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Tsunami Awareness Month by Ken Stone

April is Tsunami Awareness Month. It is time once again to think about your state of emergency preparedness. Do you have your 3 day emergency kit ready that contains those items you will need if you have to quickly abandon your home? Do you have at least a week’s supply of your meds packed? Do you have water for 3 days? Or food? Or clothing? Do you have a flashlight? What about your pets?

The sad truth is that in a major emergency there is not going to be much help for you right away. Florence would likely be cut off from the outside world from several days to weeks. You might have to evacuate to a shelter with your emergency supplies. There are long range plans for the city to assist you with emergency supplies, but for now what you take with you may be all you have for sev-eral days. You might need to walk a fair distance to a shelter, so make sure your emergency kit is on wheels or at least light enough to carry comfortably. At this time there are no funds to obtain or stock a city emergency warehouse for disasters. Therefore, you need to plan your emergency kit carefully. There will be more informa-tion about emergency kits in the near future.

A team from the Oregon Office of Emergency Manage-ment, an individual from the Oregon Department of Geol-ogy, and a representative from FEMA will all visit Flor-ence on April 10. They are here to provide the latest in-formation about earthquakes and tsunamis. This group will present an open forum at the Events Center on April 10 at 6:00 PM. This is a great opportunity for the resi-dents of Florence. Please come to take part in this impor-tant event. Come early! The last time this was done, there was standing room only in the auditorium.

New Phonebooks New Eugene/Springfield phonebooks are available in the library of the Clubhouse. The Greentrees Village Security Committee has asked that the vendors not deliver phone-books to the individual homes in Greentrees because at homes that are empty the books can be on the driveway for months, marking the homes as empty to thieves. So if you would like a new phonebook, swing by the Club-house and pick one up.

Neighborhood Watch Program by Ken Stone Flash! Break-ins and Burglaries are up this year! We are easy targets. A third of us are gone during the winter. Half of us take extended trips out of town or to medical facilities leaving our properties vacant at some point dur-ing the year. We need to act now to protect ourselves. That means becoming more aware of what is happening around us, as well as banding together to keep outsiders out of our neighborhood. For this reason, we are reinitiat-ing the daily patrols in Greentrees and forming a Neighborhood Watch Program here. We need volunteers to help get this program off the ground and to help edu-cate the residents about the program. There will be a signup sheet in the Library for you to register your interest in assisting in this program.

Security Tip of the Month by Ken Stone Carry your Greentrees Tag with you at all times! Also, make sure your guests carry a tag as well. You just might be challenged by a good citizen to prove you belong here. If you see someone who does not look like they belong here, ask them for their tag. If they refuse, or simply pro-vide some address they are associated with, go to the nearest phone and call the office, or call the police. The office will either call me to check them out or will send one of the employees to check on them. Pretty soon people will get the picture that they need to carry their tags if they do not want to be harassed.

Around the Village

Artwork currently on display in the Greentrees office in-cludes sculptures by resident Howard Burnell (pictured above) and paintings by residents Mercedes Duchesne, Barbara Enslow, Shirley Kaasa and Lonnie Morgenegg.

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The Computer Club… by Parker Kendall

One of the most popular shticks of Comedian Jay Leno involves the studio audience. On a large screen Leno projects items that are of-fered for sale on EBay and the au-dience is asked to shout out Sold! or Not Sold! The items can range from a potato chip in which the

seller saw the likeness of a religious saint to the hair clip-pings of some celebrity.

Computer Club member Pat Miller not long ago showed club members the ins and out of buying and selling on EBay. “You must first register by listing a user name and then an ID,” she said, adding that it’s probably a good idea to have a separate email account to use exclusively on EBay.

Before buying anything, said Pat, “It’s a good idea to read discussion boards so that you can see the ratings of sell-ers.” And, she said, buyers may also be rated, which is a help to sellers. At one time, she pointed out, almost any payment method was accepted but these days EBay en-courages buyers to use PayPal, which EBay owns.

When looking for an item to buy, Pat suggested using EBay’s Advanced Search to narrow down the category and to see what similar items have in the past sold for.

EBay was founded in San Jose, California in 1995 by French-born Iranian computer programmer Pierre Omid-yar, who called his new website AuctionWeb. The very first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer (illegal to sell now) for $14.83. Omidyar contacted the winning bidder to ask if he understood that the laser pointer was broken. In his responding email, the buyer explained: "I'm a collector of broken laser pointers.”

Which proves what most people who use EBay know—you can buy or sell almost anything on the website as long as you abide by the site’s rules. One of the most unusual items sold on EBay was a Lotus Esprit sports car owned by British DJ and TV host Tim Shaw. A few years ago Shaw’s wife saw him on TV fawning over some model and, before he could get home, put his Lotus Es-prit (25,000 pounds new) up for sale on EBay for 50 pence (about $1.00) with the proviso that the car be picked up within the next two to three hours. The car sold within five minutes. Not long thereafter, Shaw made a public apology to his wife. Then he bought back his sports car—for 5,000 pounds.

