City of Roman Forest

The Forum
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Here’s a great chance to have some fun, meet some of your neighbors, and help make improvements to
the Roman Forest pool. R.F. CARES is sponsoring a bus trip to Coushatta Casino in Kinder, Louisiana on
Saturday, February 9th. The cost is $25 per person. The bus will be leaving from City Hall at 9 AM, arriving
at the casino at about noon. A lunch of sandwich, chips and soda, is included and will be served on the
bus. On the trip over we’ll be playing numerous bingo games for prizes. Your first bingo card is $5, and if
you’d like to play two cards at once, the second card is just $2. You’ll have about 6 hours in the casino,
then at 6:30 the bus will leave for Roman Forest, arriving back at City Hall about 9:30. We’re hoping our
bus will be equipped with a DVD system so we can show a movie on the ride back home. There are only
40 spaces available, so sign up now. Contact Liz at 281-608-2356. Hope to see you there!
Editor wanted!!! Have you ever thought of publishing a monthly newsletter? I think you’ll agree that
Michelle Hayes has been doing a super job as Editor for our first eight issues of The Forum. But she’s also
a full-time teacher in Splendora, and she’s not going to be able to continue editing the newsletter going
forward. If you like layout design (or would like to learn), please contact Liz at the number listed above. We
think this monthly newsletter really helps build community spirit, and we’d like to keep it going, but we need
a volunteer editor.
Yara Santos tells us that her book review team has ―adopted‖ fifteen USAF airmen who are currently
deployed in the Middle East. They’re putting together a ―care package‖ to send to the troops. They’d like to
send it off about February 1th so it’ll arrive by Valentine’s day. The airmen have submitted a wish list of
items they’d like to have, but have trouble getting over there: protein bars, Starburst candies,
toothbrushes, toothpaste, skin lotion, shampoo, sunscreen, gum, coffee, mints, sunflower seeds, nonaerosol aftershave, and beef jerky. If you’d like to donate items, or cash to help put the care package
together, please email Yara ([email protected]).
Upcoming Events
February 7-- RF Cares meeting
(7:00pm)
-RF City Hall
February 9-
February 12- RF City Council
meeting
(6:30pm)
-RF City Hall
February 20—Due date to put
items in The Forum
Send to Liz Mullane @
March
Chili cook off
--more information to come-April 13
Tax season is fast approaching. Once again this year the Tax-Aide volunteers will be providing free
income tax preparation and e-filing. All volunteers have completed tax preparation training and have
passed the 2012 IRS certification exams. This program began back in 1968 and has grown into the largest
volunteer-based tax preparation service in the country. Our local Tax-Aide is sponsored by AARP and is
hosted by Lonestar College. Tax preparers will be available to help you 9AM – 1PM on Tuesdays and
Thursdays, February 5th thru April 11th, at the Lonestar College campus in the EMCID complex on US-59
(I-69). Service will not be available March 12 and 14 due to Spring Break. No reservations --first come, first
served. No age limits and no income restrictions. Bring your 2012 tax documents, last year’s federal tax
return, your Social Security card and a picture ID with you. If you’re expecting a refund, also bring your
checkbook so the volunteer can arrange for your refund to be direct-deposited into your account.
Coushatta trip
(9:00am-9:30pm)(meet @ city hall)
Community Yard
sale
--RF park
A special Thank you goes to
Rob Burgess at Community
Print & Copy for his
generosity in donating his
time, paper and printing for
our Forum.
February is the month to share your love with your sweetheart!! It’s also a month to get organized for the
Spring Time when we all want to enjoy the weather. Here are just a few things to do in February to either
get organized or reminisce in the past. Clean out your medicine cabinet. Look for stale-dated over-thecounter remedies, make-up you don’t even remember buying, and any bottles that are almost empty.
(Toss the first two, and use up the last one.)
