CALLAWAY WOODS & LAKESIDE HOA
Greetings Neighbors,
The Callaway Woods Home Owners Association is proud to announce the launch of our NEW Callaway Woods HOA website. We felt that we could use a new website in addition to our quarterly newsletter, The Eagle, and we are pleased to announce that time has arrived. Utilizing our new site, you will now be able to:
pay your HOA fees online with a debit or credit card
see schedules for open HOA board meetings
view approved minutes
access a neighborhood directory
view our lot map
report problems quickly to your HOA, county or utility company
advertise your home for sale or for lease at a low rate
utilize a list of approved and recommended vendors for an easy and quick reference for you
access another avenue to stay updated on our Callaway Woods happenings
If you haven’t already, you will receive an invitation to join the site. The Eagle will still be flying into your mailbox quarterly as usual. We hope you will enjoy our new website; we all had fun designing and building the site. Please offer any feedback that will make The Eagle, our new website, or anything else that would improve our communication with neighbors. Check it out! www.CallawayWoodsHOA.org
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The Eagle” is a Quarterly Report for CW Property Owners
“Where the Eagles Soar” is a Special Edition Published in the Fall of 2020 which contains the rich history of our community.
“Plain Talk” is another Special Edition scheduled to be published in late 2024. Plain Talk will help our homeowners navigate through what can be complex legal jargon in our covenants, bylaws and rules and regulations a go-to guide in Plain easy to understand language.
Publisher: Al Barber
Editor: Dr. Sandi McCann
Graphic Artist: Matt Blaxton
Contributing Writers: Bud Paepcke Al Barber
Talk to your favorite vendors about being added to our website for $100.00 initial listing fee. So long as no neighbors have any unresolved complaints against the vendor, they can renew annually for $50.00.
*Purchasing an ad (half page min) in our publication, “The Eagle”, for (4) consecutive issues gets free advertising on the website for the first year.
NEW FEATURES FOR HOMEOWNERS
Customizable member profiles and photo gallery
Pay Dues Online: Use A Credit/Debit Card to make a one-time Dues Payment or select Automatic Annual Payments
Report A Problem: Homeowners can log in and report common problems to CWHOA
SOME OF OUR NEW PAGES...
Your Account Page
Members Only Area
Requires login to view
Quick Access Area for important member resources such as Profile/Billing Management, Board Documents, Reporting a Problem, Approved Vendors and the Member Directory
News/Announcements restricted to HOA Members only
Manage your account details & billing preferences for Annual Dues; change your password
Pay Dues online via Credit/ Debit Card by selecting the ‘One-Time’ or ‘Automatic Recurring’ payment options
Upload photos to your profile for display in the member directory
Optionally add additional family members or homes to your profile
View history of your account on the new website, including dues payments
Log out/Sign out of your account
Report A Problem
Quickly report common problems in your area to the HOA:
Resources for reporting other problems to the correct organization
Member Directory (Private to HOA members ONLY)
If you are logged in as a member:
Provides a searchable map and listing of all homeowner’s in the HOA
Provides contact information and the option to hide your address and/or phone number in the directory for privacy if you choose
Contains each member’s customizable photo gallery (optional) and any additional contact/location information that they have shared on their profiles
I’m sure you have heard on numerous occasions when someone proclaimed “Scout’s Honor” when they wanted someone to trust them. Of course, that familiar phrase refers to the perceived honor and trustworthiness of a traditional Boy Scout. While sightseeing in South Carolina with my grandchildren a few years back, I learned about the code of honor of a British officer who was scouting for his army during the American Revolution.
Patrick was the son of a lawyer and born in Scotland, where he was educated and pursued a military career. His military service brought him to North America in 1759, where he fought at the Battle of Quebec during our French and Indian War, at which time he was a 15-year-old cornet. He also served Britain in Germany and in the West Indies. He became an advocate for light infantry operations and personally developed a shorter, breech-loading flintlock, which could be fired faster and was deemed by some to be superior to the standard British shoulder weapon. About 100 of these weapons were manufactured for use against Americans in the Revolutionary War.
