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Elk Forest News

Feb 10, 2010

LOST DOG

Black Lab, named Rex. He was last seen wandering near the elk river on monday. If found, please call Pete at (302)540-7271

Dec 19, 2009

Elk Forest is getting hammered with snow and gusty winds. Snow will become heavy this afternoon. Cold. High 29F. Winds NNE at 20 to 30 mph. Additional snow accumulating 6 to 10 inches this afternoon with more on the way tonight.
Mike Morrison 443-350-2275 has a plow, so give him a call if you need your drive way cleared.

Nov 12, 2009

A big thanks to all the neighbors that came to our model train open houses! We had a blast, as did the kids (and adults). Here's a couple pic's of the "kids" using the crane to unload M&M's from the "coal drag". 

In addition to the neighbors, we had about 80 people over the 2 days so it was pretty hectic but Renie and I really enjoyed it.

Nov 08, 2009

Our first of 2 model train open houses went well on Saturday. Thanks to all the neighbors that showed up to both ours and Guttendorf's. It was pretty crazy with all the people here but it was fun. I'm sorry if I didn't have time to chat with you but I have learned in the past that I need to stay focused on the trains or I'm likely to have train wrecks! Although they may be entertaining to the visitors, they're disasters for the operators. The next train open house for both the Poole's and Guttendorf's will be 11/11/09 from 3 - 5 pm. 

Free firewood: I have 2 Poplar logs that are from trees that died several years ago. They are along the side of my driveway and are easy to get to. I have a  tractor with a front loader  and I'll help load them if anyone wants them. Although Poplar burns fast, it is a good wood to mix with hardwoods in either the fireplace or woodstove. Stop by or give me a call if you're interested. 410-885-2835 (John Poole).

I have completed the modifications to this website and it will be uploaded to the new web server by Monday (11/9). Shortly after that, the domain name elkforest.com will link to the new server so you will see some differences in the new site. I have eliminated the photo album, yard sale and astronomy links as well as the "last update date" in the navigation bar. One reason is that some of the links did not get used and the other is to make it easier for the new webmasters to update. 

We have monitored the usage of the website for several years and the news page (this page) gets read about 50 to 70 times a month. The largest usage is the "Emergency Planning" section and it is accessed about 70 - 100 times a month. It's interesting to note that most of the visits come from locations other than local Internet service providers such as Atlantic Broadband so I think we can safely assume only a few people in Elk Forest use it. Fortunately the yearly cost to host it is minimal on the new web servers but it is something that the Civic Association may want to discuss at the next annual meeting.

Renie and I have enjoyed providing the hosting and support for it since it's launch. We have had positive feedback over the years from many people about it and we thank them for that. 

Nov 1, 2009

A couple photos from the Halloween walk: 

Oct 31, 2009

We are in the process of moving the elk forest website to a new server. Jerry Truitt, Richard Montgomery and Mike Leshner will be the new webmasters once we have finished porting it over. The URL will remain the same but there may be a short disruption in service when we finish the move. 

I added a new painter to the "Nice People" link. His name is Dave Lynch and he lives in Chesapeake City. We had a photographic dark room (flat black) in our home that was replaced by a computer and digital photography. He repainted it an off-white for us and did a great job at a reasonable price. 

Oct 19, 2009

We finally did it! We have made the decision to move to CO so we have our house for sale. We have not selected a realtor at this time but will in the next several weeks. We'll miss Elk Forest and all our friends here but won't miss the MD taxes! We're not in a hurry to sell and realize it's not the best time to do it but we aren't under time  pressure to move so we decided to list it and see what happens. 
As many of you know, we have 2 married daughters, 6 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren living in CO. We also have one daughter living in Chesapeake City  so we have been torn between the Bay and the Mountains for several years. 
I've added a new category to the Elk Forest website "House for Sale". If you have a house for sale and would like it mentioned here, contact me and we'll discuss the options for doing it. 

September 26, 2009

Here's a note from Taylor Jackson. He's a local PC repair guy (www.taylormadecomputers.net).

"Hi to everyone in my email list.

Two clients have called about emails from the IRS-the IRS does not use email unless you have spoken to a particular agent-and then rarely- And don't give someone your email address that calls and says they are from the IRS. If you click you will download an ID grabber virus.

Please be careful."

Sept 23, 2009

Every year, there are many open house displays of Model Train layouts ranging from HO scale to garden railroads. Some are in Oct and some in November. There are two O-gauge layouts in Elk Forest that will be open to the public this year. One is John Poole's (1644 Elk Forest Road) and the other is Dick Guttendorf's (1735 Elk Forest Road).  Both will be open twice: Nov 7 and again Nov 11. The times for both are 3pm - 5pm on both days so if you're interested in model train's, stop by and enjoy each of these layouts. Kids (all ages) are welcome!

I have heard of several cases where people have lost their Verizon landline phone service and have had to wait 2 to 3 weeks for Verizon to respond. I had this same problem several times in the past and even though I was working from home and depended on the phone for communications, Verizon wouldn't budge from their position that they would get here by their schedule and that was non-negotiable. It struck me that they really give a darn about their customers.
If you missed this article in  Saturday's edition of the Wilmington News Journal, then read this as it explains why landline customers no longer matter to Verizon!