Financial Goals

WHERE COULD LAST UP TO AN EIGHT HOURS TONIGHT, AN HOA DECISION IN A HOOVER SUBDIVISION RUFFLING SOME FEATHERS. THE BOARD ALLEGEDLY HAD A FAMILY OF DUCKS REMOVED FROM THE COMMUNITY. LAKE WVTM THIRTEENS LISA CRANE LIVE AND LOCAL AT KIRKMAN PRESERVE. ARE ALL THE DUCKS GONE NOW? LISA? WELL, MOST OF THEM. THERE WERE ABOUT EIGHT DUCKS LIVING HERE ON MOONGLOW LAKE. NOW THERES ONLY A COUPLE LEFT. NEIGHBORS SAY YESTERDAY SOMEONE CAME AND ROUNDED THEM UP AND TOOK THEM AWAY. YEAH, THESE TWO ARE PRETTY TAME. THEY WERE WITH THE OTHER SIX THAT ARE NOW MISSING. JOHN WILLIS SAYS IT WAS THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF KIRKMAN PRESERVE THAT ATTRACTED HIM TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHEN HE MOVED HERE ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO, HE QUICKLY BONDED WITH THE LOCAL FLOCK OF DUCKS. I TYPICALLY FEED THE DUCKS AROUND 730 EVERY MORNING AND THEY COME STRAIGHT TO MY OFFICE WINDOW BECAUSE I WORK FROM HOME AND WHEN I WALKED DOWN TO FEED THE DUCKS YESTERDAY MORNING, QUIET, SILENT, HE SAYS WHEN HE ASKED NEIGHBORS ABOUT IT, THEY TOLD HIM THE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION HAD THEM REMOVED. WERE NOT SURE WHO IT WAS BEING OUT HERE COLLECTING THE DUCKS AND REMOVING THEM FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD, WILLIS SAYS. EVEN THOUGH THE DUCKS WERE WILD, HE FEELS LIKE HES LOST HIS PETS. ITS QUITE SAD BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE LIVE HERE, WE ENJOY THE BACK PORCH SITTING AND HAVING THE DUCKS COME UP AND TALK. WE TRIED TO SPEAK TO THE HOA PRESIDENT, BUT THERE WAS NO ANSWER AT HER DOOR AND WE REACHED OUT TO THE MANAGEMENT COMPANY AND NO ONE HAS RETURNED OUR CALL. WILLIS SAYS HE HASNT BEEN ABLE TO GET ANY ANSWERS EITHER. IF IT WAS THE WISE DECISION TO MAKE, THEN OWN UP TO IT AND LET US KNOW WHY THAT DECISION WAS MADE. WILLIS SAYS HE ISNT GOING TO LET THIS GO. HE WANTS ANSWERS, BUT MOSTLY HE JUST WANTS TO KNOW IF THE DUCKS ARE OKAY. I KNOW IN A LOT OF WAYS THIS IS PROBABLY A FIRST WORLD PROBLEM THAT SHOULDNT BE OF CONCERN. BUT IF SOMETHING BRINGS YOU JOY, WHY TAKE IT AWAY FROM PEOPLE? NOW? WE SPOKE TO SOME OF WILLIS NEIGHBORS WHO SAY THEYRE SAD TO SEE THE DUCKS GONE AS WELL. THEY DIDNT WANT TO TALK TO US ON CAMERA, THOUGH. WILLIS SAYS THIS HOA DECISION HAS REALLY INSPIRED HIM TO RUN FOR THE BOARD THE NEXT TIME THER