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Homeowner Diane-Marie Landsinger Contributed This Excellent Information on Water Conservation. Thanks Diane-Marie! PROTECT YOURSELF IN THE SUN Summer Fun - The temperatures are rising, school is getting out and we are enjoying the weather and being outside. Dehydration: In the summer, a combination of the heat and low relative humidity can rapidity lead to dehydration. You can lose up to two quarts of water per hour if you are perspiring heavily. As a general rule, and especially when you are physically active, you should drink plenty of fluids (water, fruit juice, lemonade, sports drinks) Avoid alcohol and caffeinated beverages (Ice-tea or soda when physically active Heat Stroke: Symptoms: faintness, fatigue, headache, nausea and flushed skin on your face or exterminates. If untreated, it can lead to rapid pulse, lethargy (no energy) confusion and agitation. As soon as the signs appear, you should rest in a cool place, increase fluids. Websites of interest www.azumc.com and www.azdhs.gov Who is at risk? People age 65 and over People taking certain medications People who drink alcohol Infants and Small children By Diane-Marie Landsinger North Ranch Homeowner FUN SUMMER ACTIVITIES Marianne Centuori and Diane-Marie Landsinger have been talking about getting water aerobics started in the Evening and on Saturday mornings to start. $5.00 a class with hopefully signup and payment in advance. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Marianne at 784-9961 or Diane Marie at 241-9904 or email at dlandsinger@earthlink.net
We are also talking about other
activities that could be held in the Ramada by the pool. Toes
by Sabina, bring your clean feet and nailed polished toes and
Sabina will paint flowers or designs on them. No not a
pedicure, that requires a license, but just painting toes....
ooh la la for summer.
Let's here your ideas? Would you be
willing to volunteer your special skills?
Any ventriloquists out there?
Storytelling time, etc.???
(The Round Up wishes to thank Mr. Ron Friend for these informative and useful articles. Thanks Ron!) NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH - 1 What is Neighborhood Watch? If you do a Goggle search there are no less than 46 Million responses. Yes 46 million. There are neighborhood watches in just about every town, city, and state, municipality, police agency that you can imagine. Neighborhood Watch programs have been in existence for over three decades. How by having families and communities getting involved with taking back their streets from those who have nothing more to do that ruin other peoples property. We in North Ranch need a Neighborhood Watch Group. We can not rely on the police officers who walk around the development. There are over 700 houses in here and it is not possible to be everywhere at once. We AS neighbors need to need to look out for ourselves and for each other. IfF you hear something strange in the middle of the night check it out. We are not saying go outside and take matters in your own hand. Peer out your window and see if you can see someone outside. Turn on your outside lights. Many times this alone will deter crime. Criminals do not like highly visible areas. They work best under the cover of darkness. We as a community must band together in order to form a Neighborhood Watch. One person can not do it alone. We need your help. Watch groups need to be established, meetings need to be setup, plans need to be developed. If you wish to participate, no matter how much, please call or contact, (insert board member here). More to follow next month. NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH - 2 We as neighbors must look out for one another. One of the most common things that people do is leave their garage doors open. Open during the day is one thing. Many criminals blend in with the surrounding areas and drive through looking for crimes of opportunity. Home invasions are one of the easiest when a garage door is left open. Numerous items can be stolen from a garage without you even being aware that something is gone. You may go to use something days or weeks later and not find the item and wonder, “who did I loan that to.” Now leaving your garage open at night is just inviting trouble. A burglar has all the time in the world to take what they want by coming into the unlit garage at night stealing whatever there is to steal. Again they can also enter your home through the garage door and catch you at your most vulnerable while you are asleep. You are more disoriented and can be overpowered much easier while sleeping in your bed. How many of us leave our keys in the ignition of our car when we pull into the garage. I know I do. So easy for someone to just get in the car, let it coast out of the garage and then once on the street start the car and off they go. You are none the wiser until morning when you are ready to go off to work. When you see your neighbor’s garage door open in the early evening and you know it has been open for sometime stop by and let them know. This is what a neighborhood watch is all about, helping one another. Who knows you might get to know your neighbor better. NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH - 3 How many of you have a vehicle that you park outside on your driveway? How many of you have a newer car with the programmable buttons for your garage door or have a garage door opener on the sun visor? Have you ever though that all a thief has to do is look into your car late at night and see if there is a garage door opener. He can then get into your car, click the garage door open and enter your house. Don’t think it can happen to you? They don’t have to open the door but a crack to crawl under the door to gain entry into your house. As mentioned in a previous article you are most vulnerable at night while sleeping. You are disoriented and confused if awoken suddenly. Not only that, how many of you leave the car keys in your car inside the garage. Believe me when I say it can happen to you. I have a friend who lives across from Thornydale on Argo. She left her BRAND NEW Z – 350 in her driveway. Two things went wrong for her, first her car was a convertible and secondly her garage door opener was on the visor. The thieves broke into her car and opened her garage door and as luck would have it she had her briefcase on her garbage can, where she always leaves it and the keys to her house and car. In the briefcase was her checkbook, credit cards, some she had never even used, money and various other items. She found out her car was missing the next morning when she got up to go to work. You can only imagine the terror that was going through her mind, they had her car, all her house keys, checkbook, credit cards AND passwords, and other vital information for identity theft. Her car was found several days later in Nogales, Arizona. The thieves had not finished joyriding yet so it was not in Mexico. It took her several days to close the credit cards, checking accounts, change all the locks on her house etc. If you think it can’t happen to you THINK AGAIN.
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH – 4 CREDIT REPORTING Did you know that the Federal Government has made it mandatory for the three major credit reporting companies to give everyone a free report once a year? Yes, Experian, Equifax, and Trans Union will provide to you, at no cost, one free report a year. All you have to do is go on-line to: www.annualcreditreport.com or all 1-877-322-8228 to receive this free service. You can get one from each company once a year. You can do them all at once or one every four months to check if there has been any activity from time to time. Again there is no charge for this service. Of course when you are on-line the companies will try to get you to buy a credit score listing but your actual credit report is free. I get mine every year and print it out to look over. Do it now. Don’t delay your credit is your responsibility.
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