Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away....

We would love to post your pictures from your travels. Please send them to sanctuaryatcc@gmail.com to have them posted on The Sanctuary blog!

You can find these beautiful pictures (submitted by Thomas De Shazo) and more in the links on the left of the page titled "Traveling with Sanctuary Neighbors".

Neighbor-to-Neighbor

Spring and pollen are both in the air and neighbors are preparing their lawns and gardens!

Some of our Sanctuary residential neighbors might not be aware of the Architectural Standards [A. S.] document that is referenced by the Covenants. The A. S. document goes into much detail on certain restrictions and architectural requirements for homes and landscaping and is adjunct to the Covenants.

Because we live in a covenant community, ["Sanctuary"] we residents should have a copy of the A. S. for our own reference. The purpose of the document in part is to clarify expectations within the context of protecting the individual owners and protecting the value of property within the whole neighborhood.

Most neighbors would agree, our common interests are best served when individual residents exercise their prerogatives within the framework of our responsibility to each other for sound and reasonable compliance to the A. S. document.

Further, copies of the A. S. document may be obtained at no cost to your by downloading from the McKay Management Company web page:

www.mckaymanagement.com/mckay/sub-catgegory-list.asp?category=5&title=Services

1. Click on "Communities"

2. Click on "Caldwell Sanctuary"

3. Click on "Owners Association documents"

4. Click on "ARC Guidelines"

You may also download the Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, and Covenants if you also need copies.

Newspaper Rolls for Pets

We will be collecting newspapers to take home and roll for the Greater Birmingham Humane Society. These are used as puppy & kitty pads in the kennels at the Humane Society.

If you would like to participate, please drop your old newspapers on the Williams’ porch at 5429 Crossings Lake Circle.

Thank you,
Madison, William & Joey Crain
(Grandchildren of Buzz & Carol Williams)

Jury Duty Scam!

This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below).Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book. It is spreadingfast so be prepared should you get this call.

Most of us take those summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced.

The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest that you neverreceived a summons for jury duty, the Scammer asks you for your SocialSecurity number and date of birth so he or she can verify the informationand cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any of this information and bingo;your identity was just stolen!

The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma ,Illinois , and Colorado . This (swindle) is particularly insidious becausethey use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into givinginformation by pretending they are with the court system.

The FBI and the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on their web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.

Check it out here: http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm

And here: http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

Neighbor to Neighbor......

Spring is in the air and residents in the Sanctuary at Caldwell Crossings are about to jump into planning what they will do for their landscaping and planting projects. Spring gives us all a great opportunity to enhance our neighborhood appearance.

As a friendly reminder, remember the Architectural Review Committee [ARC] is your first point of contact when considering landscape additions or changes.

Ref.: Caldwell Sanctuary Covenants and Restrictions 5.6 - Landscaping
No landscaping… of any nature shall be implemented… by any owner … unless and until landscaping plans… have been submitted to and approved by the ARC. Please feel free to contact Morgan King, McKay Management, 205-733-6700, if you have questions.

Keep Watching Neighbors!

Neighborhood Watch:

Folks, Let us be watchfull! A theft was reported of a large ceramic statue of a deer from the rear yard at 5220 Crossings Parkway sometimes Sunday, March 8, 2009. The statue was quite tall and heavy, weighing about 70 lbs, and was considered very good art work. I expect that it is fairly valuable. The incident was reported to the Hoover Police Department.

Tom De Shazo, Neighborhood Watch Coordinator - Caldwell Sanctuary

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!