Vintage Enka Postcard

Brian Cook found this postcard online. It looks like there's only one smokestack in this picture. Does anyone know when the second one was added?

American Enka smokestacks to be taken down Tuesday Morning (12/18)

Here's the article from the Citizen-Times:

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200771217029

Enka in the News: Demolition of the American Enka towers

Take a look at this Asheville Citizen-Times article for an update on the plans to remove the smokestacks: http://www.CITIZEN-TIMES.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200771128121

Clean-Up Day

The fall clean-up day was a success! Nine Enka Village residents spent the morning picking up litter in the park and raking leaves for neighbors in need. With your help, we identified six neighbors in need of help, including residents on Oak, Pine, and Orchard. It was a beautiful day to be outside, and even some little ones joined in!

Reminder: Fall Clean-Up Day This Saturday (11/10) at 9:00 a.m.

Thanks for those of you who have expressed interest! We'll be helping out several Enka Village residents who need assistance with yard work, and we'll also do a general clean-up of the park and sidewalks. Come join us! Contact Amber Cook (ambercook714@yahoo.com) if you know ahead of time that you can be there, or just show up at Enka Park (by the new sign) at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday. Bring any rakes, leaf blowers, or other clean-up equipment you may have on hand. Trash bags will be provided for litter pick-up.

We plan to work just through the morning, so it's only a few hours' commitment. See you there!

Minutes from October 25 Enka Village Community Meeting

Enka Park Commission
Homeowners Meeting
Enka Baptist Church, 7 p.m.
October 25, 2007

Board Members Present: Glenn Satterfield, President
Jo McGill, Treasurer
Amber Cook, Beautification
Emily Sutton Dezio, Secretary

Postal Service: Hillcrest recently obtained postal delivery service. USPS advised that the remainder of the community qualified for postal delivery service however the Candler Branch would be directed to deliver the mail. There are other street names in Candler which conflict with the neighborhood names in Enka Village. In order to effectuate mail delivery and comply with 911 protocol regarding street names, the street names in our community may have to be altered. One homeowner suggested Enka Oak; Enka Pine; Enka Orchard; Enka Crescent. Another suggested Oak Avenue E.V. Pine Street E.V.; etc. Another suggested Oak Avenue at Enka Village; Pine Street at Enka Village etc; The commission will review the options presented by the USPS/911 protocol. There was also some discussion to require uniformity of mailboxes/posts. Finally, it is apparent that the USPS will require mailbox posts to be on the side of the street where the cars do not park. If postal service becomes a reality, neighbors would be encouraged to cluster their mailbox posts.

Fall Clean Up Day: Saturday November 10, 2007. Help an elderly or disabled neighbor clean up the leaves. If you know of an elderly or disabled neighbor who cannot rake his/her leaves, please let Amber Cook know by email ambercook714@yahoo.com; or by posting on our website at (http://enkavillage.blogspot.com). If you would like to volunteer to help an elderly or disabled neighbor, please sign up.

Loose Leaf Pick-up: For residents who live within the city limits: the City will send the loose leaf pick-up vacuum to our neighborhood on Monday November 12, 2007 and January 7, 2008. On those two occasions residents may rake their leaves to the sidewalk for loose leaf pick-up. Other than those two occasions, leaves must be bagged for pick-up.

Mowing the Park: In the mowing season for 2006 Enka Village spent $880 having the park mowed. In the mowing season for 2007 President/Commissioner Glenn Satterfield mowed the park and was reimbursed for $100 for gasoline and other expenses. The Beautification Committee will review the Park’s deed and discuss mowing options with the City of Asheville to ascertain whether the City should mow the park as part of its obligation relating to parks within city limits.

Sand Hill Road Expansion: DOT will begin the Sand Hill Road Expansion this winter. The road in the front of Orchard/Crescent will be expanded to three lanes. The bulk of the third lane will be from land on the BASF side. There are storm water drains underneath a fraction of Enka Park which have to be updated. The DOT will pay Enka Village a one time rental check for use of that land in the approximate amount of $750. In order to get to the drains, the DOT will be removing the green fence that protects the park from the road. The commission has entered into a contract for the removal, re-erecting and replacement (if necessary) of the fence during this project. The question presented to homeowners is whether the fence should be re-erected in front of the Enka Village Sign, behind it, or on either side of the sign. Homeowners voted that the sign should be re-erected on either side of the sign.

Hillcrest School Bus Bench: A homeowner requested that the Association place a bench within the right-of-way at the end of Hillcrest for children to use while they wait for the school bus. The bench costs would be between $44-$100 depending on the type of bench purchased. In discussions, Glenn Satterfield volunteered to do more research regarding whether the County would cover the expenses and whether the Enka Village liability insurance would need to be modified. More to come later.

Assessments: The 2008 assessments will be due on the first day of February 2008. In March 2007, and by referendum and due to the sewer issues finally being resolved, the assessments were reduced to follow the strict language of the covenants in your deed. The current commission is reviewing whether the assessments at $0.15/per square foot road frontage, actually and in fact, cover the basic, minimum expenses of the Commission. The basic annual expenses include: Progress Energy bill for Hillcrest/Lake; mowing the Park; liability insurance for the Park, and postage/office expenses etc. Ultimately whether to raise the assessments to cover minimum, basic expenses would only be accomplished by majority homeowner vote.

