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June 2, 2011

SunCPAC Q&As: June 2, 2011

Q: What is a Model Report?

Celebrity Scramble: May 19, 2011

These are cryptograms consisting of quotations by famous people, past or present. Each letter in the puzzle stands for another letter. Today’s clues are as follows.

Eavesdropping on Geezer Moments

Overheard around Sun City:

Celebrity Scramble: May 5, 2011

These are cryptograms consisting of quotations by famous people, past or present. Each letter in the puzzle stands for another letter. Today’s clues are as follows.

Quick Notes: May 5, 2011

News briefs for the week of May 5, 2011.

SunCPAC Q&As: May 5, 2011

Q: How does an assessor determine market value?

Shining the light on SunCPAC

Recently, Sun Day has published SunCPAC Q & A’s. The Q & A’s are intended to help Sun City residents better understand the residential property assessment process. But, what is SunCPAC?

Celebrity Scramble: April 21, 2011

These are cryptograms consisting of quotations by famous people, past or present. Each letter in the puzzle stands for another letter. Today’s clues are as follows.

Quick Notes: April 7, 2011

News briefs and more.

Geezer Moments: April 7, 2011

This one comes from my percussion buddy, neighbor, and softball teammate, Jerry McClellan. Jerry writes:

SunCPAC Q&As: April 7, 2011

Q: Will SunCPAC have a booth at the April 16th Charter Club & Interest Group Expo?

Celebrity Scramble: April 7, 2011

These are cryptograms consisting of quotations by famous people, past or present. Each letter in the puzzle stands for another letter. Today’s clues are as follows.

Clarification

In the cover story titled Campaign Trail, Open Forum Village Trustee Candidates, Part I of the March 24 edition of the Sun Day, we stated that the remainder of the article would be printed in full in the next edition on April 7, the current edition. This statement was printed in error, as at the time, the dates of publication for the Sun Day and for the elections for Village Trustee were unintentionally confused.

Celebrity Scramble: March 24, 2011

These are cryptograms consisting of quotations by famous people, past or present. Each letter in the puzzle stands for another letter. Today’s clues are as follows.

Quick Notes: March 10, 2011

News briefs and community updates.

Sun CPAC Q&As: March 10, 2011

What Does Fair Market Value Mean? What is Equalized Assessed Valuation?

Geezer Moments: March 10, 2011

Judy and I were lucky to be able to escape the Blizzard of ’11 by spending January and February in the place we call Disneyland for Geezers, The Villages, Florida. If you’ve never been there, you don’t know what you are missing. I don’t want to turn this into a commercial, but suffice it to say there are over 70,000 full- and part-time residents of this senior community. Here’s a few of the Geezer Moments that occurred there this year.

Celebrity Scramble: March 10, 2011

These are cryptograms consisting of quotations by famous people, past or present. Each letter in the puzzle stands for another letter.

Geezer Moments: February 10, 2011

Starting off this week’s column is a great one from our good friend and neighbor, Emma Burns, who relates this embarrassing experience.

Pressed send too soon

We’ve all done it, pressed send on an email a little too quick, leaving out information, sometimes vital information. And then what do we do, send another quick email with the subject line reading: Oops! Pressed send too soon.

SunCPAC Q&As: February 10, 2011

Q: What does a Township Assessor do?

Shooting through retirement

My wife and I moved from Arlington Heights to Neighborhood 32B in 2002 and both retired in 2003. I got a small point-and-shoot camera as part of a retirement gift, in preparation for a cruise we were planning on taking to celebrate our retirement.

SunCPAC Q&As: January 27, 2011

What is the purpose of a Property Assessment?

Geezer Moments: January 27, 2011

Does this happen to you, too? I often wake up in the middle of the night and then have difficulty getting back to sleep because my brain decides this is a good time to solve the world’s problems, or least some of my own. In fact, I am writing this at about 4:30 a.m. Once my thoughts started spinning wildly, I had no choice but to get up and write.

Geezer Moments: January 13, 2011

Kicking off 2011 with her “moment” is our neighbor Lorraine McGuire with what was her one and only “geezer moment” of 2010. Right, Lorraine?

SunCPAC Q&As: December 16, 2010

Q: Why does my property tax bill keep going up when the value of my home is going down?

Geezer Moments: December 16, 2010

My old drum corps and tennis buddy, Mike McGuigan of Neighborhood 18 writes: “I just had one of those “Geezer Moments” you write about.”

Geezer Moments: December 2, 2010

Softball buddy Jimmy Hayes starts this week’s column with this “moment”: My wife and I are watching the Late Show last week, and I find a piece of paper with several names on it. I don’t recognize any of them. I ask her who these people are. She says, “They are people that I voted for.” I said, “Oh, you mean obscure judges on the ballot?” She says, “Oh, no, they are people on “Dancing with the Stars.”

Quick Notes: November 18, 2010

In the weeks since the Walleye Grill closed, the Sun Day has received dozens of emails and phone calls from Sun City residents asking if there’s anything the paper can do to help reopen the Walleye Grill.

SunCPAC Q&As: November 18, 2010

If my assessment appeal period has expired, what can I do about an inaccurate assessment?