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	If you are a resident of Norbeck Meadows, and are not a member of NMCA, we encourage you to sign up. Please send mail correspondence to NMCA, PO Box 441, Olney, MD 20830 Send an e-mail to the webmaster.

	September 2011 Volume 8, Issue 2
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	The next General Meeting: October 21, 2011 7:00 PM Cashell Elem School



	Located in Rockville, MD about 20 miles Northwest of Washington, DC, Norbeck Meadows is a quiet community of around 425 families (not including the deer!). The Norbeck Meadows Civic Association consists of a group of neighbors who volunteer their time and energy to plan various events for the community. Please check this site often for community news and events as well as links for the NMCA newsletter, The Mingler. This is YOUR site, so if you see any changes, or have any additions to the content, please send them along to the webmaster.

	2011/2012 NMCA Calendar Here is our calendar for the year and we hope you can participate in most of the events. 5/5/2012 2nd Annual Ice Cream social for the whole community featuring free ice cream for all. 3 PM. (Rain date 5/6) 5/31/2012 Annual General Meeting/Election of Officers 7 PM 6/16/2012 Community Yard Sale 9/22/2012 Annual General Picnic (Rain Date 9/23). Check out the Events page for updated activity calendar!

	Neighborhood Plant Exchange Norbeck Meadows resident Dave Miller is helping to facilitate a neighborhood plant exchange. Hostas too big to manage? Need to split your daffodils? Trade your "extra" plants with your neighbors – it's a great (and inexpensive) way to increase the variety of plants in your yard while helping your neighbors do the same! Below is Dave's list of plants available for adoption: Blue, white Siberian iris* (many) Yellow daffodils* (many) Oregon grape holly (Mahoney ilex)* 2-3 ft. (2), seedlings (20) Forsythia 2-4 ft. (many) Red maples 2-4 ft. (32) Green Hostas 2-3 ft. (7) * Deer resistant. Note: the best defense against deer browsing is an 8 ft. high deer fence - contact Dave for more info on deer fences. If you are interested in offering plants of your own for adoption or if you are interested in , contact Dave at dam12390@yahoo.com or 301-774-4905. * * * Cherry Tree Replacement: Revisited As you all know this year (Spring 2011) we arranged to have a volume purchase and installation of Yoshino cherry trees for those owners who desired to place or replace them on their property. We do this to ensure that our neighborhood continues to be a place of shade and springtime beauty as our older trees age. We placed 12 trees last year and they are all thriving. The NMCA Board has decided to ask our membership: whether they would like to do this again?; and/or, whether other varieties of trees might interest them? Our procedure would be to solicit bids for furnishing trees of a decent size (say 10' tall, 1 and a half inch caliper minimum). We would specify a minimum number to be planted and whether there is a reduction for any more than the minimum. This year we got planting, installation and warranty for one year for $210 for Yoshinos from Davey Tree, and hope to get that price down depending on the variety, volume of orders, and size of the order. Reductions are made possible by a volume purchase, in the same neighborhood, with planting to be done all at the same time. We need to know if you are interested. Please let me have your thoughts on this and we will see if we can come up with a program for planting next Spring.