Sampson Community Club
On this page is our quarterly newsletter, the "Squeaky Squirrel." For your convenience as well as information, it has been reprinted, in part, here.
The Squeaky Squirrel
A
newsletter about and for our Mountain Community by Miss Dee, published
author (a.k.a. Dee Lee) March
15, 2005
We had a great time…
…at all of the events last year and we plan on doing the same in 2005. Won't you please join us at one, two or more of this year's community get-togethers?
Please
cut out the information below and tape it to your calendar!!!
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April
23rd May
1st June
11th
10:00
a.m. 9:00
a.m. noon
Gardener's
Cache - Mountain
Mama Summer
Celebration -
Plant
& Seed Swap Breakfast
Book
& Tape Swap
Coordinators:
Coordinators:
Coordinator:
Dee
Lee Suzanne
Welder Dee
Lee
(303)
697-2558 &
Bryn Shepeck (303)
697-2558
&
Virginia Temmer Open
House for
(303)
697-7272 everyone
after the
Open House for everyone after Summer
Celebration
the Gardener's Cache at 12:30 p.m. at
2:00 p.m.!
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Coming
Events
Gardener's Cache - Plant & Seed Swap
April 23rd 10:00 a.m.
This is the
Club's first Plant & Seed Swap. We'll have three tables set up: one for the
plants, plant cuttings, vegetable and/or the flowers seeds you would like to swap.
The second table will host the gar-dening books or pamphlets that you would like
to pass along to someone else. And the third table will hold helpful gardening
information: "Companion Planting" guides, "Gardener's Calendar,"
and the door prize: a wooden seed box and one can of wild flower seeds.
Whether you are going to try gardening for the first time this year or are a seasoned gardener, please come on over with your swapping stuff and gardening ideas. We'll swap and visit while we sip on coffee or tea and eat some treats. Then we'll draw numbers and congratulate the winner of the door prize!
Coordinators: Dee Lee (303) 697-2558
and Virginia Temmer (303) 697-7272.
A contribution
to the "Donation Jar" will be appreciated.
Mountain
Mama Breakfast May 1st 9:00 a.m.
A beautiful, fresh rose for Mom and a delicious breakfast served by our congenial wait staff is what the Mountain Mama Breakfast is all about. In previous years, Suzanne Conwell and Bryn Shepeck have whipped up delicious breakfasts and favored us with mouth-watering biscuits and gravy, eggs and fried potatoes, pancakes smothered in syrup or jam, and ham and sausage, all accompanied by coffee and juice. You won't want to miss this get-together so please join us.
Coordinators: Suzanne Welder
and Bryn Shepeck.
Free for Moms, $5.00 per adult, $3.00 per child.
www.sampsonclub.org
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July
9th August
13th September
10th
noon
noon
10:00
a.m.
Barbecue
& Pig
Roast Canyon
Clean Up
Ice
Cream Social
Coordinator:
Coordinator:
Coordinators:
Dave
Pettus
Glick
Bishop Virginia
Temmer
(303)
697-8780
(303) 697-4414 (303)
697-7272
&
Bryn Shepeck
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Summer
Celebration - Book & Tape Swap June 11th noon
Here's your chance to clean out your entertainment library then restock it, and celebrate the summer and friendships as well. Bring the books, audio books, DVDs, and the VCR tapes you've read, listened to, and/or watched too many times and swap them for other books, audio books, DVDs or VCR tapes. The Club will have swap tables set up and will also provide a variety of salads and breads.
Coordinator: Dee Lee (303) 697-2558.
www.sampsonclub.org
The Sampson Community Club's user-friendly website has been available for all to view for the past two years and continues to receive grand reviews. Thank you, Mike and Dee Lee.
For the past two years, our events have been photographed. These pictures with details of the get-togethers have been placed in the site's "2003 Photo Album" or the "2004 Photo Album." These albums have been moved and are now located in the "Photo Album Archives."
The "Tomato Talk" page was created for our gardeners and posts helpful information, garden lay-outs, and photos. And the "Wish List" page was completed and posted on the site in February, 2005.
Our "Weekend Carpenters" page shows and tells the many maintenance/repair projects at Sampson and Lamb schools. And the "Community Business'" page hosts a list of our valuable neighborhood commerce. If you would like to advertise your business on the website, please e-mail your card to our site's webmaster, Mike Lee, at bewdwebmaster@earthlink.net Donations to advertise your business on the site are gladly accepted by the Sampson Community Club but are not required.
