Thanks to Volunteers

Please take time to thank your neighbors for their efforts to make Lakeport a better place for all of us to live. If you want to volunteer, let the Board or a committee chair know—it’s a great way to get to know people and contribute to your community.

Landscape Projects

• Gail Pitches and Melanie Clement for agreeing to serve as co-chairs of the Landscape Committee
• Carol Leos for serving as Landscape Chair for the last year and a half
• Marilyn Bursch for alerting us to the possibility of receiving a grant from the Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District that will pay for 75% of two projects to mitigate storm-water runoff and for her offer to maintain the rain garden that will be installed this spring. 

Standards

• Kelly Driscoll – chair of the Standards Committee (new standards for decks and house numbers approved by RA’s Design Review Board; garage standard drafted)
• Kathy Powers, Andrew Powers, Paul Renard, and Stephen Sapp – volunteers who installed nine house numbers so homes would be compliant with the new standard, and a half dozen other owners who installed their own numbers
• Barbara Khan – purchasing house numbers on behalf of 13 owners

Social

• Michelle Simoneau – for agreeing to become the new chair of the Social Committee 
• Diane Zoukis – for serving as Social Committee Chair last year
• Mary and Stephen Sapp – for hosting Winter TGIF

Maintenance

• Annabelle Hammer, Jonathan Hammer, and Paul Renard – for keeping our dock clean
• Annabelle Hammer – for restocking doggie-bag stations
• Kevin Burke – for purchasing replacement doggie bags

Other 

• Chuck Foster – for chairing the Neighborhood Watch Committee 
• Barbara Khan – for redesigning the web site and monitoring the status of Lake Thoreau pool
• Kevin Burke – for monitoring density issues
• Barbara Khan – for coordinating the Lakeport Book Club
• James Pan – for chairing the Disaster Preparedness Committee
• Carol Leos – for welcoming new residents
• Tom Barnett – for a major revamping of the Lakeport website, maintaining Lakeport’s online directory and listserv for announcements, and posting Ripples
• Stephen Sapp – for continuing as editor of Ripples