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FR Ad Proofs Vol. XXX No. 13, April 1 – 7, 2010 Letters to the Editor What to Do About the So do we allow this travesty of jus- Joint Water Authority tice to exist or do we continue to fight? Fluvanna It was just about a year ago when we were out gathering signatures on Last year Mr. Ott and Mr. Weaver REVIEW a petition to get the question of a believed we should have had the ref- erendum and voted that way. Since General: Fluvanna Review is published weekly Joint Water Authority on the ballot as Publisher/Editor: C.M. Santos then we have had two of the other by Valley Publishing Corp. Founded over 25 a referendum. This was not a novel [email protected] years ago, it is the only paper that covers idea but one that was contemplated supervisors replaced but neither has Advertising Manager: Katie Cabrera Fluvanna exclusively. One copy is free, by our state legislature when the voted one way or the other in open [email protected] additional copies are $1 each payable in session. advance to the publisher. Water Authority law was enacted. Accounts Manager: Diane Eliason In fact, there was a Virginia Whatever your opinion on the Subscriptions: Copies will be mailed for the Joint Water Authority, I suggest you Advertising Designer: Lisa Hurdle subscription price of $115 per year or $60 per Supreme Court decision on a very [email protected] 6 months. Please mail a check and a note with similar situation in 1993. Both sides communicate it to both me and to each of the Supervisors. Designer: Kathy Zeek your name and address to: Subscriptions relied on that decision with different Dept., P.O. Box 59, Palmyra, VA 22963. courses of action. The crux of the Doug Johnson Staff Writers: Submissions, Tips, Ideas, Etc.: Fluvanna Review School Board Member Page Gifford, William Des Rochers, controversy revolves around the encourages submissions and tips on items of Jennifer Zajac, Duncan Nixon, issuance of the charter by the State Cunningham District interest to Fluvanna citizens. We reserve the O.T. Holen, Joe Ronan right to edit submissions as deemed necessary Corporation Commission. An un- Photographer: David Stemple and cannot guarantee they will be published. challenged issuance is deemed con- Disaster Struck but Keep Calendar submissions to 50 words or less, clusive and cannot be undone. Fluvanna Answered Contributor at Large: Len Gardner Letters to the Editor to 300 words or less and So one side rushed to Richmond to On the morning of Monday, March Website: www.fluvannareview.com feature stories to 500 words or less. E-mail submissions: [email protected] or get the charter and the other side 22nd at 3 a.m., my husband and I Mailing Address: P.O. Box 59, mail to: Fluvanna Review, P.O. Box 59, Palmyra, challenged the issuance. The first awoke with a frantic phone call from Palmyra, VA 22963 VA 22963. Fluvanna Review is not responsible appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court our granddaughter, Katie. She kept Location: 2987 Lake Monticello Rd., for returning submitted materials. Include was dismissed on a technicality repeating, “There’s a fire in our 1/4 mile E of Lake Monticello Main Gate S.A.S.E. if you would like items returned. Phone: (434) 591-1000 without dealing with the merits of house, hurry!” Fortunately our Classified Ads: $7 per week or $10 for Fax: (434) 589-1704 the case. 2 weeks. Place a classified ad for both print daughter Colleen lives right next and web for one low price at The commission subsequently door. My husband Bob, a retired fire- Cover: Authorities are still searching www.fluvannareview.com issued a final ruling and a notice of fighter from New York, and I sprang for Jesse Morgan Hicks, missing Mastercard, Visa and Discover accepted. appeal was timely filed. That Petition into action. Bob grabbed one fire since Sept. 1, 2004. Disclaimer: The Fluvanna Review does not of Appeal must be submitted to the extinguisher and I the other. I was Designed by Lisa Hurdle and Kathy Zeek endorse or recommend any product or service Supreme Court before May 22 or the smart enough to slip on a pair of flip and is not repsonsible for any warranties or © 2010 Valley Publishing Corp. all rights reserved. claims made by advertisers in their ads. Joint Water Authority stands irrevo- cably established forever. 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I Lake Monticello News stated that members could possibly be respon- must say without a flashlight and sible for an annual contribution to shoes. I heard a few unpleasant reserves for $241.00 per year which words from Bob as he managed to equates to $1,116,794.00 per year hit every tree root and rock in our for the Lake Monticello Owners’ yard. Authorized Shipping Center Approved Shipper Association (LMOA.) Doesn't the When we arrived at our daughter’s board of directors understand there house, we were happy and proud to are multiple people here that are on We Do Document see our daughter Colleen outside fixed incomes? with the garden hose fighting the In June 2009 the homeowners Fax Send Destruction fire. Katie was nearby assuring us approved an increase in dues of $130.00 per year per homeowner. & Receive Protect that she called 911. Since the fire was basically outside on the deck Currently homeowner’s dues Laminating Your Identity! and exterior wall, it was important to account for $2,771,132.00 per year Document “knock it down quickly” (fire talk). to LMOA. The salary costs for per- Shredding mail and personal documents is very Shredding With Bob and Colleen on top, I went sonnel at Lake Monticello are important. Keep prying eyes of family, close $2,424,005.00. This is 87% of the under the porch. Just as Bob predict- GBC Binding friends and visitors away. Stop "trash intelligence" homeowner’s dues. It is not difficult ed embers were still glowing, so I Notary Public with document destruction. to see with these personnel costs doused everything with the extin- Full / Self Serve 75¢ per pound - Best price in Central Virginia! that there is little left over for opera- guisher. tions, repairs, or general mainte- Copying By now a police officer and fire- nance of facilities. The Eagles’ Nest black & white We Put The Express in Your Shipping man Richie Constantino from Lake was an example where the loss of color & More! Monticello were on the scene. My money to LMOA was due predomi- Large Format Mon.-Fri. 9-6 • Sat. 10-2 husband Bob and Richie felt the wall nately to salaries. Copying interior and exterior and found it to The LMOA board of directors and (for Blueprints, 434-589-9602 be very hot, so they opened up the the general manager have two major 265 Turkeysag Trail, #102 wall, pulled out the insulation and problems. One problem is funding Landscape Design, Terry Brown reserves as required by the State of Lake Monticello Owner & Operator wet everything down. When the fire Prints, etc.) Across from Food Lion trucks arrived, the firefighters Virginia Property Owners Mailbox Rentals Fax: 434-589-9603 checked the attic and crawl space to Association. The second problem is E-mail:[email protected] funding of possible costly repairs to be certain the fire was completely the main dam and Tufton dam, extinguished. based on requirements by the state. The next morning, I called our Lake of the Woods, a community insurance agent, Mike Apperson, at similar to LMOA, assessed a Virginia Farm Bureau in Fluvanna. $1200.00 fee per household to In less than 12 hours, there was an finance dam repairs as required by insurance representative and a fire the state of Virginia. Before asking investigator from the Farm Bureau at for more money the board of direc- the house.
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