Examine your summer shoe collection. Sounds crazy, but imagining wearing them with your favorite little
sundress will give you temporary respite from the winter blahs. And on a practical level, if there’s a buckle
that needs to be fixed or a sole that needs reinforcing, you can get it done now so you’ll be ready to kick
up your heels when the sun comes out for real.
Go through old love letters. Everyone has a shoe box full of past memories, pictures, movie ticket stubs,
dried flowers…Can you think of a better time to review them? Pour yourself a glass of wine or lemonade
and spend some quality time with your past. It might put a smile on your face. Buy Flowers. Treat yourself
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or your sweetheart a colorful, bright, stunning bouquet full of stems of varying lengths and exotic aromas that delight the senses.
Give them a place of honor in your home. Send a Valentine. Turn off the TV. Work and Play as a family.
If you like to work in the outdoors then for our zone (Zone9) here are a few things to try and get done in, February.
•Plant bare-root fruit trees
•Sow seeds of warm-season annuals indoors
•Plant summer-flowering bulbs
•Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming annuals
•Plant bare-root roses
•Plant bare-root trees, shrubs, and vines
•Plant citrus
•Plant bare-root perennial vegetables
•Apply dormant spray to fruit trees •Sow seeds for tender perennials indoors
•Repair or plant lawns
•Plant or transplant frost-tolerant perennials outdoors
•Prune deciduous trees
•Spray for peach leaf curl, peach leaf blight, and canker
•Repot cacti and succulents, if essential, once they have finished blooming
•Prune winter-flowering shrubs and vines just after bloom
•Prune rose bushes on February 14th down to 14 inches from base of plant
•Plant seedlings of cool-season or winter vegetables
•Sow seeds for cool-season or winter vegetables
•Sow seeds for warm-season vegetables indoors
---More information to come on the Chili Cook-Off in March and Yard Sale in April.-Happy Valentines Roman Forest!!
Mayor’s Message
Roman Forest Residents,
Mayor Ray Ricks
Keith Schoonover, Community Development Manager for Friendswood Development Company, attended our January 8th City
Council Meeting regarding their plans for the area named Tavola (located between Roman Forest and the freeway, on the
south side of the boulevard). He expressed a desire that Tavola be a part of Roman Forest but did not state to what extent.
They also plan to remove the Roman Forest Columns located in the center median and on the south side. These have become
historical landmarks for the City of Roman Forest and I hope that we can preserve them. We will continue to have meetings
with Friendswood Development working together to develop a strong relationship between the City of Roman Forest and
Friendswood Development. Their plans are to have 431 total lots to build homes on ranging in different price ranges
starting at the 120’s. They also plan to build a new elementary school and eventually have a park and swimming pool area. The
lots that run parallel with the railroad tracks are reserved for commercial building.
City Council approved the formation of a new committee. The Roman Forest Economic Development Committee was formed
to make recommendations to the Mayor and Council on the issue of liaison with Friendswood Development Corp. (and
appropriate agencies) regarding potential economic impact of that area for the City of Roman Forest. The Committee interim
chair is Steven Wanderman. Committee members will be appointed and a chairperson voted upon. All Roman Forest residents
are welcome to attend these meetings. Check the CityOfRomanForest.org website for information on meeting dates.
We have just started updating the cities website CityOfRomanForest.org. Beginning with the January 2013 agenda and
minutes these will be posted as soon as they become available.
City Council Meetings are the second Tuesday of each month. The next City Council meeting is February 12th at 6:30 pm. This
is your opportunity to participate in City Government. I am looking forward to seeing you.
Happy Valentines Day!!!
