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“It’s Another Great Day in Riviera Bay!”56th YEAR • MARCH / APRIL 2016 ISSUE www.rbcanews.com

2016 started off very hectic with more than a few setbacks for Donna and I. I won’t go into all the

details here, but after missing the Jan-Feb newsletter, our 1st general meeting and the March yard sale maps, I think we’re back on track starting with this March – April issue and the March 17th meeting, and looking forward to a very bright and prosperous rest of the year.

We currently have more residents/students in the CONA Leadership classes than ever before, insuring us very knowledgeable people to help keep your neighborhood moving forward in the future. Hopefully, some new faces can “crack the whip” and devote more time to keep our newsletter, advertising, special events, board and regular meetings up to date and running smoother than Donna and I can at this point.

Speaking of the future, we don’t know yet if the “workforce” housing development at 10000 4th St N will receive their funding this year or not, but we’ll post that info ASAP by email blast, RBCAnews.com

NEWSLETTER OF THE RIVIERA BAY CIVIC ASSOCIATION SINCE 1960

NEXT GENERAL MEETING MARCH 17, 2016NEW LOCATION: LIBERTY BAPTIST CAFETERIA9401 4TH ST N (corner of 94th Ave & 2nd St – enter on 2nd St side)

(Doors open at 6:30 for Pizza social – Meeting starts promptly at 7pm, till 9 at latest)Agenda: Police & Fire Updates, Coyotes, RB Park & 10000 4Th St Development Updates, 2016 Rbca Event Planning

website, Facebook & Neighborhood Link.One thing we do know that parents will be happy

about is that new restrooms are being built in Riviera Bay Park and will be completed soon. Also, we need volunteers to help with our Community Garden Spruce-up on March 19th. Anybody and everyone that can help, please give us any time you have that day. Also, the Easter Egg Hunt is March 24th at the park.

Even though we don’t have much crime here at all, I would still like to have a few volunteers to resurrect our Crime Watch committee. The better informed you are about your surrounding area, the better your family’s quality of life and peace of mind will be.

Even though you already live in the Bestest neighborhood in all of St Pete, it will get even Betterer this year when drainage improvements are made, more roads get repaved, more area cleanups are planned, we have more events, and the park restrooms are finished. It just doesn’t get any Gooder than that!!

See ya next time I look at ya, Prez Dave

On T he Riviera

New MeetiNg LocatioN:Liberty Baptist Church Cafeteria

On NW Corner Of 94Th St & 2nd St (Enter On 2nd Street Side)

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2016 RBCA EVENTSGENERAL MEETING -

Mar 17, May 19, July 21, Sept 15, Nov 1783RD AVE ADOPT A MILE CLEAN-UP -

April 9, June 11, Aug 20, Nov 5COMMUNITY GARDEN CLEAN UP -

Mar 19, May 14, July 16, Sept 24SPRING YARD SALE - Mar 4,5,6EASTER EGG HUNT/ICE CREAM SOCIAL -

March 24 – Riviera Bay Park

NEIGHBORHOOD CANAL/STREET CLEAN-UP -April 9

POLICE & FIRE HERO APPRECIATION/NEIGHBORHOOD PICNIC - Oct 22FALL YARD SALE - Oct 7,8,9NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS CAREFEST -

Sept 24THANkSGIVING DINNER - Nov 17CHRISTMAS EVE BOAT PARADE & LUMINARIES -

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CANDLE THANK YOUBy Donna Hoover

We want to thank all our distributors who work hard every year to make our luminaries so beautiful. Marc

& Carrie Plotnick, Don Gilbert, Kierstyn Hensley and her group of helpers, Terri Hammer, Debby, Lance & Emily

Obst, Sheryl Spencer, Kim Tripplet, Sandy Mitchell, Karen Smith, Roger Eitner, Mary & Mike Reed, Don Steer, Steve & Kathy Crow, Denise Spornraft & Diane Croft, Wayne & Ingrid Busselle, Stephanie & Lynn Boyle, Tammy Dowd & Frank & Joanna Christalli, and anyone else I missed.

This year we’d like to offer a special thanks to Don Steer who will be retiring his route after 17 years of dedication selling candles on the 79th Ave N area. Kathy Crow will be taking over Don’s route which leaves a opening for a volun-teer to handle 78th Ave N/NE and 79th Ave NE route. If you are interested to help on next year’s route, please call Jean Tyack 727-576-9300.

Prez Dave adds: The RBCA also wants to give Jean Ty-ack a REALLY BIG THANK YOU for all the many years she has worked so hard to organize our longest running tra-dition.

2015 CHRISTMAS DISPLAY WINNER

We want to congratulate David, Jodie, Danier and Dawson Snyder at 234 81st Ave N with a $50 Babalu’s gift certificate for being chosen as the

RBCA’s 2015 Best Christmas Yard Display by Jeff & Jodie Gilbert, last year’s winners. The pictures really don’t do the display or the music any justice.

