Citizens Police Academy starting January 21st 6:30p-9:30p

Dear Friends:

This was posted on the Lavon Facebook page. Attached is the application. Please note: the City of Lavon police will perform a background check on each applicant. If you would like attend, please print out the application and return to the City of Lavon Police by Jan.15, 2010.


http://www.facebook.com/LavonTexas

Jennifer Citizens of Lavon -- This is Officer Kale... I am wanting everyone to know we are holding our 1st Citizens Police Academy starting January 21st 6:30p-9:30p. Classes will be every Thursday night, for approximately 14 weeks. If you are interested please either call Lavon Police Department or come by and fill out a qui...ck application! Applications must be received by Jan. 15th, 2010. Classes fill up quickly... So don't wait! If you have any questions, call 972-843-4219. AND SPREAD THE WORD PLEASE!! ~~

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Joan & Andy Aquatero
Bently Farms

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVE

Out with the old and in with the new! May 2010 bring everyone, Good Health, Happiness, and Good Fortune. Be careful if out and about tonight!

Hope to see you all in the New Year.

Mike and Becky Cooper

Happy Healthy New Year

From our House to Yours, our wish for 2010 is that it brings health, prosperity and happiness.

Happy New Year!!!

Joan & Andy Aquatero
Nancy Ferrigno
Meadow Hill Dr.

I wish our entire neighborhood of Bently Farms a Very, Merry Christmas!

Cheri Lail & Family

FRISCO DADS - 20 IS PLENTY

Hats off to the Frisco dads fighting to reduce residential speed limits from 30- to 20 - you can go to a web page www.friscodads.com for more information. If you missed the 10 pm channel 4 news last night you missed alot of great details on this issue.

Thankful Post

Wow, can you believe it's Tuesday and Friday is Christmas! Where oh where has the time gone. The end of decade is soon upon us. I hope that that means the end of such as things as the bad economy with so many people losing their jobs and falling on hard times.

Our family has been blessed this holiday season with my husband getting a new job and a promotion at that job in such a quick manner. Our family has also been blessed with great neighbors. And not to say the least, blessed with good health this season!

I ask for all of you to say a little prayer for my husband's grandmother this holiday season as her health is not good and she has been hospitalized today. She is such a sweet little lady that we all adore! It seems like the holiday season is the time so many elderly people have problems.

God Bless!

Cheri Lail

Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe "MMM Good!"

1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1 cup sifted flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon soda
1 cup oatmeal
1 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup of walnuts or fresh pecans

Thoroughly cream shortening, sugars, and vanilla
Beat in egg, then 1 tablespoon water
Sift together flour, salt, and soda
Add to creamed mixture, blending well
Stir in oatmeal, chocolate chips, and nuts
Drop by rounded teaspoon onto ungreased sheet 2" apart
Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes
Cool slightly before removing from pan

* Same recipe for raisin cookies, just substitute raisins in place of chocolate chips

Need Opinions

I see our Bently Farms Blog sign up front has decided to start bending. I could take some tape and try and fix it or take it down. Do you think enough of the neighborhood knows and remembers the blog address to just take it down or should I leave it up?

Please comment!

Merry Christmas!!! Plus a yummy recipe

Merry Christmas everyone. Today my son and I are doing some Holiday baking. We are making a Ginger Bread House and Cake balls. Here is the recipe for the cake balls which, by the way, are super easy and amazingly YUMMY!!!

Cake Balls
Bake a sheet cake of any kind (Today we are using red velvet.)
Let cool completely.
Crumble cake into a large mixing bowl.
Add about 3/4 container of frosting of your choice. Mix using an electric mixer. (I am using cream cheese cause you can't have red velvet cake without cream cheese icing) You have to kinda experiment with this step. Too much icing will make it too sticky but not enough will make it too dry. Start at 1/2 and then add a little more until it is at a moldable consistency.
Roll into balls and freeze for 15-20 minutes.
Dip into white chocolate or milk chocolate almond bark.
Add sprinkles if desired.

Try and not eat them all at once!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

The Cockrum's
Steve Kassi and Wiley

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL

Five days until Christmas, oh the joy of the children. We would like to wish everyone a wonderful Christmas and the Happiest of New Year.

Remember to shake the little things in life that really do not matter and to cherrish the ones that do. If you ask yourself this, Is what I am getting upset about really going to matter in five or so years to me and the answer is no....well then..................

Life is just that, LIFE, Live it to the fullest and love your friends, neighbors and family for the short time we are put on earth to do so.


Have a very Merry Christmas Everyone
Mike and Becky Cooper

Just thought I'd share this picture of the Mackinaw Bridge that connects Lower Michigan to the Upper Peninsula. This was taken by my best friend late in the fall and boy does it look cold. However, isn't it a beautiful bridge!

It's Christmas time! Lets quit complaining about the kids in the streets, city lights, and speed bumps for awhile! How about sharing favorite holiday recipes or interesting stories that are touching! I didn't create this blog to keep the complaining up. I created it to keep everyone informed, but here lately it's been complaining! It's funny that you all read it and can complain, but no one can be nice and post anything worth reading.

So for the remaining days of this year, let's see how many of our neighbors can post some nice thoughts, recipes, sayings, or thankful posts out for this holiday season! After all, this is supposed to be a Happy Time of Year!

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

Dear Neighbors,

It seems almost every time or every other time I get onto the neighborhood blog, I find it disheartening to see posts similar to the previous post. It is not pleasant to read anymore. Each of us have our own opinion, each one of us have our own standard of safety and rules set for our children. No, we do not have sidewalks and yes, we are fortunate enough to have moved onto 1/2 & 1 acre lots. It should not mean that we need be upset if there are children in the road. Where would you suggest the children to ride their bikes, skate boards, etc?

