[Rhodes22-list] Flashing Blue and Red lights - Question for Slim?

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Slim:

Would you imagine that the residents of Seagull Lane will be happy not to
see a commotion by Law Enforcement next April? What if someone just waits a
year to reply to his orignal email?  Leaving the original senders name on of
course...  Do you have room in the North Country for a trouble making
Cheesehead?


R22RumRunner wrote:
> 
> Being the fun loving person that I am, I received the following letter
> from  
> a good friend on APRIL 1st. I thought it was funny, so I sent it to anyone 
> that  I thought would have an interest in the lake. They apparently didn't
> see 
> the  humor in this letter and sent it to all their lake friends.
> Apparently this 
>  letter crossed the lake many times in a few hours. The short version of
> this 
> is  that I have been asked by the USACE (Army Corps of Engineers) to not
> send 
> this  letter out next year. Their office was apparently swamped with phone 
> calls and  e-mails from irate lake property owners.
>  
> Rummy
>  
>  
>  
>  
> Here we go again. Something to complain about to our Congressmen and  
> Senators. 
> Last night in a closed meeting, the US Army Corps of Engineers, Anderson  
> County Management, and the United States Inland Lakes Management
> Authority,  
> including representatives from several southern states, announced that
> they have  
> finalized plans to make Lake Hartwell one of the nation’s premier
> recreation  
> destinations for Families. 
> This is being done due to the large numbers of vacationers who are 
> canceling 
> plans to visit their usual Children and Family entertainment sites in  the 
> state of Florida. These actions have been prompted by the increasing costs 
> of 
> gas and the corporate failures of numerous hotel, motel, and entertainment  
> facilities. 
> These cultural shifts are affecting Anderson County and the entire lake  
> areas in South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.  Although
> the 
> I-85 corridor is developing  nicely, tax incentives to attract new
> business are 
> resulting in a sharply  decreasing tax base for our residents along with 
> expected drastic personal  property taxes beginning in 2008. With all the
> growing 
> needs, such as  infrastructure re-building, including highways , bridges,
> water, 
> sewage, and  environmental health issues, there is no way to take in 
> additional monies from  property owners other than to take advantage of
> the resources 
> throughout Lake  Hartwell. 
> This means that the Government will turn over all the Lake Hartwell 
> Corps, 
> property to the respective counties who will apply the properties to the  
> adjacent, current property and home owners’ tax base and apply additional
> taxes  to 
> each. This means that what is now the Corps. Property will be taxed to the  
> property owners. The real problem here, in addition to the extra taxes, is
> that 
>  the respective home owners will not have title to the property and the 
> current  rules of Corps. Property usage will remain in place. 
> The plan is to apply the new development program beginning immediately 
> and 
> gradually reduce the residents’ share of the cost as commercial
> developments  
> are completed. The initial areas of recreation, corporate convention sites
> and  
> family destination sites will be along the I-85 route and will begin with
> the 
>  county take-over of several existing boat launching areas and
> campgrounds.  
> Specifically named as initial beginning development sites were Camp Creek  
> access,  Ponderosa Campground,  Friendship Campgrounds, Twin Lakes, Walden
> Road 
> accesses, Anderson Island,  Portman Marina, and lakeside properties now
> owned 
> by Clemson  University. 
> Hotel management of Hilton Corporation, Marriott, Inc. and Double Tree 
> Inns 
> of America have already signed agreements of immediate development in
> these  
> particular areas. Restaurant corporations are being invited to participate
> in  
> the Plans along with diversified groups of racial and religious 
> associations. 
> Presented by the United States Council of Inland waterway  management this 
> first day of April,  2008.            
> 
> 
> 
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