The Snyder’s will be picking the winner for 2016 on December 23rd. In the future, since the reward comes out of RBCA funds, you must be a paid member

of the RBCA, and you can only win once every 5 years to give others an opportunity to compete. It must have been hard to pick a winner because we had some really good and inventive displays in 2015.

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SPRING YARD SALEMarch 4, 5 & 6

The RBCA Spring Yard Sale is always the 1st weekend in March. The RBCA will place Ads in the St Pete Times,

The Flyer, Neighborhood News, and a few Face book pages. We will also put up the large board signs on 4th Street N and 83rd Avenue with a few interior signs.

We didn’t have time this yard sale for the maps, but in the future: The signs are placed based on the people who call in their locations to be placed on the yard sale maps which are copied and given out at all advertised locations. This helps

to let people know the sales are from 98th Ave N south to 78th Ave N and 83rd Ave N to Orient Way and Macoma Dr.

Since the expenses are paid by RBCA funds, you must be a paid RBCA member to be placed on the maps. (or you can join the RBCA before the map deadline) Dues are $10 per calendar year January to December. This year’s membership cards start with the number 16 ###. There is a membership application on the back of this newsletter.________________________________________________

NEIGHBORLY ADVICESAFETY – Neighborhoods where

people know one another tend to be safer than those where people are strangers. Friendly neighbors might feel more comfortable notifying authorities if they see suspicious activity. Consider: Keeping an eye on your neighbor’s house while they are out of town.

SHARING – Tight-knit neighbors are more likely to share resources, whether it’s a hammer or extra goodies from the garden. Consider: Helping your elderly neighbors with yard work or task around the house.

SOCIAL SUPPORT – People with strong social ties are not only happier, they also tend to live longer. Consider: Organizing a block party or potluck dinner to get to know your neighbors. Smiling and waving at your neighbors when they pass by your house.

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COYOTESIN THE ‘HOOD

By Dave Hoover

Donna & I attended an excellent presentation about Coyotes.

We will be trying to get that speaker to one of our upcoming meetings.

In short, Coyotes are here to stay. You have to harass them, correctly, to

get them to leave your area. One of the Coyotes reproduction quirks is that the population can be controlled based on the amount of food available to them in the area. Coyotes’ are known to get into trash cans, eat rodents, and eat any pet food, (and the pets) that you leave outside, usually after dusk into the ear-ly morning hours.

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RIVIERA BAY PARKCOMMUNITY GARDEN

By Donna Hoover

When designing Riviera Bay Park,

we heard from many in the neighborhood that they really wanted a Community Flower Garden and that they were willing to help with the upkeep. The city agreed to install the garden and provide water and mulch for it if we would maintain it. We ended up also donating $1,000 to the city toward installing this garden, but so far, a lot of the people that said they wanted this garden haven’t been around to help weed or spread mulch whenever we schedule it, although we’ve heard from a lot of people that say they stop by and pull weeds whenever they get the chance. We are letting you know as early as possible that we are scheduling 4 dates to plant additional plants (if needed), dead head the rose bushes, and pull weeds.

One of our Carefest projects in September will be to re-

mulch the Garden. Please mark your calendars March 19, May 14, July 16, & Sept 24 to come out and help us. We also need to keep a record of volunteer hours for the City so please let me know if you have worked in the garden and for how long you worked.

If you have plants you would like to donate to the garden, we are looking for ones that attract birds and butterflies, without taking over the garden. Please email or call me if you can help. Donna Hoover at 727-579-3644 or donna.rbca@yahoo.com_____________________________________

RIVIERA BAY PARKCHANGES

If you have been by the park lately you have seen some construction going on. We are pleased to inform you

that we will be getting a restroom at the park. Details are still being ironed out, but we have been told the rest room will only be open during daylight hours with an automatic locking system at night. We are glad to see so many people enjoying this park. If you haven’t had a chance to go by and check it out you should. Earlier this year we had a shade cover installed over the exercise equipment making it much easier to work out on the units in the heat of the day.

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83RD AVE ADOPT A MILEBy Donna Hoover

We are once again entering into a 2 year contract

with Keep Pinellas Beautiful’s - Adopt-A-Mile program to adopt 83rd Ave N/NE from 4th St N to the San Martin Bridge. We clean that mile 4 times a year. The

dates for 2016 are April 9th, June 11, Aug 20 & Nov 5th.We meet at the St Pete Presbyterian Church southwest

corner of the parking lot at 9 AM. The RBCA will provide the trash bags, pickers, gloves and water and depending on the number of volunteers, we can normally do this in less than an hour. Please mark your calendars now and come join us for a little exercise and help us keep your neighborhood beautiful. Even if you can’t join us on 83rd Avenue, and a lot of people already do this, please take a trash bag with you if you walk the neighborhood and pick-up the trash you come across. If we all do a little, we can accomplish a lot.

CAREFEST USA – Sept 24thNeighbor helping Neighbor

This year we are looking for a local company who would like to volunteer their services to help a RBCA family who

is in need of a new roof and a few other home improvements. If anyone in the neighborhood has a construction company or roofing business, or knows someone that does, that would be willing to donate their time or material or expertise, please contact Dave or Donna at 727-579-3644.

