Topic: Announcements

We have another beaver at the pond on Bray Birch. The Animal Services came out and set the traps and the beaver went in, but someone turned it over and let the beaver out. Not only did they turn the beaver loose but they pulled the other trap out of the water. This beaver is chewing down the trees around the pond.

The pond behind Scenic Point and Bay View had a beaver working in it and the beaver chewed some electrical wiring to the fountain.

Please do not disturb the humane traps that have been put out to catch and relocate the destructive beavers. If you find a beaver in one of the traps, please report it to the SBB on-site office as soon as possible. The traps are safe for the beavers and they will be moved to a safer location. Please tell your neighbors that this is going to take place so it can be taken care of quickly. This will keep the cost down.

Thank you for helping us with this matter.

Here's Another Chance for Low Cost Pet Tags and Vaccinations

Fort Worth is offering license and rabies vaccination for only $4 and Microchip ID's for $10

A low-cost pet license and vaccination clinic will be held this Saturday to increase the number of pets with current identification and rabies vaccinations. The annual city pet license usually costs $7 and a rabies vaccination can cost even more. However, in order to increase the number of animals with current identification, and protect residents and pets from rabies, the city is offering both the license and the three-year rabies vaccination for only $4.

Also, a new technology in animal identification - the microchip - is being offered to those who are interested for an additional $10. A microchip offers pets a permanent form of identification.

When and Where: Pet licenses, rabies vaccinations and microchips will be available from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 1st at the Animal Care and Control Center, 4900 Martin Street (MAP).

At 1:00 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month, weather permitting, the City of Fort Worth/Tarrant County Office of Emergency Management (OEM) will activate/test the 132 outdoor warning sirens located within the city limits of Fort Worth.

The sirens for The Villages of Woodland Springs are located at 11697 Park Vista Road (siren #12) and 11997 Timberland Blvd (siren #105). These are the sirens we would hear should imminently dangerous weather be approaching.

As a result of the recent expansion of coverage, many citizens of Fort Worth will be hearing a siren at their home or office for the very first time. Even those who have had a siren near them in the past will probably be surprised by the unique and powerful electronic sound* of the new sirens. Each siren, which covers up to four square miles, has a signal strength of 127 decibels within 100 feet of the siren and approximately 70 decibels at the edge of their projected sound radius.

Results are available on the Tarrant County Elections homepage.

The WoodlandSprings.com website signed up its 2000th member today.

Thanks for all the support!

Texans have the opportunity to go the polls on Tuesday to vote for their party's candidates for offices from the Governor's mansion to District Clerk. We are also voting on one U.S. Senator and all 32 U.S. Representatives.

Voting sites for VOWS residents:
Precinct 3417 - Haslet Community Center, 105 Main Street, Haslet (MAPSCO 6Q)
Precincts 3372 & 3486 - Northridge Church, 11910 Old Denton Road, Keller (MAPSCO 21H)

For a list of local candidates and a sample ballot, see the Tarrant County Elections webpage.

If you've misplaced your Voter Registration card and don't know which precinct you are in, you can find it on the Tarrant County Voter Lookup site.

Here's Another Chance for Low Cost Pet Tags and Vaccinations

Fort Worth is offering license and rabies vaccination for only $4 and Microchip ID's for $10

A low-cost pet license and vaccination clinic will be held this Saturday to increase the number of pets with current identification and rabies vaccinations. The annual city pet license usually costs $7 and a rabies vaccination can cost even more. However, in order to increase the number of animals with current identification, and protect residents and pets from rabies, the city is offering both the license and the three-year rabies vaccination for only $4.

Also, a new technology in animal identification - the microchip - is being offered to those who are interested for an additional $10. A microchip offers pets a permanent form of identification.

When and Where: Pet licenses, rabies vaccinations and microchips will be available from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 4th at Sylvania Park, 3700 E. Belknap (MAP).

This is Anita at the on-site office.

The pond behind Scenic Point and Bay View has a beaver working in it and the beaver has chewed some electrical wiring to the fountain.

Monday animal control is going to put out a humane trap to catch the beaver. We need everyone to pass the word around to keep all dogs on leashes (which they should be anyway) and to not let any dog or child disturb the trap. If a dog urinates on the trap the beaver will not go in.

The traps are safe for the beavers and they will be moved to a safer location. Please tell your neighbors that this is going to take place so it can be taken care of quickly. This will keep the cost down.

Thank you for helping us with this matter.

Anita

Early voting for the March 7 primaries runs from Tuesday February 21 through Friday March 3.

In Tarrant County, early voting hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Friday; 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday; and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Feb. 27-March 3.

For more election information, Click Here: Tarrant County Elections

Click "Read more" for a list of early voting sites.

These two documents contain an important announcement from the Board of Directors of The Villages of Woodland Springs Homeowners Association, Inc. (Click on link to open document)


FUND / PAYMENT APPLICATION POLICY (PDF format)

FUND / PAYMENT APPLICATION POLICY (GIF format)


RESOLUTION (PDF Format)

RESOLUTION (GIF Format)

Last Tuesday night, as many of you know, there was an HOA meeting. I couldn’t attend, but I heard enough of what went on. I have lived in Woodland Springs since August of 2003 and I have purposefully tried to stay out of the HOA politics. I figured keeping a personal low profile was the best way to keep woodlandsprings.com a vibrant and useful Web site. However, I have heard things about myself that are not true. These rumors coupled with the appalling behavior of a very small minority require some kind of response.

I will do my best to answer questions and quell rumors within this posting. Please read carefully as it directly relates to the history of this Web site and its future.