Considered to be one of the best shots in the British Army, Patrick was given command of an
experimental rifle corps equipped with the new weapons he had developed. He had also advocated that some British soldiers should wear uniforms less noticeable than the traditional "red coat" and should fire from cover or from the prone position in order to reduce battle casualties, and he intended to put into practice in America what he was advocating. His unit was shipped to America to help end the rebellion here, and they were dressed in more concealable colors than other British regulars.
with the gentle breezes that periodically blew over the hilly ground. The brightly colored uniforms of the British redcoats were a big contrast to the varied shades of color that made up the clothing of these seemingly undisciplined American “rebels.”
Soldiers of both armies were beginning to move into formation on those gentle southern Pennsylvania hills. It was just before the Battle of Brandywine, not far from Delaware, that Patrick's act of honor took place. I am familiar with that battlefield because when I lived in Delaware I took my children to sled on those snow-covered hills of the Brandywine Battlefield Park about 200 years after the battle was fought.
It was September 11, exactly 224 years before America’s homeland was to be suddenly and savagely attacked by a group of Islamic terrorists who were intent on destroying our nation. The fall season of 1777 was just a few days away, and soldiers of the British Empire were also intent on ending our newly declared independence and our freedom from the control of the British monarch. The trees in Pennsylvania would soon begin changing their colors, as the battle colors of two opposing armies fluttered and occasionally waved
Patrick was scouting an area of the battlefield, slightly hidden behind a tree, when he spotted two highranking American officers riding on their horses nearby. The officers did not see him so he carefully took aim with his new weapon at the taller and obviously higher ranking man. Just as Patrick was about to squeeze off a shot at the man, the officer suddenly turned his horse around and stopped. He calmly sat astride his mount, appearing to survey the battleground. Only his back was exposed to Patrick's gun, and though he could easily have shot the officer in the back, Patrick felt it dishonorable to take the officer's life without giving him a chance to defend himself. He quickly lowered his weapon and stealthily moved away.
Patrick's new weapons and tactics proved valuable in defeating the Americans at Brandywine. Though his troops had fewer casualties than other British units, Patrick nonetheless received a serious wound to his right elbow, permanently disabling his entire arm and keeping him out of action for a while. He learned from some wounded American prisoners that the officer he almost killed before the battle was General George Washington, but he still remained confident that he had done the honorable thing.
When I first heard about Patrick's honor, I was visiting the Kings Mountain National Military Park in South Carolina. It was there in 1780 that American patriot militia, including many Americans who had not previously taken sides in the war, climbed the mountain and
soundly defeated a British militia force that had strategically seized and were dug in on the high ground. Thomas Jefferson said that the battle was "the turn of the tide of success" for our new nation.
In command of the British militia at Kings Mountain was the same British officer who had refused to kill Washington at Brandywine. While encouraging his troops from atop his horse, 36-yearold Major Patrick Ferguson was reportedly hit by as many as 9 American musket balls, which knocked him from his saddle and killed him. The new-comers to the American militia had taken part in the battle because of their personal dislike of Patrick for his pompous attitude toward and mistreatment of Carolinians. The American leaders had to step forward to prevent the total slaughter of Ferguson’s force.
Following his death, Patrick was promoted in rank because of his service to the king. His bravery at Kings Mountain will be forever memorialized by a beautiful monument prominently standing on the spot where he fell. However, it is his honorable act at the Battle of Brandywine that I will remember
most about him. He failed to take that easy shot to kill George Washington, and Washington was then able to lead the Americans to a complete victory at Yorktown the very next year. Though Patrick had no idea at the time, it was his code of honor that almost certainly helped us form the greatest nation the world has ever known.
Of course, Patrick was never an American, but at the time of his death he was actually leading American Tory soldiers who had chosen to remain loyal to the king during our revolution. Remember that the men in Patrick’s unit who were killed were Americans, even though they were opposing our revolution and were considered as the enemy by the American patriots. Patrick’s citizenship never changed, but his remains will be forever buried on American soil. He died while fighting against our independence, though it was his honor and perhaps the hand of God that saved the life of the fellow we Americans now call “Father of Our Country.”
By Carl “Bud” Paepcke