What I had gathered from the last city council meeting, is that there is a compromise that is going to take place in our community. The speed limit may not be raised, but no additional stop signs or speed bumps will be installed, and the lighting in our streets will be improved. It is not only the safety of the children in the neighborhood we need to be concerned for, but also the safety for all of us; neighbors & friends.

Please, just for one week during this Christmas holiday, please stop the negative posting on this blog. This is supposed to be a friendly blog to help our neighbors with news, updates and friendly reminders.

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and Safe, Happy Holiday!

Mindy Roberts

Today, many parents are giving their children a sense of entitlement by letting them do whatever they want. Not allowing children to play in the street is a rule that should be set by all responsible parents. Children in Bently Farms have VERY large yards by today’s standards, and they should be limited to playing in those yards. Since there are no sidewalks, families are forced to walk/ride their bikes in the street, but there is ample time and opportunity to teach our children to stop and pull to the side when a car is coming. I drive through this neighborhood all too often and young children are outside, unsupervised, riding their bikes IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET and don’t even attempt to move when a car comes, forcing the car to weave around them. These children have not had healthy, and safe, boundaries set for them, which is our responsibilty as parents.
Also, people in this neighborhood all have different opinions for reasons that are specific to them. If you don’t agree with me or my reasoning, that is fine, as you are entitled to your opinion. Villainizing anyone because of that opinion is ridiculous, yet some of you pushing for stop signs, low speed limits and speed bumps, are trying to make it look as though everyone against these measures do not care about the children of the neighborhood. This is not the case, as we care enough about them to set the necessary rules to keep them out of the street (where they don’t belong) in the first place. This argument has divided the neighborhood because so many people have acted as though their opinion is the only one that matters. STOP giving your neighbors that have different opinions dirty looks when they drive by and grow up. This is not about winning an arguement, it is about finding out what works for EVERYONE in the community.

Last Minute Favor

I have been in helping out at the toy drive today. What an eye-opening experience that was. Our neighborhood did a great job on giving; however, there is still alot of things that is needed. If any of you can buy clothes that are 10 or bigger for girls and boys: pants, shirts, shoes, socks, ... and drop them off at my house it would be wonderful! There are so many needy kids this year and they need this stuff bad! Thanks!

Cheri Lail
144 Shoreview Drive

City Council Meeting Tues, Dec.15

12/14/09

It has already been noted that the council will meet Tuesday night at 7:00. Yes, it is important that we all come and support our neighborhood. The speed limit has been requested to be raised from school zone speed to a practical speed of 30 mph. The speed limit through the main part of Lavon is 40 mph and that doesn’t seem unreasonable, so 10 miles less seems reasonable for our area. This does not mean that we will try to run over kids in the street, but only that we will not need to ride our breaks to keep the slow pace that 20 mph requires. A ticket has already been issued this week to one of our neighbors for going 27 mph. As for the stop signs at both ends of Shoreview, it has been so noted that state law says “stop signs shall not be used to control traffic speed”. We have a great neighborhood and I have seen nothing but consideration from my neighbors that I see driving. Let’s not make a nice neighborhood one that is difficult to live in just due to a few who want to control our coming and going. We are adults and are either raising or have raised our own kids and care about this community and others who live here, but we do not want unnecessary rules and laws shoved down our throats. Come and support our neighborhood.

Sincerely,
Judy Adcock

Toy Drive Success!

Thanks my Bently Farms neighbors for again making this year a success in donating toys and clothing items to the toy drive. We gathered many things and Karen with Fostering Hope was thrilled at what we could bring them! Here are the pictures I said I would post. I'm not a great picture taker, but you can still see we did well!

City Council Meeting Tuesday, Dec. 15 at 7PM

Please spread the word to ALL City of Lavon residents (not just Bently Farms) that the city council will be discussing the speed zones in the City of Lavon to comply with State transportation code.

CITY COUNTIL MEETING 12-15-09 7PM

Everyone that can get out and attend the City Council meeting this Tuesday eveing please do so. It is your chance to voice your opinion on the Speed Limit for Bently Farms. It has been requested that it be added to the agenda to discuss raising the current Speed Limit from 20 MPR to 30 MPR.

We can prevent this from happening but it takes a show of the public to do so.

Please come and proctect our children, pets, and elderly. DO NOT LET THIS PASS

Almost the Day!

2nd Annual Bently Farm Toy Drive Tomorrow!

Last call to get those presents for the hundreds of kiddos needing Christmas presents this year.

Pickup time: Around 3 pm on your doorstep

If you do not feel comfortable with leaving it outside you can either drop it off at my home 144 Shoreview Drive or call me to pick it up 214-774-2215 at a different time.

I thank all of you for your graciousness this season. Our neighborhood is very kind and generous and the best place to live.

God Bless and Thanks,

Cheri Lail

Babysitter needed

Hi there!
I am needing a sitter for my son this Saturday plus a couple times a month! Our usual sitter is getting ready to go to college and doesn't have time anymore. Anyways, we are looking for a responsible teenage girl that preferably lives in the neighborhood. If anyone is interested or has questions please email me.
kassicockrum@yahoo.com

Thanks,
Kassi and Steve Cockrum

December 12th Toy Drive

Remember our Toy Drive is Dec. 12th!

Pickup: Around 3 pm on your doorstep!

A Big Thanks Goes To Mindi Serkland and her family for donating several bags of toys! How sweet that was of her and how helpful that will be for these kiddos needing Christmas this year!

If you haven't got anything yet, please remember to do so!

Call Cheri for more info 214-774-2215

YARD OF THE MONTH

Hats off to Tom and Karen Dyer for winning Yard of the month in December- Thanks for bringing he Holiday to our neighborhood.