Glade Tidings Blog

Hello neighbors! I’m honored to serve as your GCNA President. We have the best neighborhood and voluntary homeowner association in the area! I want to give special recognition to our past and current talented GCNA officers and committee chairs – they put in many long volunteer hours to make our neighborhood great and keep you posted on our key accomplishments and activities in our neighborhood.

 

While our social activities may get the most attention, our biggest expense is for the maintenance of our flowerbeds and to beautify entrances to our neighborhood.

 

In addition to the landscape contractor that we hire, we encourage neighbors to adopt an entrance near you – to pick up any trash, plant flowers, etc. Let us know if you would like to adopt one of our flowerbeds.

 

We also appreciate the neighbors who maintain their fence, particularly along the main roads. Fences are a homeowner responsibility. We appreciate the investment made by those homeowners to replace and repair their fences; that reflects well on our neighborhood. GCNA will gladly reimburse homeowners with fences facing the main roads for the paint supply as long as it is the approved brown color.

 

We appreciate our awesome block captains; they also help with nominating outstanding yards.

 

We always need and appreciate volunteers for our events. We also have 2 open Board positions; Landscaping and Civic. Join us to meet and work with some wonderful neighbors. Please indicate your desire to help on the enclosed payment form.

If you have any needs or suggestions, please reach out to us via the GCNA Home Page www.gladecrossing.com You can also contact me on my cell: 817-291-1930.

 

Best wishes,
Tony Bieniosek, 4316 Hazy Meadow Ln

 

This year’s annual meeting was held on Tuesday, May 14th at Center of Unity.  We appreciate our neighbors who attended and participated in the discussions.  

 

We had a guest from Grapevine Park & Rec attend to provide our homeowners with an update.  Randy Sell, Assistant Director of Park Operations updated us on several hot topics happening in Grapevine:

· Caution!  Grapevine Lake water levels are very high due to the abundance of rain.  The campground and parks near Grapevine Lake are closed.  If you go to the lake, be careful and stay in the middle of the water.  

· Work near Parr Park and Bear Creek is almost complete.  The large equipment will be gone within a couple of weeks, if it isn’t by the time you’re reading this.  

· A new addition is coming this summer! Settler’s Park, off Bass Pro, will offer a fishing pond, pavilion, and more.

· Any suggestions regarding Grapevine parks can be sent to: https://gograpevine.com/contact (You can find this at  gograpevine.com under “about/contact”.)  Randy also said you can email him directly at: rsell@grapevine3texas.gov

Thank you to Randy for your attendance and the informative update!

 

An officer from the Grapevine Police was not able to make it this year.  However, we did receive the following note: Grapevine has recently hired 10 new officers.  Take precautions!  Keep your car locked, especially during city events that bring in tourists, such as Main Street Fest, Grapefest, etc.  Remove your personal belongings, especially guns.  If you have something of value visible, it becomes an opportunity for a crime.  

 

Across the state, there is a gun safety warning.  GCISD sent out a reminder to lock up your guns to prevent access to children.  

 

Additionally, at our annual meeting, we received updates regarding our neighborhood.  Check out the letter from our GCNA president on the front page for more information. 

 

Again, thank you to everyone who attended!