Special Note to Lenders and Title Companies – as we are a voluntary Community Association, we do NOT prepare Estoppel Letters.
Per our Bylaws Fairway Estates Board of Directors is comprised of 4 Directors/Board Members serving as Officers and UP TO 5 additional Directors/Board Members. Committee Chairs could be Directors/Board Members but do not have to be.
Todd Brooks joined the Board in 2018. He and his wife Michelle are dedicated UF Gator Floridians who moved their family to Fairway Estates in 2001 after 2 years in Maryland. Each of them has family in Dunedin, so they were very familiar with Fairway Estates and chose well.
Todd and Michelle are both teachers and Todd has taught physics, chemistry, and engineering at East Lake High since moving to Dunedin. When they aren’t enjoying summer vacations with their two boys, Todd and Michelle are camping, hiking, stand up paddle boarding, kayaking, and biking, along with other activities. Todd has started collecting bourbons and is a member of the Fairway Estates Whiskey Society.
Todd joined the Board to help continue the Board work being done including the activities that help Fairway Estates be a close-knit community. He is our liaison with the Sheriff’s Department focusing on helping to eliminate speeding to make our roads safe for everyone and he has other ideas to help connect neighbors in our community and with our Dunedin businesses.
Derrick Beland was elected to the FECA Board at our annual meeting in February 2019. He and wife Nicole relocated to Clearwater in 2005 from New Jersey. They fell in love with Fairway Estates and moved to our neighborhood in 2017.
Derrick is a software developer for a global IT company, and Nicole is a dedicated special education teacher with Pinellas County Schools. In their spare time, they enjoy bicycling on the Pinellas Trail, walking their 3 rescue dogs, visiting our parks and beaches, and remodeling their home. Derrick wanted to actively participate in our community and volunteered to be elected a board member.
Kelly Dixon has been on our Board since 2014 and has been passionately serving in various capacities since 2015 including Treasurer, Webmaster/Social Media administrator and Special Events Chair. Kelly and husband Gregg moved to Fairway Estates in 2001 from Western New York because they love the area and to give Gregg a convenient golfing location. Kelly has been a full-time real estate agent/broker since 2009 with over 25 years’ experience in the mortgage industry as a mortgage loan officer. She currently works for RE/MAX Action First and in her snippets of spare time enjoys the Pinellas Trail and keeping her adorable Yorkies, Brinley & Woodford, happy.
Kelly joined the Board because she wanted to get to know more of our neighbors and to give back to our wonderful community. Her current focus is to find ways to help neighbors become more connected and involved by using our social media channels and our fun events. As Treasurer, she clearly sees the benefits of encouraging 100% participation in our neighborhood-supporting dues payment.
It makes sense that Mary Lyon is actively part of our neighborhood when you learn that she moved to Fairway Estates from Alabama as a child in 1962 when her parents built their home next door to her grandparents – who moved here in 1959! Mary joined the Board back in 2009 and has held several positions: Membership, Secretary, and now as Member at Large.
Mary graduated from Dunedin High School in the 1970s after which she lived and worked in nearby cities before moving back to Fairway Estates in 2007 when her mom passed away. Mary does not slow down and you can see her zipping by in her corvette as she goes to work as a customer service representative at Lancaster Insurance Agency in Clearwater. In addition to sharing her time and energy with Fairway Estates activities, her life is full of social engagements, going to the beach, working out at her local gym, and playing with her two lively dogs.
Bill Greenwood and his wife Cathy have been Fairway Estate neighbors since retiring from jobs in the northeast in 2011. They picked Dunedin as their retirement community after visiting several times.
Bill started his career as a Peace Corps Volunteer and worked in Peru between 1967 and 1969 assisting local small businesses. His interest in business drove him to become a CPA which he used for 40 years as a financial executive for several midsized companies in the New York metro area. Bill and Cathy, a retired middle school English teacher, have two married daughters and five grandchildren.
Bill joined the Fairway Estates Board in 2016 to better understand the Association’s activities and to assist where he could. To further help our community, Bill leads the AARP tax preparation activities at the Dunedin Community Center. He stays active with tennis, golf (conveniently located in his back yard), visits to Honeymoon Island, and trips to see family in Massachusetts and Montana.
While living in Atlanta, Kathy predicted to her mom that one day she would live on the Pinellas Trail so she could rollerblade. While blading has given way to biking, Kathy is living her prediction.
Kathy graduated from UCF, worked in Florida county government until she expanded her skills into management consulting, and then moved into hi-tech in Silicon Valley where she met her husband Mark. Her international hi-tech marketing consulting business easily moved to Dunedin when they came in 2007. Kathy volunteered as our newsletter editor in 2016 when she decided to retire. Not one to be bored, she became a certified personal trainer, teaches weight loss classes, and is a board member of the Aging and Wellness Institute in Clearwater. You can find her, and often Mark, at the Palm Harbor YMCA when they aren’t visiting grandkids in California, visiting Mark’s family in Turkey, or exploring the next country on their list.
