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, non-

aerosol aftershave, and beef jerky. If you’d like to donate items, or cash to help put the care package

together, please email Yara (santos7305@aol.com).

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.

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-the-

counter 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

CITY OF

The Forum

CITY OF

Upcoming Events

February 7-- RF Cares meeting (7:00pm) -RF City Hall February 9- Coushatta trip (9:00am-9:30pm)(meet @ city hall)

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 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.

--Continued on next page

Roman Forest Residents, 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!!! Ray Ricks Mayor Email: Mayor.Ricks@CityOf RomanForest.org Mayor Cell: 832 318-4553

City Council Meetings @ Roman Forest City Hall

**2nd Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. **

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 Mayor Ray Ricks

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

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

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

We Are Here for You

Ride to doctor’s appointments

Other transportation needs

Grocery shopping

Meals

Yard work

House work

Paper work

Any other needs

If you or someone you know is

elderly or disabled and needs

assistance in everyday chores

or tasks, we would like to help.

Please contact Shirley Lindsey

scamp662@yahoo.com--email

832-262-0566--phone

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 bmw0102@earthlink.net

By: Bailee Weaver

Upcoming Community Yard Sale

April 13, 2013

Contact Liz Mullane for more

information @ (281)-608-2356

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.

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

God’s Promises for the American Patriot Dr. Richard G. Lee/Jack Countryman pg. 18-19

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