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Health, Happiness and Good Luck in the Coming Year
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T. S. Eliot If you feel that 2020 was drawn out, you are right. It was a leap year, giving us one more day (February 29). In addition to…
Read MoreAn opportunity for four Board volunteers
Oakmont Village Board Election in April 2021 I am going to write from my heart because I believe that what comes from the heart goes to the heart. I am very concerned about the current board direction and agenda. I feel I am not being heard as well as many of other Oakmonters. Perhaps I…
Read MoreThe Story of an Oakmont Committee’s Labor of Love
Early in 2018, after the 2017 Nunn’s Fire, the Oakmont Fire Safety Committee was formed. I was one of four members of that Committee. The other members were Dan Milhollin, Julie Cade and Warren Bowers. We put our hearts toward working on the Committee, meeting once and sometimes twice a week, sharing the findings of…
Read MoreOpen Letter to OVA Board
Oakmont Village Association Bylaws – Whats Next? In a Sept 14th article to the Oakmont Observer, I indicated that there could be some “unintended consequences” if Article XI of the OVA bylaws were changed to allow a reduced quorum threshold to change other bylaws. Some possible changes were included in that article. Since that 9/14…
Read MoreOakmont – What Is Next?
Kevin Hubred resigned as general manager of Oakmont in August, and Steve Spanier, President of the OVA Board of Directors, has given his notice of resignation for later this month of November. For the first time in the history of the village, the community finds itself without two members of the top leadership in both …
Read MoreThe Glass Fire – Post Scriptum
Under Fire Weather Watch – Monday, October 19 through Wednesday, October 21 – Oakmont’s preferred social forum, Nextdoor, is replete with comments and opinions on how to secure our village against perennially occurring fire storms. Everyone agrees on a 5-foot defensible space around our houses, but remains divided about the construction of a wall along…
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