Drop in on a computer club class any Wednesday. The advanced class meets at 11:10, the basic class at 1. There’s no charge and all Greentrees folks are welcome. Look for the Greentrees Computer Club web site in your search engine to find out the latest news.

The Tuesday Club… by Carol Fisher

April Calendar March 31 –Meeting 1:00

Bunco Party 2:00pm April 7 – Coffee Social 9:30 Coffee Room

April 14 – Meeting 12:30, Board Meeting 1:00

April 18 - Breakfast 8-10 Rec. Hall

April 21 – Meeting 1:00, Bunco 2:00 Those to bring snacks: A thru L

April 28 – Luncheon at the Casino 11:30am

St. Patrick’s Day Dinner, Tuesday, March 17, 2009 5:00. We served 118 dinners, 4 take out dinners, and after dinner was served we sold 8 more dinners to take home. The Line Dancers entertained us with 4 numbers, Thank you all who danced, we enjoyed your dancing very much. Thanks to the cooks, Charlie Enslow, Fred Sebree, Wayne Fisher, Dick Benson, and everybody who helped in the kitchen washing, chopping veggies and then dishing up the dinners. Also thank you to Laurie Herbig who assisted making the cakes for dessert. The hall was decorated with green and white tablecloths, green napkins, little pots and hats with choco-late mint sticks in them, streamers, and banners hanging on the walls. Thank you all who helped decorate and take everything down afterwards.

HULA DANCE LESSONS: Wednesdays, at 11:00 am. If anyone would like to learn how to dance the hula, please come to the Tuesday Room at 11:00am Weds. thru May 19th . The lessons will be 1 hour long every Wed. until the Luau which will be May 24, 2009. You can join at any time, we’re learning popular hula dances and it’s really good ex-ercise.

April 18, 2009, Saturday, will be a pancake breakfast in the rec hall. We’ll serve from 8 to 10. Pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, fruit juices, and fruit will be served for the moderate price of $5.00. Hope you all come.

The Greentrees Property Committee meets the second and fourth Monday at 10:00 AM. Members, from left to right, are: John Morgenegg, Bill Johnson, Wayne Fisher (chairman), R.B. Taylor, Bill James, Ron McCrary, Mike Grenfell and Fred Burns.

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We have new neighbors!

Denis and Helene Hawes have lived here for several months, but I did not meet them until recently. They bought a home on the west side which they are currently remodeling. They alternate their residences between Florence and Australia. When taking the occasional break from working on their home, they enjoy kayaking across the river and exploring the dunes.

Helene was born in France and migrated with her parents and four brothers when she was around ten to Australia. Her mother was educated at Versailles and her father was an agronomist (a specialist in areas such as crop rotation, irrigation and drainage, plant breeding, soil clas-sification, soil fertility, weed control, insect and pest con-trol)….whew! The family settled in Sidney and Helene schooled there. She became a high school teacher, and has a Masters Degree in education.

Denis was born and grew up in Brisbane. Brisbane is the capitol of Queensland and is the 3rd largest city in Austra-lia. Denis’s mother was a homemaker and his father was a house builder. He has one sister. He too became a school teacher, and later acquired his Masters in Law and became an attorney (Barrister).

They met while they were both teaching school in a small town north of Brisbane. Each had been married previ-ously and between them they have seven children and 18 grandchildren.

When they first retired, they purchased a motorhome and toured the United States for six months, taking in parts of Mexico and Canada as well.

When they returned to Australia, they again purchased a motorhome and spent the next 3 ½ years touring Austra-lia. They spent 2 years taking a full time course at the Australian School of Fine Wood at the Forest Heritage

Centre, where they both learned to design and make fine furniture. (forestheritagecentre.com) You can see some of their work at the website for the school.

Denis and Helene have visited the US several times (Denis has a son living in Arizona). On one of their trips, they vis-ited a friend and childhood classmate of Denis’s who lives in Florence. They liked the area and decided to purchase a home here.

I had lots of questions about their homeland and the couple patiently answered them. They explained that Australia is the oldest continent in the world, and the smallest. Its big-gest difference from the US is the population and the cli-mate (it is 11º south of the equator).

101st Rhododendron Festival Parade Mary Ann Jackson has graciously volunteered to chair the Rhody Parade Float Committee again this year. The theme will be Pacific Wonderland. The parade will be on May 17th. There is a signup sheet for volunteers in the Green-trees Library. The first meeting will be held in the Coffee Room on April 8th at 10:00am. We need your ideas.

Bernie Herr, Greentrees Artist Bernie Herr lives in Greentrees at Lot #205. Almost every-day he can be found in his studio, on his lot, painting, fram-ing, discussing or studying art.

Bernie paints in “Aqueous Media” which means watercolor, or other water based media. He is a man of many styles! He loves color and exploring new techniques. He has won many awards and just had a painting selected for the Wa-tercolor Society of Oregon’s 44th Annual Aqueous Exhibi-tion.

