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“It’s Another Great Day in Riviera Bay!”54th YEAR • NOV / DEC, 2014 ISSUE www.rbcanews.com

Donna and I both hope that this holiday season finds you and your family happy and healthy

and ready to give thanks and also take some time to celebrate all of our blessings throughout the year and to remember the real reason for the season.

The good news is that we’ve accomplished a lot this year, especially our new $1.6 million dollar park being completed. It is the best thing to ever happen in our area. There are always people at the park enjoying themselves.

We also had 1 very productive canal cleanup, 4 successful 83rd Ave “Adopt-A-Mile” cleanups, 2 well attended yard sales, 2 Carefest projects, 1 Thanksgiving dinner, 1 Christmas Eve boat parade….and a parrrrtridge in a palm tree.

The bad news is that since we “ONLY HAD 10 MONTHS” to figure out the 2015 meeting and event dates and locations, that info will have to wait for our Jan - Feb newsletter.

I also want everybody to know that there is a holiday toy collection drive for Joshua House.

NEWSLETTER OF THE RIVIERA BAY CIVIC ASSOCIATION SINCE 1960

NEXT RIVIERA BAY EVENTTHANKSGIVING DINNER THURS, NOV 20th

ST JAMES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH845 87th Avenue North

(Article inside). The Boy Scout Food Drive was a success and collected 820 items for the Holy Family Food Pantry.

New this year, there will be a $100 prize, donated by Realtor Clay Glover, for the best decorated boat in our Christmas Eve boat parade. Clay will be the Judge. Also, Brenda Padot, last year’s Best Holiday Yard Display winner, will be picking the best Holiday house/yard display this year, with this year’s winner

receiving a $50 gift certificate to Babalu’s restaurant and they will become next year’s judge.

Now I just hope that Donna and I can get the help we need to pull off a successful Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas Eve candle display, and a Lighted Boat parade for all. I hope everybody is as proud as I am to say they live in the Riviera Bay Civic Association neighborhood.

Hopefully I’ll see ya at our Thanksgiving Dinner and Happy Holidays,

Prez Dave & His Princess Bride Donna

On T he Riviera

Happy Ho l idaysTo A l l I n R iv iera Bay !

Where’s Christmas,

Waldo?

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2014 RBCA EVENTS

Wed, Dec 24CANDLE LUmINARIES

&BOAT PARADE(Rain Date 12/25

Christmas Evening)

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We are still working out the details and dates for our 2015 calendar. Please see our Jan/Feb newsletter for more details. most venues are requiring a “Liability Insurance Policy” which we are working on setting up.

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RBCA THANKSGIVING DINNERThurs, Nov 20th

Your Riviera Bay Civic Association would

like to invite you to our Annual Thanksgiving Dinner. Come share the spirit of the season with your neighbors and family.

THURSDAY, NOV 20stDoors Open 6:30 PM,

Dinner at 7:00 PMSocial ‘til 9 PM.

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The RBCA will provide the Carved Turkey & Ham, Mashed Potatoes & Gravy, Water, Soda, and Coffee. All we ask is that you bring a side dish or dessert to share with your neighbors and have fun! Dinner is FREE for current RBCA members. RBCA residents who are not active can use this opportunity to join the association for $10 per family at the door, which will also be used for your 2015 membership. RBCA resident’s guests are invited for $5 per person. Hope To See You All There!

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ADOPT-A-MILE CLEAN-UP 83rd Ave

On November 8th, we held our 4th clean-up for 2014 to complete the 1st year of our 2 year commitment with Keep Pinellas Beautiful to

walk and clean-up 83rd Avenue N, NE from 4th Street N east to San Martin bridge. We want to Thank Toni Michalove, Randi Langas, Lori Intravichi, Jill & Gary West, Lee & Marc Hall, for joining Dave and I in collecting 50.3 lbs of trash and recycling 3.4 lbs of Plastic, 2.8 lbs of Glass, 1 lb of Aluminum Cans, and 5 lbs of Misc Metals. Keep an eye on the newsletter for future clean-up dates.

