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| THE COLONY NEWS | DECEMBER 2020 | 21 Jump Status Badge. Ken is a member of the city of Murrieta's Veterans' Committee, assisting in designing their Veterans Memorial Park. He designed the city's Killed in Action Monument. E7 Master Sergeant Richard C Timberlake, United States Air Force (Ret.) Two years after his graduation from Poway High School, Richard joined the Air Force. His career spanned 20 years, plus four additional years as a military contractor. An aviator, Richard deployed to Afghanistan three times and to Iraq once, earning the U.S. Air Force Air Medal nine times after a total of 225 combat sorties. He was also awarded the Air Force's Combat Action Medal "for deliberately going outside the defended perimeter to conduct aerial combat operations at risk of grave danger, and for coming under direct enemy attack by lethal weapons while performing his duties." Recognizing his volunteer efforts, Richard was awarded the Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal twice. After his Air Force retirement in 2008, Rich accepted a position as a New Equipment Training Officer, working for the Army in Afghanistan and Iraq. He came home finally in 2012 after a deadly attack in Iraq, where he lived. Of special interest to Colony residents was the award given to Sharon Boll (pictured at right), Volunteer Extraordinaire, The Colony at California Oaks After Sharon read a newspaper article about an upcoming Murrieta Field of Honor, she gathered a few of her neighbors and volunteered to help with assembling the new American flags ordered every year. The next year, she put out word to all Colony residents and now "we pack the room each year," she says. "We have a great group at The Colony." She has also bought Field of Honor flags which she displays on her Colony cul-de-sac every national holiday. Sharon should know. The retired 25-year school teacher stays busy year-round leading volunteer efforts for her community. She is the Sunshine Committee Reception Chair, arranging memorial receptions for families of deceased Colony residents and has been in charge of this for 15 years. She has led food distribution there during the COVID crisis, distributing food boxes provided by the County and the Salvation Army. She is the Thanksgiving with a Marine Coordinator and host. With transportation funds from Waste Management, she arranges a bus to pick up Marines at Camp Pendleton to spend a day with Colony families. Sharon is The Colony's Holiday Host, welcoming those without families into her home to share holidays. Throughout the year, Sharon is the Food Train Leader in the Colony, coordinating meals for those too ill to cook or get out to buy groceries. And during the current pandemic, she has coordinated food delivery every Tuesday for meals provided by the Riverside County Office of Aging. A 24-year Colony resident, Sharon and her husband, Dale, moved to The Colony from Washington, DC, where he followed a career in the Marines with work in the Secret Service and in criminal investigations for the Environmental Protection Agency. COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD

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