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All homeowners and residents are warmly encouraged to join the NHHA. We are the largest and strongest neighborhood association in San Antonio.
Our boundaries are Thousand Oaks, Scarsdale, Stahl Road, Higgins Road, and Uhr lane. Annual dues are only $40 per year. Email Membership Chair
Would you like to join Northern Hills Homeowners Association?
Join and volunteer today! After completing the membership information, to volunteer simply choose your area of interest at the lower portion of the application.
Cellular on Patrol (COP):
Get involved in neighbors looking out for neighbors. Volunteers are trained by local police. They are to look and report suspicious activity. Call Jim Long 655-0217.
Beautification:
Do you enjoy landscaping? Come and participate in planting and maintaining the landscaped areas at our entrances.
Call Orville Gravelle 650-9708.
Yard of the Month
Volunteer to be a judge. Need judges to select a yard each month and to notify the winner of your area.
Call Ruth Kottler 599-2182.
Area Representative
Volunteer in welcoming new residents and informing neighbors of association meetings.
Call Anne Verner 655-7380.
Kids of the Hills (KOTH)
Calling all youth from 6th to 12th grade. We are currently looking for youth members and adult volunteers to participate in the beautification, improvement, and promotion of Northern Hills through volunteer services.
Kids of the Hills doing "Toys for Tots" Call Stephanie Eli 637-0713 or Sally Rice 650-0303.
News and Photos for the website
We need your stories, pictures and ideas for the mynhha.org website which is your website!
Share your good news with your neighbors; send an email (preferably in MS Word Document 97/2003 format) as you want it to appear; to the webmaster.
NHHA - GENERAL MEETING - CHARITY SILENT AUCTION & DINNER
You and your friends are invited to a charity silent auction and dinner sponsored by the Northern Hills Homeowners Association. The auction will be held in conjunction with the general membership meeting on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at the Northern Hills Golf Club. The buffet dinner will be served from 6 to 7 p.m., followed by a short Homeowners Association meeting and the silent auction. 100 percent of all funds collected from the auction will go to the Northern Hills Swimming Pool upgrade program.
This year the Association is encouraging neighborhood artists to donate and feature a sample of their work for the auction. Space will be provided so they can display photos and handouts of other examples of their art. The auction committee is also looking for paintings, carvings, sculptures, antiques in good condition, small furniture, plants, garden items, gift cards, and unusual pieces of interest to bidders. Please call 946-0190 if you have items for donation.
The following is a schedule of the various activities associated with the charity auction:
6:00 p.m. Buffet Dinner $12.50
7:00 p.m. Preview and early bidding on auction items
7:30 p.m. NHHA General Meeting
7:45 p.m. Auction bidding continues
8:00 p.m. Bidding begins to close by section
8:30 p.m. Auction ends
JOB CORNER
This is a space reserved for those either looking for or offering a full time, part time, summertime or one time job. E-mail the webmaster.
Found #081205: Business Affairs Technician at a small technology business near Loop 410 and Broadway. Our employees love their work environment. Enjoy flex time, employee appreciation day each month and more. Skills with accounting principals, bookkeeping software and HR required. Ability to write in Spanish a plus.
Found: #080409: Person wanted to do a one time mechanical drawing (to scale) for a patent application.
Jobs that will never go away
Top demand careers
7 surprising stay at home salaries
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MENTORS NEEDED
If you have some time and would like to make a difference in a child's life, please contact Debbie Sifuentez at Northern Hills Elementary School for more information. 650-1475 or dsifue1@neisd.net
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PERSONAL IMPROVEMENT
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ANGIE'S LIST - What is it?
It's a place Homeowners rate home service companies. You can report bad contractors and they have no response options.
The word is that 2 out of 10 contactors are competent. The others either dont know enough, care enough or are simply thieves. There is a small cost involved.
600,000 readers regularly visit Angie's List. Click Here
Tips for contractors: Make it right!
Tips for homeowners:
- Avoid Crummy Contractors Click Here
- Have a contract,
- Check license,
- Get everything in writing, very detailed, including milestones of payments, schedule,
- Ask questions early,
- Cut losses early, get out to minimize loss!
