Saturday, March 03, 2007

SOCIAL CLUB MINUTES-FEBRUARY, 2007

Oops! Sorry, I did not get the minutes from the last Social Club Meeting to Charley in time to publish in The View so here they are. Also, as always, there will be a copy on the Bulletin Board in The Clubhouse. My heartfelt thanks to NancyLee Moore for filling in for me. She did a great job!

LONGVIEW HILLS SOCIAL CLUB MEETING

February 19, 2007

Meeting was called to order by Ben Davi, Co-Chairman at 4:02 PM. Present were Ginger Dale, Treasurer, and NancyLee Moore, substitute Secretary. 20 residents attended the meeting.

Minutes from last meeting were read and approved.

Treasurer's Report - as of Feb. 1, 2007, showed $6,113.61 balance.

Activity Director, Jacky Thomas lost her sunglasses at the Clubhouse - whoever found/finds them, please return as she is unable to see well in daylight. Jacky also expressed her Thanks to all who have helped in so many ways to brighten the lives of all our residents, especially decorating and helping with the dinners, breakfasts, etc held at the Clubhouse.

Feb. 24 - Breakfast at the Clubhouse - Hart's group doing the honors.

Mar. 13 - 2:00 PM at the Clubhouse - Edna Abbott and Bernice Barnette will answer Questions regarding Identity Theft - bring your questions.

Afterwards, the Block Captains will have a meeting.

Mar. 17 - St. Patrick's Day dinner, at Clubhouse - corned beef/cabbage etc. Happy Hour at 5 PM, dinner at 5:30. Catered by Barb, our Domestic Goddess, for $8.50 each. Included will be a dessert bar. If you cannot find anyone from whom to buy a ticket, Please put your money in an envelope with your name on, and drop in lockbox in Clubhouse. Ticket will be given to purchaser. Betty Hanus will also be selling tickets.

March 31- Breakfast at the Clubhouse - Canasta Players will officiate. There has been Another group volunteering to put on breakfast - the CERT team.

April 8 - Easter Sunday Brunch - Pot Luck - 12 noon.

April 21 - Spring Dinner

April 22 - Leftovers Sunday

A discussion was held for a once-a-week catered lunch at the Clubhouse. It will cost $4.40 per person. If interested, let Jacky Thomas or check the Bulletin Board.

May 13 - Mother's Day Dinner - $14.00 - catered - 3 entrees.

March 6 - Cooking Club meets at 1 PM. Pot Luck Salad - welcome to all interested Parties.

Jean Hart has been Kitchen Coordinator for many years. She has done a fine job but now is planning her retirement. The Board is looking for someone to follow in her footsteps.

Jean will continue as Sunshine Committee, sending cards/phone calls to those under-the­-weather.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

  1. Report from Ron Thomas on progress of the CERT Team and their increased efforts to bring us all more safety during emergencies.
  2. Discussion was continued to purchase and display a continuing Service Award to be displayed in the Clubhouse - first medallion on the Board will be a Copper plate honoring Donna Davi. Don Newman made motion, seconded by Nancy Lee Moore. Motion carried unanimously.
  3. Table tennis replacement was discussed, information shared. Final assessment will be taken by Board.
  4. The air pot coffee maker which needed to be replaced, has been.
  5. Newsletter - Charlie Currie reported the competition for cover picture was taken by Brenda Chase. Congrats to Brenda - it is a beautiful pic - hope all enjoy it. Suggestion that a gift certificate be sent to John Forsloff for his long-term care of printing our Newsletter.
  6. CERT update - ham radio operators met - they are taking a course of study for Certification with the US Navy, Coast Guard, etc. Many thanks to them for their continuing hard work to help us.
  7. Discussion ensued regarding use of car horns to announce emergencies ­earthquakes, tsunamis, etc. They're free and most people have them.

MEETING WAS ADJOURNED BY BEN DAVI, CO-CHAIR AT 5: 18 pm. Minutes submitted by NancyLee Moore, sub. sec.

