The Island Creek Board of Directors meeting has been rescheduled to
Tuesday, May 15th
at 7 pm at the clubhouse. Please join us, all are welcome to attend!
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From the Board
Spring is here!! Hopefully we’ve turned the tide on the cold weather and with Spring brings many activities and events around the community.
We are meeting with VDOT to discuss traffic concerns around the community. This includes working with VDOT and the Island Creek school leadership about making the cross walk to the school on Morning View safer, exploring traffic calming options on John Thomas and addressing other concerns you’ve expressed to us around the community.
We are introducing a new pool pass system that is more efficient and will save the community money. We hope you’ll like the new pool furniture too! Please take a moment to read the pool rules and reinforce these rules with your children. We want everyone to have fun at the pool, but also remember that safety is our priority.
With the nicer weather, it also brings kids out around the community. Please stress to your kids about looking both ways prior to crossing the street and being careful in the woods. We still find trash and there are ticks, snakes and poison ivy, among other things, in the woods that aren’t safe for kids.
Over the next month, we are focused on traffic issues, opening the pool, the Long Branch community, and some major repairs you’ll see happening around the community.
We are happy to serve you and if you need to reach us, you are welcome to come to the monthly Board meetings or email me at
ICHOAPresident@yahoo.com.
Happy Spring!
Karen Patrick
IC Board President
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Pool Opening & Registration
Pool Opening Day will be on Saturday, May 26
th
, Memorial Day weekend.
We have a new pool pass system developed by CellBadge specifically for HOA swimming pools which eliminates physical passes, so there are no badges to be picked up or delivered. Instead, residents only have to register online once and after that, residents will enjoy a “pool pass for life” and do not need to re-register each year (as long as your address has not changed or your children have not moved into a new age bracket).
Checking in at the pool will be quick and easy. No more badges requiring members to carry anything extra. The lifeguards will simply check you in electronically using a tablet instead of the cumbersome paper binder that was used in past seasons.
We will send instructions to register in a separate email.
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Pool Opening & Hours
The 2018 pool season begins on Memorial Day weekend, Saturday, May 26
th
. The hours of operation for the main community and condo pools are:
Main Pool
Memorial Day Weekend (May 26 – 28)
Saturday–Monday 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Public Schools in Session
(May 29 – June 15 & Aug. 27 – Aug. 31)
Monday–Friday 1 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Public Schools Closed
(June 15 – August 27)
Monday–Friday 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Saturday–Sunday 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Two Weeks after Labor Day Weekend
(September 4 – September 16)
Saturday-Sunday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Condo Pool
Memorial Day Weekend (May 26-28)
Saturday–Monday 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Public Schools in Session
(May 29 – June 15 & Aug. 27 – Aug. 31)
Monday–Thursday POOL CLOSED
Friday 4 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Public Schools Closed
(June 15 – August 27)
Monday–Thursday 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Friday–Sunday 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.
No extended season hours after Labor Day Weekend
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Spring Events Around the Creek
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Spring Community Yard Sale a Success!
We couldn’t have asked for a more perfect day for the yard sale. Not too hot and not too cold. Just perfect! Being the first in the area to hold a yard sale also contributed to the wonderful turn out of buyers. There was a steady flow of buyers that kept our vendors very busy and able to earn some extra pocket money by selling unwanted or unused items.
At the end of the day, a donation truck came and picked up all the stuff that vendors didn’t want to take home.
All in all this was a very good day!
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Community Shred Day a Success!
A big “Thank You” goes out to Patrick Holland (Embrace Home Loans) and Ania Cress (Keller Williams Realty) for sponsoring this free and hugely popular event! Coffee, donuts and bagels were served and a party atmosphere prevailed.
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Spring Festival 2018 a Success!
On May 5th, the Board hosted a Spring Festival with ponies, a petting zoo, face painter, balloons, ice cream and games. There were many smiling faces and a good time was had by all!
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The Rose Hill Players Present ”Pirates of the Curry Bean” May 11-12
Join the Rose Hill Elementary School’s Rose Hill Players for Pirates of the Curry Bean.
Performances will be held at Thomas A. Edison High School (5801 Franconia Rd., Alexandria) on Friday, May 11th, at 7pm, and Saturday, May 12th, at 1pm and 7pm. Tickets will be available at the door ($7 for adults, $5 for children, $1 for children at matinee). Concessions will be available for sale.
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Swim Lessons Offered
Island Creek in conjunction with High Sierra Pools is offering swim lessons at the Main community pool. To register, please visit the High Sierra Pools website at
http://swim.highsierrapools.com
. You may also email
lessons@highsierrapools.com
or call the High Sierra office at 703-920-1750. Please note that classes are offered before and after regular pool hours. You must sign up one week before each session and payment is due upon registration.
