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Shared Interest Group Announcements
CRI Group, continued Club Veterans
We expect that we will be meeting on ZOOM for the foreseeable future flag pole were graciously donated to The Club by
and encourage all our members to join us. Besides being informative, it one of our members; Gunnery Sgt. Major Art Horn,
is an opportunity to see and hear many of our fellow residents. Our next USMC and his lovely wife Shirlee. (Sadly Art
th
ZOOM meeting will be on Thursday, February 4 at 7 PM. Speaker and passed away a few years back however Shirlee is
topic to be determined. You can contact the following people if you here and is active in our community.)
need help getting on ZOOM:
Rick Koehler Rickkoehler.45@gmail.com The flag pole is of a different design. It is in three sections and each
Jim Lindauer jcal767@gmail.com section must be brought down inside itself much like a telescope.
Debbie Ferris Debbie.Ferris49@icloud.com Needless to say we were called upon to take down the old flag so it can
be disposed of properly and new flag hoisted in its place.
We encourage you to log onto our HOA Group page If you’re walking by The Club and see a very clean and new flag waving
(www.theclubatwestparkca.com/CRI/) for updates about our meetings in the breeze it was done on the behalf of Art and Shirlee Horn. It was a
and articles from our representatives. patriotic gift to all of us.
Club Crafters See you all next year and may 2020 be better than 2021 for each of you.
Even though crafters are not meeting at the Club at WestPark Democrats
clubhouse, we now meet every Tuesday via Zoom
chatting and continuing to work on our projects.
Whatever your craft it is a good to keep busy and As you read this February 2021 message, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
complete all those unfinished items. If you have craft will have been inaugurated as the President and Vice President of the
items to donate, crafters are happy to take them. United States, and a transfer of power will have occurred. The votes of
Contact Denise Caputo at 916-782-1663 or email the American people were fairly cast, counted, recounted, certified, and
dgcaputo@surewest.net litigated.
Club Veterans But on January 6th, 2021, the day that Congress convened to certify the
election results, a riotous mob, not protesters, emboldened by national
Not long ago it was noticed by a few of our Vet members that the US leaders, attacked the US Capitol and interrupted this normally peaceful
Flag that flies outside The Retreat was in a sad state and needed to be process.
replaced. Working with our Executive Director “The Club” purchased a
new flag. Originally, the flag and the The Club at WestPark Democrats met on the very day of the January 6th
violence and members took time to reflect on the events of the day. But
we also realized that we now have an opportunity to re-set and plan for
the future. To that end, our Activities Chair led a discussion of the goals
and objectives that the Biden/Harris team plan for their First 100 Days,
and decided to bring updates on these goals back to the membership
meetings over the next several months.
Our Membership Chair reported that our membership renewals are ahead
of previous years’ activity, and we invite other West Park Residents to
contact us (see email address below) for a ZOOM link to observe a
meeting to decide if they’d like to join our Club. We remind 2020
members to send their membership renewal to theMembership Chair at
the address on the renewal form.
We are planning an exciting year of speakers and activities, and our
meetings will combine brief business items along with time to discuss
the events of the day, which we call ‘Hot Topics’.
MEETINGS: We meet on the 1st Wednesday of every month. Current
members receive an email with the Agenda and ZOOM link prior to the
meeting.
At our February 3rd meeting, we will host a discussion that we call
Greg Cerlenko and Dow Sager raising the new flag
along with the Pole “Supporting Our Community”, certainly a timely topic considering the
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