In my effort to bring our community together, I have somehow offended many. It was my hope, along with the committee members, that this year we would celebrate the holiday season by coordinating the golf cart parade with a tree lighting ceremony. We hoped folks would come to the community center and bring their parties to share with old friends and perhaps make new ones. We changed the parade route based on feedback that we received from residents. We moved the parade to the perimeter of Community rather than try to get all carts to go up and down each street. We hoped to bring the carts back to the center, so folks can really get a look at the carts and the awesome work that was put into them, so they could vote for their favorite one.
In making this change, I have been told that there is a group of folks who don’t want to do this route, they want to go up and down each street especially since our older residents can’t get to the clubhouse to see it. Therefore, they decided they will have their own parade at 5pm. They want to stop and have their parties at folks’ homes and do it the way we always did it. I will honor their wishes and they can run the parade any way they would like. It was never my intention to exclude anyone, nor do I want to take away from their fun.
In the meantime, Sun has generously donated a beautiful tree for our tree lighting ceremony. The ceremony will still take place on Friday December 14 at 8pm rather than 9. I would still like to have the Christmas music and serve hot chocolate along with any cookies people would like to donate, tables will be set up in the mail area. At that time, we will also vote for the best decorated house. I will have a box for you to place your ballad in starting on Wednesday December 12th. It will be on the counter in the window of the kitchen.