by Donna Hoover

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Each year our family submits this reminder

about collecting toys for the children of Joshua House. In the 16 years that have passed I would like to again thank all the RBCA neighbors who have graciously donated over the years. Things have changed slightly at Joshua House; the state now places older less adoptable children of Joshua House, children who are having a harder time getting placed in a permanent home. With the economic difficulty of our country more children are coming into the system then are going out, there are not enough families out there to foster or adopt them. Florida ranks 3rd in the country with the number of children in foster care (19,100), 1755 kids alone in Pinellas county with only 461 beds for them to be

16th AnnualToy Drive

By Debby Obst

placed. Places like Joshua House are so needed.The goal at Joshua House is to give each child a

few new items and clothes to make their holiday as special as it can be. We are asking RBCA neighbors to help by buying NEW games, sporting equipment,

gift certificates (Target & Wal-Mart) and clothes for boys and girls ages 8-17 years old. Some of these teens leave straight from Joshua House and start living by themselves, on their own (called aging out in the system) so boxed sets of plates, sheets, kitchen utensils and any household items are also appreciated.

My heart breaks to think that these older children will be adults someday without a mom or dad to spend holidays and special occasions with but we can all make a difference now in their lives so please contribute.

These items can be dropped off anytime at 9399 Oak St NE between now and December 19th. If you have any questions you can call Debby or Lance at 727 578-9718 or 727 742-3043.

We hope this will be another awesome year for the Joshua House Toy Drive and we highly appreciate your kind support and very big hearts!!!

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By Donna Hoover

This is such a great nationwide project which the City of St Petersburg has

received recognition the past 2 years for the number of projects/volunteers who participate on a day of neighbor helping neighbor. We tried to organize 2 projects, revisiting the Carver property to weed & mulch and to weed & mulch our Community Garden in the Riviera Bay Park this year.

It is so hard to plan for these events, not knowing how many people

CAREFEST PROJECTSWe Need Volunteers

to expect to turn out. This year was difficult, we only had 2 people turnout on Sept 27th. Toni Michalove, Randi Langus the same 2 people who help me with the 83rd Avenue Adopt A Mile project. We

had to send out e-mails and got a few more volunteers over the next 2 weeks and finally got the weeding and mulching completed. Not sure if we will continue this project next year. We realize this event falls on “Free” Museum day and it is also in the middle of the youth sporting event season so we are

competing with other events.

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It’s that time of year again and we need a few volunteers for a couple of areas. Even if all you can do is store candles at your house for residents to stop by and pickup, or help the volunteers already assigned to your street.

As you can see below, some of our volunteers are handling very large areas. We would really like to split up some of the larger areas. This is a great way to meet your neighbors. Please call Jean Tyack (576-9300) to volunteer.

CHRISTMAS EVE CANDLE DISTRIBUTORS

1) Marc & Carrie Plotnick, 9001 Treasure Lane NE - 563-0599; 97th Ave NE, 1st Str NE & Oak Str NE1A) Nancy Haines 117 98th Ave NE 576-5659; 98th Ave N & NE2) NEED VOLUNTEER: Sun Isle Dr., NE and 96th Ave N

3) Terri Hammer, 9200 Treasure Lane NE - 576-5257; Treasure Lane N, NE4) Debby, Lance & Crystal Obst, 9399 Oak Str N - 578-9718; 94th Ave N, Oak Street NE & 1st Str N off of 4th Street5) Dan & Sheryl Spencer, 9485 2nd Street N - 577- 6187; 2nd Street between 92nd & 97th Ave N and 93rd Ave N6) Karen Smith, 320 90th Ave N - 577-6717; 90th Ave NE6A) Kenny Turcotte, 9031 Bay Street NE - 579-4264; Bay Street & 1st Street between 89th & 92nd6B) Kim Triplette, 8965 3rd Street - 577-4117; 2nd Str & 3rd Str between 89th & 92nd Ave

