Please submit reminders or other appropriate items that may be of interest to the Clemson Downs property owners to Walt Castro at waltcastro62@gmail.com.
POA Residents/Members, (From Anne Snider) 04/02/2026
POA Residents/Members, (From Anne Snider) 02/20/2026
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POA Residents/Members, (From Anne Snider) 01/03/2026
Time on your hands? Room in your heart? The Clemson Downs Volunteers could fill those voids. You can greet visitors at the desk, reminisce with residents, or help with lunch in healthcare. Email Kathy McGee, kkmcgee16@gmail.com if you have 4 hours a month to contribute.
POA Residents/Members, (From Anne Snider) 12/20/2025
POA Residents/Members, (From Anne Snider) 12/6/2025
Your Clemson Area Retirement Center (CARC) Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)3 organization, would like to thank Clemson Downs residents for their generous donations to the Foundation that have resulted in many items enhancing the quality of life for our residents. Below are listed some of the important areas provided by your donations.
- Construction and use of “The Spot”
- Electrification of “The Spot”
- Purchase of heaters for use at “The Spot”
- Construction and maintenance of the Tranquility Garden
- Rocking chairs for the Tranquility Garden
- Assistance to the POA by help funding the new Bridge on the walking trail
- Help with purchase of the maintenance “truck” used by our yard crew
- Purchase of masks during the COVID shutdown
- Purchase of many benches in memory of residents and their families
- Construction and maintenance of the Health Care garden
- Help with the funding of exercise equipment in Corley Center
- Purchase of new sound system in the workout area of the Corley Center
- Purchase of new 65” smart TV for the Corley small room
- Replacement of rocking chairs for Corley porch
- Establish a Tree of Honor and Memory for both individuals and loved ones
POA Residents/Members, (From Anne Snider) 05/14/2025
There have been reports of people cutting flowers in the tranquility garden to the right of the B building. We are all invited to enjoy the flowers in and around the CARC properties, but please don’t cut or pick a bouquet to take home. CARC wants the flowers to be enjoyed by everyone and welcomes all of us to visit the gardens.
Thank you.
POA Residents/Members, (From the CDPOA Board) 04/10/2025
- Because of the layout of Clemson Downs (twisting streets and backyard woods), fogging is of minimal effectiveness on mosquitos.
- The Clemson Area Retirement Center (CARC) property in the center of our neighborhood is not sprayed for mosquitoes.
- The artificial pyrethrins sprayed in the fogging process can be harmful to pets, children, and immune-compromised individuals. The chemical residue can be picked up on the feet of pets, who might ingest the chemicals.
- The chemical sprayed during the fogging kills bees, butterflies, moths, fireflies, ladybugs, caterpillars, earthworms, and dragonflies, all of which are beneficial insects. Some of these insects even eat mosquitoes.
- As CARC has done, you can put up bat houses and purple martin houses.
- Make sure your birdbath and outdoor pet water dishes are dumped and cleaned out every other day.
- Check your flower pots and their saucers to eliminate standing water.
- Check out more suggestions, including a recipe for a natural solution that kills mosquito larvae, at https://oisc.purdue.edu/pesticide/iprb/iprb_169_article_re_mosquito_fogging.pdf
POA Residents and Members, (From Virginia Baird) 09/03/2021
The property on the far side of Downs Blvd. belongs to the Country Walk Subdivision. Only limbs that have fallen from the trees on that side of Downs Blvd. should be stacked on this property for pickup by the City.
Any limbs, brush, or grass clippings removed by residents should be taken to the area at the end of Bayberry on the far side of the concrete pad reserved for these items. The only contractors allowed to use this site are those hired by CARC and CDPOA for common property.
A schedule for brush pickup is located on the City website at https://cocengineering.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/edf9aabbb48d4546947fd162b09ce9b8
This site can also be accessed at the City of Clemson Public Works menu website at “Brush Pickup Dashboard.” Pickup is approximately every 3 weeks unless there is storm damage that creates an unusual amount of brush.
Please do not put brush or clippings on the mulch piles at the end of Downs Loop. This mulch is used in the Woodland Walk.
Fall and Winter Leaf Pickup begins in October and will be over at approximately the end of February.
- Loose leaves are picked up by the vacuum truck but bagged leaves will have to wait for brush pickup.
- Loose leaves should be left within 10 feet of the street and long rows are better than large piles.
- Please do not mix anything with the leaves.
- Do not pile your leaves around power poles, telephone and cable pedestals, or over water meters or sewer manholes. The machine will suck the lids off and damage the machine.
Additional information on leaf pickup and mosquito fogging can be located on the City’s Public Works website at Season Schedule or https://www.clemsoncity.org/Departments/PublicWorks/SeasonSchedule/tabid/275/Default.aspx.
Virginia D. Baird864-650-5600
POA Residents/Members, (From Anne Snider) 02/28/2021
Please remember that when a contractor works in your yard, the waste they generate is not to be taken to the yard waste disposal site at the end of Bayberry. That site is only for POA residents who generate their own yard waste. Also, please don’t leave piles of leaves in the medians or near storm drains, as the leaves will cause the storm drains to back up and flood your yard or your neighbor’s yard. Thank you for helping keep our neighborhood looking good!
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