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A new "Sunshine Chairperson" is needed!
We are looking for a new chair for the Sunshine Committee. Are you retired or do you have extra time to be a communication person for Seniors or any neigbor in need of someone to check up on them due to age or illness? No experience is needed. Just a kind heart and a willingness to lend a helping hand to neighbors in need is all that is required.
Please contact any member of the board if you are willing to serve in this capacity.
Cookbook Commitee
Join our committee now for a spring event. Contact either Bonnie at 657-1853 or Sally at 650-0303.
Gardening Group has started
Calling all gardeners to join our new informal group. The group visits each other's yards to share information and ideas.
Guest speakers are being considered for expert advice. Come join the fun. Please phone Leila Hileman at 646-9003 for more information.
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Items needed by neighbors in Northern Hills
A referral for a new garage door repair or replacement! Were you happy with your new door replacement? If so, Let me know who did the work and how much they charged, please...
Contact the webmaster.
BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR
Remember when you mow your yard to clean up all those grass clippings that end up in the street. If you have a yard service, please remind them it is against city ordinance to blow the clippings into the street.
Help protect the aquifer by not leaving your dog's droppings on your neighbor's lawn. Getting caught by witness or video can earn you a citation of up to $2,000.00!
Tree pruning ordinance
Pruning paint must be used within 30 minutes when trimming oak trees to prevent oak decline disease. The Forest Service phone number is 830-257-7744.
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Join the "Fly the Flag" Contest - July 4
Proudly display the American Flag outside your home sunrise to sunset July 4.
The area with the most flags displayed at nooon will win the contest.
It is our honor and duty to display an American flag on July 4th as well as Sep 11.
We do this to honor those who lost their lives, their families, friends and loved ones who continue to endure the pain of their loss.
It also honors those who are currently fighting at home and abroad to preserve our cherished freedoms.
In the days, weeks and months following 9/11, our country was bathed in American flags as citizens mourned the incredible losses and stood shoulder-to-shoulder against terrorism. Sadly, those flags have all but disappeared. Our patriotism pulled us through some tough times and it shouldn't take another attack to galvanize us in solidarity.
Our American flag is the fabric of our country and together we can prevail over terrorism of all kinds.
Visit our New Veterans Corner
Enjoy riding the city bus instead of driving! by Kay Biri, Northern Hills Bus Rider
Would you like to stop driving, save money and ease tension? A simple way to do all this is to enjoy city bus riding to your many destinations. I recommend you ride with an experienced bus rider the first few times you take a bus. This way you can learn the locations of bus stops, transfer points, etc.
What's really fun is to travel as a group with three or more people until all have learned their various routes.
Please call VIA at 362-2020 or go online to www.viainfo.net to learn about routes, schedules and prices.
Northern Hills is very fortunate to have a major transfer point just a few blocks from our neighborhood. It is located behind the China Sea Restaurant on Naco Pass Road.
HUMOR FOR ALL
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Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about folks from Texas ...
If someone in a Lowe's store offers you
assistance and they don't work there, you may live in Texas ;
If you've worn shorts and a parka at
the same time, you may live in Texas ;
If you've had a lengthy telephone
conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you may live in
Texas;
If 'Vacation' means going anywhere
south of Dallas for the weekend, you may live in Texas ;
If you measure distance in hours, you
may live in Texas;
If you know several people who have hit
a deer more than once, you may live in Texas ;
If you install security lights on your
house and garage, but leave both unlocked, you may live in Texas;
If you carry jumper cables in your car
and your wife knows how to use them, you may live in Texas ;
If the speed limit on the highway is 55
mph --you're going 80 and everybody's passing you, you may live in Texas;
If you find 60 degrees 'a little
chilly,' you may live in Texas ;
If you actually understand these jokes,
and share them with all your Texas friends, you definitely live in Texas
...
Here are some little known, very
interesting facts about Texas .
