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Richardson, Texas | February 2021 | Vol. 6 No. 42Quote in Title header is by The Beatles.
A Letter from the President:
To say last year has not been one of the most difficult would be an understatement, with 2021 not starting out on its best behavior either. I hope everyone has been safe during the winter storm. Once we had a little more reliable power we started to send out all the information we could find from the city. I hope it helped someone. Please let us know if the information was useful to you and if you need more information like that. If you would like to see the information from the storm you can take a look at email 1 here and email 2 here.
Facebook and Instagram have been the easiest forms of communication for us to quickly get information to you especially when the internet and power were down. If you do not follow us yet, please make sure you do, the links are above.
Secondly, I am excited to announce that I have been working with Apple to get our newsletter onto the Apple News platform. This has been a very long process, it took about 4 months to get into the system and file all the paperwork. It has now been one more month since being accepted and they are currently "reviewing" all our posts to make sure they meet Apple standards. If you search for us under " The Highland Terrace Post" you can start following us and as soon as our old articles are approved they will post. We will have more tutorials on how to do this in another newsletter.
Lastly, The HTNA board is sad to have missed so many of our traditional gatherings last year. We are in the process of discussing some creative ideas to have some normalcy for this coming 2021. Thank you for your patience during this unusual season.
If you need anything please do not hesitate to reach out to us. Please send me an email below if there is a story you would like us to highlight in our next newsletter. Please stay safe through the now rainy season headed our way!
Thanks,
Clinton Ball
-President HTNA
Richardson Terrace Elementary PTA
Currently, Richardson Terrace Elementary is the last few days of our Membership Drive for the month. Our goal is to earn the membership award, "A Voice for Every Child,β which is one of the highest membership honors a PTA can achieve.
Richardson Terrace Elementary has 539 students enrolled and we currently have 233 PTA members. To meet our goal we need an additional 306 members. We are reaching out to friends, family, neighbors to see if they would be willing to help us reach our goal.
Each Membership is $10 and goes towards helping our school with needs such as school supplies for teachers and students, STEM projects, fine arts support, teacher appreciation goodies, field trips, behavior bashes, and much more!
If you are able to support us and you have friends and neighbors that would like to help us reach our goal, please visit us here to join: https://terracepta.membershiptoolkit.com/joinrtepta
Thank you for your support!
-Membership Chair Sean Sivley
Follow along with rterracepta Instagram here or clicking the image below!
Our Food Pantry continues to see an increased demand. Help us keep our pantry stocked by donating these items. Food items can be dropped off Mon-Thursday from 8 am to 4 pm or Saturday from 9 am to 2 pm. You can also order items from our Amazon wish list at https://bit.ly/wishlistnetwork
The need for our Food Pantry is increasing not decreasing, and we just canβt continue to meet this demand if we donβt have enough volunteers.
As always, thank you for your support to help our neighbors in need.
ο»ΏSincerely,
Cindy Shafer
President & Chief Executive Officer
Please click here or on the image above to learn more on how you can help Network during these trying times.
Congratulations to Gary Harrison @ 510 Pittman Street for our Annual Christmas Light Contest winner!
We look forward to starting passing out the yard of the month again this spring!
Remember to nominate a yard and the yard of the month winner receives a gift card to Bruce Miller Nursery!
If you have a house you would like to nominate, please contact our Beautification Chair, Yasmin!
Here are the current Gardening Tips click the button below to continue reading.
Incidents occurring in our neighborhood during January and February:
a statue was stolen from a front yard
vehicle was stolen from residence - another stolen vehicle left behind
tools were stolen from a contractor
a rock was thrown through a window
package theft from the front porch
theft of catalytic converter (big business lately!)
theft of items from vehicles (most left unlocked)
As the Coordinator for our Highland Terrace Crime Watch Patrol, I would like to encourage you to go on the City of Richardson website and sign up to join our ranks - we would love to have you - the more "eyes on the street" in our neighborhood, the less crime. After submitting your application and being accepted, you will be notified by RPD when the next class becomes available. Please give some serious thought to joining our patrol group. If you have any questions, please reach out to me.
Mareta Glover - Coordinator
Highland Terrace Crime Watch Patrol
Hello,
This is a reminder that we are currently taking applications for the Richardson Citizen Police Academy. Spacing is very limited and fills up quickly. Please submit your application if you would like to be considered for the class.
Here is more information about it
https://www.richardsonpolice.net/services/community-engagement/citizen-police-academy
Thank you and be safe,
Richardson Police Non-Emergency
# 972-744-4801
If you see something, say something!
You can see all of our pictures in our Gallery.
A huge thank you to Roy and Mareta Glover for taking pictures of the neighborhood during their crime watch patrols!
You can click the picture to take you to their website. These ads were purchased but these companies and HTNA does not endorse any of these parties.
If you'd like to become a member or join the association you can visit us at this link:
If you have any questions regarding membership or dues, please contact Lauren at membership@htna.org
HTNA Board wanted to share this information with our neighborhood and community. Also as of now all future HTNA events are postponed until further notice. Please reach out to us via our website: www.htna.org/contact if you need any help during this time we are here for you.
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