Matthew Stevens and his wife Raven and three daughters, grandson, and a menagerie moved to Fairway Estates from Colorado in 2014 when he completed his 24-year career in the Air Force.
Matthew was born and raised in Connecticut and graduated from the University of Connecticut. His military career started immediately and provided interesting life experiences that include living in various parts of the US, deployments in Qatar, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the chance to pursue higher education and most importantly, raise a beautiful family. Matthew and Raven fell in love with Dunedin after a family visit to Matthew’s brother who lives here. They decided that Dunedin was going to be their forever town, and Fairway Estates their forever community.
After his military retirement, Matthew started a consulting company working with government agencies and local small businesses. Wanting to become involved in his new, and forever community, Matthew began attending Board meetings and one thing led to the next…
Don and his wife Ellen moved to Fairway Estates from North Carolina in 2017 anticipating retirement in 2022 from his 41-year career in the paper and packaging industry. While in this career, Don served in the Army Reserves for 10 years, after an initial 3 years regular duty. Don now has more time to enjoy his hobbies of golfing, hiking, biking and travel.
Don would like to serve as a Board Member because “now that I have retired and am not traveling every week, I feel it is time to be more involved in our community. Hopefully, I will be able to assist the current board in tackling the ongoing challenges and projects of our neighborhood.”
Betsy and her husband Bill have lived in Dunedin for 37 years and moved to Fairway Estates in 2018. Their three grown sons – Bill, Tom, and Scott – all Dunedin HS graduates have their own families elsewhere. Darwin “The Cat” and his big yellow lab/husky buddy George keep their lives interesting, as do the seven grandchildren.
Born in Philadelphia and living in Turkey for a year paved her initial career of teaching high school English and public speaking, and later as a realtor. Bill’s HR work with a major insurance company took them to various cities, and ultimately to Dunedin. Betsy’s real estate career has further evolved from retirement to property management consulting and teaching. Betsy and Bill are active in Dunedin goings-on and particularly interested in the preservation of Dunedin’s quaint culture.
The committee chair position of City Liaison has been a good fit for Betsy’s interests in community affairs, historic preservation, and her skills as an educator and realtor. In her role, she updates the Board on city projects and activities while researching city information when our Association needs it. In 2024 she became our newest Board Member and also assumed the role of Secretary.
Diane Garcia loves living in Fairway Estates and the city of Dunedin. As a way to meet neighbors and learn about this wonderful community, she volunteered to be Co-Editor of the Fairway Focus in the Fall of 2017.
A northeasterner born in Long Island and raised in Connecticut, Diane made Miami her home in 1972 where she raised a son and a daughter and began her 35-year teaching career. She taught biology, physical science, and earth science to gifted middle school students. She also connected children with Florida’s natural habitat by writing grants that funded mobile science labs where inner-city students could learn about marine science and meteorology. Diane also started a summer enrichment program for disadvantaged students.
Following her love of nature, Diane guided birdwatching and canoeing trips in Everglades National Park. Once they retired, Diane and her partner Frank moved to Dunedin in 2017 after visiting family in the area.
Diane loves bicycling, dancing, swimming, qigong, baking sugar-free goodies, arranging flowers from Frank’s garden and collecting shells on Honeymoon Island. She is a member of the Suncoast YMCA and the Dunedin History Museum.
Deb Timko and her husband Steve are second-generation residents in Fairway Estates after unexpectedly inheriting their home from Deb’s aunt, Jean Carrier. Originally Deb and Steve planned to sell the house but the more trips they made to Dunedin, and the more neighbors they met, the more they fell in love with their new home and community.
Covid and health issues were the final push they needed to move to Dunedin, saying goodbye to their 3 grown children and 9 grandchildren in Illinois. Happily, the family loves the area, the pool, and the relaxed setting.
Deb and Steve are used to being very active in their community and looking forward to the same in Dunedin. Some of their many volunteer services in Illinois included church activities, foster care for infants, and working with the Central Institute for the Deaf. Deb has been a motivational speaker, has even led weekend scrapbooking retreats through their community college. Deb is excited to be chairperson of the New Resident Welcome Committee, an opportunity to actively contribute to her new community.
Dave Lindsey is a rare Florida native. He was born in Lakeland, worked his way through school at the Publix dairy warehouse, and graduated from USF with a degree in Botany. During college, he participated in a work-study program with the Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County where he collected and processed water quality samples to study red tide for the Tampa Bay waters.
His career focused on the environment, working with for-profit environmental consulting firms, and then the US Fish and Wildlife Service’ National Wetlands Inventory, headquartered in St. Petersburg, where he assisted in creating the National List of Plant Species that Occur in Wetlands and where he mapped the wetlands across approximately 33 million acres. He transferred to Albuquerque where he provided botanical expertise to the US southwest wildlife refuges.
In 2014 Dave returned to Florida to be near his and wife Susan’s families. Dave is retired but busy tending to his yard of native plants, supporting the Florida Native Plant Society, volunteering with the Boy Scouts of America, and being the Committee Chair overseeing the aquatic health of Lake Saundra in conjunction with the Lakefront Property Owners.
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