President's Page

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Welcome Back! I trust everyone has survived the summer months and

is ready to enjoy the soon to be cooler Fall season. Your civic league,

while appearing inactive during the June to August period, has been

monitoring conditions and events that affect our residents. We have

also continued to make plans for events and activities for the coming

months. 

Our next Civic League meeting is on September 15th and will

feature a presentation by Mr. Colin Stolle, Virginia Beach

Commonwealth’s Attorney. Please mark it on your calendar and come

to the meeting. We are a fun group. Our meetings are always on the

third Tuesday of each month from September to May in the Fellowship

Hall at Bayside Presbyterian Church. Jack Molovinsky, our program

director, has some good presentations lined up in the coming months.

While we are looking ahead, the Civic League’s Fall Festival event

is scheduled for Sunday, October 25th. Each year this is a well-attended

fun-filled family event. Civic league events are free and open to all

civic league members. If you haven’t joined yet, our annual dues are

still an affordable $20 per household. It’s the best deal in town. See the

membership form in this newsletter.

Are you interested in having a Fall community yard sale? If there

are enough households willing to participate, the Civic League will

sponsor and advertise the sale on a weekend in October or early

November. Let me know if interested – email president@lhgcl.org.

Have you noticed an increased number of electric bikes and scooters

being driven by young people on the neighborhood streets? Parents

need to ensure their children are taught and obey rules of the road before

allowing them out on an electric powered vehicle. Those rules are the

same for bikes as they are for automobiles. We recently learned of a

near miss when two children on fast e-bikes ran the stop sign at the

intersection of Harris Point and Haygood Point. Only the quick action

of an alert resident driving on Haygood Point prevented what could

have been a major tragedy. Children learn through repetition – don’t

tell them once and send them out onto the streets. We never want to

have a tragic accident that cannot be undone. Also, if these bikes do not

have working lights, they should not be on the streets after dark.

An important role of any civic league is to improve and protect

residents’ quality of life. We fulfill this responsibility by supporting or

opposing outside actions that could affect the neighborhood. For years,

we have strongly opposed the city’s plan to install a traffic light at the

intersection of Independence Boulevard and Paul Revere Road. We

believe it would encourage more cut-through traffic, back up traffic on

Independence Boulevard making access more difficult for our residents

who live along that loop, and increase rear-end collisions because three

traffic lights would be located within a short distance. The late Louis

Jones recognized these concerns and stopped the project. After his

death, however, our current City Council representative lifted the hold

and allowed the $1.1 million project to proceed. We remain opposed to

this waste of tax-payers money that we believe will damage our

residents’ quality of life. More to come.

It’s election season. Become informed voters. Come to the city

council and school board candidate forums hosted by the

Thoroughgood Civic League and the Lakeview Shores Civic League.

John Eason, President