For the homeowners. You have, or will receive, your ballot for the 4 available board positions. You'll see Beth Davis' name on the ballot, then there are other spaces for you to enter write-in candidates. I wanted to get the word out concerning people who are willing to be write-in candidates and serve. My sources are good but never perfect. So far I'm aware of Mark Bigelow, Joey Fryer, Joe Brewer, and Rick Adamire. If I hear of more, I will post them here. Please make sure you mail your ballots so they arrive by April 8th.
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The Annual Meeting is Saturday, April 8, 2017, at 1:00 p.m. It will take place at the clubhouse. If you can, please bring a finger food or dessert to pass. Drinks will be provided.

You can download the document here.

​Let's think about this..... Our Board of Directors authorized the building of the new sign and the use of our association funds for materials for the sign itself. All of the labor that went into it was donated by a number of our fellow association members. Maybe you can't haul concrete or telephone poles but you can still participate just like those that built it. We have some volunteers who have offered to landscape around the new sign. Now we just need the additional funds to do it with. Would you consider a donation to the landscaping project?

Beth Davis has agreed to collect the donations. Today would be a great kick off because of the community dinner. We'll announce it today at the Labor Day dinner. Don't forget to participate in the raffle but maybe bring a little extra with you to give to the landscape project. You can also send it to Beth if you won't be at the dinner today. Everyone agrees how nice the new sign looks. Now is the perfect time to get end of the year specials on landscaping materials. Let's put the final touches on it!

​The Association has the lake water tested about every other year.  Testing was just completed in 3 areas, the beach, the boat docks, and from a dock near the south end of the lake.  We were well under the recommended recreational limit of 235 E. Coli MPN.  The results were 7.5 at the beach, 1.0 at the boat docks, and 4.1 near the south end of the lake.  Keep Swimming!

We had some rain but we also had a great time.  The Fishing Derby was better than ever, thanks to Sarah and Joey Fryer.  Melinda organized a great pancake breakfast and fish fry later that day.  Since the 4th was on a Monday, there were fireworks all weekend.  Here's some video and photos in no particular order.  Hope you were able to make it.  Please remember the sponsors who were kind enough to donate to the Fishing Derby.

​Shottenkirk Chevrolet & Lonnie Foust
Dollar General
Bank of Monticello
County Market
Pizza Hut
Ayers Oil Company
Chiropractic Clinic (our own Dr. Weckbach)
Lake of the Oaks Homeowners Association

​Some much needed work was done at the beach today. The ditch around the beach was dug out and regraded. Sand that had eroded into the water was reclaimed as well and used to fill in some of the low spots. It will all be finished tomorrow. A big thank you goes to our Association President, Mark Bigelow for donating the use of his tractor. About 4 hours were put in today and it would have been much more if we didn't have the proper equipment. Thank you to Hume, Daryl, and Bob as well.

​The Kids' Fishing Derby will be on July 2nd at 9 am.  Go fill up on pancakes from 7 to 9 at the clubhouse, but be ready to throw the lines in at 9.  Sara and Joey Fryer were kind enough to take on organizing the derby this year.  They have a number of sponsors from local businesses and it will be a great time.  Numbers in the past have ranged from 30 to 50 kids.  Owners, get all the young ones in your family, along with your guests, geared up and find a nice spot on the dam.

I had to make the call and now is the time.  I've been watching the weather by the hour and in order to get everything at the last minute, I would have to make that happen tonight.  The rain forecast went back up to 40% for Saturday at 1 pm on.  I don't know what we would do with 100 plus hot dog buns.  We'll find another weekend and announce it in advance, and we'll do that soon.  I hope to get down Sunday afternoon after Antonio's graduation ceremony.  You can heckle me then.

​The hot dog roast to open up the beach season is this Saturday at 1 pm. We're watching the weather forecast for the weekend. If it looks like we'll get wet, we may postpone it. Maria and I are coming to the lake just for that. Antonio graduates on Sunday and although I hate giving up a long holiday weekend, I think my absence would be noticed at his ceremony. :-) I'll post any updates.

Just posted on the News/Information page.  Don't forget to read our Newsletters, By-Laws, and Covenants for any information you need.

and you can get it right here.

Rick and Crystal have graciously organized the 4th of July Fishing Derby for the kids the last few years.  It's a popular event and the kids love it.  It usually starts at 9 am on the day of the festivities.

The lake is looking for someone to take that over.  Expenses are covered for the prizes and there are plenty of people to help measure fish on the day of the event.  You won't be tied into it year after year so why not volunteer to do it this year?  You can email me, [email protected], or contact a member of the social committee.

If so, it's probably the one that was found floating in the lake and has been put in the storage shed next to the dumpster area.

Heard that some folks, when trying to type in lakeoftheoaks.net into their internet browser, were getting an "under construction" message.

Not sure what that's about.  When typing www.lakeoftheoaks.net, the site comes up fine.  So I spoke to the domain host today and I changed some DNS settings to hopefully fix that.  Just to let you know that I don't put "under construction" messages up in place of the site.

​Remember, I do this for free and you get what you pay for.  :-)

Bob Bergman puts A LOT of time and effort into maintaining a current map of the lake property and who owns what.  He provided me with an updated one last weekend and I posted it on the NEWS/INFORMATION page.

As of today, there are only 3 cabins/houses available for sale.  We have new owners in the former Knapp house across from the Nobles.  The Davis house also sold, it's at the southwest end of the lake.  That leaves the beach house across from the beach, the Lucas cabins, and the Luna house.  I heard there's one more unofficially for sale so I can't post anything on that one.  Those are slim options for the coming Spring when we usually get some new owners at the lake.  If anyone would like me to post something on the web site or the Facebook site, please send me a message.

You should have received your notice in the January mailing that went out.  As a reminder, the meeting is on Saturday, April 9, 2016, at 1 pm, at the clubhouse.  Please bring finger foods to share.

I made some changes to the navigation bar up top.  You can now get to the New/Information by clicking on it.  It will not drop down into a menu any longer.  Each page has it's own place on the navigation bar.  It was a little confusing before and people would email or comment that they couldn't find the maps, etc.  It should be much easier now.

I update the Facebook page frequently.  In order to get the same info on the web page I have to make an entry at both locations.  Time doesn't really allow that, sorry. So, for the documents and operations of the lake association, I put most of that content just on the website, for a place of reference.  All of the recent social type posts go to Facebook.