Cost
- group session (min 4 /max 7 children, 8 classes) $80 per child.
- semi-private session (2 children required, 8 lessons) $140 per child.
- private session (1 child, 8 lessons) $280.
General Session Information
:
- Each session is composed of eight lessons over 2 weeks, taught Monday through Thursday, with Friday reserved for make-up days.
- There is a minimum of four children needed to organize and run a group lesson with the maximum number of seven children per group.
- Minimum age for children is 3.
- Each level has completion requirements before children can progress to the next level. Participants usually need to stay in one level for 2 to 3 sessions .
- Instructors will evaluate your child and recommend an appropriate level before the session starts.
- Semi-private and private lessons must be pre-arranged with instructor and parent.
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Lesson skill levels
There are four skill levels which are determined by the swimming ability of the child and not their age. High Sierra’s instructors will do everything possible to match skill and ages within each level.
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Level 1 Nemos
– This beginning level for children teaches them to be comfortable and safe in the water. Instructors will focus on introducing children to the water and improving their safety and comfort in the swimming pool. The class will feature activities such as: face in the water, wet the hair, submerging, opening eyes, front glide, back glide, breath control, moving around comfortably, blowing bubbles and having fun in the class with aquatic recreation, gaining confidence and interest in swimming. We highly recommend this level for children who have never taken lessons, preferably children between 3 and 5 years old.
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Level 2 Sea Turtles
– This level marks the beginning of independent aquatic locomotion skills. Children continue to explore using simultaneous and alternating arm and leg actions on the front and back to gain more proficiency for strokes. This class will introduce exercises in the water such as: arm movement, body position, leg movement, floating and blowing bubbles, all connected with freestyle and backstroke. This level is recommended for children that are confident in the water but never had lessons, or children that have taken and passed Nemos level.
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Level 3 Dolphins
– Students who successfully complete this level will be comfortable swimming in deep water, proficient in front crawl, back crawl, breast stroke and be able to swim 50 yards with each of the strokes. This group is for children that are confident in the water and know the basic swimming skills of freestyle and backstroke. At this level the arm position, legs exercises, breathing, turns, tread water and diving will be practiced. Butterfly will be introduced in this class. The focus of this group is for children that already know basic skills of freestyle and backstroke or for children that passed the Sea Turtles level.
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Level 4 Sharks
- The goal for sharks is to make the students comfortable swimming and practicing in deep water and to make major improvements to rotary breathing with front crawl, demonstrate some proficiency in the other strokes being introduced and begin to develop endurance by increasing distances they can swim. If interest is shown in this level we will schedule classes.
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Monday-Thursday with Fridays as a makeup day
Session 1: June 25– July 6
Session 2: July 9 – July 19
Session 3: July 23 – August 2
Session 4: August 6 – August 16
Note-no classes July 4th, will be held on July 6th instead.
Morning Lessons:
9:30am-10am - Sharks/Dolphins
10am-10:30am - S
ea Turtles/Dolphins
10:30am-11am - Nemos/Sea Turtles
Evening Lessons:
8pm-8:30pm - Nemos/Sea Turtles
8:30pm-9pm - Sea Turtles/Dolphins
Other:
Private 9:30 am - 10:00 am
Semi-Private 10:00 am –10:30 am
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Island Creek Community Ladies Game Night - May 18th
The next Community Ladies Game Night is scheduled for Friday, May 18th. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided, but alcoholic beverages is bring-your-own to share. Also, please bring any games that you enjoy playing, we want to have fun!
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Kingstowne Farmers' Market May 4 - Oct 26
The Kingstowne Farmers Market opens every Friday, starting May 4th through the last Friday in October, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
It is located in the Giant Food parking lot across from Kohls. All vendors come from within a 125-mile radius of Fairfax County and must grow or produce all products they sell at the market.
Vendors work hard to bring the freshest produce, meats, cheese, ice cream, breads, honey, sweets, cut flowers and plants available. Kingstowne’s market features a wide variety of these vendors and there is a master plant clinic on site to answer questions you might have on plants in your garden.
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Ideas are welcome!
If you have an idea for improvement to your newsletter, your Board of Directors would love to hear from you! Please send ideas to
communitymanager@islandcreek.org
.
Classifieds Ads
Island Creek maintains a list of service providers for our community. If you are interested in advertising, please email
communitymanager@islandcreek.org
.
You can check out the current classifieds on the community website
here
.
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