Bernie will have a one man show for the month of April, in “Gallery One of the Florence Events Center “ He would like to invite all Greentrees Residents to his opening reception on Friday April 3 from 4:30-7:30 PM.

Oregon Medical Laboratories is Moving Beginning April 6, the Florence patient service center for Oregon Medical Laboratories (where they draw the blood) will be taking up temporary residence in the Inter-nal Medicine Center on 9th street.

The City of Florence recently approved Peace Harbor Hos-pital’s proposal to locate a 5,000 square-foot building on its campus southeast of the hospital building. The building, scheduled to open in late summer 2009, will reunite the hospital lab with the Oregon Medical Laboratories (OML) patient service center currently located in the Coast Fitness Plaza. When it opens, the expanded lab and new patient service center will offer better access and capacity for hos-pital and clinic patients and area residents. In the mean time, they will be doing the blood work at the Internal Medi-cine Center on 9th street.

Neighbors… By Beverley Fraser

Greentrees Residents, Denis and Helene Hawes.

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Newsletter Contributors:

Louis Dashofy, Editor

Beverley Fraser, Contributing Writer

John Morgenegg, Contributing Writer

Parker Kendall, Contributing Writer

Carol Fisher, Contributing Writer

Bailey, Junior Reporter

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Bailey Speaks

I would like to welcome Jake and Eddie to the committee. They are swell guys. The first instructions given out by Booboo was to be sure the caregivers pick up.

Yes, it is the same old problem. We have a few that are ignoring their re-sponsibilities. Remember, it doesn’t matter where the deposit is left, pick it up!!

Now, this is not the message content that I intended. But we are having problems, folks. The fellow below is a dream, not reality.

Bailey, Jr. reporter

Florence Senior Travel Club

A trip to the Oregon State Capitol

April 24th @ 8:00 AM

Lunch at the Red Lobster in Salem

$35 plus lunch

Reservations can be made at the

Florence Senior Center by April. 1, 2009

Wednesdays and Fridays: 12:30pm-1:30pm

Or call Elva Williams at 541-997-9334

Coming in May:

BBQ, Jazz and Iris’ At Schreiner’s Iris Garden

Spring is here!

Rather than hang out at home, come to the Recreation Hall and bring a friend!

Bingo starts at 7:00 PM

Saturday Night!

In Memoriam

William Hough #653 10/13/32—02/26/09

Wendall Secrest #220 11/22/16—03/08/09

Clair English #552 05/26/33—03/01/09

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Secretary’s Report March 10th Board Meeting

President Mike Grenfell called the meeting to order at 1 PM and all districts were represented. The General Manager reported that the new speed bumps had arrived and one set is available to be sure to cal the office if you think you would like one laid out. Maybe the bumps will re-mind everyone to slow down to 10 MPH. The carpeting in the clubhouse will be cleaned so the clubhouse carpeted area will be off limits during cleaning. The adult pool anti suction pump had been installed and the spa drain awaits the arrival of its new cover. Mary Ann Jackson has volunteered to take on the float for the Rhody parade. She will need volunteers. You may contact Mary Ann or the office to sign up. It was decided that everyone would continue to pay for the popcorn and coffee. We are on the honor system and there has been a large short fall of payment versus cost. The Board has authorized contacting an engineer to evaluate heat pumps and solar heating for the adult pool. Ken Stone reported another break in and we need to keep an eye out for strangers. Ken sug-gested we put our lights on and if going away make your house look occupied. Have a neighbor park a car in your driveway. Ken is looking for volunteers to help with security. The board has referred the request for a Bocce Ball court to properties. The Computer Club has classes for beginners and advanced so be sure to check them out. The Tuesday club has several functions ready so be sure to check the calendar. (Note: The regular minutes are posted. A brief summary for the newsletter may be of more interest. Your input would be appreciated ..Jo Ann Sutton, Secretary)

The Tuesday Club— A History The Greentrees Tuesday Club was started in the late 70's after resident Fran Simpson began an arts and crafts class that met in the original recreation hall. After Fran left, Ottorene Dom-pier, Rose Wickstrom, Ruth Thiessen, and others from that original group continued to meet, but didn't feel competent enough at arts and crafts to continue the class. The original members had started, among other things, some quilting projects. The quilts were raffled off in Green-trees in an attempt to meet some of the on-going needs of a relatively new park that still needed many things. The charter members had been meeting on Tuesdays and decided to change the focus of the meetings to concentrate on Greentrees' needs, and the needs of the community. They added new members and gave dinners in which they brought pans and uten-sils from individual homes to put on meals. They began meeting in the clubhouse where the fireplace room now stands. Originally only women attended on Tuesdays, so some of the men decided to form a Wednesday Club. This never took off, so fortunately, we have both genders repre-sented in our club today. The weekly meetings are open to all Greentrees residents and guests. We still adhere to the original goals. Over the years the Tuesday Club has provided funding for beautification and "extras" for the park, such as paying for landscaping around the clubhouse and construction of a new park.

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