Community Garage Sale & Open House Tour

Greenhaven Community

Garage Sale and Open House Tour

Saturday - July 28, 2007

Garage Sale: 8am - 2pm

Open House: 11am - 2pm

Grab at Community Map at the East entrance to Greenhaven!

Visit with neighbors at the park throughout the day!

Directions:
From Powers Blvd., head East on Dublin. Left on Black Forest Road and Left on Roxford into the Greenhaven Community.

For more information, call Mariana Wagner: 719-570-7715

Mold Found in Seven D-49 Elementary Schools

Mold was found in the following Disctrict 49 Schools:

• Woodmen Hills Elementary School
• Meridian Ranch Elementary School
• Odyssey Elementary School
• Remington Elementary School
• Ridgeview Elementary School
• Springs Ranch Elementary School
• Stetson Elementary School

Mold is a very serious issue, and can cause major health problems if gone untreated and unmitigated.

Please Read:
Colorado Springs Real Estate Issues: Mold - Part One (The Story)
Colorado Springs Real Estate Issues: Mold - Part Two (The Facts)

It looks as though the District is on top of things though.

Per the school districts website: "On Sunday, July 22, 2007, a mitigation contractor began cleaning Woodmen Hills Elementary School under the industrial hygienist's supervision using appropriate containment and cleaning processes. The district is hiring specialized contractors to remove mold at the other sites. All schools are expected to be fully cleaned and open by the regularly scheduled start of school in August. The schools will be re-tested to ensure successful removal prior to being reopened."

Posted By: Mariana Wagner - Colorado Springs Real Estate - Greenhaven Neighbor

Greenhaven Community Garage Sale & Open House Tour

Save the Date!

Saturday, July 28 2007 Greenhaven will have its First Annual Community Garage Sale and Open House Tour.
There will be a 3-day ad in the Gazette promoting the event, and a community map that will direct people to the Featured Open Houses and Featured Garage Sales.
To be a Featured Garage Sale, please call Mariana Wagner (your Greenhaven Neighbor) for details on how to register. 719-650-3952
To be a Featured Open House, please have your real estate agent call for registration information. The Featured Open Houses will have exclusive advertising and visitors to these Open Houses will have the opportunity to win some awesome prizes!

Open House Tour will be advertised from 11-2pm.
Community Garage Sale will have signs and directionals from 8am-2pm.

We also plan on having a LIVE RADIO REMOTE in the Greenhaven Park from 9-10am, and hot dogs for lunch! Stop by and say Hi!!

There are flyers on the mailboxes that offer additional information.

Greenhaven Father's Day BBQ and Potluck - June 16, 2007

Last Saturday (June 16) was the Greenhaven Neighborhood BBQ. There was about 60 people who arrived - bringing food and fun!
We fired up the grill at about Noon and Derek (the chef and grill-master ... AND the mastermind behind the gunbo ... ) started BBQ-ing hotdogs, hamburgers, brats and chicken. Sidedishes were brought by all those who attended and included pasta salads, lettuce salads, deserts and all kinds of delicious foods!
There were name stickers and pens – for many of the folks to get to know eachother better.
Everyone who brought Diet Coke (as asked in the invitation), was instructed to leave it on the picnic table in the sun, as WARM Diet Coke shoots much higher in the air than cold Diet Coke.

First, we gathered all the kids together and did a water relay. We split the kids into 2 teams and had them dunk a sponge into a bucket of water, run across the field to an empty bucket and wring the water into that bucket. The first team to fill the bucket was the winner. Winners received 2 raffle tickets. Those who did not win still received one raffle ticket. From there, the kids ran to the playground and the grassy areas playing with the balls and Frisbees that were available.

Next up was the M&M Guessing Game. See, the night before, I had filled a canister with M&M’s. I counted how many I had put in there. Yes. A lot of work! … But well worth it! After the water relay, people were asked to guess how many M&M’s were in the cannister. The prize for the person who guessed the closest, was to take home all the M&M’s. Needless to say, there was a lot of competitive interest in this game. There were so many fun strategies that people used in coming up with their guess! There were 728 M&M’s in the canister and the winner was the young lady who guessed 758. She was VERY excited!

From here, all the folks who brought Diet Coke went out onto the field with a roll of Mentos. Countdown … 3-2-1 … There were Explosions of Diet Coke went everywhere! Some as high as 20 feet into the air! How exciting!

After this event, everyone was handed a raffle ticket. After everyone had at least one (some of the kids had 2 or 3), we gathered everyone under the pavilion and started raffling off the bouncy balls, gift cards and a Longaberger latte mug (brought by our neighbor Deb!). (When this was first organized, people were asked if they wanted to help “sponsor” gifts for the raffle.)

Throughout the 2+ hours that we were there, everyone was talking, laughing and making new friends. This was such a fun time and we can't wait to do it again!

Posted By: Mariana Wagner - Greenhaven Neighbor

Greenhaven Father's Day BBQ and Potluck

Saturday - June 16th, 2007 - Greenhaven Park Pavilion - Noon

Contests - Prizes - Fun - Food - Friends

The Greenhaven Community is getting together to celebrate "Dad"!
Everyone is Welcome!