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6C) Sandy Mitchell, 200 90th Ave NE - 251-5054; 92nd Ave & Oak Street7) Roger Eitner, 8840 Sunlit Cove Drive NE 727-520-34208) Sean & Lizz Singh, 134 80th Ave. NE - 540-8458; South of 83rd Ave NE including Riverside Dr NE & 80th Ave NE & area eastward to Rio Vista School area9) Wayne & Ingrid Busselle - 215 Tallahassee Dr NE - 576-3656; Tallahassee Dr NE, 87th Ave NE, Riverside Dr NE, Orient Way NE between Tallahassee & 85th Ave NE10) Denise Spornraft - 641-8398 & Diane Croft 301 87th Ave N - 244-2712; North side 83rd, 84th Ave N, Diagonal Rd, Waverly Rd, 3rd Str N, Tobay & Riverside Dr N11) Mike & Mary Reed - 221 Freeport Ave NE - 576- 2144; Freeport Ave NE, 84th Ave NE between Orient Way NE & Riverside Dr N. Orient Way NE between 83rd & 85th Ave NE12) Dave & Bill, 954-7885; 87th Ave N & 85th Ave N13) Tammy Dowd, 226 81st Ave N 577-7090 - 80th, 81st & 82nd Ave N between 4th Str & Riverside Dr N, Waverly Rd N, Riverside Dr N & 3rd Str N,

south of 83rd Ave N14) Don Steer - 201 87th Ave N - 578-2859 79th Ave N, 2nd Way N, 2nd & 3rd Street N15) Kathy Crow, 7919 2nd St N. - 578-7649; 78th Ave N & NE, 79th Ave NE, 1st Street NEPlease remember these people are all volunteers (your neighbors) and do not get any compensation for this. They are just helping to keep this long standing RBCA tradition going. You can also renew your RBCA Membership at this time. Some volunteers don’t like to ask, so ask them if you are interested in joining the RBCA or renewing your membership. They will also have membership cards available.

HOLIDAY DISPLAY JUDGINGLast year’s winner, Brenda Padot, will be the judge of this year’s Holiday display. The RBCA will again award a $50 Babalu’s Gift Certificate to the winner and this year’s winner will be next year’s judge.

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CHRISTMAS EVE LUMINARIES

We have been beautifying the area for fifty years by deco-

rating our streets and canals on Christmas Eve with the “farolitos” (little beacons). Christmas Eve is truly an impressive, almost spiri-tual, sight when entire streets are embraced in the soft candlelight. We always have great participation throughout the neighborhood. The candles are six (6) for $5 with bags. They should be equally placed along the street and canals and are lit Christmas Eve at dusk. The candles on the seawalls really help to guide the Christmas Eve Boat Parade. In case of rain, they are lit on Christmas evening. If rained out both nights, our next rain date is New Years Eve. Please consider buying and displaying candles for residents that are unable to partici-

pate or who are out of town. This is also a great opportunity to renew your association membership for 2013.

Turn the top of the bag over three (3) times. Crease well to stiffen the bag. Fill 1/3 full with sand. Trim the wick if it’s long so the bag doesn’t catch on fire. Place bags on flat sur-face. Place candles straight up in the middle of the sand so a puddle of wax forms around the wick. Also refrigerating the candles for a day before burning seems to make them burn longer.

The candles will be delivered to the homes of the distributors shortly after Thanksgiving. WE ARE AL-WAYS LOOKING FOR MORE VOLUNTEERS TO HELP THOSE WITH LARGE AREAS TO COV-ER. The volunteers will be around

to your homes and the candles will be available until Christmas Eve. If a distributor misses you in your area, please call one of the distribu-tors and make arrangements to pick up the candles. Please remember, these are your neighbors deliver-ing candles and all are volunteers. Please don’t give them a hard time. They don’t buy the candles nor set the prices, and don’t make a penny doing this. Please don’t wait till Christmas Eve as many of your dis-tributors participate in or set up to watch the Boat Parade. Let’s have a terrific Christmas Eve Luminary showing. We actually hear from people all over St. Petersburg that they look forward to seeing our dis-play each year.