- 1. Beaumont to El Paso : 742 miles
- 2. Beaumont to Chicago : 770 miles
- 3. El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas
- 4. World's first rodeo was in Pecos, July 4, 1883.
- 5. The Flagship Hotel in Galveston is
the only hotel in North America built over water.
- 6. The Heisman Trophy was named after
John William Heisman who was the first full-time coach at Rice
University in Houston .
- 7. Brazoria County has more species of
birds than any other area in North America
- 8. Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the
winter home of North America's only remaining flock of whooping cranes.
- 9. Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake
Jackson in 1978.
- 10. The worst natural disaster in U. S.
history was in 1900, caused by a hurricane, in which over 8,000 lives
were lost on Galveston Island .
- 11. The first word spoken from the
moon, July 20, 1969, was "Houston," but the space center was actually in
Clear Lake City at the time.
- 12. King Ranch in South Texas is larger
than Rhode Island.
- 13. Tropical Storm Claudette brought a
U.S. rainfall record of 43' in 24 hours in and around Alvin in July of
1979..
- 14. Texas is the only state to enter
the U.S. by TREATY, (known as the Constitution of 1845 by the Republic
of Texas to enter the Union ) instead of by annexation. This allows the
Texas Flag to fly at the same height as the U.S. Flag, and may divide
into 5 states.
- 15. A Live Oak tree near Fulton is
estimated to be 1500 years old.
- 16. Caddo Lake is the only natural lake
in the state.
- 17. Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in
1885. There is no period in Dr Pepper..
- 18. Texas has had six capital cities:
Washington-on- the Brazos, Harrisburg ,
Galveston ,Velasco, West Columbia and Austin ..
- 19. The Capitol Dome in Austin is the
only dome in the U.S. which is taller than the Capitol Building in
Washington DC (by 7 feet).
- 20. The San Jacinto Monument is the
tallest free standing monument in the world and it is taller than the
Washington monument.
- 21. The name ' Texas ' comes from the
Hasini Indian word 'tejas' meanin g friends. Tejas is not Spanish for
Texas .
- 22. The State Mascot is the Armadillo
(an interesting bit of trivia about the armadillo is they always have
four babies. They have one egg, which splits into four, and they either
have four males or four females.).
- 23. The first domed stadium in the U.S.
was the Astrodome in Houston.
The Cowboy's Ten Commandments posted on the
wall at Cross Trails Church in Fairlie , Texas :
- (1) Just one God.
- (2) Honor yer Ma & Pa.
- (3) No telling tales or gossipin'.
- (4) Git yourself to Sunday meeting.
- (5) Put nothin' before God.
- (6) No foolin' around with another
fellow's gal.
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(7) No killin'.
- (8) Watch yer mouth.
- (9) Don't take what ain't yers.
- (10) Don't be hankerin' for yer buddy's
stuff.
Y'all git all that?
My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels.
She asked, "What’s on TV?"
I said, "Dust."
And then the fight started....
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My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary. She said, "I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds."
I bought her a scale.
And then the fight started...
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When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her someplace expensive... so, I took her to a gas station.
And then the fight started...
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After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to apply for Social Security. The woman behind the counter asked me for my driver’s license to verify my age. I looked in my pockets and realized I had left my wallet at home. I told the woman that I was very sorry, but I would have to go home and come back later.
The woman said, “Unbutton your shirt”. So I opened my shirt revealing my curly silver hair. She said, that silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me” and she processed my Social Security application.
When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the Social Security office.
She said, “You should have dropped your pants. You might have gotten disability, too.”
And then the fight started...
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My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table.
My wife asked, "Do you know her?"
"Yes", I sighed, "She’s my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn’t been sober since."
"My God!" says my wife, "who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?"
And then the fight started....
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I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first.
"I’ll have the strip steak, medium rare, please."
He said, "Aren’t you worried about the mad cow?"
"Nah, she can order for herself."
And then the fight started...
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A woman was standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror.
She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband, “I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly.
I really need you to pay me a compliment.”
The husband replies, your eyesight’s damn near perfect.”
And then the fight started.....
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I tried to talk my wife into buying a case of Miller Light for $14.95.
