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| Four Seasons Hemet Herald | MAY 2022 | 11 Facilities Committee The recent price inflation is evident in all aspects of the products and services that the Facilities Committee must review to keep our facilities up to the highest standards. As such, the committee has been looking for ways to cut costs while minimizing any deterioration of our quality of life. For instance, the thermostats in many Lodge areas are switched off when The Lodge facilities are closed. When The Lodge reopens, thermostats in areas that are unoccupied are switched on only as necessary. Operating our solar water heating system for the swimming pool during the cooler months has been saving the HOA thousands of dollars on our gas bill but some of the parts are beginning to fail. Rather than let the entire unit fail and be replaced, relatively inexpensive parts have been ordered to rebuild the unit and will be installed by our maintenance staff. Our street signs periodically need replacing due to fading or damage. Rather than replacing faded signs, an inexpensive paint restorer is being used to brighten faded signs to their original luster. The committee is always trying to find the best value for our dollars, and these are just a few examples. Just a couple of things that are good to know: The National Fire Protection Association has acknowledged that Four Seasons at Hemet has completed Firewise USA's annual requirements for 2021 and is on track for 2022. Also, some of the Four Seasons at Hemet staff has been recognized with prestigious nominations and awards at a recent First Service Residential annual meeting, First Service being the company that employs our staff and does so for many other HOAs as well. We are very fortunate to have such an excellent group to help run our HOA and the Facilities Committee congratulates them all on a job well done. Library Committee I certainly have enjoyed the last three months of writing the library newsletter! I want to thank Blair Becker for his informative newsletter about where to find the copyright date. Sheryl Cooley for her newsletter on puzzles and Dianne Vaez-Hourscht for inviting you to visit our library. Well done everyone! We had a large turn out for author, Earle Irvine. I hope you were able to make it. I, unfortunately, missed it as I was traveling back from a trip to San Diego and did not make it in time. I've heard remarks about how interesting his talk was. Thank you Earle! We were so hoping Blair's article, plus our signs taped on the return table, and newsletters, would help by asking the community not to clean out garages and houses of their very old books bringing them to our library. It is very time consuming to go through them, bag them and then deliver them to Goodwill. We are still receiving books from the 1970s. This is not a paid position. We are simply volunteers who love our library and work hard to keep it pristine. Please stop doing this. Thank you. A couple of weeks ago a resident asked if we had any non-fiction books. He could have been new to the community. Under the paperback books are sets of cabinets that house a huge selection of non-fiction. We tossed around the idea of leaving the doors open but it really is a hazard. We left them open and a shelf was accidentally broken right away. You will also find the large print books there. We bought and placed signs on the outside of the cabinets to help you locate books you are interested in. There are also some health books and religious books. Take a look! Warmer weather is on its way which means our audio books will fly off the shelves. Thanks to our residents, the amount has grown considerably. You will find them under the hardbound fiction books. Just open the cabinets. FYI, hardbound books are displayed from 2013 up. Paperbacks from 2018 up and magazines the last three months. We are asking residents to date the puzzles when donating along with taping the boxes. The open shelves under the hardbound fiction books houses our very talented Four Seasons authors' books. I have read every book and recommend them all! They include books by Vernita Black, Howard Feigenbaum, Jim Hitt, Vicki Hitt, Earle Irvine, Lynne Spreen and Ellen Wolfe. On our tables we have larger books by Pamela Hayter, Mary Thomas Bowe and Charles Forsyth. All worth reading! Open that book! ~ Cookie Scott