City Council Meetings @ Roman Forest City Hall
Ray Ricks
Mayor
Email: Mayor.Ricks@CityOf RomanForest.org
Mayor Cell: 832 318-4553
**2nd Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. **
God’s Promises for the American Patriot
Dr. Richard G. Lee/Jack Countryman pg. 18-19
Like Ruth of the Old Testament, women of steadfast loyalty and faith have been key to America’s
strength. One such woman was Ruth Bell Graham, wife of America’s beloved twentieth-century
spiritual leader Dr. Billy Graham. Throughout their life together, Dr. Graham often emphasized how
vital his wife was to his own success, noting that ―my work through the years would have been
impossible without her encouragement and support.‖
For her own part, Mrs. Graham’s quiet commitment to her God and to her family reflected
the determination of her biblical namesake to follow the God of Israel. Mrs. Graham once explained,
―I must faithfully patiently, lovingly, and happily do my part—then quietly wait for God to do His.‖ That
same faithfulness was what led the widowed and desolate Ruth of the Bible to become the wife of
Boaz and a member of the line of Jesus Christ.
Important
Local Numbers
City Hall Phone Numbers:
Office 281-399-2660
Court 281-399-7227
Pool 281-689-6506
Fax 281-306-1024
Police Department Phone
Numbers:
Patrol 281-399-8182
Dispatch 911
All of the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, But the Lord weighs the spirits, Commit your
works to the Lord, And you thoughts will be established.
--PROVERBS 16:2-3
Upcoming Community Yard Sale
April 13, 2013
By: Bailee Weaver
I hope everyone had a great start to their new year. I
know STAAR tests are getting closer and many of us in
grades 3+ are starting to get nervous. Remember the
closer the test is, the closer summer is. YEAH!!!
With Valentine ’s Day coming up this month, I know
many of you are worrying about that special someone
or that cute boy or girl that sits near you in class. What
do you do or get for that special someone in your life?
Well, remember we are just kids and Valentines can be
about everyone special in our lives. Try to make it a day
that you just treat everyone—yeah even your parents
and little brother—just a little bit nicer. Show those you
care about how much they mean to you and how much
you appreciate them in your lives.
If you do something special or someone, or if someone
does something special for you, share it with us and
we’ll put it in the next newsletter. I hope everyone has
a good month and remember to smile and enjoy each
day.
Email me at [email protected]
Contact Liz Mullane for more
information @ (281)-608-2356
Warrants 281-399-8129
Water
Roman Forest CMUD # 1&2
281-689-6324
Electric
Entergy
1-800-368-3749
Gas –
Center Point/Energy
713-659-2111
Emergency #- (800-752-8036)
Garbage Pickup
Republic Waste
281-446-2030
(2x wk-Wed/Sat-early)
Telephone
AT&T
1-877-213-1053
We Are Here for You
If you or someone you know is
elderly or disabled and needs
assistance in everyday chores
or tasks, we would like to help.
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Ride to doctor’s appointments
Other transportation needs
Grocery shopping
Meals
Yard work
House work
Paper work
Any other needs
Please contact Shirley Lindsey
[email protected]
832-262-0566--phone
Sage Telecom
Residential Service
1-888-972-7243
Business Service
1-888-226-2121
Cable TV
Northland Communications
281-689-2048
New Caney Independent
School District
281-577-8600
New Caney Courthouse
Annex 281-364-4200
New Caney Fire Department
281-689-3112
New Caney Post Office
281-399-1190
R. B. Tullis Library
281-577-8968
Dani & Wes Echols
(Isn’t it time they started working for you?)
Independent Scentsy Consultants
Phone: 936-521-9985
[email protected]
www.daniandwes.scentsy.us
The Cashless Marketplace
Cuts N More
Family Hair Salon
-StylistCarolyn—281-761-5825
Patricia—281-354-1998
1714 Roman Forest Blvd.
New Caney, Texas 77357
Brian Kirkpatrick
Roman Forest Area
Lawn Care
Free Digital Image with Paid Session
Standard Finish. Retouching Additional.
Offer expires: 2/15/13 Free Digital Image
with
Laura’s Dog Grooming
Laura Carlisle
Owner
1714 Roman Forest Blvd.
New Caney, Texas 77357
281-689-5200
Liz Mullane
Independent Beauty Consultant
1902 Venus Drive
Roman Forest, TX 77357
281-608-2356
[email protected]
www.marykay.com/lizmullane
832-233-0502