The Sampson Community Club's website is updated monthly and each event's dates and information are posted on the "Home" as well as the "Calendar" pages. Take time to visit www.sampsonclub.org. It's worth your time to visit!
2004/2005 Board
President,
Dave Pettus (303) 697-8780 Secretary, Dee Lee (a.k.a. Miss Dee) (303) 697-2558,
Treasurer, Virginia Temmer (303) 697-7272
Wanted: 6 "Calling Committee" volunteers. 1-2 hours per month, March through November. Please call Dee Lee (a.k.a. Miss Dee) (303) 697-2558 or Virginia Temmer (303) 697-7272 for details.
Virginia's Wish List
Virginia Temmer, Treasurer of the Sampson Community Club and Weekend Carpenter, has com-pleted her "Sampson and Lamb Schoolhouses' Wish List." This is a list of maintenance, needed repairs, and desired upgrades. Virginia says, "If you feel like takin' on a job, call me." (303) 697-7272.
Sampson Schoolhouse
Main floor Basement
Repair
broken windows Remove
paneling, install dry
Boy's
bathroom: ceiling finished, walls painted wall,
and paint
Girl's
bathroom: broom closet built, walls painted Hot
water in the kitchen
Front
stairwell: ceiling and walls painted Floor:
sanded, stained, and
Floor:
sanded, stained, and sealed sealed
Electrical:
updated, replace fluorescent lighting system Electrical:
updated, replace
Metal
"Fire Escape" stairs removed fluorescent
lighting system
Exterior
New
concrete steps, not patched
Gutter
repair
Lamb School
Interior
Exterior
Restoration
Well
house restored
1915-25
Vintage Pot-Belly Stove wanted Pump
handle
The Bears come out of hibernation 
mid to late March!
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Empty your bird feeders, wash them, and put them away until mid-November.
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Don't store trash in your house or garage.
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Don't leave food sitting on your kitchen counter.
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Make noise when you are outside.
Division of Wildlife (303) 297-1192 Dispatch (303) 291-7227 Operation Game Thief 1-800-332-4144
Tidy Up
It's time to tidy up! Restack your piles of firewood (away from the house) and rake the pine needles away from your house, gather up broken tree limbs and brush, and thin out the Scrub Oak, it's very combustible. The limbs, brush, and Scrub Oak all make excellent mulch, after you put it through a wood chipper, and mulch helps feed the soil and keep moisture in.
A Special Thank You
Thank you, Mike Lee and Kevin and Michelle Temmer, for helping affix labels, fold, and stuff 300 envelopes for the Annual Membership Drive.
And thank
you, members, for paying your yearly $20.00 dues. If you need to pay your dues,
please
mail them to the Sampson Community Club mailbox, 16150 Sampson Road,
Littleton, CO, 80127. And
if you would like to join the Sampson Community
Club, please mail your $20.00 membership dues along with your name and telephone
number to the Club's mailbox. If you have any questions, please call one of the
Board Members listed on page 2.
The
Greenhouse Corner 
It's time to get our gardens started! March and April: "Deep Root" water your fruit and special trees and start your summer/fall veggies inside.
Late April: take the Tree Wrap off of your special trees if you wrapped them last fall and hang onion slices on your Cherry or other fruit trees to keep the birds away: they are after the moisture not the fruit.
Mid to late May: till and prepare the soil then plant the veggies you started earlier this year or your purchased veggie plants.
See you at the Gardener's Cache - Plant & Seed Swap April 23rd 10:00 a.m.
Kidz Korner by "Freckles"
Our talented young author shares with us "a kid's view."
Hi-From Freckles
Does anyone read this?
How am I going to know if anyone reads this?
St. Patrick's Day
Do you have a four-leaved clover? Are you the luckiest kid on the block? Ok, well, our blocks are pretty big, but that means more competition. Don't forget to wear green on St. Patrick's Day, because once I forgot, and I was sore, to say the least.
Vice Presidency
Don't volunteer! Or maybe you should volunteer. Or maybe you should run away. There isn't a vice president right now. It's hard to be kiddish when your mom is typing. Vote for me for vice president. I always get my Squeaky Squirrel article done on time.
Me again.
I love April fools day! I can't believe its March! I hate my teacher! She makes
us do
SOOOO
much homework!!!! But I don't want to scare you. So:
THE END
Need a place to rent for a special occasion? Both
the Sampson and
Lamb Schoolhouses are available. Call Virginia Temmer (303)
697-7272.