Orchard Street Tree Replacement: In March 2007 the Homeowners voted to spend $1,000 on tree replacement for our community. Valerie Panton has been working with non-profit agency Quality Forward to replace trees, which were removed by the City. The commission will contact the City Arborist to ascertain whether the City will be responsible for replacing the trees. More to come later.

Fall Clean-Up Day: Saturday, November 10

Enka Village will have a neighborhood clean-up day on Saturday, November 10, time TBA. We will be raking leaves and doing other clean-up activities to help spruce up the neighborhood! You can participate in two ways:

1. Let us know if you or a neighbor are physically unable to rake your leaves and could use some help from able-bodied neighbors. We will be helping our elderly or disabled neighbors on this day, and we need help gathering names of those who could use the assistance!

2. Sign up to help out with the raking. This clean-up day is designed to coincide with the city's loose leaf collection day (Monday, November 12), so we will not have to bag the leaves. We'll just be raking them to the curb, so the job should be much quicker! It's a great way to get to know your neighbors and get some fresh air!

If you'd like to help, please contact Amber Cook via e-mail (ambercook714@yahoo.com) or phone (665-1914).

Enka Village Community Meeting October 25

Residents of the Enka Village community will meet on Thursday, October 25, at 7:00 at Enka Baptist Church. Topics will include updates on ongoing projects, discussion of Enka Park landscape options, discussion of possible bus stop bench on Hillcrest, brainstorming about a fall clean-up day, and updates on postal service. If there are issues you would like to add to the agenda, e-mail them to Emily Dezio. See you there!

Enka Park TLC

We want to extend a special thank-you to Glenn Satterfield, who has been keeping Enka Park mowed all summer. It's a hot job with no pay, and he's kept the park looking great! If you see him, be sure to thank him for the hard work!

Also, the plants and trees that went in with the new sign are still alive, despite the heat and drought. They've been surviving through the hard work of folks who've been willing to head down to the park with buckets and coolers of water over the summer. We currently have a rotation of Enka Village residents who have volunteered to continue watering, but we could always use more neighbors to share the task! Our goal is to keep these plants watered until we start seeing more rain or until the heat eases off. These are hardy plants that won't require much maintenance once they get a good start, so this should be a short-term chore! If you can take a shift or two, please contact Amber Cook at ambercook714@yahoo.com.

Library Celebration

The Enka-Candler Public Library is marking its 10th anniversary with a celebration this Tuesday night (September 18) starting at 6:15 p.m. See this link for more information: http://main.nc.us/calendar/events/1187831627.html

Pictures From the Enka Village Sign Unveiling

Here are some more pictures from the unveiling of the sign a few weeks ago. If you have any of your own to add, please send them in!

Enka Village License Plates

You may have seen these license plates on your neighbors' cars over the past several months. The first batch of 100 (produced as a fundraiser for the Enka Village sign) sold out quickly! If you'd like to be on the list for a future order of the plates, please contact Amber Cook at ambercook714@yahoo.com.

Call for Volunteers

Interested in pitching in on new or ongoing Enka Village projects? We can always use help! There are all kinds of jobs, from helping care for the park to heading up or volunteering for clean-up days or a welcoming committee. If there's something you'd like to do (or if you'd like to be on a list of volunteers we can call on when something comes up), please contact one of the Commission members (see list on right), or e-mail us. It's a great way to get to know your neighbors, and we'd love to have you on board!

Thank You

Many, many members of the Enka Village community pitched in to help with the new sign. There were countless details to deal with, including fundraising, digging holes for concrete footings and plants, bringing food to our A-B Tech crew, and hauling water to the site for cement mixing and plant watering. We'd especially like to thank these folks for their help:

John Young
The Browning family
Bill and Jeanene Hawkins
The Cook family
Valerie Panton
John Wesley Cole
Tony and Emily Dezio
The Satterfield family
Daryl Hawkins
Dean Lancaster
Jo McGill
The Devore family

We also want to thank the students of Mark Bloomfield's A-B Tech masonry class, who volunteered their time, even after the school year ended, to see the construction of the brick pillars through to completion. Glenn Satterfield and Brian Cook attended the class graduation and presented the group with certificates of appreciation. These students are:

Matthew Dosio
Ben Hall
Vera Hall
James Russell
Rick Sharpe
Robert Walker

Weekend of August 4

This weekend was a busy one in Enka Village! Several dozen households participated in the community yard sale Saturday morning. At 1:00 that day, a crowd of current and former residents attended the unveiling of the new Enka Village sign. In attendance were several of the A-B Tech students involved in the construction of the brick pillars, as well as Enka Village's very first resident, Betty Brookshire. We are all excited to have this permanent reminder of our community's presence and history! We will post pictures from the event soon.

On Sunday morning, the Asheville Citizen-Times front page featured a picture of resident Tom Lovingood. The accompanying article was about local mill villages and company towns, and Enka Village was listed as the best preserved of these areas. George Lancaster is also interviewed in the article, which you can find here: http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770804043.