Dear Neighbors,

Thank you so very much for your attendance at our annual picnic the other Sunday,  September 18. With the new location and the threat of rain during the day, I consider our turnout a success and the sun started shining. We welcome your suggestions for next year. Some thoughts are to have it earlier in the year and keep it at the same location of Dolly Graham Park.

There was a wonderful turnout at the Commonwealth Gardens’ Annual Harvest Festival that was on Saturday, 9/24 at our new amphitheater. The bike ride through town was inspirational and I hope everyone will consider being extremely cautious of our pedestrians and bicyclists while driving around town.

Looking ahead to SFNA’s future, the month of October will be busy. Please consider attending the events that are of interest to you. At the end of this e-mail is our calendar of events for October. If anyone is familiar with Google calendars, then please let us know some of its background and user friendliness features.

Thursday, October 6, SFNA will host a neighborhood watch meeting in the Community Room at Paul Sawyier Library. We previously had announced that it would start at 6 p.m., but due to schedules, we need to move the time to start at 5 p.m. Neighbors in our area are meeting to discuss forming a Neighborhood Watch so we can get to know each other better and reduce the chance of criminal activity in our community. Watches are just that: Neighbors watching out for themselves and each other to make the neighborhood a safer place to live. A local law enforcement officer will help train us in personal safety and security, and teach us ways to work together to tackle problems. If you have any questions, please reply to this e-mail.

Saturday, October 8, from 8a-1p at Second Street School Gym, SFNA will host its first ever yard-plant-bake sale as a fundraiser for the Randy Bacon Memorial Scholarship. The time is inching closer to the SFNA yardsale that will benefit the Randy Bacon Scholarship.  If you have any items to drop off please contact Christa Sweger.  We have had several donations already and are getting things priced and ready for the big sale next Saturday.  Please stop by and see if you find any treasures!!!  Thanks to all who had made donations and we hope this event is successful for the Randy Bacon Scholarship fund!!

Saturday, October 15, SFNA will host one of our Adopt A Highway clean-up projects. We will focus on Second Street and Capitol Avenue. Please e-mail sfnabeautiful@yahoo.com if you have any questions or wish to volunteer. We will announce a time and meeting location closer to the date.

Thursday, October 20, SFNA will hold its quarterly meeting at the Farmer’s Bank Downtown Branch Community Room on the 4th Floor. The doors will open at 6:30 for a little social gathering and the meeting will start at 7 p.m. Please see the attached agenda and consider bringing with you some old photographs of South Frankfort and your homes, a scanner will be on hand so you can take your photos home with you.

Applications for the Randy Bacon Memorial Scholarship are due by Tuesday, November 15. The scholarship application packet is in an earlier post below.

Please be sure to pick up a copy of Capital Living, Barbara Hadley-Smith wrote a wonderful article for the October edition. Many thanks go out to another aspect of our communications team, the newsletters were delivered to our new eligible members along Taylor Avenue and throughout our neighborhood in time for the picnic.

SFNA memberships are up for renewal as of July 1, 2011. Please see the attached membership application below and mail back to the PO Box listed. Our membership dues help out with the cost of the annual picnic, newsletter expenses, other social events (clean-up day, 4th of July parade, and winter holiday activities), and they also help supplement our Randy Bacon Memorial Scholarship.

Please be sure to check out the SFNA website at www.southfrankfort.org or the Facebook page. If you would like additional information, wish to add someone to our e-mail distribution list or remove your name, then please send an e-mail. The SFNA Facebook page has about 150 followers and the e-mail distribution list is around 200. We are working on a goal of increasing both of these numbers…would 500 people on each be too much to request? Will you help make this happen?

See you in October at one of our sponsored events!
Your SFNA Executive Committee and Board

October 2011 Dates of Interest
Thursday, 9/29 – SSS Fall Festival from 5-7
Monday, 10/3 – Frankfort Independent Schools Fall Break starts – keep an eye out for the kiddos during this great fall weather!
Thursday, 10/6 – SFNA Neighborhood Watch Meeting at PSPL from 5-6 (note the time change)
Friday, 10/7 – WeWannaPlay’s Black Cat Scramble, see attached flyer or visit their website at www.wewannaplay.org
Saturday, 10/8 – SFNA Yard Sale from 8-1 at SSS gym
Saturday, 10/8 – KSU Homecoming Parade starting around 9:15 a.m., streets in downtown and South Frankfort will be closed
Tuesday, 10/11 – Second Street Form Based Code Task Force will host a second community forum, time and location will be announced later
Thursday, 10/13 – SFNA Executive Committee and Board meeting, time and location to be announced to the members. Please reply back with any suggestions or comments for the board’s consideration.
Saturday, 10/15 – SFNA Adopt A Highway clean-up day! Time and meeting location to be announced.
Saturday, 10/15 – Go Frankfort Dodgeball Tournament, see attached flyer
Sunday, 10/16 – Crop Walk at 2 p.m. starting at the 1st Christian Church on Ann Street. Please bring canned goods to benefit the Soup Kitchen.
Thursday, 10/20 – SFNA Quarterly meeting at 6:30 at the Farmer’s Bank Downtown Branch’s Community Room. Agenda is attached.
Monday, 10/24 – FIS students return to class, but still keep an eye out for pedestrians and bicyclists while driving.
Tuesday, 11/15 – SFNA scholarship applications due. Application packet is attached.