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An open letter to the residents of Bear Valley Springs...
Wasn't it one of the Fickerts family members that said Bear Valley was Paradise? Well, it would appear that my small piece of paradise is slowly being consumed by the ugliness in the human spirit of its residents. Yes it is a beautiful place to live, but how can it be a paradise, when people don't practice the caveat of "Live and Let Live."

We are at war, people are losing their sons and daughters daily, people are losing their homes due to variable rate mortgages, people are losing life-long spouses and companions due to illness. Now I ask you: how can a barking dog, a trash can gone loose, or something only slightly irritating about your neighbor compare? Why do some Bear Valley residents feel compelled to get on their soapbox or intrude and tell their neighbors how to live their lives? What gives you the right to so arrogantly assume anything about your neighbors if you don't even have the common decency to communicate your concerns with them before you write your letters to the BVSA, CSD, or animal control? It's called a conversation, try having one the next time you feel compelled to make a complaint under the cloak of anonymity and frankly,cowardliness.

It’s no wonder that many people think everyone in Bear Valley is rich and snobby! What are you willing to do to change that? I know that I am doing everything I can to give my neighbors the benefit of the doubt. I mind my own business, and if I did have an issue, I certainly would engage in the courtesy of a conversation before jumping to ill-founded conclusions. Maybe you should try having a conversation with your neighbors, about your trivial complaints, before you contribute further to the poisoning of our paradise.

The above editorial was published this week, and I just wanted to blog it too, to get some input from both people who live in BV and other local residents. Not everyone who blogs reads the whole paper and vice-versa. Have you had good or bad experiences? What are your impressions and opinions? What would you like to change?

If you have a scenario to vent please try to offer a solution as to what could have been done differently so that we can try to make positive steps.  I  communicating with the BV Board of Directors and the CSD , and I am trying to evoke changes for the better. I have heard allot of people venting and mumbling under the breadth but this is exactly  the type of information that needs to be put  out in the open. Everyone complains, no one does anything about it.  So please, participate if you have something to add, and maybe we can get somewhere and come together as a community.