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President’s Message continued

Postponed HBPHOA Annual Meeting. some not so familiar caterpillars making their appearance
Our neighbors and friends continue to ask for an in-person this Spring. We’ve included photos of some of our new
hybrid Zoom Annual Meeting preferably held outside at the neighbors! You can help in feeding and nurturing their
Harbor Beach Surf Club. The Board was hopeful after the transformation into butterflies by planting Passion Vines,
arrival of the COVID vaccines we could hold such a Giant and traditional Milkweed, Dill, Green Shrimp plant,
meeting sometime in April. It is now April with COVID Citrus, Lantana, and Pentas in your yard and garden. HB
variants on the rise and neighbors raising their concerns
about in-person meetings are placing us back into a holding
Annette Ross, President
pattern for now. The HBPHOA board continues to hold its
Harbor Beach Property, Homeowners Association
meetings via Zoom. If there is any problem or topic you
would like us to address, please send your
questions to us at admin@harborbeach.org
or president@harborbeach.org and we will
place it on our agenda, or please feel free
to attend virtually and ask us yourself!

Butterfly Garden newcomers
Soon to be Butterflies! In case you haven’t
A B C
been by the Garden to see it yourself, our
Butterfly Garden is experiencing a A. Gulf Fritillary Caterpillar on Passion Vine. A year round resident
B. Mystery caterpillars
population explosion with familiar and C. Orange-barred Sulphur on Yellow Cassia tree. A year round resident

Letter to the Editor

USPS CARRIER PROBLEMS IN HARBOR BEACH

ur United States Postal Service letter carrier measures we've taken to address
Bernard's inability to deliver mail to proper this matter now near painfully
Oaddresses here in Harbor Beach Island is 10-years enduring are numerous
horrendous on a Biblical scale! Bernard's incompetence has and woefully, entirely ineffective.
caused not only my wife Jeanette and me to divert critical We now are subjecting
mail elsewhere where we can better count on mail delivery
merchants with liability to replace
service, but many our neighbors have been faced with products purportedly delivered to
resorting to doing the same. Even our Homeowners
our home that in reality never
Association President, Annette Ross, cannot even count on the were. A good portion of our mail
USPS to effectively deliver critical cash-flow items pursuant to
Bernard delivers to E LAKE DR instead of our address [on]
funding the HOA and is recommending direct link of dues W LAKE DR. This is inexcusable and the items and parcels
from homeowners’ bank accounts to the HOA's accounts.
go into oblivion. We even get our neighbor’s highly
Apparently, the Letter Carriers Union power over USPS confidential and critical financial mail and his address is on
Management supersedes United States citizenry postal Del Lago Dr.
service dependability. This has been a near decade-long
Is someone in authority going to finally address this matter?
battle for my wife and me, and the USPS should be
ashamed of its fecklessness to address incessant and United States Citizens
longstanding substandard performance of a carrier. The David & Jeanette Faber

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