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Plant Your Kitchen Garden
BACKYARD GARDENS OFFER FRESH VEGGIES AND FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL A quick guide for simple ideas to start off your backyard kitchen garden. With endless health and medicinal benefits, combined with the beauty and enjoyment to be found, gardening is endlessly rewarding. Getting Started What to Plant Whether starting from seed or seedlings, you can’t…
Read More2024 OVA Board Election Results
Congratulations to newly elected OVA directors Heidi Klyn, Matt Oliver and Jerry Gladstone. Today the ballots were counted and final results are in. There were 1,916 validated ballots (59.8% of the eligible Oakmont owners), easily surpassing the required quorum of 807 (25%). Vote counts: A short Board meeting was held, in which a resolution was…
Read More‘Member/People Power’ vs. ‘Board Power’
In a recent Nextdoor post, Malka Osserman applied a quote from Noam Chomsky to her critique of User Groups: “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going…
Read MoreCentral Complex User Group Organizational Meeting – Tuesday, March 5 from 1 to 3
The Long Range Planning Committee (LRPC) plans to set up four new user groups made up of Oakmont members to support the development of concept plans related to the Central Complex. Rex Fuller, chairman of the LRPC, gave the Board of Directors an overview of the user group structure at its February meeting. The Board has hired community planners ArchiLOGIX…
Read MoreFostering a Stronger and more Inclusive Community
EDITOR’S NOTE: Please feel free to submit any letters to the editor on topics of interest or concern. Your voices are an integral part of our community dialogue, and we look forward to hearing from you. Dear Neighbors, I hope this letter finds you well. As a concerned member of our community, I am writing…
Read MoreSub-Association Needs and Recommendations Report
At today’s OVA Board meeting the Aid for Sub-Associations Committee (ASAC) delivered a major report to the Board and the community. The committee is comprised of four representatives of different sub-associations plus OVA Board liaison Steve Spanier and OVA Management liaison Kevin Hubred, and is chaired by Jeff Young. The ASAC was tasked by the…
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