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| Four Seasons Hemet Herald | JULY 2017 | 15 14 | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | JULY 2017 | July's Tip: Remember to check your medications, water and non- perishable food supplies. Make sure that you have an emergency information form completed, and that your remote relatives and friends have a copy of any evacuation plan you may develop. Also, be sure to keep your vehicle fuel filled to at least half full in case there is a major emergency or extended power outage. Ensure that your Roving Patrol number is set up for speed-dial if you have that feature. This is especially important if you are a walking enthusiast or living alone. Don't be caught unprepared if a personal emergency occurs!Your Emergency Preparedness Committee and our CERT members will participate in this year's Shake Out, which will take place on Thurs., Oct 19. at 10:19 am. We are also planning a Safety and Preparedness Faire, and we hope that you will drop by our booth to check out what is being done to prepare and assist our community should a major disaster occur! As always, the emphasis on earthquakes stems from the fact that we still have little predictive tools that can warn us, and the destructive potential compared to other disasters that can occur! If we prepare for the worst case scenario, anything else will be easier to handle. As a part of this, we have created a handbook for each household with safety and emergency preparedness information, which we will be distributing at events, various club meetings and in the Lodge. If you haven't yet received a Household Preparation Guide, please leave your name and phone number with the Lodge front desk. We here at Four Seasons have it better than most neighborhoods. We have a large percentage of residents who are active in various events and organizations, and have come to know each other. We have a large number of active and retired residents who have had experience in the military, medical, public safety, communications, public utilities and management sectors. You are encouraged to attend our Safety and Preparedness (historically, "Street Captains") meetings, join in to get some training, and support our community in any way you can. We meet the fourth Mon., at 6:30-7:30 pm in the Multi-Purpose (Card) Room. Please remember, the worst time to ask "What can I do?" is at the onset of an event! Having to tell you what to do takes up valuable time that needs to be spent actually doing what needs to be done. Emergency Preparedness Committee Financial Committee The total assets balance for May 2017 is $5,203,089.70. Total liabilities at this time are $124,842.02. The reserves at this time are $3,836,699.82. The total equity of $1,241,547.86 is a surplus balance. Welcome to your Four Seasons beautiful library! It is created by you, the residents, and maintained by a committee that loves both Four Seasons AND books! We'll need to take a new photo of our committee as it's grown. You keep us pretty busy and we appreciate you! June had Father's Day to celebrate which is a great reason to buy a book. Did the male of your household receive a book by his favorite author? After he reads the book, it can be donated to our library! We could use new 2017 hardbound books. Please donate your May, June and July 2017 magazines to our library to be displayed at this time. The one exception are National Geographic's as they are timeless so any year will be accepted. Remember, we do take all other magazines, any month, to the downtown library. They are displayed and given free to the community. Four Seasons is always involved in helping our communities. We are displaying paperback books from the years 2013-2016. The shelves are pretty tight; therefore, we would like to ask that you do not put your old paperback books in our shelves. Tonight I even found a book from 1978! We have books to put out that we don't have room for. Please allow us to do our job. Old paperbacks are donated directly to the Hemet library for their "bag sales." All the sales and donations truly help the Hemet library keep their doors open. Hardbound fiction books are displayed from 2006-2017. Non-fiction books are not displayed by date. History is too important. We don't display 5 or 6 books about one person, place or thing. We will keep a couple different ones on the same public person. The rest is donated. The Library committee did their research on new library chairs. One of first requirements was to have good back support. A few of us have bad backs. The choice of fabrics were slim. Four Seasons is certainly NOT bland and neither are our new chairs. So be ready for some great, colorful new chairs that will support your back. One of our members, Blair Becker, keeps us on our toes with his humor. We thought that we would end our newsletters from now on with, "thoughts from Blair." "A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life." ~ Norman Cousins A reminder, the library door is to remain open at all times. There is no drinking or eating in the library. The committee members are all volunteers not "staff." Thank you. Committee member Julie Kreun read My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman From the author of the internationally bestselling A Man Called Ove, a novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending her on a journey that brings to life the world of her grandmother's fairy tales. Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is 77 years old and crazy, standing- on-the-balcony-firing-paintballs-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa's greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother's letters lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs and totally ordinary old crones, but also to the truth about fairytales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other. Library Committee

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