Announcements

The LVIA Board of Directors meets at 7pm on the second Monday of each month.  

All Lakewood Village members are welcome. 

We encourage you to attend.  Please contact Marv Miller for meeting details.

White Lake Twp Civic Center Plans - May 2024

A “Meet & Greet” with White Lake Township Supervisor Rik Kowall was hosted by the LVIA Board at Dublin Community Center on May 13th.  Supervisor Kowall went over many topics of interest to the Lakewood Village residents.  A PDF of Rik's slides is attached here.  Here is a brief summary of some of the key points:

1. White Lake Township was recently named by the FBI as being 15th safest community in the country, on a per-capita basis. Another source named White Lake Township as the 5th most desirable community to live in Michigan. What a great place to live!

2. Police Chief Keller and Fire Chief Holland have been working hard to improve our staffing and facilities. The Fire Department was recently certified with Advanced Life Support ability for our EMS teams, which will improve our critical responses to life threatening situations.

3. A new Township Hall / Community Center and a Public Safety building will begin construction soon on Elizabeth Lake Rd (near Stanley Park). It will be open sometime in 2026. Supervisor Kowall presented a PowerPoint presentation showing renderings of the new buildings and the locations on the properties. Please take a few minutes to review the slides.

4. Elizabeth Lake Rd will be closed from M-59 to near Teggerdine in order to rebuild the road, starting 5/22/24 until October. There was a $1.6M grant received from the Federal Gov’t (assisted by Representative Haley Stevens) for the project. Anticipating the new Civic Center project, the road will have parallel parking spaces and a roundabout by the Kroger entrance. A temporary road will be provided to access the library during construction.

5. The Triangle Trail is being completed soon, running from Elizabeth Lake Rd to Teggerdine to M-59 and then back to Elizabeth Lake Rd. This trail is a hub to start other potential trail concepts and will be part of the walkable area created by the new Civic Center complex.

6. New restaurants are coming to the corner of Bogie Lake and M-59 (Panera & Culver’s on the northwest corner and a coffee shop on the southwest corner).

There were many more tidbits of information, too many to add here.

Many thanks to Supervisor Kowall for speaking with us and giving us a great update.

I hope everyone takes this opportunity to get to know our Township leader.

Best Regards,

Steve Woodard, 2nd VP – External Affairs

Hazardous Waste Pickup in Lakewood Village

May 18  8:30am - 10:00am 

Once again, Lakewood Village will make it easier for members to get rid of “Hazardous Waste” by having a truck come through our neighborhood on the day of the White Lake Township Hazardous Waste pickup event. 

This is a completely Lakewood Village member supported event. Mr. Bruce Larson will bring/drive a truck to be used for pick up. 

People can simply leave their Hazardous Waste at the curb and we will pick it up and deliver it to the White Lake pickup site. (This year the site is the Alpine Valley Ski area).

Pick Up Schedule:

1. Saturday 5/18/24 8:30am to 10:00am we will tour each street in Lakewood Village picking up anything that fits the Strict Rules for Hazardous Waste (See reference list Here).

2. Sat. 5/18/2024 10:00am to 10:30am: For those that may have missed the truck as we came thru the neighborhood, we will be at Brendel Beach/Boat ramp for those that may want to drop off their hazardous waste.

Please review the list of the items (found here) that are acceptable as hazardous waste.  Pick up will be strictly in accordance with these items.

Help needed:  We need one additional person that would be willing to help in the back of the truck for pick up and delivery to the Alpine Valley site. (8:30am to 11:30am).  This will require the ability to get in and out of the truck and also be able to do some moderate lifting to get items into the truck.  Please contact Mark Lammert at 313-530-4843 if you wish to volunteer.

Thank you for your support on this important event!

Regards,

Mark Lammert

President, LVIA

 Lakewood Village Improvement Association

Year 2024 Annual Dues

 Please be advised that the mandatory annual dues of $335 per lot for 2024 are due and payable as of January 1st.

Payments that are not received by March 31, 2024 (which is a 90-day grace period) are subject to an additional $33.50 late fee per lot.  An additional $33.50 late fee per lot will be added every 6 months thereafter until the dues are paid.

Please return the bottom portion of this letter with your payment in order to assure that your account is credited properly.

Thank you.

L.V.I.A. Board of Directors

Please return this portion, with your payment, to:

L.V.I.A.

c/o 1231 Duckwood Ct.

White Lake, MI  48383

Name:

__________________________________________________________________

Address:

__________________________________________________________________

Lot #s:

__________________________________________________________________

Amount Enclosed:

__________________________________________________________________

Please do not feed the waterfowl

Dear LVIA Members, 

Recently, a Lakewood Village resident asked about the risks of feeding waterfowl. The information below is from an official New York state bulletin posted on the internet, with an additional link below. It is well written and factual, not opinion. 

The Lakewood Village Board does not support feeding of waterfowl. 

