Over the years as a neighborhood association leader, I’ve had a number of phone calls from real estate agents and title companies asking if a property in question owed any fees or dues to the homeowners association. I was always happy to report that our neighborhood association does not have covenants, fees…
Author: Becky Volz for SGFNN
Thanks to all of those who helped us cheer on the Bass Pro Marathon runners.
Springfield-Greene County Park Board installed a memorial bench in Lafayette Park in Woodland Heights neighborhood at the request of friends and neighbors of Judy Bishop. Judy, who lived across the street from Lafayette Park, passed away in August 2021. Grieving neighbors searched for something that could be done as a…
It’s official – leadership has changed for the Neighborhood Advisory Council, but goals and dreams remain strong and moving forward. Over the past 10 years, NAC has become a united voice to our City staff and City Council as we were led by Phyllis Ferguson, Pete Radecki and Rusty Worley.…
Midtown’s Old Fashioned Fourth of July Parade and Celebration’s theme of “Deep Roots, High Hopes” inspired Woodland Heights neighbors to create a tree with long (Deep) Roots with our High Hopes written on attached leaves. The tree was set atop Curtis and Natalie Batchelor’s Gambler 500-Mimostly Champagne “the trash-getting limo” along…
WHNA had a great time with our carnival theme at the Bass Pro Marathon! Thanks to all of you who participated and made it fun for the runners. Woodland Heights’ new board officers were voted in at our November neighborhood meeting and appointed at the December meeting. They are: Jason…
In late summer, a group of Woodland Heights neighborhood volunteers assisted a pregnant mother of two who lost her partner and could not keep up with maintaining her property. “The mom was not sure she could stay in the house emotionally,” said Woodland Heights Neighborhood Association President Becky Volz. “The…
Woodland Heights Neighborhood Association piloted a week-long, unattended cleanup in July It was an interesting venture, that’s for sure. We thought it would work to let the dumpsters sit there unattended and participants would read the signs and dispose of their trash and brush accordingly. Well, we found out that…
It was the August 2019 WHNA board meeting at the Charlie Norr Community Center (lovingly dubbed (“The Charlie.”) Discussion as usual (or unusual) about important neighborhood matters was under way. Jolene Hall, a new board member asked, “Does Woodland Heights do anything for Halloween?” It had been quite a while…