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Neighbors & Friends

Where The Boulevard

Meets The Isles

By Donna York-Gilbert

Homeowners On We are now on a three-week rotating schedule for canal
clean-up. When we sent photos of San Marco flooding,
The Isles Are Making they sent a crew out and fixed what seemed to be broken
sprinkler heads. When we insisted on getting the beautiful
Things Happen street lamps working again and their transformer repaired,
the lights came on. Bontona was missing its street sign for
s a four-year transplant from North Carolina and a a long time and ‘Voilá!’ we now have a street sign there.
1-year resident to the Isles, I was recently voted to We have taken various city officials to the Lido Pump
Aserve on the Las Olas Isles Homeowners Association
(LOIHA) as Secretary. Brady Quinn is our President, Tom Station and pointed out the need for landscaping and
Godart, Vice President and Mark Schwartz is Treasurer. other improvements needed to make it blend in with the
We represent the Isles from Isle of Capri down to Isle of other homes. We happened to be there when the familiar,
Palms on the South side of Las Olas. We also have nose-pinching, pump station odor filled the air. Although
dedicated volunteers as well as our past board members the smell lingered, we did not. They got it! We walked
who deeply care about our beautiful Isles and are working them to Coconut Isle and showed them the chopped-up
hard to improve the area and keep it safe. street and hole on the corner. Now that the city owns the
street instead of the State, we will make sure that hole gets
With newly-elected officials like Commissioner Steve
Glassman and Mayor Dean Trantalis, who ran on taken care of. There are ongoing fixer-upper projects that
need to happen and are now underway such as the stone
improving our city, they along with other city officials have
walked up and down the Isles with us several at times as monument that was hit by a car a few years ago. Other
streets, like Isle of Palms, have a few other outstanding
we pointed out areas in need of attention. When the
canals were filled with debris and trash, we sent photos issues that our neighbors and LOIHA board members are
working to get fixed.
and they had a crew clean up the canals within the week.

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