News and information about the Arnold Lilac Park Homeowners Association web site.
The Summer / Fall 2012 edition of the Treetop Times, ALPHA’s newsletter, has been published to the web site. Click ‘Newsletter’ on the menu bar above then select the Summer / Fall 2012 edition.
The Treetop Times is published in Adobe PDF format, which requires the Adobe Reader. Get the Adobe Reader free by clicking here.
Paper copies of the Tree Top Times went out on Friday to homeowners who don’t receive email.
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Check out the ALPHA Facebook page. This is the place where ALPHA homeowners can post comments, concerns, and other information about Lilac Park and Arnold.
This is a closed group, so only ALPHA Homeowners can access it
Some of the minutes had “unusual” formatting when they were created so they may display with some errors or strange symbols when viewed as a web page. The minutes were copied and pasted directly into the database with no changes or edits made.
You will want an up-to-date browser for searching. This has only been tested in Firefox and IE9, so if you use other browsers and experience display problems, please drop us a note.
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Where are your assessments going?
Some of the 2011 Capital Projects and Association Events:
A few of the planned 2012 Capital Projects and Association Events:
2012 is going to be a busy year with many new items up for consideration. Check the board minutes to stay up to date on happenings within our community. If you have ideas you would like to submit to the board, please drop us a note to info@arnoldlilacparkhoa.org.
Please take a moment to look through the Lilac Park web site. It is our primary source of communication with you, the members of our association.
FALL WEB SITE LAUNCH
With fall upon us, we felt that it was appropriate to update the Lilac Park web site to reflect the changing of the seasons. Our fall web site will only be active two months as is it our plan to update the site again in early December with a winter theme.
The web site will continue to have the same general look and feel that it does now, but once it launches, you’ll find updated colors, some new photos, and a few new features.
WE NEED PHOTOS
If you have any photos of the Arnold area that we can use for the Winter and Spring themes, please send them to us in .jpg format, high resolution (up to 1mb) each. We would love to include your pictures on our site and, of course, the photographer’s name will prominently displayed in any photos you send. Any photos submitted will only be used on our web site.
WEATHER/POWER/CONDITIONS UPDATES
As the bad weather moves in, we plan to use the web site and email to update our homeowners with the latest in weather and traffic information. As reports of power failures or other local events are discovered, information about those events will also be posted here. Remember, when traveling in the mountains in the winter months, be sure to plan ahead and be prepared for contingencies.
If there are features you would like to see on our homepage, drop us a note and let us know what you’re thinking. We’d like to hear from you.
Hi all,Recent estimates figure that one message in seven traveling through cyberspace is a legitimate email. Most of us have seen the ads for pharmacy this, weight loss that, and the other less, tasteful messages. Thankfully most Internet Service Providers (ISP) have tools on their mail servers to filter out the unwanted stuff with surprising accuracy. Without spam filters, we’d be swimming in junk messages.
Many of the tools ISPs employ consider the sender’s address, the mail server’s IP address, message content, frequency, and more. Much of the filtering is based on probabilities that are pretty good at weeding out the flotsam, but occasionally the spam software will catch legitimate messages and flag them as junk. Thus, the reason for the note.
It has come to our attention that some of you may not be receiving the broadcast messages from the ALPHA Board of Directors, like this one. If you received this, it’s because you either are NOT having a problem, or you had to remove this message from your spam queue and are now reading it. The content here is aimed at the latter.
We’ve changed the mail address that the web site software sends from to hoa@…, however we can’t necessarily remove the info@… that it was sending from before because there are a number of people that use this e-mail address to contact us. If your spam server still thinks that mail coming from ALPHA is spam after this change, the easiest way to solve the problem is to either 1.) add an exception to your spam filter for anything coming from the arnoldlilacparkhoa.org domain or 2.) contact your ISP and have them do it.
Mail providers such as Google, AT&T, and other larger companies have user tools in the administrative sections of their mail interfaces that allow you to add whatever exceptions you want. Smaller ISPs and even many regional providers don’t offer such tools requiring their support departments to enter them manually.
With as competitive as Internet Service and Mail provisioning is these days, most smaller to mid-sized companies are pretty responsive to their customer’s needs, so if you continue to have problems receiving e-mail from us because of spam filtering, please add a filter exception for “arnoldlilacparkhoa.org,” (no comma) or call your ISP and have them do it for you.
I hope all is well.
Mark
Due to an increasing demand in the number of pages under the “Resources” heading to the left, the fire related links were moved to a new heading on the top menu bard called, “Your Property.”
You’ll also find a link under this heading called, “Property Maintenance,” which contains names and telephone numbers of people who perform lot cleaning/clearing services as well as others who do snow removal.
We have temporarily removed the photo gallery from the site because of some behind-the-scenes software issues. We’re in the process of getting those corrected and once we do, look for it to be posted under the “About” link on the top menu bar.
It is our aim to make the ALPHA web site a comprehensive resource of information for Lilac Park homeowners. We want our site to contain any information you may need to help you enjoy and maintain your Lilac Park property.
If you have any suggestions for this section, please let us know!
The ALPHA Board of Directors has updated the web site for spring! None of the functionality has changed, but we did update many of the pictures, colors, and modified the layout slightly.
To keep the web site fresh, it is the Board’s goal to update the look and fee of the web site with the changing of the seasons.
We feel we have a pretty good handle on site content so that won’t change too much, but if you have any suggestions for our site, please let us know. We’re open to any and all ideas.