Like so many Campton Hills residents, we got A LOT OF SNOW during the GREAT BLIZZARD OF 2011. My kids enjoyed the snow days-- and a big thanks to the Fox Mill HOA for forwarding an e-mail about Wednesday's school closing (yeah-- we had already received about six phone calls and two e-mails about it, but it was a good thought). Kristin says that she is a great communicator, and it was nice to know that the Fox Mill HOA had our backs....
I just kind of wish Kristen had communicated again on Wednesday, when, like many Fox Mill residents who don't live on Kristin's street, the snow plows didn't bother to pay us a visit. School was canceled again, and our streets were impassable, but the Fox Mill HOA said nothing. They did not say when we might be freed from our snowy prisons. They did not tell us to remain patient and that help was on the way. A message from the Village came around noon on Wednesday with an update, but hours went by and no additional news was forthcoming. My kids became antsy. I became uneasy. As neighbors continued to clean their driveways and decks of the heavy snow, I wondered what would happen if one of them suffered an injury from the overexertion. I knew that the plowing trucks were doing their best to clean the 21.7 inches of snow that had fallen, but I was getting angry.
I knew that the Village had NOTHING to do with the snow removal (which is the responsibility of the Campton Township Highway District), but I was ticked off at the lack of information being sent my way. We posted a preemptive blog about this issue yesterday, tongue and cheek, blaming Leblanc for the roads in Fox Mill. We suspected she would try to blame the Village, so we thought we would have some fun with her. We told you this blog would be both satirical and factual.
If I had been in charge, I thought, I would have been keeping my community better informed!!! AND THEN IT DAWNED ON ME!!! Kristin was totally going to take advantage of this situation: This was going to be the Village's fault and she was going to milk it, which is why we posted our fun stuff yesterday. So I had a really good laugh this morning when I went to her site known as OpposeCampton.com and read about how the Village had "screwed us" during the blizzard. The Village? Really Kristin? We thought our satirical post blaming Kristin would stop her, but boy were we wrong. There are two possibilities here: (1) You are an idiot and have no idea what the Village does, or does not do; or (2) you are a big fat liar, and know damn well that the Campton Township plows the roads in the Village, and the Village has NOTHING to do with that branch of our Government. (We think you are both an idiot and a liar, but we digress.....)
My road was eventually plowed by the Township and my anger/apprehension subsided. To the Village's credit, a follow-up e-mail was sent on Thursday providing valuable information regarding mailbox damage and garbage pick-up this week. And I really appreciated that update from the Village.
The Fox Mill HOA sent no further communications after the first school announcement on Tuesday. Although, as HOA President, Kristen was in a position to keep the Fox Mill resident informed, she made the decision not to do so. As she has so often done, Kristin decided to seek political favor (at the expense of her neighbors) by hoping the Township would fail so she could blame the Village, rather than do anything constructive herself.
Kristin is quick to point fingers, but, again and again, she offers nothing that would make the situation any better. The Village of Campton Hills does not need Kristin's type of inactive activism. We don't need her blame game mentality. We don't need Leblanc!
Citizens of Campton Hills Against KRISTIN LEBLANC ~~~ KNOW LEBLANC = NO LEBLANC
Gee, if Kristen had cared enough, in her capacity as FM HOA president, she would have had the cell number for the Campton Township’s Sam Gallucci. The Township is the entity responsible for handling the roads, but after a year reigning as President, she apparently still doesn’t know how local government is structured here. She could have given him a ring-dingy to say, "What's up?" Could it be that they were overwhelmed by record snowfall???
ReplyDeleteI thought, though, that by now LeBlanc and her team of Muskateers would have brought all of FM families together in a kumbaya-moment and led us in prayer before she dismissed all of us to fire up our own snowblowers and descend upon the streets of FM. Isn't she always saying, we have so many volunteers in FM that want to help??!!!!