Updated May 26, 2014
Neighbors get together for Memorial Day cookout
Nearly 30 neighbors, family members, and friends gathered for a cookout at the clubhouse on Sunday, May 25 to celebrate Memorial Day.
As usual, there was plenty of food, as everyone brought a dish to share. And although it had stormed just a few hours before, the weather cleared up and the sun returned in time for a beautiful evening and sunset. The next Social Committee event is being planned for Saturday, June 21. Details are forthcoming. |
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Updated May 15, 2014
Play by Ceille Baird Welch gets spotlight during Charleston's Piccolo Spoleto Festival
PHOTO CAPTION: Charles 'Chess' McCartney, known as The Goatman, wrestled a bear, and narrowly avoided being lynched by the Ku Klux Klan among many other adventures. After a timbering tree shattered his left side, he was pronounced dead, only to awaken on a shocked undertaker's table. He gained fame traveling and preaching with a herd of goats throughout the Southern US from the 1940s to 1980s.
The play, “Between God & The Goatman” by Pinnacle Falls' own playwright and poet, Ceille Baird Welch, will be given a formal reading by the Threshold Repertory Theatre and Actors’ Theatre of South Carolina on Memorial Day, May 26th at 4:00 pm, as part of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. “I saw the famous Goatman with his goats and cart from a sidewalk in Moncks Corner in the summer of 1950, and as a little child, that memory has lasted a lifetime,” recalls Ms. Welch. “Along the line he got woven into a play about a family recovering from a deep loss, a preacher, a precocious son, a picture-show tent and a Ferris wheel left by a traveling carnival.” Actors’ Theatre of South Carolina, beginning to celebrate their 20th year, has produced four of Ms. Welch’s plays and performed many of her poems over the last fifteen years. “We believe Ceille to be one of the best writers in America, said Chris Weatherhead, producing director of ATSC. “There is always humor, pain and love with a unique supernatural charm. I’ve directed and produced the plays of many American and European writers, and Ceille’s work is exceptional. We're also so fortunate to have Pamella Galle, Founder of the Threshold Repertory Theatre to co-star in the reading of this play. The cast also stars Mike Kordeck, Dmitry Hackel, Clarence Felder, and Gillian Nyland. Brendan Kelly and I are also producing. It's a wonderful collaboration of talent to give Ms. Welch and the public a great chance to experience this new play. It's very exciting to have the playwright with us for a Q & A session,” Chris Weatherhead added. Pamella Galle, Artistic Director of Threshold Repertory Theatre has created a focus on new plays and playwrights along with other classic and modern plays. The mission of Threshold Repertory Theatre is to inspire and excite audiences with issues, ideas, and stories from new and classic works. “Threshold is delighted to host Actor's Theatre of South Carolina's reading of "Between God and the Goatman" by Ceille Baird Welch. This reading is an opportunity to continue Threshold's efforts to promote our region's playwrights and their unique voices. We are also excited to be collaborating with Chris Weatherhead and Clarence Felder of Actors’ Theater of SC. Chris brought Ms. Welch’s wonderfully interesting script to us with the offer to direct the reading. We want to expand our connection with area artists and this collaboration certainly does that,” says Pamela Galle, Artistic Director. ABOUT “THE GOATMAN”… Charles 'Chess' McCartney was his name but most people knew him only as "The Goat Man." He was one of the South's most famous wandering travelers and folk characters. McCartney was born in Iowa and was believed to be 97 when he died in 1998, but was rumored to be as old as 120. No one knows. The main sources for biographical information about McCartney are McCartney himself and his son. Some of the details vary. When McCartney was 14 he ran away from his farm and settled in New York. He married a Spanish knife-thrower 10 years his senior. He served as her target for a couple of years before returning to Iowa to farm. When that failed, he went to work for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), cutting trees. After a timbering tree shattered his left side, he was pronounced dead, only to awaken on a shocked undertaker's table. McCartney had always been fond of goats. He came up with the idea of using a goat cart to travel with his family and work as an itinerant preacher. McCartney's iron-wheeled wagon was large, rickety, and covered with objects he found along the road. It held a bed, potbellied stove, lanterns, pots, pans and assorted sundries. His traveling goat herd sometimes numbered up to thirty. From 1930 to 1987, legend has it, McCartney walked 100,000 miles, preaching in 49 states and Canada before retiring in the late 1960s. |
When:
May 26 at 4pm Where: Threshold Repertory Theatre, 84-1/2 Society St, Charleston, SC Tickets: www.piccolospoleto.com |
Updated May 7, 2014
Community celebrates Cinco de Mayo
More than 20 neighbors came to the clubhouse on Tuesday, May 6 to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, or rather than Seis de Mayo, since it was one day late. Everyone brought either a Mexican-themed dish or drink to share. Food included beef tacos, chicken taquitos, chips and salsa, guacamole, and taco salad. Drinks included sangria and margueritas.
POA Board approves Pinnacle Falls LLC request
to consolidate lots
The POA Board has approved the request by Pinnacle Falls LLC to consolidate several lots and waive the annual assessment (dues) on the merged lots. As a result, Pinnacle Falls LLC will only pay one assessment per consolidated lot. See the article below from May 2 for details on the specific lots.
