Get the residents to connect with their neighbors at a very relaxed Grill & Chill event. This event can fit any budget. All you need is a grill, some meat (hot dogs, burgers, chicken), buns, and just a little time to hang out with others. You can target this to the men in the community and change the name to "Men's Grill & Chill". What a great way to reach the men in your community. If you have an even lower budget, you could provide the sides, drinks and condiments, and have the guys "BYOM"... Bring Your Own Meat. Then, the guys can test their own grilling skills. An event like this is great to do before a big Sunday night game.

We are having a Halloween Party at The Landing this Saturday with a pumpkin carving contest, food, candy, games, and following it all up with a community hayride! The pumpkin carving contest has already started and residents are asked to bring in their pumpkins prior to the party so that we can have anyone that comes in the office vote on their favorite. Candy and games will be provided by the office staff and food will be a potluck of sorts with the majority brought in by residents. I've asked our landscaping company to let us borrow a wagon for a memorable hayride immediately following our party. I've also asked residents to sign up to hand out candy during the community hayride. We are very excited about this event and hope to make it a yearly tradition!

Bring your tin can and hand made spoon along with an extra can to echo to our Hobo Jungle. This event will start early in the week as we must elect a Hobo King and Queen for our Hobo Parade. Each candidate will post a poster saying why they feel they should be King or Queen and hang in the community room Monday by noon . (If no one enters I will do it for you and you never know who I will pick to put up on the wall) Election will be on Thursday at 10:00. Which ended up be Jackie Sanchez and Robert McCuthoen. The food will be prepared by Ron Ingalls, migratory worker. He...

The community team are all dressing up as mad scientists that resemble the Doc from Back to the Future movies. We have eyeballs, test tubes, all kinds of candy related to science and doctors. We have food decorated like fingers, brains etc... We even ordered candy from orientaltrading.com that looks like bloodbags, human organs, testtubes etc... Sounds a little graphic when I type it here, but it really isn't! LOL looks like science book stuff from school honestly. We have all of our offices set up with different games for the kids to play. Ring toss, ping pong pails, what's behind the curtain, duck pond and bobbing for apples of course. We have a scavenger hunt throughout the clubhouse and a costume contest as well. Prizes include DVD gift sets, games, radios, toys.

Last year we held a fall festival complete with a kid friendly haunted house inside the office. Spider webs and coffin and dry ice...it was So much fun! This year we are adding a bonfire and hayride.