Captain Don C. Taylor will be coming home soon from Iraq. Captain Taylor served as Captain with the United States Army Reserve with the 4th Brigade 95th Division in Grand Prairie, TX. Captain Taylor has been stationed in Balad, Iraq for approximately 13 months as a Movement Control Officer. He has been serving his time in Iraq with the 519th TC Det, Camp Pendleton located in San Diego, CA

Captain Taylor lives on Quail Creek Court with his wife Aredia, two children, Brittany Taylor, age 9, in the third grade and Ross Taylor, age 6, in the first grade. Both children attend school at Woodland Springs Elementary.

We are all very proud of the service that Captain Don Taylor has rendered to the Iraqi people and to our country.

Aredia states "We are very thankful to our neighbors, friends and family members that have supported us during this time of separation. We are truly blessed that God has bought him back to us unharmed".

2005 Constitutional Amendment Election Results

Below are the results of the Nov 8 election. Complete results are available at the Texas Secretary of State Election Night results webpage.

Texans go to the polls on November 8 to decide on 9 amendments to the state constitution. Early voting will continue through November 4 (8 a.m. - 5 p.m. thru Wednesday, 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday). The closest early voting location is at Keller Town Hall, 1100 Bear Creek Parkway. Note that Woodland Springs Elementary School is not a polling location for this election.

More information is available at the Tarrant County Elections website.

This Web site is now officially the busiest it's ever been. Just to give you an idea of how busy, check this out:

• The total site hits for October 2005 was 1,678,743 (yes, that's over a million)
• The average hits per day is currently 54,153
• The majority of visitors coming from search engines like Google and Yahoo arrive at the site by searching on some variation of "Villages of Woodland Springs," which tells us that our site's visitors are arriving here by no accident

Thanks for all of your help in making this site an important part of the Woodland Springs community.

Effective 13 Oct 2005, five (5) forum moderators have been appointed by the website administrator to enforce the Terms of Use for this website. The Terms of Use and the Forum Moderator Guidelines are posted on this site (see the orange area of the homepage banner). The five moderators are Ted Gajary ("tedg"), LaraLee Phillips-Hogg ("laralee33"), Dave Veness ("Dave"), Peter Stamps ("4stamps"), and Frank Friar ("Friar").

The two referenced documents explain what will be enforced, why, and how.
The moderators will be identified by numbers 1 through 5. Who is associated with each number will be periodically changed.
Frank Friar

Welcome to WoodlandSpring.com. This site is a community site, but is owned by private residents within the community. Lately there has been some controversy as to how the site is managed, so it’s time to set the record straight. This letter is meant to spell out the intention of the Web site as well as explain the new Terms of Service and why they had to change.

During the last few weeks, there have been several occasions in which threads in the Forum Section have become what can only be described as abusive, negative, and/or adversarial.

It was never conceived in the development of this website that this would ever occur. We specifically did not include a “chat room” module when setting up this site primarily because of a concern for this type of problem. We established the Forums module with the idea (perhaps naïve) that it would be a useful and timely communication vehicle for VOWS homeowners to interact with each other in a friendly, helpful, neighborly manner.

Unfortunately it seems that the Forums have in many cases become a de facto chat room exhibiting all the problems we hoped to avoid. I believe most users of this website understand what I am referring to without having to cite specifics. There have been unnecessarily critical comments about homeowners and their actions or questions, allegations, veiled threats, negative innuendo, deliberately inflammatory statements, overtly aggressive position stances, personal attacks, vulgarity, nitpicking and argumentative bickering. It just has to stop!

It has to stop because it is unnecessarily hurting all of us. It is embarrassing and damaging our image as a community and could easily be negatively affecting the values of our properties.

If we cannot self-police ourselves and stop this problem, then the solution is to shut down and close the Forum module. At first this will be on a temporary basis; if that doesn’t work, it will be on a permanent basis. There is no point in further discussion of who is right and who is wrong and who gets the last word; it all just has to stop.

As the first moderator of this website and chairperson of the Homeowners Advisory Committee, I honestly believe that most users of this website and the forums appreciate its availability and find it useful in providing pertinent local information. I hope we can find the way to keep it a positive and productive resource for VOWS.

So as a final comment to all users and posters on this website: Please take the time to review and reflect on what you are posting. And if you have to refer to another homeowner or individual by real name, screen name, or even indirect reference to an event or situation, please try to follow the saying of “If you can’t say something nice about someone, don’t say anything at all!”

Frank Friar

The next VOWS quarterly open homeowners’ advisory committee meeting is scheduled for 7p.m. on September 27, 2005 at the Woodland Springs Elementary School cafeteria. All VOWS homeowners are encouraged to attend. The following is an update of some advisory committee activities, actions, plans, and some miscellaneous notes since the last quarterly meeting and my last update.

Does your house have a WOW FACTOR that you created yourself?

If you’re a creative, out of the box do-it-yourselfer
who has completed a unique home project
then HGTV is looking for you!

HGTV (Home and Garden Television) and Weller/Grossman Productions are looking for unique, cool and creative projects designed and done by real people without the help of contractors or experts. We're searching for individuals across the country that would like to share their fun stories and incredible results.

This fun and inspirational new program chronicles everyday people and their amazing “did it myself” design endeavors. From unbelievable room reinventions, to cool outdoor creations, innovative kids rooms, wild wall treatments, playful pet projects, and more … we’re looking for ideas that break the design mold and make people say “wow!”

So, if you've transformed your garage into a wine room, built Fido his own futuristic pad, designed the most fabulous fireplace ever, recreated your kids room and built a headboard out of hockey sticks -- or done something else spectacular and uniquely special to your home, HGTV is looking for you!

To apply, e-mail a description of the project (with pictures) of the
area you've improved, and your contact info to Amy Turner at:

aturner@wellergrossman.com