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	Name:	10toLife -
	Subject:	I sure do.
	Date:	8/22/2013 9:56:51 PM

Totally agree with your thoughts to support the folks running Bay Pine -- they are nice folks trying to make the best of the hand they were dealt. They seem very sure everything will be approved and they will be opening up an eatery by next season. Before we ever lived on Lake Martin we used to go to Bay Pine (back when "Ann" owned it) We didn't know them but it was close to a cabin we sometimes rented off Dennis Creek. I never noticed a smell… but it certainly looks 100 times better now than it did then. I don't have a problem with that clean up -- and am actually thankful APC does control sewage problems that will effect the lake.

When I say RL routinely obtains property in areas where APC closes doors on others-- it's not meant as a knock on RL; however, there is MOST DEFINITELY an alliance…. and there and has been since the Dam was built. Mr. Russell had the forethought to build his own dam near Alex City (for use at his mill) and sold his power plant and property to Alabama Power via negotiations with Thomas Martin. The two became famous friends and Russell was able to buy much of the shoreline from APC due to his previous negotiations. To his credit he did much to stop erosion of farm land around the shoreline by planting trees and using other such measures. ( everyone probably already knows this)

Russell made Lake Martin what it is and continues to do so today. It will be what they want it to be and no one else has the money or connections to challenge them. It's the way of the world. I really don't have a dog in the fight-- but for someone to say there is not an alliance is absurd. Time will tell and we will all see what happens with the APC's land at Pleasure Point. No matter what happens it's really sad for those people and I am sure they are all just sick about it.