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Preparing for EVERYTHING!
Focus on the good around you. Say good things to yourself and to others every day. Grace and patience is a practice. So practice. We all know everything has changed. Everything in our communities, everyplace we go, everyone around us has seen some impact.
Please join us on Monday, May 11, 2020 at 6:00 pm to discuss “Preparing for a Disaster during the Pandemic”. Topics will include – How do we respond should a fire, earthquake or other disaster occur during the Pandemic? What are the differences in how we respond? What stays the same? How do we activate CERT in times such as these? What role can you play? How does Bodega Bay Fire respond differently? Same? What do we do, where do we go in times of emergency in the Pandemic and a disaster?
To offer a bit of light there are people out there delivering free flowers, making baked goods for neighbors, offering extra health care as volunteers, and many other free or reduced services that make a difference in our lives right now. I want to highlight one of those people, who are always giving, a dear friend of mine Liz Perillat. She is a rockstar! She and two others in our community, Aimee Taylor and Brittany Ramirez, started the Mendocino Masks Makers (MMM) and have put in countless hours into this herculean effort. This is GRASSROOTS people! They are making a difference in so many lives for the safety and care of our community.
The meeting will provide key information for Bodega Bay in understanding the answers to these questions. Meeting will be conducted via telephone conference call and online meeting. Details to be sent out prior to meeting to CERT members. Not a CERT member but want to join the meeting? Email us at info@bodegabaycert.org
I spoke to Liz today and shared emotional tears. She said “I wanted to do something, I prayed to my Mom and Grandma (who have passed) and asked what to do”. Liz started making masks and with the support of others they created the MMM. She started gathering supplies, started coordinating needs in the communities, and started delivering. Liz said this is a ‘small community pulling together resoucres’. With tons of notetaking from requests via Facebook, her, Aimee, and Brittany discuss the priorities and then DO IT! They have received donations from many including Harmony Fabrics (thank you a million Harmony Susalla), as well as elastic, and other needed supplies. With a few monetary donations they purchased N95 fabric.
Wondering what to DO with your SPARE TIME?
You could take the online Basic CERT Course available through FEMA online. Takes approximately 6 hours with an online test at the end to receive your certificate. It works in conjunction with the training provided by your Bodega Bay CERT meetings and drills.
The course will provide education about disaster preparedness, trains and organizes teams of volunteers that can support their communities during disasters. This program offers training in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, and disaster medical operations. With proper CERT training, you can help protect your family, neighbors, and co- workers if a disaster occurs.
Liz has delivered over 1000 masks herself and a few other Mask Makers also have delivered at least half that. Just imagine all these masks made and delivered to the community between Fort Bragg and Sea Ranch.
https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-317
Recipients are Redwood Coast Medical Services, Fort Bragg Hospital, Mendocino clinics, Coast Life Support, Fire departments, grocery stores,
and many others have been blessed with the masks. And on top of that if you receive a mask she throws in a Gazette of which she delivers on the north coast.
Have you been to your shed lately?
Your Neighborhood Bodega Bay CERT Disaster Shed that it! Do you know where it is? BB CERT has enabled the neighbors around each of the sheds
to manage the maintenance, supplies and localized Disaster Drill Training. These sheds are in several key locations around North & South Harbour as well as in the other hamlets in Bodega Bay. Let us know if you are interested in learning more!
Get on our mail list by emailing info@bodegabaycert.org to learn when
our meetings are, like us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ BodegaBayCERT/ or visit our website and sign up for updates and be prepared https://www.bodegabaycert.org/ Website also has current Covid 19 information.
More volunteers are needed. If you want to make a monetary donation contact Liz Perilatt for the Redwood Credit Union account info at eperill@gmail.com. You can find them at Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ groups/726774797726939. Liz, Aimee and Brittany from my heart – thank you for being a BIG part of this community and giving so much.
Become a CERT & HAM in Bodega Bay!
Surf Supermarket and Gualala Supermarket are offering a free delivery of needed groceries to those in very remote areas who are heath compromised. Contact Mendocino Health and Action Network at info@mendonomahealth. org or call (707)412-3176 x 102. RCMS is open in Gualala and Point Arena for all health needs. Call them to find out which clinic to attend and to make an appointment if needed as well as telehealth visits (707) 884-4000.
River to Coast Children’s Services is enrolling children of essential worker’s families in their subsidy program. Please call 707-869-3613 to talk with a Family Case Manager about getting help paying for your child care costs and finding appropriate child care. https://MyChildCare.ca.gov
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Council Meeting. Agenda and location will be published on the website and posted at the meeting site at least 72 hours before the meeting date.
INFO: http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/Coastal-Municipal-
Advisory-Council/Calendar/ and Elise VanDyne at Elise.VanDyne@sonoma-county.org. 707.565.2241
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May 14 ~ Lower Russian River Municipal
Advisory Council Meeting. Agenda and location will be published on the website and posted at the meeting site at least 72 hours before the meeting date.
INFO: https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/River-Municipal-
Advisory-Council/ and Elise VanDyne at Elise.VanDyne@ sonoma-county.org. 707.565.2241
As you know most everything is closed including parks. The Point Arena Theater has several online showings with theater and music. Please check out their web at https://www.arenatheater.org/ for details how to join up. The Point Arena Lighthouse is offering a Lighthouse Tower Virtual Tour with an amazing 3-D tour of the Tower from the ground floor to the Lantern Room at the top. Visit them at https://www.pointarenalighthouse.com/visit/lighthouse- tours/. Also they are allowed to accept lodging reservations from essential workers, so please refer anyone that falls into that category to them. They are a nonprofit and depend on tourism, so right now any donation of reservation of lodging is helping. Call 707-882-2809, ext. 1, or email info.palight@gmail.com.
If you know someone who is ‘DOING’ for our community please let me know. Please stay home and when you do go out – where a mask. Blessings of health to you all!
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