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| Four Seasons Hemet Herald | AUGUST 2019 | 13 Here we are in August already! Yes, I have started my Christmas shopping and it includes a book. I think everyone needs to buy a book in August just for our Four Season's library. No other reason. Our library chairs are in their third year. Everyone that has spoken to us has really enjoyed them. They certainly support your back. Thank you for not eating or drinking while reading in our library. It will keep our furniture in good condition. Can you believe the couch is almost 10 years old? It is starting to look worn. Once again the paperback section is full thanks to our residents. We are slowly eliminating paperbacks dated 2013. We are receiving wonderful current-year books that make it necessary to make room to display them. Our paperbacks are now dated 2014 - 2019 with a few 2013 still there. You make our library the best of any 55+ community and believe me we check them all. Though we accept older magazines for the Hemet library we display three months of magazines for our residents. As of now, bring up June, July and August. We would appreciate you not bringing your catalogs. Our hardbound books add a challenge to the library committee. The prolific writers seem to have a contest on who can write the largest book. We keep all hardbound books dated 2010 up, and we are donating older books to different organizations. We keep all non- fiction books regardless of dates. History is important. If you have a lot of books, it would be better to take them directly to the library downtown. Thank you. The committee has been discussing making significant changes. One of them is discontinuing audio books. I have mentioned it to a few friends and they like being able to "hear" a book while traveling. What are your thoughts? It's your library so please drop off a message for us at the front desk. Just put "Cookie" on the envelope and I'll bring it to the next meeting. I have mentioned being able to check out a movie at the front desk when you want to have a movie night with the grandkids. It's been brought up that this is pretty outdated. Our kids are watching current movies on their phone now. We looked into how often a movie was checked out and it is either one or two in 2019. That's a lot of space under the paperback section that could be used. We aren't sure just how at this point, but currently it is wasted space. Thoughts from Blair, "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." ~ Dr. Seuss Our book reports are written about books you can borrow here at Four Seasons. This month committee member Cookie Scott read Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate. You will find it in the hardback fiction section. This was the most compelling book I have read in a long time. It is a book that will make you shudder, but also warm your heart at times. It is written around "The Tennessee Children's Home Society." In operation from the 1920s – 1950s, Georgia Tann kidnapped poor children and sold them to the rich. This is fact based, and you can look it up online. The rest is fiction. We follow two families in this well written book, the wealthy Stafford's and the dirt-poor "river gypsy" Fosses. We begin with the Starfford family daughter Avery. Senator Wells Stafford is running for reelection, but unknown by the public, Wells has cancer. Also unknown is his Mother, Grandma Judy, has been placed in a nursing home. You will follow this family through all the 'normal" plights of Avery's engagement to Elliot, meeting a woman who knows you as someone else and Grandma Judy revealing mysterious secrets. We are introduced to the Foss family aboard their shanty house on the river while momma "Queenie" is trying to deliver her babies. She has had five before but something isn't right this time. "Briny," (Dad) must get Queenie to a hospital and leaves his children in the eldest daughter, Rill, to care for them. The parents do not return soon enough and a boat comes by taking all five children to see their mom. Instead they arrive at the Tennessee Children's Home. The rest needs to be read by you. It is a book you will not put down and the characters will remain with you for a long time. Library Committee As Rich Ruth said in last months Herald, "Please get approved first." My name is Ray Farris and I am the new co-chair of the Architectural Review Committee. Our five member (plus two Board liaisons) committee meets the first and third Mondays at 8:30 am, every month, to review the applications you have given to Maria Donti at the Lodge. Maria does a super job helping with the processing of the applications for projects you would like to do for your home. Every complete application gets the full attention of the ARC with the objective of getting a decision back to you in a timely fashion. Our job is very important to you, the homeowner, in keeping our homes and neighborhoods beautiful and the way the developer intended. I come from the community of Oakmont, in Northern California, where I served the Board for eight years, and as chairman for two of those years. We had 3,300 homes, two golf courses and were, in some cases, 40 years old. After all those years the community was still beautiful, well cared for and thriving, not in a small part, because of Oakmont's "Architectural Committee" who kept the hundreds of projects aligned with the communities original objectives. The ARC has the same objective here in The Four Seasons community. Please help us keep our community as we want it to be for now and the future. We are working hard for you. Architectural Review Committee

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