Deer Roping
Sent in by Wayde Dudley
>
> I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, Feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The First step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that since
> They congregated at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away) that it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home.
> I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope. The cattle, who had seen the roping thing before, stayed well back. They were not having any of it. After about 20 minutes my deer showed up - 3 of them. I picked out a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw my rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. I took a step towards it...it took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope and received an education.
> The first thing that I learned is that while a deer may just stand There looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope. That deer EXPLODED.
> The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope with some dignity. A deer, no chance. That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was no Controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I originally imagined. The only up side is that they do not have as much stamina as many animals. A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head.
> At that point I had lost my taste for corn fed venison. I just wanted To get that devil creature off the end of that rope. I figured if I just Let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die Slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual. Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were in, so I didn't want the deer to have it suffer a slow death so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder - a little trap I had set before hand. Kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and started moving up so I could get my rope back.
> Did you know that deer bite? They do! I never in a million years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody so I was very surprised when I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head - almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts.
> The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was ineffective. It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by now) tricked it.
> While I kept it busy tearing the bejesus out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose.
> That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day. Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp. I learned a long time ago that when an animal like a horse strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape. This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond I devised a different strategy. I screamed like woman and tried to turn and run.
> The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and three times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down. Now when a deer paws at you and knocks you down it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head.
> I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away.
> Now for the local legend. I was pretty beat up. My scalp was split open, I had several large goose eggs, my wrist was bleeding pretty good and felt broken (it turned out to be just badly bruised) and my back was bleeding in a few places, though my insulated canvas jacket had protected me from most of the worst of it. I drove to the nearest place, which was the co-op. I got out of the truck, covered in blood and dust and looking like hell. The guy who ran the place saw me through the window and came running out yelling "what happened".
> I have never seen any law in the state of Kansas that would prohibit an individual from roping a deer. I suspect that this is an area that they have overlooked entirely. Knowing, as I do, the lengths to which law enforcement personnel will go to exercise their power, I was concerned that they may find a way to twist the existing laws to paint my actions as criminal. I swear...not wanting to admit that I had done something monumentally stupid played no part in my response. I told him "I was attacked by a deer". I did not mention that at the time I had a rope on it. The evidence was all over my body. Deer prints on the back of my jacket where it had stomped all over me and a large deer print on my face where it had struck me there. I asked him to call somebody to come get me. I didn't think I could make it home on my own. He did. Later that afternoon, a game warden showed up at my house and wanted to know about the deer attack. Surprisingly, deer attacks are a rare
> thing and wildlife and parks was interested in the event. I tried to describe the attack as completely and accurately as I could. I was filling the grain hopper and this deer came out of nowhere and just started kicking the hell out of me and BIT me. It was obviously rabid or insane or something.
> EVERYBODY for miles around knows about the deer attack (the guy at the co-op has a big mouth). For several weeks people dragged their kids in the house when they saw deer around and the local ranchers carried rifles when they filled their feeders. I have told several people the story, but NEVER anybody around here. I have to see these people every day and as an outsider - a "city folk". I have enough trouble fitting in without them snickering behind my back and whispering "there is the idiot that tried to rope the deer."

Thursday, March 01, 2007

PANDORA'S BOX..
EDITOR:
This is a must LOOK AT... Read about it below as the author describes it. Then below his story we tell about our experience and give you the how to do it. First you have to have hi-speed internet or it won't work. Now go and read.

On January 6, 2000 a group of musicians and music-loving technologists came together with the idea of creating the most comprehensive analysis of music ever.

Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like.

Over the past 6 years, we've carefully listened to the songs of over 10,000 different artists - ranging from popular to obscure - and analyzed the musical qualities of each song one attribute at a time. This work continues each and every day as we endeavor to include all the great new stuff coming out of studios, clubs and garages around the world.

It has been quite an adventure, you could say a little crazy - but now that we've created this extraordinary collection of music analysis, we think we can help be your guide as you explore your favorite parts of the music universe.

We hope you enjoy the journey.

Tim Westergren
Founder
The Music Genome Project

Ok that was a nice article. Here is what you get FREE. The senior mantra... It's FREE! The way it works can be tried out first. You don't have to download anything! just follow the link below and then when you get there click "create a new station".. You put in a song or composer that you like. Then it may start with say Neil Diamond then the next song it will play is one from him then their software goes out and selects a singer that is much like him and plays that song and so forth. As each song plays the album it came from is displayed. By placing the cursor on it it gives you a thumbs up or down option. Thumbs up and it continues to play... down and it ejects. Now it compares what you have said youlike and goes and finds more songs like it. Each time you click thumbs up or down it hones into what you really like and saves it.

Now the important feature ... click minimize and the site disappears on to your start tool bar and you can surf to all the other websites you want to go to while it plays your music. If a song comes up that is primo just click the tool bar icon and give it a thumbs up... If it's a stinker thumbs down. If it's just ok I let it play on with no input. It saves your choices for the next time you come back provided you sign up for a free account. There are more features but we will leave them for you to discover. Here is the link:

http://www.pandora.com/?cmd=tuner
The New Neighborhood watch system in action...

A call came in that there was an ambulance entering the park on the radio...

Ron on FRS Ch5 :
An ambulance with flashing lights just passed by on Windmill..

RuthAnne:
It just turned north on evergreen

Marlene:
Say again.

Ruthanne:
An ambulance just passed heading north on Evergreen

Marlene:
I see it.. Its stopped.

Ron:
Where?

Ron:
Do you have your map?

Marlene :
Yes standby while I get it.

