Can anyone confirm this?
 

I'm new to posting, and this seems to be the best place to ask this question.

A neighbor sent this email this morning. This is a first-person question from a reliable source, and I am trying to find answers for her. This is the first place I thought to look, and since I can't find anything related to this, I'm forwarding her question.

This is her question:

"This morning while shopping, a business man mentioned that he attended a meeting this morning at Lake Sumter. He told me The Villages will no longer have entertainment at the town squares….starting in Jan. He also mentioned that an estate sale would require a $ 50 permit and 2 “security” type people must be present. Yard sales would no longer be allowed.

Does anyone know if this is true or not? Let’s try and find out before the rumors start flying."

If anyone has any answers, I'd love to hear them.

Thanks,

Jan (BTW, my gender is male)

hmmmmmmm......balony

OK. I will bite. All three squares will continue to have music or entertainment that helps bring business to the three town areas. How long, I would believe at least for the next 20 years. But I did hear from a friend of my wife that her husbands brother found out from his boss that the world ends in just 7 more days and you cannot get a more reliable source than that, so anything after the 21st of this month is a mute point anyway.

The world cannot end on the 21st, because I was looking at the entertainment schedule and they have stuff booked on Christmas day. Besides, you'd need a permit to end the world in TV, and I understand that takes 60 days to be approved. The office said they've had no applications from Mayans.

hmmm, odd post. Are you the village veterinarian by the same name?

If you're truly worried about rumors starting, you wouldn't post something such as this.

Are you Dr Jan Bergeron?? If you are, your comment would certainly have a lot more validity.

I had a physical about a year ago. Doctor said I had about a year to live.

Sometime thereafter I found out he was Mayan. (You saw that coming, didn't you?!?)

No matter what or how, one can never get enough information......

The short answer is no.

I am not trying to start rumors!
 

I thought I'd made myself clear, but I will say it again. I am not trying to start rumors, but find valid information to squelch them. I've tried to find some support to tell this person it's baloney, but I haven't found it yet. Criticizing my legitimate request doesn't help.

For what it's worth, I run an email list for my village, and have run it for eight years. I don't abide rumors, and I try to obtain valid information before I tell people that they are just rumors. The person who sent me this is quite reliable, and, in fact, is the type of person who gripes when others send out rumors, so she is just trying to get some facts.

Why the "business man" would start something like this is beyond me. All I want to do is put an end to it, true or not. I know it sounds ridiculous, but the ban on support for parades also sounded ridiculous, but as it turned out, there was some truth to it.

And to answer the other question, yes, I am Dr Jan Bergeron, a retired veterinarian who has lived in The Villages for nine years (come next month). I am on the Advisory Board of the Mac Users Group. And I do not like rumors, hoaxes, urban legends, chain letters, and other related nonsense.

Note to the owners of this forum: I think it is a great place to share information, but I would recommend special forum for Village Rumors, where people could ask legitimate questions about rumors. I certainly get enough of these and spend a lot of time researching them. I did research this one but could not find any information, which is why I posted the question here. I did not expect to be criticized for asking the question.

Jan

[QUOTE=janbergeron;593980]I thought I'd made myself clear, but I will say it again. I am not trying to start rumors, but find valid information to squelch them. I've tried to find some support to tell this person it's baloney, but I haven't found it yet. Criticizing my legitimate request doesn't help.

For what it's worth, I run an email list for my village, and have run it for eight years. I don't abide rumors, and I try to obtain valid information before I tell people that they are just rumors. The person who sent me this is quite reliable, and, in fact, is the type of person who gripes when others send out rumors, so she is just trying to get some facts.

Why the "business man" would start something like this is beyond me. All I want to do is put an end to it, true or not. I know it sounds ridiculous, but the ban on support for parades also sounded ridiculous, but as it turned out, there was some truth to it.

And to answer the other question, yes, I am Dr Jan Bergeron, a retired veterinarian who has lived in The Villages for nine years (come next month). I am on the Advisory Board of the Mac Users Group. And I do not like rumors, hoaxes, urban legends, chain letters, and other related nonsense.

Note to the owners of this forum: I think it is a great place to share information, but I would recommend special forum for Village Rumors, where people could ask legitimate questions about rumors. I certainly get enough of these and spend a lot of time researching them. I did research this one but could not find any information, which is why I posted the question here. I did not expect to be criticized for asking the question.

Jan[/QUOT
Read this real slow............................
"This morning while shopping, a business man mentioned that he attended a meeting this morning at Lake Sumter. He told me The Villages will no longer have entertainment at the town squares….starting in Jan. He also mentioned that an estate sale would require a $ 50 permit and 2 “security” type people must be present. Yard sales would no longer be allowed.

Plus Old Dave you forgot, before the world can end on the 21st we would have to debate it endlessly on TOTV just like we did with multiple threads on parades and I'm sure we now have multiple threads on entertainment ending in the squares. All of this will need to be sorted out before we could even begin to debate if the world were going to end on the 21st and by then it will be well past Dec 21, 2012. So, no worries, the world is safe once again

Poster Misunderstood
 

I think some people have misunderstood a sincere poster's questions and intent. Seems like quite an over-reaction to me. IMHO, there is no harm in sincerely asking. Is it true? Stranger things have happened.

Please don't interject reason and compassion into the argument.