Please bring:

• Something to Grill
• A Dish to Share
• A 2-Liter Bottle of Diet Coke

We will supply the paper products, drinks, Mentos, and the grills!

(Why Diet Coke and Mentos? Click HERE for a video explaination ...)

We hope to see you there!

Are you a Small or Local Business Owner? Are you Self-Employed? Do you Run a Home-Based Business? Here is a great (inexpensive) opportunity to let over 200 households know about your business! There will be contests and prizes all afternoon, at the Greenhaven Father's Day BBQ. We are looking for people to donate prizes on behalf of their businesses. Now, this is nothing major – just a $10-$20 father’s day related gift. Here are some ideas:
· Gift cards – restaurants, sporting good stores, Blockbuster, golf courses, Home Depot/Lowe’s/Sears, movie theaters …
· Coffee mugs or to-go coffee cups
· Grilling Utensils
· Of course … a gift certificate for YOUR business!
· Or, if you are too busy, we can get something on your behalf – (just make sure you have the money to us by Monday, June 11, 2007)

When we hand out the prizes, we will announce who donated it, so make sure that you affix your business card and/or a small piece of marketing material for your business. If this sounds like something you would be interested in, please let us know by Wednesday, June 13, so we can coordinate all the prizes.
570-7715 (Derek or Mariana Wagner) or email us at: greenhavencommunity@gmail.com.

Greenhaven Community - Why I Love It Here!

Greenhaven was built by John Laing, and consists of about 230 homes. It is located in the northern part of "Ridgeview at Stetson Hills" - in the northeast part of Colorado Springs - nestled at the northwest corner of Black Forest Drive and Dublin Boulevard.

I love living here because I am far enough to the east to really appreciate the sweeping views of the Rocky Mountains and Pikes Peak, yet not too far from all that Colorado Springs has to offer. We are also just minutes from the shopping, entertainment and restaurants found on the Powers Corridor.

Our neighborhood has been referred to as the Crayola Neighborhood because of our vibrant house colors - particularly the "Cottage-Series" homes on the South half of the neighborhood. Deep blue, rich turquoise, burnt orange, vibrant red, bright yellow and energetic green were among the colors available to new home owners. The northern half of the neighborhood (the Windchime-Series) has more subtle colors - but not without a splash of blue, yellow, red and orange every few houses. A drive through our neighborhood is nice reminder that we are not living in Edward Scissorhands Land (where every home looks the same).

John Laing started building homes in Greenhaven in the Summer of 2004. With the model homes all for sale or moved into - our neighborhood is now finished - no more construction, as of Spring 2007. New homes were available in the high $100k´s to mid $200k´s when they started in 2004, and now, you can find resale homes, here, priced and selling from the high $200k´s to the mid 300k´s! People love living here and the pride of ownership is prevalent. A drive down any of our streets will show this.

Yards are not too big, so they are easy to maintain. The Windchime homes (in northern Greenhaven) all come with nice front porches - and many of the homes also have really nice side or front patios - some with outdoor fireplaces! The Cottage homes (in Southern Greenhaven) come with a variety of front porches, upper balconies or side courtyards. Each home is unique and boasts tons of character.

Eventually we will have more neighborhoods to the west and north of us, but Greenhaven was not built on a grid: Silverwind Circle "circles" the entire neighborhood and only 2 streets (and 2 more eventually) lead in or out. One leads to Black Forest Road and one lead to Westbound Dublin. For now, Greenhaven is destination-only.

One of the nicest features of Greenhaven is the neighborhood park. John Laing was smart- they finished the park before building any homes. What a great attraction! It sure was for us. We have 2 children and wound up buying a home right on the park. I could not ASK for better! When talking with other homeowners in Greenhaven, I have found that the park was the motivating factor for many of them.

Besides the fact that the park is like a huge yard that I do not have to maintain, it offers a lot to our neighborhood. There is a play structure with slides, games and a bunch of things to climb on. There's also a large field for football or red rover, kite flying (Colorado Springs DOES get its fair share of wind...) or anything else that may require a huge grassy area. In the middle of the park is a huge covered pavilion with picnic tables where we have had plenty of neighborhood BBQ´s and birthday parties.

Which brings me to my favorite part of Greenhaven: The people. I love my neighbors. I have the best neighbors ever - all 230 of them! Everyone is friendly and you can´t go too far without seeing neighbors helping each other in a yard, chatting on a front porch or corner or playing with their kids and dogs in the park.

I love this neighborhood, and am happy to live here, surrounded by my friends and neighbors who call Greenhaven ... Home.

Posted by: Mariana Wagner - Greenhaven Homeowner

Greenhaven Models Close

Today we watched from our front porch, as the sales office- the Bella, closed down and started tranforming into a home for someone to live in.
We will miss Kaylene and have been missing Amy! Maybe they will come to one of our Summer BBQ's in the park ... We are officially a "neighborhood" as we have officially shed our "new home development" alias.
(We did get a few memorobilia from the sales office, and will share them as soon as we get them "set up" in our home.)