Marlene:
It's house #105

The conversation continues updating the ambulance crews actions and the resident's name. On the way out the ambulance is reported as it leaves the park.

During the radio dialog Ruthanne observes that this is way for us to have concern for a fellow resident in crisis and offers a silent prayer.

This will become the way of neighborhood watch as the network grows and you all begin to monitor CH5 you will be well informed about what's going on in the park... Won't you join in by purchasing an FRS radio today. The more eyes and ears the safer the park becomes and the safer you become in an emergency.

Wave energy coming to coast

Wave energy coming to coast: "Wave energy coming to coast
Renewable resource - An Oregon-based electricity co-op and a New Jersey company join forces
Related Documents (PDF):
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Thursday, March 01, 2007
GAIL KINSEY HILL

A Portland-based electric co-op has hooked up with a private company to help develop a wave energy project off the Oregon Coast near Reedsport."

News - StatesmanJournal.com


News - StatesmanJournal.com: "Tickets for Delta Air Lines flights from Salem went on sale Tuesday, the first time travelers could book a flight from the state capital in more than a decade."

NewsGator Online

NewsGator Online: "'Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address."

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

2007 Oregon Coast Home and Garden Show - Oregon Coast Home and Garden Show

2007 Oregon Coast Home and Garden Show - Oregon Coast Home and Garden Show: "2007 Oregon Coast Home and Garden Show


'There's No Place Like Home'

Plan to Attend This Weekend!

The 28th annual
Oregon Coast Home and Garden Show
March 2, 3 & 4, 2007
at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds in Newport, Oregon

For 28 years, we've been the coast's resource for information on all your home and garden needs. From new home construction to great tips for your garden, you'll enjoy demonstrations and learn about the many products and services available.

There will be prizes awarded every hour to show visitors!

Admission and Parking are free!"

SUNSET AT THE NORTH POLE........click on picture to enlarge

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Sent in by John Spangler

From the Desk of Pat Schwoch Executive Director







Pat Schwock

Eighteen months of negotiations are finally coming to a close. Our proposed legislation is now in Legislative Counsel. This is where any proposed legislation goes to be drafted and receives an LC number. When it leaves there it will go to the House and Senate, for a reading after which it has a bill number and is ready to be heard in committee.

We will post the bill on our OSTA web site as soon as we have it in hand. That site is http://www.mhoo-osta.com. Give us until about the 2nd or 3rd week in February to get the information on the site.

Briefly this is what the bill offers:

A Payment of $5,000, $7,000 or $9,000 for a single wide, double wide or triple wide from the park owner; no charge to resident for disposing of the old home; A $10,000 state tax credit that is universally refundable for all tenants displaced by the closure, regardless of income or whether you are able to move your home or not; The landlord who elects to sell to the residents will be able to avoid Oregon state capital gains taxes.

When the election returns came in I began hearing from people that we should be able to "get everything we want" since the Democrats won! Yes, they did win but with a one-person majority in the house. Some of those democrats are more conservative than others, as are some Republicans more liberal. So we submit our legislation and ask for their support.

Is our Coalition bill everything we want? NO! Am I getting flack from people who think we didn't get enough. YES! But by the same token MHCO is getting flack from their members that they were too generous. That is what compromise is about.

There are several other bills being presented. Some of them deal with legislation to enable us to become involved in coop's, such as that in New Hampshire, where it has been used so successfully in helping residents to become involved in buying their parks. There are bills to help fund those issues. As bills that deal with our issues come into focus we will add those to the web site.
As you know I have worked with the Coalition for the past 5 sessions (10 years). To those of you who are new to OSTA, let me explain why the legislation concerning manufactured landlord tenant law comes out of the coalition. When I first became active in the legislative efforts of Manufactured Home Owners some 14 years ago I didn't have a clue how the legislative procedure worked. The first session was kind of a daze. We didn't even get a hearing. At the beginning of the second session Frank Burelson, who was a resident of Greenway in Dallas, and I made it a point to go to every hearing that the landlords had and protest that we were being ignored. Finally, Senator Bill Kennemer, a past senator from Clackamas, heard our pleas and turned to the landlord group and said to them," Don't you ever come before the legislature with legislation that affects these people, without their having been involved and you have an agreement, because if you do we will not hear your legislation." From that date forward we have worked with the coalition and have gained many benefits that has made our lives much better.
We were reminded of that legislation last session when Senator Ben Westlund praised John Brenneman and I for working for legislation that both parties could agree to.

A run down on some of those rights can be found in the article entitled "MEMBERSHIP IS CRUCIAL" in the current issue of the "OSTA Review".

