Tryon Farm Homeowners Association

Fourth of July Picnic

 

The Grove, Meadow and Pond Settlements invite you to a Fourth of July Picnic

@ 5 :00 pm at the Pond in front of 32/33 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please bring a chair, a plate and utensils- we will provide the picnic!

If you drive over,  park near 30-34 and we will have our houses open to get to the Pond.  In case of rain-The Barn.  

 

RSVP to Marty at baloghm@staff.abanet.org  by July 1.

 

Farm Operations

The June Farm Operations report can be found HERE

May TFHA Board Meeting Minutes and COO Report

The minutes of the May 17, 2009 TFHA Board meeting are posted HERE

The May COO Report is posted HERE

Tryon Farm House for Sale

Tryon Farm Homeowners:

As you know our house at 47 Tryon Farm Lane has been for sale in what has turned out to be the worst market in 80 years.  In light of this reality, we have reduced the asking price for our house yet again.  It is now being offered at $439,000.  Because of the understandable cost of new construction for a Long House and garage without upgrades, we believe our asking price is quite a value.  We would appreciate your passing on word of our price reduction to anyone whom you know who has had and currently has an interest in owning a house here at Tryon.  Because of a venture that we began before the market took its dive, we are very motivated to sell our house.  It is listed with Micky Gallas Properties.  Thanks for your help.

Larry Zimmer and Ted Perzanowski

Tryon writer- in-residence to read Saturday (5/2) at 4:30, #84

Sandra Jackson- Opoku, an award-winning writer, has been living at Polly's for the last five weeks working on changes to her third novel.

 

All are welcome to meet Sandra and hear her read this Saturday at 4:30 at Pollly's, #84. We are lucky to have had this award-winning successful novelist and teacher at Tryon and hope you will get a chance to meet her before she goes on to her next residency to continue her work.

 

Sandra Jackson-Opoku is the author of two novels. The American Library Association Black Caucus Fiction award-winning "The River Where Blood is Born" was listed in Best Novels of the Nineties: A Readers Guide. "Hot Johnny (and the Women Whom Loved Him)" was an Essence Magazine Hardcover Fiction Bestseller in 2001. Her fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews appear in the Los Angeles Times, Ms. Magazine, The Literary Traveler, Transitions Abroad, and many others.

 

Sandra Jackson-Opoku’s work has earned such awards as the National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship in 1983, a 1986 CCLM/General Electric Fiction Award for Younger Writers, a Ragdale Foundation US/Africa Fellowship in 1994, a William Randolph Hearst Research Visiting Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society in 2008, and several awards from the Illinois Arts Council: Completion Grant in 1982, Finalist Awards in 1990 and 2000, and Special Assistance Grant in 2008. Her children’s writing has earned the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Colen Award in New Children’s Writing and a Maeve Marie Fellowship for Children’s Writing at the Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow, both in 2008.

 

She has taught at Columbia College Chicago, the University of Chicago, and the University of Miami, and currently serves as a Lecturer in the English Department and Fiction Coordinator of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program at Chicago State University.

Elections are Upon Us Again

The procedures for election of TFHA Board of Directors and Settlement Committees have been posted HERE

Nominations will be accepted, by mail (TFHA Secretary, 203 Tryon Farm Lane, Michigan City, IN  46360), or email (sam_harnish@ameritech.net) until May 6, 2009.

The 2009 Dunes Settlement Brush Burn Bash

Following a preliminary visit with an assistant chief of the Michigan City Fire Department (and our thanks to him for his suggestions, cooperation and support) the wonderfully controlled 2009 Dunes Settlement Brush Burn Bash came off magnificently, without a hitch you might say, and a troubling pile of fallen branches, downed grapevines, and a forest of old briars, scruff and tangle that will hopefully find itself being replaced with actual berry bearing bushes in the near future was turned into two relatively small charred circles of ash and charcoal.

 

Everyone’s welcome to visit the site, and hopefully enjoy the bounty of a rejuvenated blackberry patch in the future.

LaPorte County Tax Information

Kay Garvey has asked us to pass on the information that she has arranged for Mike Connor, a real estate broker, level 2 assessor/appraiser and a certified tax representative, to meet with any interested homeowners Sunday, March 22 at 10:00 in the barn sales office to discuss the current LaPorte County tax situation and answer questions.

Mike is not charging for the cursory work he is doing, and is not charging for the meeting that will be held Sunday, March 22 at 10:00 in the barn sales office. However, if he does your appeal his fee is 1/3 of the savings of the first year. If you save $1500 he receives $500.

As a tax representative Mr. Connor can represent homeowners at the local and state level on property tax matters. He has specialized in assisting homeowners since 2003 when the state mandated a move to a market based system of assessing property. His success rate is better than 90% at the property tax board of appeals. The majority of his work has been Michigan City lakefront.

As a non-taxed body, the Tryon Farm Homeowners Association has taken no position on LaPorte County taxes, or on the qualifications of Mr. Connor, but is passing this information along because it may be helpful to individual homeowners who would like more information about the confusing tax situation in LaPorte County. 

The last day to appeal is April 3, 2009.

Tryon Farm Social Committee Announcement

Calling all cooks, chefs, wine drinkers, or people that just like to EAT!

 

Sign Up for a cooking class to be held on

 Saturday April 25, 2009 @

 

The Cracked Egg:

A Cooking School Where creativity is hatched!

2613 E. Highway 12

Michigan City, IN 46360

Visit them on the web at www.crackedeggcooking.com

We need 8 people for the adult class, and we get to eat what we prepare.

$60.00 per person

Sign Up with Claudia Geise via email geisec@comcast.net

Coffee with the City Council

Greg Tuel, Krueger Neighborhood Association,
Bob Weber, Wabash Neighborhood Association
Neil Kienitz, Elston Grove Neighborhood Association
Jed Mandel, Sheridan Beach Neighborhood Association
Roger Potratz, Michigan City Mainstreet Association

Hello All:

You are invited to join us for our first Coffee with the Council to 
take place in the First Ward on Saturday, March 21st, at 9:00 a.m. at 
Krueger Memorial Hall, 801 Liberty Trail, Michigan City.

This is an opportunity for residents to sit down with council members 
in a casual setting to discuss the issues important to us in the 
neighborhoods of the First Ward of Michigan City.

Please forward to your neighborhood residents and association members.

All are invited to attend.

Your associations are encouraged to bring any literature, handouts, 
and information for the city council members.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Rich

Richard Murphy
First Ward Councilman, Michigan City, Indiana
murphyrichard@mac.com
Tel:  219-874-9931