Our speaker at the breakfast will be Jane Ebberts, making a return visit after her impromptu talk to us in May.  She is Co-owner and Broker-in-charge at Landmark Realty Group and will give us a review of the summer’s real estate activity and maybe a look in her crystal ball at the future.

The staff of the Mountaintop Lake Club was said to have provided the best breakfast of the 2010 season, all the more reason to join us for this 2011 finale.

Please RSVP yes or no preferably to the FLG email address flg@friendsoflakeglenville.com.  You can also call Ed and Peg Mohler at 743-3796.  Unlike some of our venues, Trillium has a definite deadline for reservations, in the middle of next week, so please respond soon.  An early and prompt email response will also help our dedicated telephone caller Carolyn Chabora (Thank you for a second season’s hard work!) make fewer calls.

Keep Saturday September 10th 2011 at 8:30am on your calendar too.  The last Member Breakfast of the season will again be lakeside at the Mountaintop Lake Club on Fenley Forest Trail.

On Saturday July 16th, the FLG Grand Summer Social will again be held at the Lake Club clubhouse, from 5:00-7:00pm.  The event is open to all 2011 FLG members.  If you have forgotten to renew your membership, there is still time to do so and enjoy what has recently been the high point of the FLG social season.

A new event for the FLG will be “Groovin’ on the Green with the Friends of Lake Glenville” Friday evening July 22nd 2011.  This will be our opportunity to showcase the FLG and make sure the larger Cashiers-Glenville community knows about us and our efforts to “Protect and Preserve” Lake Glenville.  Entertainment will be by Hurricane Creek Band, a local favorite.  A big turnout by FLG members will mean lots of knowledgeable people to tell the audience about our great organization.

Please also note that the Annual Meeting will be later than usual this year, on Saturday August 20th 2011, hosted by Trillium Links and Lake Club.  The speaker will be announced at a later time.

Our guests and speakers this time are the relicensing team from Duke Energy.  They include Steve Johnson from Charlotte, Fred Alexander from Franklin, and Lisa Leatherman, our lake manager.  Their presentation will include a PowerPoint on relicensing and hopefully the draft diagrams of the proposed Lake Glenville swim beach and fishing platforms.

As before, please RSVP preferably by replying to flg@friendsoflakeglenville or alternatively by calling Ed Mohler at 743-3796.  See you at the breakfast or on the lake.

New Board Member and Acting Social Chairperson Carolyn Franz has two initiatives set to kick off.  The first is our first membership drive in a while, driven by suggestions from the survey made two winters ago and from comments by members and non-members alike.  One of the most public components will be the FLG sponsorship of a Groovin’ on the Green event in July (see details under “Social Events”), a chance to have a good time and promote better visibility for our group.  The second change will involve the Member Breakfasts and a new venue for two of them, at the High Hampton Inn on 107 down in town.  We hope to see many of you at as many of the breakfasts as you can fit into your schedules and hope you’ll bring friends along as potential new members.  Be sure and renew your membership so you can attend the signature social event this summer, the Summer Social again to be held at the Lake Club.

The signature water quality program continues.  Doug Odell and Ken Kitchens and a few dedicated volunteers restarted water sampling in March, and Don Hansen and our water sonde will be out getting more detailed information about the lake and its condition soon.  Both endeavors need more volunteers to optimize their chances of monitoring the lake and making sure it stays in good shape.

Other programs besides water quality and social events are being considered, but suggestions from members are always welcome.  flg@friendsoflakeglenville.com or a phone call to any Board Member are good ways to pass your ideas along.

Due to personal and family demands, two of our Board Members have recently resigned, and the two vacancies need to be filled.  If you have time and can be available relatively year round, the icy dead of winter probably excepted, please telephone or email me to learn about what the Board does and how you might fit in.  We are a Working Board, with the chance to “Protect and Preserve Lake Glenville” being a great reward.

See you on the lake!

Howard Austin, President, Friends of Lake Glenville

PS:  Please note corrected date for Annual Meeting August 20th 2011 (third Saturday in August, not the first as in the past)

May Winter end soon!

As an aside, if you live outside this area but have a non-FLG friend in the area who might be interested in this opportunity, please pass the news along.  If you live somewhere else on the lake and don’t have DSL but want it, call Customer Service at Frontier (1-877-462-1105) and see if they’ll make the same offer to you.

The mission of the Friends of Lake Glenville may be to “Protect and Preserve Lake Glenville”, but the FLG is also interested in “Quality of Life” issues for those who live on or near the lake.  If you are aware of other opportunities like the one outlined above, please contact us (flg@friendsoflakeglenville.com) and let us know about them so we can alert our members.

Please RSVP by email (flg@friendsoflakeglenville.com) or by calling Ed Mohler at 743-3796 so we are sure to have a seat and a breakfast for you.  If you haven’t paid your 2010 dues, it’s not too late to pay them and join us at breakfast.

The Lake Club

Heavy hors d’oeuvres & drinks $15 at door

Open to current 2010 members

Join now and meet new friends and help Protect & Preserve Lake Glenville.

Reservations requested: Call 743-3796 or email flg@friendsoflakeglenville.com