FLG member Una Newman contacted the new telephone and internet service provider for our area, Frontier Communications Corporation, to see if they could offer her family broadband internet service which was previously unavailable from Verizon.  She was told that if she could get twenty (20) commitments for DSL service Frontier would do the necessary infrastructure improvements to provide that service.  To date, she has about ten such commitments and needs about ten more, from an area roughly including Stone Pointe, the parts of Strawberry Hill that do not already have broadband service, Tahala Shores, and all the areas in between that may not have organized neighborhoods.  For more information and to sign up, please email unamark@gmail.com or call 404-892-6457 and leave a message.

As an aside, if you live outside this area but have a non-FLG friend in the area who might be interested in this opportunity, please pass the news along.  If you live somewhere else on the lake and don’t have DSL but want it, call Customer Service at Frontier (1-877-462-1105) and see if they’ll make the same offer to you.

The mission of the Friends of Lake Glenville may be to “Protect and Preserve Lake Glenville”, but the FLG is also interested in “Quality of Life” issues for those who live on or near the lake.  If you are aware of other opportunities like the one outlined above, please contact us (flg@friendsoflakeglenville.com) and let us know about them so we can alert our members.

The Friends of Lake Glenville will gather for the last Member Breakfast of the 2010 season Saturday September 11, 2010, at 8:30am at the Mountaintop Lake Club on the western shore of the lake a little north of the Landings at Trillium and behind the southern end of Buck Knob Island.  The open air pavilion is a beautiful venue that is not typically open to outside groups, with the promise of a wonderful chef-prepared breakfast and a last chance this season to see old friends and make new ones.  The Mountaintop Lake Club is about two miles down Fenley Forest Trail off Norton Road near the golf course entrance to Trillium.  Arrival by boat is also an option.  $12 per person.

Please join your friends and fellow Friends of Lake Glenville members at the August Member Breakfast and Annual Meeting Saturday August 7th, 2010, 8:30AM, at the Glenville CDC on Highway 107.  The cost is $12 per person.  In addition to enjoying a special breakfast and taking care of the official business of the group, the highlight will be a talk by George Frizzell, University Archivist at Western Carolina University, on the history of Lake Glenville and its creation, complete with photographs from the WCU archives.  Whether you’ve been on the lake since just after the dam was built or only moved in this summer, Mr. Frizzell should have some facts and pictures you have never heard about or seen before.

Please RSVP by email (flg@friendsoflakeglenville.com) or by calling Ed Mohler at 743-3796 so we are sure to have a seat and a breakfast for you.  If you haven’t paid your 2010 dues, it’s not too late to pay them and join us at breakfast.