Many thanks to all you, wonderful neighbors and friends, for making this 4th of July event a fun time for our children.

And many thanks to the members of the HAC (Haverford Athletic Club) for organizing the field games and for their generosity of left-over food/drinks.

I hope that many of you can help us next year, either helping behind the scenes, loaning us needed items, or assisting in the various activities that day.

Neighbors getting together to help out and enjoy the various events/activities are what make this neighborhood a great place to live.

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Photographs from the 2011 4th of July event. Thanks to Emilia Lievano for coordinating this year's event. Excellent job.

On Monday, July 4th, we’ll be holding our annual South Ardmore Independence Day celebration! Bring your children, nieces, nephews, grandkids, and of course, your neighbors. Our event begins with a parade of bikes, strollers and wagons decked out in red, white and blue, leaving from Chestnutwold Elementary at 10am. We will wind our way through the neighborhood and end up in Elwell Field, where kids can participate in field events, compete in the “best-decorated” contest, and get their faces painted. There is no rain date for this event. If the weather is questionable, please check our website to verify whether we will proceed.

Note that WE DESPERATELY NEED VOLUNTEERS in order for this event to succeed.

If you plan to attend, please consider helping out, even if it’s just for an hour. Or let us know if you can be in a leadership role.

Not going to be around? Perhaps you can do something to help us prep.

You can also contribute something to our SABA Bake Sale Table.

The next monthly meeting for SABA will be this Thursday, 6/9 from 7:30 to 9:00 at the house at Normandy Park. Recently, we have been posting signs for these meetings, which has drawn in neighbors to participate who had not known about these meetings. Since there are many households in our neighborhood that do not receive these messages, please forward SABA announcements and information to your neighbors so everyone can get involved as much as they would like.

The agenda for the meeting is:

1. 4th of July Celebration.

The annual neighborhood yard sale will be on Saturday, May 28 from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon. This is the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend and it corresponds with the annual Beechwood Civic Assoc yard sale. Their yard sale has been happening for years and attracts hundreds of shoppers.

View SABA 2011 Yard Sale in a larger map

As in the past, everyone is welcome to participate. You may sell from your house or from Normandy Park. We will advertise the sale and we will post a list of participating addresses on the SABA website. This list will be available to shoppers so they will know the houses in the neighborhood to go to.

If you would like to participate, please contact Bill Gardner. Tell me if you plan to sell from the park or your home. If you are selling from your home, please give me your address so we can include it on the list.

Start digging through your basement and attic for those old items you are ready to get rid of and good luck with the yard sale.

Link to photographs from this years Park Planting and Easter Egg Hunt : http://www.flickr.com/photos/24126870@N07/sets/72157626392617831/

Due to the weather forecast for Saturday, 4/16, the Spring Park Planting and Egg Hunt will postponed to the rain date of Sunday 4/17. The planting will still begin at 10:00 am and the egg hunt will begin at 11:00 am. The time of the Easter Bunny's arrival is still a surprise.

EASTER EGG HUNT - Please Check back here to see if the Easter Bunny will delay his / her visit to Normandy Park until Sunday. Saturday's weather does not look promising, but we will keep you posted.

The next monthly meeting for SABA will be held this Thursday 4/14 from 7:30 to 9:00 pm at the house at Normandy Park. We have a number of very important issues on the agenda, including a special presentation by the Director of the Haverford Township Free Library.

The agenda for this week's meeting is:

1. Final discussions about the Spring Planting ad Egg Hunt event planned for this upcoming Saturday, 4/16.

2. Plans for the annual yard sale to be held on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. This will be in conjunction with the well-established yard sale of the Beechwood Civic Assoc.

On Saturday, April 16th, 2011 SABA will be hosting it's annual Spring Clean-up and Planting in Normandy Botanical Gardens. Come join us for for some fun while beautifying our neighborhood park. We will be spreading compost, pulling weeds and planting any plant donations.

We welcome all plant donations whether purchased or brought from your home garden as transplants. Plants like Susan's,
Cone Flower, Sedum, Lilac, Hosta's among others are what we are looking for to plant at Normandy Gardens.

I've included some photo's from last years fall clean-up. We will be working in some of these beds seen in these photo's.

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We will look for you next weekend from 10am to 1pm in the neighborhood garden!