All Willowbend Residents and their guests, 18 and over please, are welcome to attend.

Prestancia Country Club is located at the intersection of McIntosh and Sarasota Square Blvd. The south entry guard gate is on Sarasota Square Blvd, across from The Citation Club Apartments near Sarasota Square Westfield Mall.

Cost is $40.00 per person, inclusive of a seated three course dinner (salad, choice of three entrees, and dessert), coffee, hot or iced tea, one glass of wine, all taxes, gratuities, and live dance entertainment by Marc Anthony. There will be a cash or credit card bar available. Sorry, no outside alcoholic beverages permitted inside country club.

To order tickets, complete order form link and submit one check per form payable to Gail Hruby, on memo line write Willowbend Holiday Dance. Mail your form and check to Gail Hruby, 668 Crane Prairie Way, Osprey, FL 34229. Please note names on form will be the names given to required guard gate list for security reasons. Last date of sale will be November 19, 2010.

For ticket delivery, include a stamped, self-addressed envelope with your order. Pre-ordered tickets will be available at the Halloween event to be held at the community center on October 29, 2010. Or you may email WillowbendSocial@aol.com to coordinate pick-up.

Have any questions, call Jacque Leonard at (941) 966-7075.

On July 21, 2010 , a letter from President Ken Lindberg was mailed to the Willowbend homeowners. The letter, which is reproduced in the President's Corner for July, 2010, contains IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR HOMEOWNERS REGARDING:

• CHANGES TO Rules and Regulations
• SUBMITTING ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW REQUESTS
• LANDSCAPING

Recently a number of residents on lake one were concerned about a team that was netting tilapia from the lake and carting them away in baskets. Since the only two times this has happened in the past the individuals were poachers who were illegally removing fish, it was reasonable for Homeowners to assume this was a similar event. This time, however, it was planned. In turns out tilapia are bottom dwellers which in sufficient numbers can cause erosive action on the lake bank. In an effort to relieve the stress, Russ Hoffman, our lakes management provider, arranged for netters to remove approximately one thousand pounds of fish to relieve the stress. Had the homeowners known they would have been saved any confrontation with the netters. The Board apologizes for any inconvenience or stress this might have caused the residents. It remains appropriate for Homeowners to report to the Board or Lighthouse Property Management any future netting of fish for poaching is still a possibility.

There have several incidents of landscapers driving around Willowbend looking for houses that have dead palm trees in their yards and going to the door to ask if the homeowner wants to have them install new palms, either foxtail, adonidia, or even queen palm trees. They are offering prices lower than Sunstate and will do the work at the time. They have been seen driving a white pickup truck with a trailer with palm trees in it. They are Hispanic and not very fluent in English. They tend to agree with any homeowners requests for irrigation, warranty, etc. These people have not generally been aware of the Willowbend requirements for ARC, irrigation needs, etc. They have no paperwork and accept either cash or a check. While this is not illegal per se, homeowners should be careful about accepting work or products from people who may not be around 2 months from now. In the event you choose to use one of their products, a Landscaping ARC is still required.

Among the new features are:

• A new home page. The body of the home page will contain info from 2 or 3 articles of current interest. Click on the title to see the whole article. On the right side is a list of upcoming Board & committee meetings and social events.
• An events calendar.
• Security so that only Willowbend residents and owners can see portions of the site.
• Pages displayed in real time from a database, including the directory pages.