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Yes, it happens, bears get into vehicles. This photo shows how a bear tried to open all 4 locked doors in a vehicle that had no food in it. It was parked mid-afternoon, midweek, at the end of Roaming Road where all the cut logs are stacked. Last week, after returning from a walk in the area, the owner found all four doors marked with muddy paw prints and claw scratches. That was a bear who’s had luck getting into vehicles before, attracted by food and food trash in them. Here’s your reminder to clean out vehicles and
lock them day and night if they’re not in a garage.
The second photo is bear paw
prints this past summer on a door at the bathhouse close to Discovery Cottages. The door was locked with its code so it didn’t get in, but that lever handle is one that bears can operate. Interesting place
for a bee hive or hornet nest, too.
Not getting the notifications the website generates? If you haven’t opened several past notifications, you may have been automatically flagged as INACTIVE; therefore, notifications won’t be sent to you. This is something that WIX, the website’s platform, has built into its system—nothing us admins can do about it. WIX is mostly used by businesses who don’t want notifications going to lots of inactive clients, so WIX has set up this system to deal with inactive clients. However, all you have to do to become ACTIVE again is click on and open a past notification sent to you. Check your spam! A future blog article will address other troubleshooting issues.
A cell tower report, a trail report, and an unofficial meeting record of the September meeting are in the October Catching Up, in case you missed that month's articles. These reports are housed under Owner Resources.
Law enforcement in southern Jackson County and the Blue Ridge Public Safety organization is in the November blog article. Blue Ridge Public Safety is a group that owners may contact about doing a property watch.
CodeRED in Jackson County, NC. This is like a reverse 911 call to notify those in its system of manmade or natural emergency situations in the county. It can notify countywide or target a particular area. Here's where you can sign up for CodeRED. https://www.jacksonnc.org/emergency-management/codered
Temperatures are dropping and toying with getting to freezing. Winterize your Chinquapin home; it’s no fun to deal with broken pipes allowing water to damage crawl spaces or inside areas or frozen water heaters from a distance, plus it’s costly to fix the damage. Read Tony Nicolli’s winterizing article under Owner Resources, Useful Articles. A very easy and highly effective winterization
procedure is to turn off the water at the outside “meter” box in the ground at your house. You can reach down into the box to turn it off or use a water key to do it. I don’t like sticking my hand into dark places, so I use a water key.
Leave the heat on, set to a lower temperature to help keep pipes and water in them a little bit warm; open cabinet doors to under sink areas to allow heat to reach them.
Renee Owen is now the office manager in the Trading Post office. Her contact information is always on this website under Owner Resources. Contact info for other Waterfront Group folks is there, too. Add it to your contacts, and it’ll be handy when needed.
New website members receive a Welcome email from the website admins; open it to get additional, new information. If you haven’t whitelisted the website email address, the email might be in your spam folder.
Gate codes—these are generated monthly by the Waterfront Group. If you’re not seeing the email in your Inbox, check spam. Also, they get your email address from the property management group, IPM in Arden, NC, so make sure to contact IPM about sending your address to the Waterfront Group employee(s).
IPM 828.650.6875 IPM’s phone number is also under Owner Resources.
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