My Stand on the November Election

This November we have the opportunity to rip the money out of the BIG spenders hands. That would be the present City Council. I recommend Gayle Washburn and Jamie Brooks to replace Steve Conaway and Cecila Cuevas. Grace Donahue should remain the Treasurer. Clay Wesling would be an excellent City Clerk. These are all honest people that care about your pocketbook, unlike the present crew. I am confident that they would all make our lives better if elected. I also see the North Fillmore Initiative as a much better plan than what is in place now. The present high density plan will create more problems than we can afford.
My 2 cents.

Computer Class Update

The first session of classes is now over. Gayle and I are taking a week off. The following week will have the basic computer classes on Tuesdays. On Thursday, we will have open classes for practice, questions and more advanced teaching. We hope we have enough seats for all who want to attend. See you there!

Senior Center Computer Classes

The response to the Basic Computer Classes has been teriffic! Gayle Washburn and I are the teachers and we have 7 students. The waiting list is growing. The Beginning Internet class has 5 students. Gayle and I are considering combining those 2 classes into 1. We are all having a good time. We will soon have 1 or 2 computers for the main room of the Senior Center that all can use. I'm having a hard time finding enough time to put the public PCs together, so this has been delayed. I encourage all to take our class and then you will have a computer to use at the Senior Center, all free of charge! Gayle and I are discussing other ideas for the classes and I'll keep you posted on what develops.
Dave

El Dorado Street Cleaning

Some of you may have noticed a crew washing down El Dorado's streets. This crew was sent by Griffin Industries. They will be doing the whole park.

On June 13th, Paul Schifanelli arranged a meeting with the HOA Board and Griffin Industries. Roger Campbell also attended the meeting. The HOA Board made a presentation to Griffin explaining and showing photos of all the dirt that is stirred up by the building activity behind us that settles on our streets, homes and into our lungs. Griffin committed to cleaning our streets and trying to water their work areas better. I think we all should applaud Paul Schifanelli for making this happen for us.

Joining the HOA helps make things like this happen to give us all a better place to live.

Thank you all for your interest.

Marie Wren V.P.!

I have on good word that Marie Wren has accepted the office of Vice President. The board is now complete and ready to contribute what we can. I think this is an excellent board who can make a lot of good things happen. I can't wait to see what the future brings. I hope all will be patient with us, as change doesn't happen overnight.

Senior Center Board of Directors

On June 28th the Board met to determine the 4 officers of the Board. Loretta Dunehew was the acting President and will be the President for the next year. Marie Wren was nominated Vice President, but is away on vacation, if she accepts, she will be the V.P. The Secretary is Geri Lee. The Treasurer is Dave Roegner, me.

We have 7 signups for the computer classes and have 7 computers available for the classes. There will be 4 weeks of classes in each session. All signups from now on will be for the next session. Gayle and Annette are trying to get a computer lab so that all the machines will be the same. Right now we are using computers that Gayle and I have plus the laptop that Harry Williamson is bringing. None of these will be the same, so teaching and learning will take extra effort because of the confusion it may cause. We hope the students will forgive us.

News and Opinion

The Senior Center had their Board meeting yesterday. Again, we had a big turnout! Even Roger Campbell through in his hat for support. He gave a wonderful speech promising to help all he can.

Five new Board members were installed and one resigned. We have a total of 7 Board members now. All of the new Board members are enthusiatic. I am one of them.

There will be a Board member's only meeting on the 28th to determine what role we will all play. Then on July 28th there will be a regular meeting for all to attend announcing the results.

Computer classes will begin on July 15th.
The classes will be:
Introduction to PCs on Tuesdays from 10am-11:30am.
Surfing the Internet on Thursdays from 10am-11:30am.
There is a signup sheet at the Senior Center Bulletin board. Gayle Washburn and I will be the instructors.

A goal has been established to have the Senior Center open until 8pm or 9pm. As we add activities this will have to happen. We want the seniors of Fillmore to want to come here! We're looking for this to be a fun place to be.

Scott Lee (City Council) is the liason for the City Council to the Senior Center. He has 12 years experience doing that. He gave a wonderful speach and promised his support.