Mt Kemble Lake Newsletter

September 2011

 

MKL Association Board  Members

 

President                     Austin Godfrey*

Secretary                     Tawnya Kabnick*

Treasurer                    Bobbi Coulter*

Beaches & Docks      Ruth Chaney

Clubhouse                   Joyce Murray

Community Affairs    Barbara Coe

Grounds                     Diane Bonar

House Maintenance    Bruce Scolnick

Roads                         Tim Lukacs

Water                         Rick Barrett

 

* Lakeshore Co. Board Members

 

Association Board Meetings:

Sept 26, 7:30

Nov. 1, 7:30

Dec. 5, 7:30

 

 

Country Club Board Members

 

President                     Carl Bonar

Secretary                     Jane Roland

Treasurer                    David Dietz

Bar Chair                   Mick Merenda

Social Chair               Karen Sabol

 

Coming Events

 

· Sept. 4…Low-country BarBQue
                

· Sept. 16…Golf Event/TGIF

 

· Oct.  14...ESC Environmental Info                      TGIF

 

· Oct. 31…. Halloween!!

 

· Nov. 18... EMT ThankYou TGIF

 

· Nov. 19...Fall Road Cleanup

 

· Dec. 2...Holiday Crafts TGIF

· Dec. 11...Family Holiday Open                 House

Congratulations to Mt Kemble Lake Graduates!

 

Roving reporter Ken Heiden has collected the names of some of our community’s recent graduates:

Kristina Qualben from Harding, to Madison HS

Timothy McCabe from Seaton Hall Prep, to Fairfield University

 

       Irene’s Legacy

 

Sleepless nights, wet basements, and too many days of power outages left us dazed but thankful that our homes were spared the worst of the storm’s devastation. The water damage rivaled the downed limbs and trees but houses remained for the most part intact. Thanks to Rick Barrett for keeping the generator that pumps our water running so we didn’t have any interruption in our water supply. Thanks also to Chris Allyn for monitoring the Lake water level during the storm and adjusting the level—manually—to keep the flow from reaching dangerous levels!!

 

Diane Bonar, Chair of Grounds, has been monitoring the tree debris removal. Some branches may remain for the Fall Roads Cleanup, which will provide chipping services for the many branches too big to break up manually.

 

Joyce Murray reported that we had some leakage to the clubhouse roof, as well as more of the same water problems in the basement. Bruce Scolnick added that there was some leakage around the chimney during the storm and (continued, p. 2)

 

An aged resident of Mt. Kemble Lake was another casualty of Irene—a venerable walnut tree on the property line between the Barretts and Van Kirks went down in the storm. The challenge of removing the huge tree is being discussed.

 

 

 

Molly Molendyke from Colgate University (magna cum laude!)

Brian Kuchler from Savannah College of Art and Design

Alexandra (Lexi) Kuchler from Columbia University Masters in Nursing

 

Congratulations to all—let us know of others and we’ll include their names in future Newsletters!