If you have any questions, please contact Jean Tyack 727-576-9300.

by Jean Tyack

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Jim Williams has agreed to lead our Christmas Eve Boat Parade

this year. Again we would like to have two categories of boats to take slightly different paths. Let’s start out with the larger boats which will turn around before the canals get narrow, then group the smaller boats to go all the way down the smaller canals to bring the parade to everyone ending with the Santa boat, that gives everyone in the homes time to come out and see Santa at the end. Everyone should meet at the boat ramp at 5:45 pm (dusk), monitor VHF Chanel 72. Rain date is Christmas night if you can make it. You can contact Jim at jimmy.b.williams@gmail.com

I regret Donna and I will be freez-ing our a…ah, noses off in MD on Christmas Eve so we’ll miss this very popular party event again this year. Please stay with the parade until the end. Last year the boats got off to a slow start with only a few boats and then picked up stragglers along the way, then several went home early. Also, please make sure you have lights on your boat.

CHRISTMAS BOAT PARADE JUDGING

$100 PrizeWe want to Thank Clay Glover

for coming up with the idea and price money for are boat parade. Unfortunately Donna and I will not be around to judge the Christmas Boat Parade (see Clay Glover’s fly-er $100.00 prize) so we have asked Clay to be the judge this year.

CHRISTMASEVE BOATPARADE

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Back in 2000 I remember reading the RBCA Newsletter and the then Parliamentarian Carroll

Killen stating unless we get more volunteers; they would be forced to disband the neighborhood association. I volunteered to be a board member, then after several Neighborhood Presidents staying for one year and not getting much accomplished, I found myself the President in 2004. We’ve come a long way in 10 years, but we need more board members and possibly getting someone else up to speed to eventually taking over the President role and letting Donna and I lessen our load and just be board members to help keep our regular events running smoothly. If interested, please call me to discuss what it takes. 727-579-3644. Elections are normally held in our January meeting.____________________________________________

2014 has been a very good year for the Riviera Bay Civic Association. We had a lot of fun at all of our

many events and accomplished a lot of great things this year.• We got a Great New Park opened on 83rd Ave NE. If you haven’t stopped by, you need to.

RBCA 2015 ELECTIONS • We had 4 cleanups of our “adopted” mile of 83rd Ave. • We had a successful Neighborhood/Canal Clean-up.• We accomplished 2 Carefest projects.• We entered a neighborhood float in the Festival of States/Grand Prix parade. • We had a spring and fall yard sale.• We partnered with Boy Scout Troop 263 for their food drive – collecting 820 items.• We had 6 General Meetings with interesting speakers.• We will have our Thanksgiving dinner on Nov 20th• We have 6 of the 9 new storm vaults installed with.• We continued to enjoy a great relationship with all St Pete city depts. Our Councilman, Jim Kennedy, con-tinued to look out for the neighborhoods best interests.• We continued to work well with all of our business partners, the Holy Family Church, Paisano’s Pizza, Budget Storage, Babalu’s, and Luckie B’s BBQ.• We are on track to have another wonderful Christmas Eve Candle luminary display and Boat Parade. For 2015, we will get $300 from the Police Forfei-ture Fund for reflective belts for our late night walkers. We also applied for a Clean-Up Grant from Tampa Bay Estuary Program. Like I said, we accomplished a lot of great things this year, and I for one, am very proud to say I live in the Riviera Bay Civic Association. Can’t wait till next year, Prez Dave

LOOKING BACK...

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Appliances, old car parts, window frames,any kind of wire, cans, anything metal.

Email Prez Dave at daybugme2@yahoo.com or leave message at 727-579-3644.

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Neighbors!Make sure you LIKE us on face-Book! Our Facebook page is main-

tained by Debby Obst. You can see what your neighbors are up to, post pictures, events, etc. You can find us by typing in: Riviera Bay, Saint Peters-burg, fl Here is the direct link to the site:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Riviera-Bay-Saint-Petersburgfl/111115338939569?ref=hl

