Dear Neighbors,
The Summerville Neighborhood Association has hit the ground running in 2010. I have appointed key chairpersons to vital committees to strengthen and enhance our neighborhood.
We are developing a high tech crime watch alert system to notify members of when, where, and what kind of crimes are occurring in Summerville, with a “real time” crime blog.
We are also revamping our website to both promote Summerville to the outside world and to give SNA members quick and useful access to Summerville information.
Membership will focus on recruitment, renewal, and social events to bring camaraderie and good cheer to our village. Our 2009 Tour of Homes was the most financially successful Tour in the past 15 years, and we hope to make 2010 the best Summerville Tour of Homes ever. The planning has already begun, as we have already anchored this year’s Tour of Homes with the Partridge Inn, which is
celebrating its 100th year as a hotel. On January 8, 2010, I, along with Mayor Copenhaver and other city leaders, spoke at the PI’s centennial kick-off and deposited into a time capsule (that will be buried in front of the hotel and not be opened until the year 2110) a 2009 Tour of Homes ticket booklet along with this poem I penned:
The Centennial Celebration
The gateway to Summerville stands perched atop a Hill
Overlooking with Majesty the grandeur of Augusta city
For a century she has stood the test of Time, and served the very finest of wines
Presidents have roamed her halls, and Fair Ladies have danced in her Balls
So it is with deep appreciation, the Summerville Neighborhood
Association
Honors the Partridge Inn, in the year 2010
And as a token of our appreciation, we dedicate this year’s Tour of Homes celebration
By making the Partridge Inn, our good neighbor and fair friend
The featured home, and the first stop, of the Summerville Tour in 2010.
My goal as your President is to make the Summerville Neighborhood Association a model for other neighborhood associations
in Augusta, Georgia and a force for good in our greater community. Come join us! Summerville needs you!
Joe Neal, Jr., President, SNA