Website updated May 5, 2025
The season is in full swing with most people in-residence and guests coming and going. This update is to bring everyone up to speed on recent events and on-going developments.
Pop-Up Pool Gatherings:
Some of you spontaneously gather
around the pool late afternoons from time to time with wine and
appetizers. Your Social Committee is proposing that we have a
regular time for any wishing to meet, greet and visit with old and
new Colonade friends around the pool (or in the clubhouse when
weather calls for it). We are calling these “Pop-Up Pool
Gatherings” to commence Wednesday March 5th at 5:30 PM and
continue each Wednesday at that time until the middle of May.
These may start slow but will hopefully grow in interest, thereby
enabling us to get to know each other better and build new
friendships in the community we all love and appreciate. Please
mark your calendars and we hope to see you on the 5th.
Men’s Discussion Group:
Dear Colonade men... It’s no secret that women are better at
sharing with each other than us men. However, all of us would
like to have some closer friendships...and where better than
where we live here in the Colonade. So...your Social Committee
is announcing an inaugural Colonade Men’s Discussion Group to
try this idea out and see if it meets sufficient need to keep it
going. The format will be simple...keep it to one hour and talk
about what is important to us and learn from each other. The
only two ground rules are confidentiality (what is said here stays
here) and avoidance of politics (which can be unnecessarily
divisive). Some of us may have guy friends outside the Colonade
who might wish to join us, and we should feel free to invite them.
Our inaugural meeting will be in the Club House on Wednesday
March 5th at 9:00 AM for any interested in exploring this idea.
Light Exercise & Stretching:
Are you interested in a beginner/intermediate exercise class on
the pool deck? This class will include stretching, yoga and
pilates. Bring your mat and/or blanket, we will provide a chair for
for those with injuries or want to start slow. Please email Elfride at
texknit@mac.com, if you are interested.
Organized Games:
If you have any interest in Canasta, Bridge (Chicago or Swiss
Team), Mahjong or card games, with your fellow Colonade
neighbors, please email Judy Eakin judyeakin1107@gmail.com.
We have Canasta, Bridge, Mahjong, Checkers, Backgammon and
cards in the clubhouse. These are kept in the drawers at the
buffet pass through between the kitchen and main clubhouse.
Please do not take these home; they are for clubhouse use only.
2025 Personalized Membership Cards Coming!
We are excited to announce that your 2025 membership cards will be personalized with your name. As you know, each household receives two (2) membership cards. For those members who are single members, your name will appear on both cards. For those members who are family members, the name of the “member” will be printed on one card and the name of the “co-member” will be printed on the second card. To allow our printer sufficient time to produce the personalized cards, you will need to have renewed your 2025 membership by December 1, 2024 to receive a personalized card. Members who renew after December 1 will receive their membership card without personalization.
Website’s Electronic Directory To Take the Place of Paper Directories
Our new website,parkshoreassociation.com, allows you to access names, addresses and phone numbers of all active Park Shore Association members in real time. The electronic directory is found by clicking the “Membership” tab at the top of the home page and then “Directory”. With the thoughtful involvement of the Board of Directors and our Block Captains, we have decided that it is time to end the paper printing of the membership directory that you have normally received with your membership cards. This was both an economic and ecological decision. For those members who wish to have a printed directory, we plan to offer for the year 2025 only, a printed list of members as of 12/31/24 at a cost of $15.00. The printed list can be ordered on our website under “Membership” and it will be mailed or delivered to you in late January.
Michelle
Michelle McLeod, MBA
Park Shore Association President
Cell: 239-216-0403
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Hello Colonade Owners - Welcome back to many of you who recently arrived for the season. It has been a very busy late summer and early fall inside our community. Here is what's happening:
Hurricane’s Helene and Milton have kept us all on edge and unfortunately caused some plant damage to our new landscaping, trees and grass. We are working with our landscapers on fertilizing to promote new growth and replanting of the annuals. PLEASE DO NOT ADD, REMOVE OR REPLACE ANY PLANT MATERIALS IN YOUR FLOWER BOXES OR STREET FRONT. The Landscape Committee has contracts in place to continue the upgrading and beautification of our landscaping.
CONSTRUCTION MORATORIUM BEGINS DECEMBER 15, 2024 AND ENDS ON MAY 1, 2025. ONLY SMALL/QUIET PROJECTS SUCH AS CARPETING AND PAINTING CAN CONTINUE INSIDE. PLEASE REMEMBER THIS MORATORIUM WAS ADOPTED INTO THE BYLAWS OVER 30 YEARS AGO TO ENSURE QUIET ENJOYMENT OF THE COMMUNITY AT THE MOST POPULATED TIME OF THE SEASON. PLEASE RESPECT YOUR NEIGHBORS. EMERGENCY REPAIRS ARE AUTHORIZED.
Repairs in progress: LAKE FOUNTAINS: The north fountain failed during hurricane Milton and a new part, under warranty, has been ordered from the vendor. It will be approximately one month before the repair will be completed. New lights for the south fountain were also ordered and the replacement date will be set upon receipt of the parts. BUILDING LIGHTS: Naples Lighting will be on site on November 4 to repair currently broken carriage and flower box lights on buildings with outages. FRONT GATE: The broken power supply to the code reader was ordered and the front gate should be fully operational by Friday. The CLUBHOUSE FOUNTAIN: will be pressure washed and painted before the re-opening of the new clubhouse in December.
Dear Colonade Neighbors:
Please see the website below to renew your Park Shore Association Beach Parking/Access pass for 2025. Have a great remainder of your summer and we look forward to seeing you soon!
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Found under Forms is the Mandatory Guest Parking Registration Form. Please print and use as directed on the form when you have a guest parking overnight. Residents may not park overnight in guest parking between December 15 through April 30. Also, no cars may park in street parking between the hours of midnight and 7:00am. Please follow the rules to avoid towing.
Emails - Please make sure you let Guardian know if you change your email address. Emails are now being sent thru the CINC system. Please make sure that you check spam for communications coming thru to your email that state donotreply@cincsystems.com
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To access the Web Portal at Guardian, you can go to the Documents and Forms Section on this website. The link is provided for you at the top of that section. For those who are registering into the web portal for the first time at Guardian, you will need to click on the register button first. Once you click on the register button, you will need to fill in the information requested. You MUST use your Colonade address when registering so that the system can locate you. Once you complete the form, you will receive a password to the portal. Please save this password.
Those who have already registered need to input your user ID (your email address that you used to register) and password.
Once registered you can see your own accounting file. Board members , if they so choose, will have access to specific information such as current financial information. The system is being updated so that in the future you can see more detailed information such as detailed history of your payments
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Comcast Community Account Representative
Ben Albeit
239-223-5674
Email: Ben_Albeit@cable.comcast.net