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OffICERSPRESIDENT: David Hoover ............................. 579-3644 / daybugme2@yahoo.comVICE PRESIDENT: VacantSECRETARY: Lori Intravichit ......................................................................576-2903TREASURER: Donna Hoover .............................579-3644 / donna.rbca@yahoo.comCHAIRMAN Of THE BOARDSean Singh .................................570-8458 - seanbsingh@gmail.comBOARD MEMBERS:Jenny Healy ...........................................................................576-2765 Dave Kandz .........................................642-8567 / dave@rbdigital.bizAndrew Smith ............. 813-453-3407 / andrewacs@tampabay.rr.comMEMBERSHIP: Donna Hoover .............................579-3644 / donna.rbca@yahoo.comNEwSLETTER EDITOR: Missy Martino ............................... 577-5500 / RBCAnews@aol.comNEwSLETTER ADVERTISING:Al Martino ...................................... 577-5500 / RBCAnews@aol.comNEwSLETTER DELIVERY: David Hoover .............................579-3644 / daybugme2@yahoo.comCONA REP: David & Donna Hoover .............579-3644 / daybugme2@yahoo.com

COMMITTEES83rd AVE/SAN MARTIN BRIDGE: Lance Obst .......................................... 578-9718 - dobst@verizon.netAndrew Smith ................ 813-453-3407 / andrewacs@tapabay.rr.comRoy O’Neil ......................................576-8754 / royoneil@verizon.netGRANTS: Donna & David Hoover ..............579-3644 / donna.rbca@yahoo.comDebby Obst ......................................... 578-9718 - dobst@verizon.netDREDGING:Dave Kandz .........................................642-8567 / dave@rbdigital.bizRoy O'Neil ......................................576-8754 / royoneil@verizon.netAndrew Smith ......................... 813-453-3407 / andrewacs@msn.com

ENTERTAINMENT:Jenny Healy ..........................................................................576-2765Donna & David Hoover .............579-3644 / daybugme2@yahoo.com

CHRISTMAS EVE LUMINARIES:Jean Tyack, Chairperson ......................................................576-9300 CHRISTMAS EVE BOAT PARADE:Hal Hammer ................................ 576-5257 / hammer8314@aol.com

USEfUL PHONE NUMBERSMAYOR'S ACTION LINE ................................................ 893-7111(locate any dept and phone number in the city)NON-EMERGENCY POLICE ..........................................893-7780COMMUNITY POLICE SERVICE SQUAD ..................551-3182(For ongoing problems and response within 24 hours)Mayor Rick Kriseman ...................... Mayor@stpete.org / 893-7201District 2 Councilman Jim Kennedy .....................................893-7117council@stpete.orgPublic Service Rep Debbie Larson ....................................893-4138deborah.larson@stpete.orgPOLICE CONfIDENTIAL TIP LINE .............................893-4138ST PETE MARINE PATROL ............................................892-5247fL STATE MARINE PATROL ................................. 888-404-3922Animal Control ....................................................................582-2600Chamber of Commerce ........................................................821-4069CODES INSPECTOR: Thaddeus (Thad) Mitchell ............551-3171Codes Compliance ................................................................893-7373Curb, Street, Sidewalk Repair ...............................................551-3151Neighborhood Partnership ....................................................892-5141Public Utilities ......................................................................893-7761Reclaimed Water ................................................................... 892-5111Sanitation ..............................................................................893-7398Sewer Repair .........................................................................893-7261Street Light Outage ....................................................... 800-228-8485Street Signs/Traffic Signals ...................................................893-7421Water Resources: ext. 0 ........................................................893-7261Water and Navigation ...........................................................453-3385(Dock permits, report Mangrove cutting, etc.)Weedon Island Preserve ........................................................453-6500

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Membership Renewal InfoWe are your neighborhood civic association and we work for you to maintain and improve your neighborhood. If

you have not joined or renewed your membership in the Riviera Bay Civic Association, please take a moment to fill out this membership form and bring it to the next meeting or send your dues to the address below. Please show your support by sending in at least $10.00. (A larger amount would be appreciated!) One association membership per household includes your spouse and children, to be purchased each calendar year.

I would like to join/rejoin the Riviera Bay Civic Association. Enclosed please find at least $10.00 (more is always appreciated) association dues for our family for January through December.Name: ______________________________________________________________________________________Address: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Phone: ___________________________________ Email: _____________________________________________Please make checks payable to: Riviera Bay Civic AssociationMail to: Riviera Bay Civic Association, 163 87th Ave. North, St Pete, FL 33702 (727) 579-3644