We take this position because migratory birds are wild and need to preserve their instincts to survive. The Board asks you to get involved and ask your neighbors to support our position. Here are our reasons for asking Lakewood Village residents to not feed waterfowl: 

1) Feeding them creates unnatural ways for them to get food, and the food given to them is far less nutritious than their natural mixed diet of aquatic plants, natural grains, and invertebrates. 

2) Feeding them creates a single location for food. This increases competition for food, depresses their natural instincts to look for food, and can lead to the spread of disease at the area of feeding. 

3) Excess nutrients in ponds caused by unnatural numbers of waterfowl droppings can result in water quality problems such as summer algal blooms. Note: Lakewood Village has been fighting algae blooms for the last few summers at an added cost to our water Resources budget. Where waterfowl congregate to feed, E-coli counts can swell to levels that make the water unsuitable for swimming. 

4) Waterfowl can rapidly become conditioned to, and dependent on, handouts.  Fed ducks and geese behave differently.  They become more aggressive and eventually lose their wariness of humans.  Some will even attack children attempting to pet them or feed them. 

5) Feeding attracts birds in unnatural numbers, beyond natural food and water supplies, and frequently in numbers beyond what people will tolerate.  Grassy areas such as ball fields and beaches can become unsanitary and unusable. 

6) Feeding alters normal migration patterns of waterfowl by shortening or even eliminating them. Ducks, reluctant to leave in the winter, may not survive sudden cold. 

Please support us in our efforts to make Lakewood Village a beautiful place for humans and wildlife. Please do not feed the swans, geese, or ducks. Their lives and the beauty of Lakewood Village depend on it. 

Thank you, 

The LVIA Board 

The complete article from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation follows. Read on to explore this issue and decide for yourself whether you want to continue feeding waterfowl.  Here is the link.

Join the Lakewood Village Mailing List!

The Board wants to keep you informed on all current and upcoming events.  We keep an email list  so that we can tell you about:

• Water treatment on our lakes

• Updates on the the progress of Stanley Park

• Upcoming events like Easter Egg Hunt, Summerfest, Octoberfest, and others

• Reports from Water Resources, Parks & Rec, Architectural, and other committees

• Activities that require one-time help, like park cleanup and support for major events

 The Lakewood Village email list is private.  The names are never shared or sold.

If you would like to add your name to our email list, especially if you want to volunteer for activities like park cleanup and event support, fill out the form below (cut and paste into your email message), and send it to Marv Miller. 

Name:

Email:

Street Address:

I am interested in (check any that apply)

• ___ Water Resources information (lake treatment schedule, waterfront cleanup, etc.)

• ___ Parks & Rec information (how to reserve the pavilion, pickleball times, etc.)

• ___ Updates on Stanley Park

• I would like to volunteer to help with  (check any that apply):

o   ___ Summerfest

o   ___ Octoberfest

o   ___ Easter Egg Hunt

o   ___ Park cleanup(s)

o   ___ Special Project support

•           ___ Other: _______________________________

• ___ Share my email address with other Lakewood Village members (default is "no")

December 2020 Message to Lakewood Village from Mark Lammert, President, Lakewood Village Improvement Association

I would like to take this opportunity in the last 2020 Waterlog to wish everyone a Blessed Christmas and a Happier and Safer New Year. 

First, let me thank my fellow board members for their work, as well as our Lakewood Village neighbors who made time in their schedules to help with things like park clean up, swim raft and marker buoy install/removal, and general maintenance.  These are all needed items in support of our Lakewood Village life.  

Even though some events like the Easter Egg Hunt and Octoberfest had to be cancelled in support of neighborhood safety, the spirit of innovation shown by our dancing Easter Bunny and the unique Mother’s Day parade highlights the desire of neighbors to “share the love” and to bring a smile to neighbors during difficult times.   

We implemented some upgrades in 2020: 

• New landscaping near our basketball court and its new surface marking has allowed the court to be used for Pickleball, which has significantly increased usage of that resource. 

• The newly upgraded LVIA.net website (just launched) is a direct effort to improve neighborhood communication.  The website is now easier to use and provides opportunities for neighbors to give feedback more easily.  It is updated frequently.  Please check it out.

And we have a new effort for 2021: updating the email addresses of Lakewood Village residents. 

Improving communication is key in letting Lakewood Village folks know what events are coming and helping people become more involved in areas of their particular interest, i.e., lake maintenance and Lakewood Village activities.  

For example, next year’s lake maintenance effort will provide more immediate feedback to our vendors as they are completing the job by using the information in LVIA.net and the updated mailing list.  The updated email list will help us reach out more often and more effectively.  As stated in the LVIA.net website, the list is private, and will not be shared or sold.

Please help us in this renewed effort to compile email addresses for members.  The list will allow secure access to LVIA members and allow neighbors to indicate their particular areas of interest so that they can be updated.  There is a form on LVIA.net and in the Waterlog to reply and also let us know your preferences for updates and willingness to volunteer.

During this holiday season I would ask each of you to consider if you would be able to donate just two hours of your time in 2021 to help on various projects and events.  Every contribution makes a noticeable difference.

Your entire Board would like to Thank You for your neighborly support.

Merry Christmas,

Mark Lammert