Posts by Yvonne Frauenfelder
A Response to Steve Spanier
In his President’s Message of July 15 in the Oakmont News, Steve Spanier speaks at length about both the virtues of community activism and how it can become suspect in the age of social media. With pride he touches on his own involvement with activism working for [societal] change, and how social media is contributing…
Read MoreHow Sustainable are the OGC’s Operations?
After months of spirited point and counterpoint argumentation, the debate surrounding the Golf Club issue has become predictable and repetitive. While most residents who post regularly take umbrage at the demand by the OGC for a hefty subsidy by the OVA, nobody has yet ventured to analyze or publish the true needs of the Golf…
Read MoreAre there two Oakmonts?
Is there an Oakmont West and an Oakmont East? Geographically the community looks as one Village; houses running in a straight or curved line, leading up and down little hills, tied together in a similar architectural style, broken up with green bands that are our two 18 hole golf courses. The image is one of…
Read MorePress Freedom vs. Corporate Requirements
A little over a month ago, Wednesday, March 14, I met with Kevin Hubred, our general manager, Martin Hirsch, Association attorney, Vice President Greg Goodwin and James Foreman, immediate past chair of the Communications Committee, to talk about the future of the Oakmont News. The Board of Directors, on March 6, had given authority to Kevin to…
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