Lake Asbury Ladies’ Club By Wanda Green
April 2024
So far I still love living in Lake Asbury. Even with all the new subdivisions designed and built. It spells more people and more traffic congestion. I guess we enjoyed too good a thing for too long.
Since we did not do well on the last two Flea Markets, we have decided to not have one this Spring. We’ll think about
It again in the fall. Maybe October.
Our regular Ladies Club meetings are the First Tuesday of the month at 10:00 a.m. at the Lake Asbury Community Building, All Ladies of Lake Asbury are invited to attend. We are still bringing a sack lunch. We stay after the meeting and enjoy more socializing. We have a very active group of ladies that are planning some fun activities for the year. For more info you can call or President Sharon Pierce at 282-8150.
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Lake Asbury Events Committee – L.A.C.E.
Happy Spring from the Lake Asbury Community Events ladies. We continue to meet the 2nd Friday of each month at 10am at the LA Community Center. We welcome all ladies who want to support and help plan family centered community events for our Lake Asbury Neighborhood. In April Earth Day occurs on the 20th this year. We'll be out on our streets picking up litter working to make our community continue to stay beautiful and clean. We're asking our neighbors to pick up any litter they may see in front of their property. Let's take this opportunity to come together and show civic pride in our neighborhood. On June 8, we are planning to have another movie night in the LA park. Last year's movie night was a success with a viewing of the Top Gun: Maverick movie. This year's movie has not yet been named but it also will be a fun movie. So get the golf cart ready, bring your drinks and popcorn and lets enjoy this 'drive-in' together. Details will be announced in the coming weeks. Wishing everyone a very special spring - the flowers are blooming, the birds are singing, it's a beautiful time in Lake Asbury! 
Lake Asbury Community Events Committee
EARTH DAY CLEAN UP April 20th Earth Day was created in 1970 as a program to remove litter from our lands and waterways. Together with partners around the world, the campaign mobilizes millions of volunteers and coordinates tens of thousands of cleanups in communities like ours. The Lake Asbury community can participate by gathering trash that has blown or been thrown in our streets and waterways. Anyone can participate, come together to show civic pride and celebrate this place we call home. Saturday, April 20 Earth Day Community Clean Up
Earth Day is one of the biggest civic events held annually where all ages can participate. It’s a great way to connect with your neighbors. With everyone’s help, we can control litter for the safety and well-being of our community. Everyone deserves a clean community. 
YIt’s time for Boating, jet skiing, swimming just having fun on the lake so please follow the lake rules so everyone enjoy it.
Reminder it’s alligator mating season, a large one has been photographed on north lake and a smaller one on south lake so please be on lookout especially with pets by water. If you see one you can call FWC and they will send a trapper out. The ramp locks will be changed March 27th so be sure to get your new key to be ready. We had a key pickup Saturday it went great, other dates are Saturday March 30th 10 to 1; April 7th 10 to 1; we will be on basketball court or in community bldg. if you haven’t returned you application and money you can do so then. You can also pickup keys at meetings. Our annual meeting will be May 11th, twelve noon, lunch will be served and hoping to have FWC and CCSO to speak and answer questions. We are very lucky to have three residents getting on board volunteering to help our community, this will give us nine on board it’s wonderful. Please come and meet them. Keep in mind please follow the lake rules, construction rules of bulkheads, docks, boathouses, the docks and boathouses can only extend 15 ft from water line and this does include floating docks. We would like to give a big thank you to MSBD for the work they are doing in our lakes they are looking so good. If you see anyone fishing on dams, riding golf carts or motorbikes on dam please call sherif, as this damages our earth dams. At annual meeting we will give lake lot meeting dates for rest of year. Thank You our LOLLA Board LAKE LOT MEETINGS ARE THIRD MONDAY EVERY MONTH, COMMUNITY BUILDING 6:30, see y’all there. Visitor Passes are needed for all Lake Asbury Lakes **Repeated violations of this policy will result in loss of your Key to the Lake Asbury boat ramps. 