Finally, there is a small group, some of whom are OSTA members, who think they can come up with legislation that is better than ours. That is a possibility, but getting it passed is another story. I have been accused of "being in the pocket of the owners," regarding our coalition bills. Anyone who knows me knows nothing could be further from the truth. The coalition members have worked hard to learn to trust each other and in this day and age that is a good feeling and a rare relationship. Now we wait and work with the legislators to get this legislation into law. We will be asking for your support.

Again, watch the web site, http://www.mhoo-osta.com, for additional information.


Thanks,

Pat

Our Hospital Lectures Here Soon

Social Club President Wayde Dudley has arranged a presentation from Newport Samaritan Hospital.

Hospital Services from our local hospital will be here to explain how they serve the community and what services they offer on April 18th from 2 to 4pm.

This will be an informative meeting. Everyone is encouraged to attend.
For those that might be interested, the annual Blessing of the Fleet will be Saturday, March 17th. There is a Survival Suit Race at 9:30 a.m., which starts in front of Mo's on the Bayfront. At 1:00 p.m. there is The Blessing of the Fleet from the U.S. Coast Guard Station (the parade can be viewed along the Bayfront). At 3:30 p.m. is a Fishermen's Memorial Service at the Fishermen's Memorial Sanctuary at Yaquina State Park. From 6:00 - 10:00 p.m. is a "Battle of the Frypan" to see who wins the Best of the Bay, at the Newport Middle School, as well as entertainment, art silent auction, displays, etc. There is a charge for the evening event. This year the Honorary Commanders of the Parade are Mike and Kathy Holmgren. Mike is the coach of the Seattle Seahawks. For more information you can go to fishermenswives@yahoo.com, or call 574-5555.

Monday, February 26, 2007

Sent in by Milt Sadusky...

AND IT CAME TO PAST.........
in ancient Israel, it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a young wife by the name of Dot. And Dot Com was a comely woman, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she had been called Amazon Dot Com.
And she said unto Abraham, her husband: "Why dost thou travel far, from town to town with thy goods when thou can trade without ever leaving thy tent?"
And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags short of a camel load, but simply said: "How, dear?"
And Dot replied: I will place drums in all the towns and drums in between to send messages saying what you have for sale, and they will reply telling you which hath the best price. And the sale can be made on the drums and delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS)."
Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums. And the drums rang out and were an immediate success. Abraham sold all the goods he had at the top price, without ever moving from his tent.
But this success did arouse envy. A man named Maccabia did secrete (look it up, it means to hide) himself inside Abraham's drum and was accused of insider trading.
And the young men did take to Dot Com's trading as doth the greedy horsefly take to camel dung. They were called Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Siderites, or NERDS for short. And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the deafening sound of drums that no one noticed that the real riches were going to the drum maker, one Brother William of Gates, who bought up every drum company in the land. And indeed did insist on making drums that would work only with Brother Gates" drumheads and drumsticks.
And Dot did say: "Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by others."
And as Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel, or eBay as it came to be known, he said: "We need a name that reflects what we are."
And Dot replied: "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators." "YAHOO," said Abraham.
And that is how it all began.

Sunday, February 25, 2007

Google simplification


Google bought our blogging company sometime ago and has been adding and modifying the way this webpage is made. Over time they have made innovations to remove the necessity for knowing html code to make a page work. I learned the code to create what we have now. As time and age move on though we may not be able to keep up this website and others that fall under our umbrella.

So, while we are able we will be incorporating Google's new designs into this site. I suspect there will be days that we wish it was never attempted. Google says when we finish though people will be able to design and make what has to be done now with code without a bit of knowledge of code. That means one day a new editor will step up to the plate and carry Longview Hills @ Newport Oregon into the future. It is already a living history of a retirement community around the 21st century.
The ARCHIVES


We have had comments that the archives for the website stopped working. Worked on it today and found a new way to make them work and it should be a lot easier for you. When you scroll down the page on the left you will find a new box to the archives that conveniently lists them by date. The website is archived weekly right back to its beginning. Everything is there, a miniature history of LVH for about 5 years. Over 5000 posts!

Should you care to research the archives or the current articles there is a search engine just for this website alone in the top left corner of the page just above the banner picture. Put in your search key words or names and up will pop links to all that was said on the subject in the past. Try putting in your name or a friend's that is active in park activities.

A word about the looks of what you will see... When an archive is called it brings up all the stories written on the date range selected but the rest of the website does not change. All that changes are the articles. Look for the dates on the postings and you will know you are in the right place.

2007 Legislature - StatesmanJournal.com

2007 Legislature - StatesmanJournal.com: "As real estate sizzles in Oregon, converting manufactured home parks into traditional subdivisions or other uses is tempting. Park owners have gotten cold calls from Seattle developers waving 'gobs of money' to sell their sites, said John VanLandingham, a Legal Aid lawyer who helps coordinate the Manufactured Housing Landlord/Tenant Coalition."