Instead, she bought a jar of cold cream for $7.95.
I told her the beer would make her look better at night than the cold cream.
And then the fight started....
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My wife asked me if a certain dress made her butt look big. I told her not as much as the dress she wore yesterday
and then the fight started.....
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A man and a woman were asleep like two innocent babies.
Suddenly, at 3 o’clock in the morning, a loud noise came from outside.
The woman, bewildered, jumped up from the bed and yelled at the man “Holy crap. That must be my husband!”
So the man jumped out of the bed; scared and naked jumped out the window. He smashed himself on the ground, ran through a thorn bush and to his car as fast as he could go.
A few minutes later he returned and went up to the bedroom and screamed at the woman, “I AM your husband!”
The woman yelled back, “Yeah, then why were you running?”
And then the fight started.....
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Saturday morning I got up early, quietly dressed, made my lunch, grabbed the dog, and slipped quietly into the garage.
I hooked up the boat up to the truck, and proceeded to back out into a torrential downpour.
The wind
was blowing 50 mph, so I pulled back into the garage, turned on the radio, and discovered that the weather would be bad all day.
I went back into the house, quietly undressed, and slipped back into bed.
I cuddled up to my wife’s back, now with a different anticipation, and whispered, “The weather out there is terrible.”
My loving wife of 10 years replied, “Can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in that?”
And then the fight started...
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I asked my wife, "Where do you want to go for our anniversary? "
It warmed my heart to see her face melt in sweet appreciation. "Somewhere I haven’t been in a long time!" She said.
So I suggested, "How about the kitchen?"
And that’s when the fight started....
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My wife and I are watching “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” while we were in bed. I turned to her and said, "Do you want to have sex?"
"No," she answered.
I then said, "Is that your final answer?"
She didn’t even look at me this time, simply saying "Yes."
So I said, "Then I’d like to phone a friend."
And that’s when the fight started....
HUMOR FOR SENIORS
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Old Age, I decided, is a gift
I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I have always wanted to be. Oh, not my body! I sometime despair over my body, the wrinkles, the baggy eyes, and the sagging butt. And often I am taken aback by that old person that lives in my mirror (who looks like my mother!), but I don't agonize over those things for long.
I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I've aged, I've become more kind to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own friend.
I don't chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or for buying that silly cement gecko that I didn't need, but looks so avante garde on my patio. I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be extravagant.
I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging.
Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon ?
I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60&70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love ..... I will.
I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set.
They, too, will get old.
I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And I eventually remember the important things.
Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.
I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver
As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don't question myself anymore. I've even earned the right to be wrong.
So, I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day. (If I feel like it)
MAY OUR FRIENDSHIP NEVER COME APART ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART! MAY YOU ALWAYS HAVE A RAINBOW OF SMILES ON YOUR FACE AND IN YOUR HEART FOREVER AND EVER!
Remember: You don't stop laughing because you grow old, You grow old because you stop laughing.
THE SENILITY PRAYER
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones I do,
and the eyesight to tell the difference.
if you can remember who they are!
Humor Link: "Why we love children
Humor Link: First graders complete nursery rhymes
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OUR WEBSITE HISTORY
This web site started as a means for opposing the SA Airport's FAR 150 update proposal that suggested
that heavy air traffic be re-directed 15 degrees to fly "over the Cement Plant".
The only problem with that solution is that WE are on the Other side of that
Cement Plant.
Although the FAA rejected that plan in 2001, in March of 2004 the Northern Hills Homeowner's Association has learned that the
Environmental Impact Study (EIS) proposed the Airport still include the 15 degree turn.
In February of 2005, we were notified that were successful getting the 15 degree turn removed from the EIS.
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Adolescence: The period when a teenager feels he will never be as dumb as his parents.
Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and now is growing in the middle
Advertisement: The most truthful part of a news paper.
Americans: People with more timesaving devices yet less time than anybody else in the world.
Argument: A discussion that occurs when you're right and the other person hasn't realized it yet.
Blamestorming: Sitting around ina group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
Bozone: The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.