September 2006 Ponderosa Park Association Newsletter

The picnic was a huge success. We had great food, a fun silent auction and great people! We had about 60 people attend this year and there were hamburgers and chicken aplenty. We had many wonderful side dishes and desserts made by our members. The afternoon time seemed to work out well. The silent auction brought about $260. At the meeting before the picnic, we decided to keep the money in a separate column to be used for picnic area improvement or a permanent sign for the association to announce functions and dates and times.

Many thanks to Judy Midkiff for all of her hard work preparing and putting up the signs for the picnic, as well as getting all of the food and condiments and beverages together. Also, thanks to Larry Peterson and Dick Wise for cooking.

Every year I recognize a few more people and meet a few more new people. It was great fun!

We now have a web site. Our url for the website is PonderosaParkAssociation.org and we thank Ray Sola for all of his hard work in making this happen for us. It will only cost us $15 per year. If you care to have something put on the website, you may contact Ray at RSola at Ponderosa Park Association.org. We are coming of age! From now on, we will put all minutes and newsletters and other various information on the website.

Unless you request it from me in writing I will be posting all of the information on the website and not sending out the expensive mailings. If you do request it in writing, we will send you the newsletters by mail. This will be the last newsletter until spring.

I’ve had several telephone calls and there has been much discussion at the last two meetings concerning fast and/or unlicensed vehicles on the park roads. As far as I know the only recourse is to call the sheriff’s office. They will ask you if you know the address where the vehicle operator resides, and that is helpful to them. They will send someone out if they have someone available at the time, as long as the vehicle or vehicles are operating illegally at that time. They can’t do anything unless they catch them breaking the law.

Christmas tree decorations are not going to be allowed by the forest service unless on private land. There will be fines and they say they will remove the decorations. They cite the danger to the animals who might ingest them as well as the clutter along the road after the winds blow.

Let us continue to build community and have a wonderful winter! From time to time we’ll give some snow reports on the web site and maybe a picture here and there to let the summer people see what is going on here.

Mike Brockert, President

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