, but some of their posts are specific to the High-lands. And anyone can put information there so you’ll see items that pertain to particular neighborhoods. I don’t think I’d put our Flashlight Easter Hunt details there because we don’t want all of Renton to show up, but it would be a good place for information about our yearly ga-rage sale.

We had a meeting at Starbucks a few week back to gauge interest in going for-ward with a community garden p-patch in the neighborhood and we had ten peo-ple show up. We figured that was enough to go ahead and submit a Neighborhood

Grant application for funding our proposed garden.

IF we get the funding, and Board approval, we’ll be taking the next steps, and if things really gel, watch for signs posting some work party dates where we will need help shoveling, hammering, and creating this new Summer-wind amenity. We’ll need to document volunteer hours as our part of the grant match so we will REALLY appreciate YOU coming to help us out.

If you or someone you know has a talent for layout out and assembling a sprinkler system, please let me know.

Stay tuned….

Some more notable websites:

www.1000awesomethings.com—feeling down? Cheer up, here is a list of a thousand things to feel good about when they happen to you. Traveling? These three sites try to offer deals when flying, parking, and using a rental car—www.ParkSleepFly.com; www.stay123.com; www.parkingaccess.com.

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Yes, another list of where to recycle your household stuff:

Best Buy will take your old CDs, DVDs, cell phones, ink-jet cartridges, DVD players, computers, and TV’s under 32 inches. Limit of two large items per household per day. $10 fee to recycle TV’s, computer monitors, and lap-tops, but you’ll get a $10 Best Buy gift card in return.

Office Depot will recycle your ink or toner cartridges and cell phones for no charge. They will take almost any kind of device, like fax machines, computers, printers, scan-ners, digital and video cameras, DVD players and small TVs, if you purchase a recycling box (from $5 to $15, de-pending on size). At Radio Shack, you can trade in your unwanted MP3 players, cameras, phones, camcorders, gaming consoles, cell phones, and other small electronics for a gift card af-ter a sales associates determines their value.

Staples will take your empty ink or toner cartridges and give you $3 in coupons for each one. Recycle cell phones and any Dell product for free. For non-Dell computers, fax machines, printers and other large items, there is a $10 fee per piece..

Have you heard the new construction going on to the north of Summerwind at the Langley Ridge at May Creek development (34 single-family lots on 34 acres south of SE May Valley Rd.)? The preliminary plat was initially ap-proved in February 2006, but construction was put on hold until recently. The road is in and they have started building this year. It’s a nice walk if you want to check it out.

From Sherry Amatenstein, author of The Complete Mar-riage Counselor — Here’s a simple exercise to better understand your spouse: Pretend that you are your spouse and have your mate do the same. Then write about what it’s like to be married to you. Be honest. Then ex-change what you’ve written.

A few tips from Dr. Oz: He says to throw away your scale—what matters is your waist size. It should be less than half of your height.

For an average woman, that’s 32 inches; men, 35.

Daily, eat 7 servings of whole grains; 5 servings of vegeta-bles; 4 servings of fruit; 2 servings of low-fat dairy; 1 serv-ing of tree-nuts (such as almonds). Then add proteins and whatever else you want.

Slow down, enjoy and savor your meal, 20 chews before swallowing. (I do about 5.)

Take 1,000 IU of Vitamin D daily and 400 mg of Omega-3 fats.

And Reader’s Digest did a study and found that all the other vitamins you may be taking are just a waste of your money. Just eat a varied diet and you’ll get enough nutrients. However, if you are a women of child bearing age, you should probably take a bit of folic acid to

help guarantee you are in optimum health prior to getting pregnant.

CDC Management Services LLC 11211 Slater Ave NE #200 Kirkland, WA 98033 www.cdcmanagement.com. 425-897-3400

Have you ever needed a doctor on the weekend? Valley Medical Center has opened its fifth Urgent Care clinic, the latest at The Landing in north Renton. We recently went in on a weekend and were very impressed with the new facility. The skylights make it nice and bright.

The Renton Landing Urgent Care is a 4,600-square-foot clinic that provides walk-in, extended-hour access for non-emergency, acute illness and injury care. Clinicians are available to see patients, from infants to the elderly, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. A clinic open on S u n d a y i s s o r a r e .

The clinic is located at 1205 N. 10th St., Suite A, at The Landing in Renton, right next to the Panda Express. For more information about the clinic, call 425-656-4211.

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