The annual meeting was held in the Fellowship Hall room at the Memorial Church of Christ.  Mr. Ken Broskey from Remerica Preferred was our guest speaker and talked about the current housing market and declining home values and sale options.  The Association President recapped the past years activities and the Treasurer reported on the finances.  The Beautification Certificates were handed out to several of the award winners that attended the meeting.  Elections of the officers and directors for 2010 were then held.  Please see the Officers  List for several changes that occurred. 

The Assoc. gave framed certificates to the homeowners in the sub to recognize their effort for creating a distinctive curb appeal appearance or for making recent upgrading improvements.  Four homes were given awards for Most Beautiful: Doug & Sue Calvin on Barbara, Barbara Grainger on Grennada, Ron & Sharon Prieskorn on Yale, Adam & Sophia Miller on Yale.  Three homes were given awards for Most Improved: Don & Anita Esper on Park, Sarkis & Mania Bardakjian on Yale, Edward Gosney on Schoolcraft.  Pictures of the homes can be viewed in the Photo Gallery.  These pictures were taken in the Fall after a frost had killed off many of the flowers.  They will be replaced next Spring with better ones.

The Annual Party was held at Kennedy School on Friday, Oct. 23, at 6:30 p.m.  30 Pizzas were served to over 130 guests. Door prize drawings took place during dinner and afterwards there was a costume parade through the school halls.  A Halloween tattoo station and a cake walk were also set up.  Thanks to all the association members and local merchants for their donations of candy, cash, prizes and baked goods.  See the Nov/Dec 2009 SMB Newsletter for more details. 

Following the open forum hosted by the Livonia School Board and School Administration held at Frost on Sept. 9, the School Board had a lengthy discussion on the Hull situation at their study session held Sept. 14.  No formal resolution has been proposed yet on Hull.  The following are some of the main points discussed at their study session.  The Administration will board up all of the windows at Hull and paint the plywood; they will also keep the area clean.  They will also see if the court yard at the school can be secured to keep persons from going back in that area.  They will also look at moving the ball diamond backstop fence.  The Administration does not want to rent Hull to another private school; they fear the competition will draw students away from the Livonia schools.  One board member stated he has a name of a group wanting to rent/buy the Hull property for a school.  The Administration has not identified any Livonia school function to house in Hull.  Regarding the Magnet School idea suggested at the open forum, one board member calculated that it would have to draw in 67 students from outside of Livonia to make it financially feasible.  No one had any ideas for a theme for the magnet school; there seems to be no interest in looking further at the magnet school idea.  It appears that the Administration and some of the Board members are leaning towards tearing Hull School down.

On Sunday the 34 miniflags (12 inch x 18 inch) used to decorate the Yale & Schoolcraft entrance were all stolen.  Most of them had  SMB Estates written on the flag stick.  None were taken from the other locations.  This represents about a $50 loss.  If you have any information, please call 464-7458.

The Association's Scrambles Golf Outing will be held at Idyl Wyld on Saturday, June 13, with first tee time at 1 p.m.  We will play 9 holes and then meet afterwards for awarding of prizes, food and beverages.  To register, please contact Mel Litke at 464-6852. For more details, refer to the last newsletter.

Only seven individuals responded to the article in the last newsletter and showed interest in having a Sub-Wide Garage Sale in June.  This was not enough interest for the Association to promote the event.  We will revert back to our every other year schedule and promote one in 2010. 

Seventyseven children registered for the hunt.  The weather was nice this year and all the children appeared to have a good time.  They were broken up into 5 age groups so that they all would have  a better chance at getting some of the 1500 eggs put out for them.  A thank you to all those that helped or donated candy and prizes.  More details will be in the next newsletter.  Photos taken at the event are posted for you to look at.