Halo Detail will be visiting The Crossing Anaheim apartment community. They will be helping our residents keep their cars clean on Tuesday, December 7, 2010 from noon to 3 p.m.

This company is a mobile car washing and detail company. If you want to take part, bring your car right outside of our rear entrance on Grove St. Prices will start at $25. They accept MasterCard and Visa.

Will you be joining us?

Join your The Crossing Anaheim community on Monday, December 6 for food and football 5 p.m. in the clubhouse.

We’ll be providing plenty of snacks and pizza. Will you be there?

The Crossing Anaheim residents, you can help bring thousands of dollars for important projects to our city. How? By nominating Anaheim for Reader’s Digest’s “We Hear You America” promotion.

Right now, people are using their website to cheer for ideas they think will make their cities better. To participate, you must enter your information and submit something you think Anaheim needs.

A total of ten municipal prizes will be awarded to nominated towns or cities. All winning municipalities will appear in the May issue of Reader’s Digest, and will become a stop on the Reader’s Digest RV tour. First place prize is $40,000; second place prize is $25,000; four runner up prizes of $10,000; four category based runner up prizes of $10,000 each.

Right now cities in Michigan, Missouri, Colorado and Illinois are winning. We need our apartment residents to go vote, perhaps for something that applies to sustainable community living, which we value. Or other green living ideals. What are your ideas? Tell us on Facebook.

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Here at The Crossing Anaheim, we are a green apartment community. We offer Energy Star appliances. You’ve probably heard this term, but do you know exactly what it means and why it’s a good thing?

Energy Star appliances are good things because they save you money by using less water and less electricity than other appliances. These eco-friendly appliances are made from quality materials and technologically advanced materials.

Appliances that may carry this rating include clothes washers, refrigerators, dishwashers, and room air conditioners. Energy Star appliances are high-achievers. They go above and beyond the minimum government standards.

One great thing for apartment dwellers about Energy Star washers is that the washer design causes less wear and tear on your clothes, which means your clothes will last longer.

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By living here at The Crossing Anaheim, you live close to the Metrolink Anaheim Canyon Link station. This means you have excellent access to transportation.

The Metrolink will be making some changes to its schedule beginning Nov. 8, 2010. Go here for the changes to the Orange County line.

• All 600 and 800 series trains have at least one minor schedule adjustment.
• The amount of time added to trains 609 and 808 between Oceanside and Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo Stations was necessary to resolve ongoing conflicts on this single track portion of the system.

Affected weekend schedules will change the following Saturday, November 13, 2010. If you didn’t know already, the Metrolink has a Twitter account which you can follow and keep up with schedules and updates: @Metrolink. They also have an account for the Orange County line: @MetrolinkOC.

How often do you ride the Metrolink near our apartment community?

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Voters in Anaheim said no to red-light cameras. This issue is one that many people are divided about. Cities argue that these cameras save lives, and they generate revenue for the city. Many people don’t like being automatically ticketed.

According to the LA Times, red-light violations accounted for nearly 40 percent of the 2,397 accidents at Anaheim intersections between 2007 and 2009. Although plenty of studies and research has been done regarding this issue, the results are not conclusive. Red-light cameras may reduce “T-bone” accidents, but actually increase rear-end accidents. The latter are generally less harmful, yet more people are affected.

Currently more than 400 U.S. cities have these devices installed. The real solution may be to slightly increase yellow-light time and leave a slight delay in cross traffic’s transition to green, according to AOL’s auto correspondent.

Keep yourself safe on the property of The Crossing Anaheim and when you venture out into the city. The maximum speed limit on our apartment community property is now 5 mph.

Whatever your opinion, red-light cameras won’t be seen in our city, at least for now.

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