Lake Asbury Neighborhood Watch Recent Crimes in Lake Asbury on the CCSO Community Crime Map 2/24/2024 - Aggravated Assault at Parking Lot on ??XX Branscomb Rd. 2/25/2024 - Domestic Aggravated Battery at 5XX Lake Asbury Dr., 3:45 AM 2/29/2024 - Burglary at 27XX Sandridge Rd. (Van Zant Park), 11:00 PM 3/14/2024 - Grand Theft at 3XX Arthur Moore Dr., 9:29 AM Please watch out for crime in the area and if you have been a victim of a crime, please report it immediately to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office at the non-emergency number (904-264-6512) or 911 if crime is in progress or an emergency exists. Pay careful attention to details of the situation so you can relate accurate descriptions of vehicles and individuals involved to the Sheriff’s Office to help them solve the crime. Also report any scams that you have been a victim of to CCSO to help protect your neighbors. Paul Pierce, Neighborhood Watch Cell: (904)-210-1868 E-mail: pepierc@aol.com 
LAMSBD NEWS Updates from LAMSBD Chemical treatment of non-native, invasive, and nuisance aquatic vegetation will begin 1/29/24. Vegetative species to be targeted will be spatterdock (near docks only), hydrilla, and coontail. Treatment will only be done in small areas each time, so as to not overburden our lake bottoms with dead/decaying material. LAMSBD encourages neighbors to reach out via the district website (LAMSBD.com) to share updates or ask questions. Please allow at least 48 for a reply (if needed). Contract negotiations are underway for the mechanical removal of water hyacinth, which are also invasive and non-native. It must be noted that 100% removal is not possible. So, be vigilant! If you see floating hyacinth near your dock or shoreline, remove the floating plant and place it on your shoreline to dry. You will find that the plant will dewater within hours and will be easily mulched under your mower to provide useful nutrients to your lawn. LAMSBD meetings are held on the first Monday of each month, 6:30 PM at the Community Center. Meetings are open to the public. Website: Please visit www.lamsbd.com where you can find all information to stay up to date. We welcome any and all questions as well. 
Alligator – Nuisance:
Call 866-FWC-GATOR (866-392-4286) ONLY IF YOU SEE THE GATOR YOUR SELF. THEY WILL NOT TAKE ANY INFO FROM ANYONE THAT DOES NOT SEE THE GATOR THEMSELVES. 
Nutria
Nutria have been spotted in the North and South Lakes. The concern is that they will cause damage to our dams. So, the Florida Fish and Wild Life Conservation Commission (FWC) have been contacted to deal with disposal of these invasive rodents. I found this interesting information about these little critters. Nutria (Myocastor coypus) aren't really rats, but this South American wetland-dwelling rodent certainly looks like a rat with its long reddish teeth, twitchy whiskers and round tail with little hair on it, although it's actually more closely related to a porcupine or a capybara. Some of them can grow up to 2.5 feet long — not counting the foot-long tail — and weigh in at a husky 20 pounds. Nutria can be rather social animals and sometimes live in large colonies, reproducing prolifically. Females have two or three litters every year, each consisting of five to seven young. These animals mature quickly and remain with their mothers for only a month or two. In some areas, booming nutria populations have become troublesome. What do they do with all that raw rodent power? Well, in some places they destroy wetlands and crops, cause soil erosion with their burrows, damage human-engineered flood control systems and spread disease. FWC has declared a year round open season on Nutria, similar to the open season on opossums, raccoons and coyotes. With that in mind, and to ensure the integrity of our dams, our goal is to reduce/eliminate the population in Lake Asbury. Lake Asbury ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP FORM - MAIL TO
282 Branscomb Rd; Green Cove Sprgs, FL 32043 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------—————————————- LAKE ASBURY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 282 Branscomb Road – Green Cove Springs, FL 32043 Annual Membership dues for 2020 - $25.00 Name:__________________________________________________________ Address: _________________ ______________________________________ (If you do not reside in Lake Asbury – please show address of property you own.) |
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