As part of the board's approval, Pinnacle Falls LLC has agreed to offer to sell Lot 141R to the Green River Fire Department for the 2013 appraised tax value, and the POA Board will waive the dues for that lot to the fire department. The fire department has expressed interest in building a fire substation to house one fire truck that would increase the department's response times to emergencies in the Pinnacle Falls and Mt Olivet area. Should the fire department decide to purchase the lot, design and construction of the substation would be subject to Pinnacle Falls' design and landscaping guidelines and ARB approvals. However, because the annual assessment for the lot would be waived, property owner privileges, such as use of the clubhouse, common property, voting in POA elections, etc.) would not be extended to the fire department.
As part of the board's approval, Pinnacle Falls LLC has agreed to offer to sell Lot 141R to the Green River Fire Department for the 2013 appraised tax value, and the POA Board will waive the dues for that lot to the fire department. The fire department has expressed interest in building a fire substation to house one fire truck that would increase the department's response times to emergencies in the Pinnacle Falls and Mt Olivet area. Should the fire department decide to purchase the lot, design and construction of the substation would be subject to Pinnacle Falls' design and landscaping guidelines and ARB approvals. However, because the annual assessment for the lot would be waived, property owner privileges, such as use of the clubhouse, common property, voting in POA elections, etc.) would not be extended to the fire department.
Updated May 2, 2014
Pinnacle Falls LLC requests consolidation of lots
AJ Ball, manager of Pinnacle Falls LLC, and property manager of Pinnacle Falls, has asked the POA Board to approve the consolidation of several lots owned by the LLC and waiver of the annual dues associated with the merged lots.
During the POA Board meeting on Saturday, April 26, AJ proposed consolidating the following lots: 67 & 68, 74 & 75, 85 & 109, 106 & 107 & 108, 111 & 113, 114 & 116, 117 & 118, 119 & 120, 137 & 138, 145 & 146 & 147. The proposed lots are considered by the LLC to be unbuildable or unmarketable due to their small size. Some even have POA-owned common property between them. The goal is to create lots that are large enough for a home with garage and septic system. Many of the lots are too small for all three components. As part of the consolidation, the lots would be replatted as one individual lot, with one annual dues assessment per consolidated lot. The proposal would decrease the POA's annual dues income by more than $14,000, as well as decrease the amount of common property in the development.
Because a financial projection showing the long-term financial impact of the loss of dues had not been prepared prior to the board meeting, the issue was tabled. During the discussion, several community members expressed concern that the community would not directly benefit from the consolidations, but would be losing income and common property. As a result, the board directed AJ to ask the Pinnacle Falls LLC trustees to consider either donating or selling at the 2013 tax value, Lot 141R, which is outside of the Pinnacle Falls gate, to the Green River Fire Department. The fire department has previously expressed interest in building a substation on the lot to house one fire truck, so that local volunteer firemen can improve their response time by not having to drive down the mountain to get a fire truck when and if fire emergencies arise in the Pinnacle Falls area.
During the POA Board meeting on Saturday, April 26, AJ proposed consolidating the following lots: 67 & 68, 74 & 75, 85 & 109, 106 & 107 & 108, 111 & 113, 114 & 116, 117 & 118, 119 & 120, 137 & 138, 145 & 146 & 147. The proposed lots are considered by the LLC to be unbuildable or unmarketable due to their small size. Some even have POA-owned common property between them. The goal is to create lots that are large enough for a home with garage and septic system. Many of the lots are too small for all three components. As part of the consolidation, the lots would be replatted as one individual lot, with one annual dues assessment per consolidated lot. The proposal would decrease the POA's annual dues income by more than $14,000, as well as decrease the amount of common property in the development.
Because a financial projection showing the long-term financial impact of the loss of dues had not been prepared prior to the board meeting, the issue was tabled. During the discussion, several community members expressed concern that the community would not directly benefit from the consolidations, but would be losing income and common property. As a result, the board directed AJ to ask the Pinnacle Falls LLC trustees to consider either donating or selling at the 2013 tax value, Lot 141R, which is outside of the Pinnacle Falls gate, to the Green River Fire Department. The fire department has previously expressed interest in building a substation on the lot to house one fire truck, so that local volunteer firemen can improve their response time by not having to drive down the mountain to get a fire truck when and if fire emergencies arise in the Pinnacle Falls area.
Trails Committee has new coordinator
POA Board member, Grady Nance, has volunteered to be the new coordinator of the Trails Committee. Since no other community members volunteered for the position, Grady volunteered to coordinator clean-up of the trails since he regularly hikes them.
Seis de Cinco planned for May 6
The Social Committee has planned to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, which is normally held May 5, with its own version called Seis de Mayo, on May 6 at the Clubhouse.
Neighbors are asked to bring a Mexican-themed dish or drink to share. The celebration will start at 5:30pm.
Neighbors are asked to bring a Mexican-themed dish or drink to share. The celebration will start at 5:30pm.