Suburban Terrace Civic Association January 2025 President’s Report
Hello neighbors!
I hope everyone had a relaxing, fun-filled holiday season. Mardi Gras is right around the corner, so you parade people better rest up!
November 12, 2024, Meeting Recap
JPSO
JPSO Captain Dave Roddy, 1st District Commander, gave us a summary of crime reports in our area. Again, not much to report. Good for us! Keep looking out for suspicious activity and report when necessary. Help JPSO help us. They can’t be everywhere. We are their eyes and ears!
Shelly Ferraro – Urban Tree Alliance of Jefferson Parish
Shelly gave us a short presentation highlighting the benefits of having properly maintained trees on our property. A few of the highlights of her presentation were:
Trees provide us with many benefits –
Properly placed trees can lower your utility bills and increase the value of your home.
Trees, grass, and open spaces provide us with a natural drainage system. They can absorb thousands and thousands of gallons of water.
Trees are good for the environment, our mental health and for a healthy ecosystem.
Maintenance of our trees –
Keep your trees trimmed and free of termites and other pests. If this is done, you will gain the full benefit of the trees on your property, and they will not put you at risk.
Shelly also mentioned that in Jefferson Parish, Metairie has a 13% tree canopy. The area that encompasses our STCA boundaries has a 26% tree canopy.
If we lose a tree on our property, let’s try and replace it with an appropriate tree for the area. We have several resources on our STCA Board that can advise you on proper tree selection or you can seek the advice of a professional tree service.
One Heart NOLA
Our STCA Christmas Toy Drive to benefit One Heart NOLA was a great success.
The vision of One Heart NOLA is for local people to care for local kids in need. They believe we either invest in their lives now or we pay for them later. They are worth the investment!
The STCA Board has voted to continue our support of One Heart NOLA with another Christmas Toy Drive in 2025.
If you would like to learn more about One Heart NOLA and the work they do, please visit their website: https://www.oneheartnola.com/
Neighborhood News
If you haven’t already noticed, please look at the beautiful “Jefferson” mural painted on the side wall of the building on the northeast corner of Shrewsbury Avenue and Jefferson Highway.
A partial funding grant for the installation of the mural was donated by Entergy of Louisiana and the owner of the property, Chris and Ashley Genard, graciously covered the remaining cost.
Jennifer Van Vrancken, Jefferson Parish Council-At-Large, Division A will be at our meeting to accept the donation from Entergy.
The mural adds a colorful touch to our neighborhood, and we are grateful for the donation.
STCA Facebook Page
We have created, maintained, and monitored our Suburban Terrace Facebook page. The page is dedicated to exchanging information between the paid members of our Suburban Terrace Civic Association. If you are a user of Facebook, are current on your membership dues, and would like to join, please send a request to join. We will check our membership rolls and allow admittance to our members. Anyone with an internet connection can access our website to find out more information about our association and join at: https://suburbanterrace.org/
Membership fees for 2025 are now due.
Individual Membership: $15.00/year
Household Membership: $30.00/year
Please renew your membership at our meeting by seeing either our Treasurer, Rhonda Gauthier, or our Secretary, Kim Catalano, at the welcome table or visit our website and renew your membership online.
Online payments are payable through PayPal.
When you are at our meeting, please visit our Advisory Board Member Suzanne Falgout to purchase 50-50 tickets. This helps add to our treasury and you could win money!
For everyone’s information, the annual dues collected are used to pay for refreshments at our meetings, yard signs that inform our neighbors of our meetings, our Annual Night Out Against Crime refreshments and entertainment, meeting supplies such as 50/50 tickets and various other essentials needed to run our organization. If any member would like a more detailed explanation of how our dues are spent, please make a request at our meeting and it will be sent to you.
January Meeting
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at the Pink House (Thomas C. Laughlin Building) located at 4518 Jefferson Hwy. We are using this building until further notice.
The doors open at 6:30 pm and we will start promptly at 7:00 pm.
Our Guest Speakers – January 14, 2025
Louisiana State Senator J. Cameron Henry, District 9, also serving as the President of the Louisiana Senate, will provide us with Legislative updates. We appreciated Senator Henry taking time out of his busy schedule to come and talk with us.
Refreshments – January 14, 2025
Refreshments for our next meeting will be an assortment of sweet treats and bottled water. Refreshments are provided by our STCA Hospitality Committee. We thank Jeanie Knesel and Kristy Reeser for their work in providing us with a tasty snack at our meetings.
Upcoming Events
Please put our next meeting on your calendar, Tuesday, March 11, 2025.
There will be a Jefferson Parish Municipal Primary held on March 29, 2025. At our March 11 meeting, we will discuss issues on the ballot and invite candidates to attend.
We thank you all for your support. Your Suburban Terrace Civic Association would not be in existence without a team effort by our STCA Advisory Board Members. We live and work in this neighborhood right alongside all of you. Let us know where we can help. We do what we do on a volunteer basis to help preserve our neighborhood and make sure that it is a place we are proud to call home.
Hope to see you at the meeting!
Judy Wolf
STCA Advisory Board Member