LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

POA Board must take a stand Let me start off by saying this is not intended to belittle or ridicule any Property Owner Association board member or the general manager. Here is a novel idea to the 2009 budget concerns. A court of law recently ruled that the votes cast by Cooper Communities Inc., in the 2008 POA election was in violation to the declarations of Bella Vista Village. CCI failed to pay the required assessment dues on the lots they platted for membership lots in the hopes of generating additional members to the village. The court is waiting on a response from the POA to settle this issue. - Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Hold up your end of the deal

Back in October, the Bella Vista Property Owners Association general manager dropped a bomb shell of sorts on a group of dedicated volunteers. At that time a press release was issued stating that former volunteer golf play managers had until June 2009 to use up their free golf or it goes away. For nearly two decades the volunteers had worked the village's golf courses in exchange for free rounds of golf, cart use or drivingrange privileges. It was a great deal for both them and the POA, because the volunteers were allowed to play the game they loved at no cost and the POA didn't spend a dime of our money to have them on duty all those years. But then, for some unspecified reason, the volunteer program was shutdown and the POA changed to paid workers doing the same thing. So here were all those people who had given thousands of hours to the POA, and for what? It looks like a useless voucher come June 2009. These people have been cheated. They deserve better. They upheld their end of the deal and the POA turned - Wednesday, January 7, 2009

They've run their course and should be banned

Douglas Grant

I read with interest the other day that a list of words has been "banned" from use for the coming year. Well, of course they didn't ban them as in they can never be spoken again, but sort of like clothing styles that are out of style, these words have seen the end of their run. The words and phrases to be eliminated were prepared by Lake Superior State University and appeared on their annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. The 34th version of the list was released Dec. 30. Among them are "change," which I am sure many of you have heard way too often in recent months. Now that the word has been banned, so to speak, all that is left is to see if any _ _ _ _ _ _ (didn't want to use it) comes about. Also on the list was "green," and "going green." The words have been used and overused so much in the last year or so that many people are becoming that particular color as nausea sweeps over them. Related to that is "carbon footprint," which is used - Wednesday, January 7, 2009