Citizens Planning Advisory Committee News

Its official, "A New Southside District" has been born! The City Council at the November 8, 2011, meeting voted to approve the new City Council District map labeled 11/08/11, Denise 1 shown below. This new District map moves the former Northwest District 11 to the Southeast where over the past 10 years the population within our city has shifted. Starting in 2015, this new Southside District 11 representing approximately 60,000 residents will elect a new City Council member that is no longer affiliated with the Beaches. Our representative will now be a local resident who can better understand and represent our area and serve our needs.... continue Read the latest updates on COI Re-districting>>>

Yard of the Month

December 2011

Our beautiful autumn season is here. Elly Crain at 7881 Heather Lake Ct. E. has done a beautiful job displaying the fall colors. Standing in the front yard is a scarecrow surrounded by a garden of lantana, a firecracker plant and chrysanthemums.

Accenting the front of the home are very attractive custom made window boxes with ornamental gourds, dusty miller, ferns and marigolds. The bordering garden contains lorapetalum, lantana, boxwood, moss rose, Aztec grass, purple queen and a crepe myrtle. As you follow the path past the weeping holly, to the main entrance you will find a fall pumpkin displayed on a block of hay sitting next to a pretty antique sitting bench.

The front garden has a bottlebrush, nandina plants, a canna lilly and Mexican heather with ornamental rocks interspersed.

By Dena Grossman

Deercreek to Celebrate Florida Arbor Day January 20, 2012

Arbor Day is a nationally-celebrated observance that promotes the benefits of trees in the urban environment and encourages tree planting and care. Founded by J. Sterling Morton in Nebraska in 1872, National Arbor Day is celebrated each year on the last Friday in April.

Individual states conduct their own Arbor Day celebrations at various times of the year. Florida has celebrated Arbor Day since 1886 and has one of the first Arbor Day celebrations in the nation, on the third Friday in January. In 2011, Arbor Day will be celebrated on January 20. Over 100 communities in Florida celebrate Arbor Day, either as a stand-alone event or in conjunction with some other occasion.

Here in Deercreek, we have decided to celebrate all the trees that have been donated and planted on our Common Property.  There are 77 trees along Deercreek roads that have been donated in someone’s memory or for the Golden Acorn Awards.  Most are Live Oaks, but we also have some Magnolia’s and Crape Myrtles.  These trees were donated and planted during the Deecreek Home and Garden Club’s tree program which is run every two years and will be offered again in 2012.  Nearly 1000 trees have been purchased through the tree program, which was started in 1999 by the late Gerry Ceravolo. 

 
 
On January 20, there will be ribbons on each of the trees and a number corresponding to the information for that tree.  The Garden Club has kept track of all the trees; who donated them, the recipient, the year, the type of tree and the tree’s location.

List of all Memorial and Honor Trees >>>