November 29, 2008 by stephen.

ANNUAL MEETING RE-ELECTS ALL OFFICERS, ALLOCATES TASTE OF WHITE ROCK FUNDS

By Mel Cyrak

The Annual Meeting of the Peninsula Neighborhood Association was held on October 22^nd at the Bath House Cultural Center.  Approximately 40 members attended.

Our four officers serve one-year terms and are up for re-election at each Annual Meeting.  All four officers agreed to serve another term and were elected by unanimous vote.  The new/old officers are: President, Joe Gillum, Vice President, Ben Davis, Secretary, Chris Winter, and Treasurer, Madeline Cyrak.

The majority of the meeting was taken up by a report on the completion of the 2008 Taste Of White Rock Dinner Club book and the allocation of the $5,000 the PNA book organizers pledged to the non-profits at the lake.  After much discussion and a vote, the allocation is as follows:

Bath House Cultural Center                                                          $1,500

WRL Conservancy – Security Cameras                                      $1,500

Save Dixon Branch                                                                            $500

For The Love Of The Lake                                                                $500

WRL Foundation                                                                                $500

WRL Volunteers In Patrol                                                                 $500

            Total                                                                                       $5,000

The meeting also included two guest speakers.  One was Gary Griffith,  the former city council member for our area who is the new Chairman of the new White Rock Lake Conservancy.  As Gary explained, the Conservancy was formed at the request of the Dallas Park & Rec. Dept. to serve as the major fund-raising organization for private donations to White Rock Lake Park.  WRL Park was the only signature park in Dallas that did not have a major fund-raising group.  Signature parks are those parks that are used by the entire area population rather than just as a neighborhood park.  The other four signature parks are the Zoo, the Arboretum, Fair Park and the Katy Trail/Turtle Creek Courridor.  Those parks all have staffed non-profits raising millions of dollars per year.   The first two projects that the Conservancy will be embarking on are raising funds to purchase security cameras in the park and funding the rebuilding of the Dreyfuss Club.  The PNA was the first neighborhood association to make a donation to each of those projects.

The second speaker was from the Dallas Code Enforcement Dept.  She explained what we need to do to report code violations and how the city works to improve neighborhoods by working with property owners to upgrade their properties.

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November 29, 2008 by stephen.

PNA QUARTERLY MEETING (AKA HOLIDAY PARTY) TO BE HELD DECEMBER 11^TH FROM 6:00 PM TO 8:30 PM AT THE BATHHOUSE

SALE OF THE 2009 TASTE OF WHITE ROCK DINNER CLUB BOOKS WILL BE KICKED OFF

(Asst. Editor’s note: The Bath House Cultural Center does not generally allow the facility to be used for ‘parties.’  So our gathering on the 11^th is called a quarterly meeting.  But it sure will look like a holiday party.)

Here’s your chance to meet and greet old and new neighborhood friends in a casual atmosphere right here in the neighborhood.  The Peninsula Neighborhood Association will hold its quarterly meeting at the Bath House Cultural Center.  For those who do not know where the Bath House is, it is the building in White Rock Lake Park at the bottom of Northcliff Drive.  Off course, there will be a very brief business meeting, but the majority of the evening will be devoted to food, good cheer and a chance to celebrate the holiday season.

And the meeting will be an opportunity to purchase one or more Taste Of White Rock Dinner Club Books.  Once again the books will include twelve or more locally owned restaurants, lead once again by PNA neighbor Jeannie Terilli’s Terilli’s Restaurant on Lower Greenville.  Of the 13 restaurants in the 2008 book, 12 are coming back once again (Kitchen 1924 is no longer in business).  In order to satisfy the objections of some of last year’s book buyers that the time limit of six months was too short, the 2009 books will be valid from January 2, until October 31, 2009.  The books cost twelve dollars and make great stocking stuffer gift for friends and family.

For those of you not familiar with the Taste Of White Rock, it is a dinner club program where one receives a free meal when purchasing another meal of equal or higher value.  There are some restrictions, but very few.   One restriction is the coupons are good for dine-in only.

The proceeds from the Taste Of White Rock books benefit the non-profits at the lake and the neighborhood groups selling the books.  In the first two years the books were sold, over $10,000 was given to the lake (see another article in this newsletter for the 2008 donation specifics).

We will need some volunteers to help with food and drink serving.  To help please call Janice Parson at 214-208-1801 or email her at janiceparson@ellenterry.com.

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