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2017 Landings Holiday Cheer
for Kids Fighting Cancer and Hannah House Submitted by Karl Maggard
Photos from the 2018 USTA Father Son Tournament held at The Landings
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KIDS CORNER
Meet three year old Phoebe Kirschner
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TRICK OR TREAT
Despite the rain, many Landings residents took part in this year’s Trick or Treat Trail
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LANDINGS LEARNING GROUP The Landings Learning Group will open its 18th season on Wednesday, January 17th
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This year’s program is off to a great start. Many Landings residents are aware of the charities which are supported by resident donations. The initiative helps families with limited resources who have cancer or are from abused families. The objective is to buy toys, clothing and food for these families. Last year, 28 families with 62 children were helped. Family sponsors receive information about each member of the identified family to assist in the selection of gift/ donations. The information includes the makeup of family members, their ages and gender of children, clothing and shoe sizes and gift suggestions. Hopefully, The Landings residents who adopt a family in need will be able to buy and wrap the presents. This is important to the family whose parents are stressed for time and caring for their
children. Residents are encouraged to invite two or more friends and neighbors to join them in making donations. If not, donations in the form of checks are gratefully accepted. A kick-off party for this year’s program was held at the landings racquet club on November 8 and resulted in nine new donors and three checks for the charities. Several people who were not able to attend have contacted committee members and pledged donations as well. In addition, Deirdre and Ken D’Silva held a private kick-off party at their house and nine children from Hannah House were ‘adopted’ for gifts. The committee is very enthusiastic over the reaction to this year’s campaign and hope every Landings resident will become involved. Contact Henry Rhodes (947-927-1047) for more information.
LMA Voting Process As we come to the end of the year, it is time to start planning for the election of the LMA Board of Directors in February. The LMA Nominating Committee has been tasked by the LMA Board to recruit candidates to run for openings on the LMA Board. The committee’s goal is to find more candidates to run than there are open seats. We believe that this will produce more transparency and fairness in our elections. Also, in the interest of transparency, this article is intended to provide our residents with information outlining procedures for holding Landings’ elections in accordance with The Landings’ bylaws. The major difference in how elections in The Landings take place verses political elections is how votes are cast. Political elections are one person, one vote. Our
Henry Rhodes addresses the attendees at the Hoilday Cheer kick-off party. Additional photos on page 21
By Michael Knupp
bylaws differ in that they require that the voting is to be done by the Presidents of each constituent Association in the Landings with a designated number of votes allocated by the number of housing units in each association. The number of an Association’s units are then multiplied by the number of vacant positions. For example, if there are 10 units in an association and there are 5 open seats on the board, the association has 50 votes to cast for candidates. The Association president then has the option to cast those 50 votes for whomever they decide. He/she can cast all votes for one person or allocate the 50 votes for as many candidates as they decide appropriate. The candidates and their resumes will be in a separate article in The Eagle and nominations from the floor can be made
the night of the election. In order for you and your association to have any influence on the outcome of the election, we urge you to meet with the president of your Association and let him/her know which candidate(s) you believe should be supported and how you think the president should allocate your association’s share of the votes. Ideally the various association boards should be involved in determining the allocation of its votes. Someone once said, “if you don’t vote, you get the government you deserve.“ The Nominating Committee urges all constituent presidents to (1) attend the meet the candidates’ night on January 18, 7pm at the LRC and (2) vote for the candidates at the February 7, LMA Board meeting. See companion article: LMA Board Candidate Elections on page 5.