We will also be weeding and mulching the Riviera Bay Park Garden that day with the volunteers who are better suited for this type of project instead of the above construction project.

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OFFICERSPRESIDENT: David Hoover ............................. 579-3644 / daybugme2@yahoo.comVICE PRESIDENT: VacantSECRETARY: Lori Intravichit ......................................................................576-2903TREASURER: Donna Hoover .............................579-3644 / donna.rbca@yahoo.comCHAIRMAN OF THE BOARDSean Singh .................................570-8458 - seanbsingh@gmail.comBOARD MEMBERS:Shawn Hannan ..........................542-7988 / Shannan160@yahoo.comJenny Healy ...........................................................................576-2765 Toby Issacson .......................................................................................Dave Kandz .........................................642-8567 / dave@rbdigital.bizToni Michalove .....................727-492-5682 / reddogs02@gmail.comChristian Rodgers ............812-243-9568 / crodgers4077@gmail.comAndrew Smith ............. 813-453-3407 / andrewacs@tampabay.rr.com

MEMBERSHIP: Donna Hoover .............................579-3644 / donna.rbca@yahoo.comNEWSLETTER EDITOR: Missy Martino ............................... 577-5500 / RBCAnews@aol.comNEWSLETTER ADVERTISING:Al Martino ...................................... 577-5500 / RBCAnews@aol.comNEWSLETTER DELIVERY: David Hoover .............................579-3644 / daybugme2@yahoo.comCONA REP: David & Donna Hoover .............579-3644 / daybugme2@yahoo.com

COMMITTEES83rd AVE/SAN MARTIN BRIDGE: Lance Obst .......................................... 578-9718 - dobst@verizon.netAndrew Smith ................ 813-453-3407 / andrewacs@tapabay.rr.comRoy O’Neil ......................................576-8754 / royoneil@verizon.netGRANTS: Donna & David Hoover ..............579-3644 / donna.rbca@yahoo.comDebby Obst ......................................... 578-9718 - dobst@verizon.netCANAL:Dave Kandz .........................................642-8567 / dave@rbdigital.bizRoy O'Neil ......................................576-8754 / royoneil@verizon.netAndrew Smith ......................... 813-453-3407 / andrewacs@msn.com

ENTERTAINMENT:Jenny Healy ..........................................................................576-2765Donna & David Hoover .............579-3644 / daybugme2@yahoo.comCHRISTMAS EVE LUMINARIES:Jean Tyack, Chairperson ......................................................576-9300 CHRISTMAS EVE BOAT PARADE:Jim Williams .....................................Jimmy.B.Williams@gmail.com

USEFUL PHONE NUMBERSMAYOR'S ACTION LINE ................................................ 893-7111(locate any dept and phone number in the city)NON-EMERGENCY POLICE ..........................................893-7780COMMUNITY POLICE SERVICE SQUAD ..................551-3182(For ongoing problems and response within 24 hours)Mayor Rick Kriseman ...................... Mayor@stpete.org / 893-7201District 2 Councilman Jim Kennedy .....................................893-7117council@stpete.orgPublic Service Rep Debbie Larson ....................................893-4138deborah.larson@stpete.orgPOLICE CONFIDENTIAL TIP LINE .............................893-4138ST PETE MARINE PATROL ............................................892-5247FL STATE MARINE PATROL ................................. 888-404-3922Animal Control ....................................................................582-2600Chamber of Commerce ........................................................821-4069CODES INSPECTOR: Thaddeus (Thad) Mitchell ............551-3171Codes Compliance ................................................................893-7373Curb, Street, Sidewalk Repair ...............................................551-3151Neighborhood Partnership ....................................................892-5141Public Utilities ......................................................................893-7761Reclaimed Water ................................................................... 892-5111Sanitation ..............................................................................893-7398Sewer Repair .........................................................................893-7261Street Light Outage ....................................................... 800-228-8485Street Signs/Traffic Signals ...................................................893-7421Water Resources: ext. 0 ........................................................893-7261Water and Navigation ...........................................................453-3385(Dock permits, report Mangrove cutting, etc.)Weedon Island Preserve ........................................................453-6500

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Membership Renewal InfoWe are your neighborhood civic association and we work for you to maintain and improve your neighborhood. If

you have not joined or renewed your membership in the Riviera Bay Civic Association, please take a moment to fill out this membership form and bring it to the next meeting or send your dues to the address below. Please show your support by sending in at least $10.00. (A larger amount would be appreciated!) One association membership per household includes your spouse and children, to be purchased each calendar year.

I would like to join/rejoin the Riviera Bay Civic Association. Enclosed please find at least $10.00 (more is always appreciated) association dues for our family for January through December.Name: ______________________________________________________________________________________Address: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Phone: ___________________________________ Email: _____________________________________________Please make checks payable to: Riviera Bay Civic AssociationMail to: Riviera Bay Civic Association, 163 87th Ave. North, St Pete, FL 33702 (727) 579-3644