Southern Village HOA

The below document contains contacts & other useful information for residents of Southern Village.

Swim for Smiles Family Triathlon Registration NOW OPEN!

This is an event everyone needs to seriously consider participation!  Designed to be the first-ever FAMILY Triathlon in NC, the Swim for Smiles  Family Triathlon will be held in the beautiful Southern Village neighborhood in Chapel Hill, NC and will accommodate over 200 Relay teams and 150 Individual Entries.

The race will start in the 25-meter pool uniquely situated in the middle of the neighborhood. The race transitions into an 11-mile bike ride through the Chatham County countryside and eventually back into Southern Village via a neighborhood bike path.  You finish the race running on one of the flattest run segments of any triathlon course in North Carolina – along a jogging trail that takes you through the heart of the neighborhood.  The Swim for Smiles Family Triathlon is an open registration event (meaning, it’s designed for all ages to participate – we’re even willing to allow runners to push jogging strollers) that will be USA-Triathlon sanctioned. This is truly a unique event and opportunity for families of all ages to compete together for a great cause (as we’re giving all the money we make to the NC Children’s Hospital – less than 2-miles away from where the race will be held).  And, best of all, the relay teams can be made up of all adults, all kids OR a mixture of kids and adults as we will award prizes for the Top-3 teams in each category in addition to individual kid and adult entry prizes.

The Swim for Smiles Family Triathlon is a Sprint Triathlon distance race with an easy swim, moderate bike course with rolling hills and finishes with an easy to moderate run.

To sign up, go to www.swimforsmiles.org and click on EVENT

To those of you who love the new Southern Community Park…

The Town of Chapel Hill is planning two events that will allow you to both enjoy and contribute to this important community asset.  Both will take place on Saturday, June 6.

First, the town will be dedicating the park.  The dedication activities will start at 10:00 am on June 6 and conclude around noon.  Festivities will include music, food and a tour.

Second, the town will be sponsoring a volunteer trail building day (rain or shine) at 1:00, also on June 6.  All volunteers should meet at the Dogwood Acres Drive parking lot. We’ll concentrate on building a hiking trail from Dogwood Acres Drive to the greenway trail near Scroggs School.  No special skill necessary.

Trail builders should bring the following if possible:

* Stiff rake (the steel kind, not the flexible type for raking leaves)
* Loppers for cutting branches and small trees/bushes
* Work gloves
* Appropriate clothes and footwear

Some tools will be available (but no extra work gloves).  We’ll schedule another work day in the future to build trails south of Dogwood Acres Drive. So the town can get an idea of numbers, please respond directly to Bill Webster in the town Parks & Rec office or to Doug Heilig, Southern Village resident and Parks & Rec Commission member, to let us know if you can make it and if you can bring a tool.  Contact information is below:

Bill Webster – bwebster@townofchapelhill.org

Doug Heilig – dougheilig@yahoo.com

The Southern Village Club, proud member of the SVHOA, will re-open its pool for the summer season on Saturday, May 16th @ 10am.  If you are a member of the Club, we welcome you back for the 2009 swimming season.  If you are not a member, please consider stopping by the Club to pick-up a complimentary day pass to try it out one day this spring.

For more information please visit, www.southernvillageclub.com.

Market Street Association is pleased to announce the Southern Village Music Series for 2009. The concert series starts on May 3rd & runs through September 13th. All events are on the Village Green, weather permitting (rain location is Christ Church).

For more information please visit, www.southernvillage.com.

As a reminder, SVHOA Board of Directors will have a meeting tomorrow (4/28) night. The meeting is set for 7pm at Southern Village Club (upstairs). This meeting, as is the case with all SVHOA meetings, is open to the public. If you have any questions please send an e-mail to manager@southernvillage.org.