Volunteer-supported Projects in Sunlight Shores
Hello! Why not invest a little time for yourself and your neighbors? Even small, short efforts can make a difference. Do your part to help keep your annual dues as low as possible. Help from home or help outside.
Here's just a few examples. Are any interesting to you? Contact a trustee for more info.
Pulling weeds and mowing grass around the clubhouse. A few hours here and there add up to a nicer place to visit. Spring and summer are when the need is greatest. Pull some invasive plants. Sign up to mow an area (even once helps).
Cutting weeds and mowing grass around the water system facility. Be kind to the employees of King Water Company who visit Sunlight Drive to maintain our water system. Cut back the thorny plants and mow the grass during spring and summer.
Clearing around the water meters. Be kind to your volunteer meter readers. Remove thorns and grasses for safer, easier access.
Quarterly reading of the water meters. Less than a two hour walk in the neighborhood. Help record the water usage numbers. Help to avoid the additional cost of hiring meter readers.
Pulling invasive plants from the shoreline berm. Help keep our shoreline as an excellent example of the Pacific Northwest. Greatest need is in spring and summer. Contact our Master Gardener for tips about identifying and removing select plants.
Help open the swimming pool. Weeding around the pool area. Washing the deck to remove winter grundge. Arranging poolside furniture. Checking the showers, toilets, sinks and mirrors in the bathrooms. Routine morning water quality testing.
Get the clubhouse ready for summer visitors. Weeding around the building. Wash the outdoors deck. Check for worn-out chairs and sofas. Wash the windows, inside and outside. Vacuum the carpets and hardwood floors. Declutter the fridge.
Research to improve the Small Water System Management Program (SWSMP) plan. The draft document is a large step toward ensuring that our water system has fewer outages and we avoid a major, expensive failure to deliver drinking water to our homes. However the document file is missing some key information about the water system. Like to dig in to research Island County archives, local member file boxes, or the testing, maintenance and repair records held by King Water Company, South Whidbey Water Services LLC, or a previous company that worked on the SSCC Water System? Here is a link to the current draft of the SWSMP. For context, see the WA DOH Small Water System Management Program Guide. See something that you might help improve? Having a quality SWSMP document is essential for asking for State-level funding for major water system projects, which would reduce the risk of a Special Assessment or a large increase in annual dues to keep receiving safe drinking water.
5/14/2020: Beware of Poison Hemlock plants near the Clubhouse! Do you know how to recognize a Poison Hemlock plant? All parts of the plant are poisonous. SSCC has received guidance from Island County's Noxious Weed Program Coordinator about how to remove Poison Hemlock, English Ivy and Himalayan Blackberries from SSCC's recreational property near the shoreline. More information here.
5/9/2019: A community Block Watch has been started. Read this letter to learn about recent theft, and the local potential for theft, from Officer Mike Hawley as shared at the Neighborhood Watch organizational meeting. Learn how you can take steps to prevent theft.
11/30/2018: Beware of "phishing" emails that appear to be sent from an SSCC Trustee. Before replying to an email that appears to be "signed" by one of the current Trustees, look closely at the sender's email address. If the email address does not match the Trustee's address as listed on the SSCC website, and it is a Gmail, report the abuse to Google, which will investigate to revoke the Gmail account.