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Library Committee We welcome you to the Four Seasons community library. Our residents keep us up to date with new and older fiction hardbound books. Our non-fiction section is filled with biographies and a broad range of interesting topics. Check out the travel section on the bottom shelves. Many of you have added to our new topic and we thank you. Please remember that we do not accept technical books and the downtown library doesn't accept them either. We have reached an over flowing capacity situation of our hardbound books. At this time, we are going to start culling the older books. Certainly books published in the 1980's but all prolific authors published before the year 2000 will be donated to the Hemet Library as well. Please check the copyright date on donated books and help us keep current. We wish we could accept all books but we have no place to display them. We are instrumental in helping the Hemet Library stay open. It's a win-win situation! Our magazine rack holds three months of donated material. As of this writing please bring, June, July, and August. After reading them please be sure to return them for others to read. We currently accept paperback books from 2010-2014. At times, we can hardly fit another book in and the next day it is so empty looking. Someone is donating a lot of oversized paperbacks dated 2013 and we would like to thank you. Many of them are very manly. Make sure you check out the far right side of the paperback cabinet. For information about other areas please refer to our library directory next to our return box. The library committee is comprised of residents who enjoy reading and have a desire to keep our 55+ library in order. We all enjoy working there and ask that you please let us do our job and put the books away for you. Committee member Char read An Unexpected Guest by Kristen von Kreisler. Lila Elliot is wounded in a shooting rampage at her office that left several colleagues dead. She knows she is lucky, but she can't get past the fear and anger she feels. She gratefully accepts her best friend Christina's offer to house sit and recuperate while she is gone. Christina's neighbor Adam, has recently rescued an abused golden retriever named Grace. Of course Adam cannot keep Grace in his apartment, so Christina agrees to foster her just until Adam can find a home for her. Poor Lila is drafted into caring for Grace. As if Lila isn't stressed enough! Grace is depressed and only perks up for Adam and Lila has been afraid of dogs since a childhood incident. Can Lila and Grace find healing and courage? Can you see where this is going? Char passed it on to Cookie who had a hard time putting it down. We both recommend the book found in the paperback shelving. Can you guess who this Library Committee Member is? | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | August 2014 | 14 There is a need to prepare for two basic types of emergencies. The first, and by far the most common, are personal ones: emergencies that effect ourselves, and probably our immediate families or housemates. The second are those that effect a broader base of people, like neighborhoods, communities, states, and possibly the nation as a whole. The first is our individual responsibility and the level of preparations made is based upon our personal values, health, and resources available to us. The second is more complex, requires more resources than is typically available to an individual, and a sense of co- operation and community planning. That is why we have an Emergency Preparedness Committee (EPC). We are committed to spending some time and energy each month to consider what can, and should, be done to prepare our Four Seasons community for the second type of emergency — whether it is a result from acts of nature, or created by human intention or error. We want to encourage our fellow neighbors to take steps to be personally prepared. Next month is National Preparedness Month. For more information about this, please see the Center for Disease Control's website (http://www.cdc. gov/features/beready/). We hope that you have reviewed your personal preparation, including: having or making an evacuation plan; on-hand (and current!), copies of important personal health and financial papers; sufficient water, food, and medicine for at least a week; keeping enough gas in your car to be able to "clear the area", if necessary; have enough fresh/ charged flashlight batteries; and earthquake-safe your house. There continues to be a need for as many of us as possible to become involved in emergency preparation — in learning what is the right thing to do, and how to do it right. We need you to become involved. If you haven't attended one, please seriously consider attending our meeting Mon., Aug. 25 at 6:30 pm in the Lodge Ballroom. Emergency Preparedness Committee

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