Palomar Mountain News

Have something with a plug you would like to send to finer pastures?  How about some shredding? . If it has a cord it can be disposed of for free, including large appliances.  The Valley Center ewaste & shred event is this Saturday.  They will also gladly accept donations 🙂

 Shredding will be $5 for a bankers sized box. Tell everyone you know. We  need lots of workers thruout the day. Hours are 9-2 for drop off but workers are needed before and after too.

 Saturday, August 21 at VC Lower Elementary from 9 – 2.   When driving through Valley Center, turn north on Cole Grade Road, the school is pretty quick on the left.

Dear Family and Friends of Helen McKinley, 

Please click for photos and Service info.

Several of you have forwarded the article about the Hantavirus from different papers to turn around.  The editor of the Valley Center Road Runner lives on Palomar, so I thought I’d send from his paper: http://www.valleycenter.com/extra2.htm  Thanks David Ross!

After some of the adventures I’ve had cleaning out new listings, I’ve said “If we had the hauntavirus on Palomar, I would have been gone long ago”.  However when I saw this article, I quickly called to check on Joelene.  She is one of our residents up here who did some heavy-duty de-mousing recently for a client and ended up with a flu bug.  Thankfully she is fine and knows how to be careful.  

BTW, if you’d like someone to really deep-clean your cabin, Joelene is wonderful:   760 215-9283

Would YOU like to be out at High Point during a Thunderstorm?  What an adventure!  Two great messages tell of the day.   The first is from Don Stouder, the volunteer manning the tower during Monday’s thunderstorms.  I had a questions about his message when he said he was ‘in the porta-potty when the rain started … but glad he had taken the HT’.  Thinking it was a typo for TP, (LOL  🙂  I confirmed with Brad who cleared it up:

From Brad: << HT is an acronym for ‘Handy Talkie’ or hand held radio. We have a base radio as primary in the lookout and 2 hand helds as back up along with a cell phone. I am so amazed at what our volunteers are doing when faced with a high stress situation that includes lightning and a bunch of professional firefighters and pilots that want to talk to us. We seem to be getting the job done…now we just need some more lookouts to open! >>

Enjoy reading the Thunderstom Lessons Learned at High Point!

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From: Mike Chesney  

The next PMPO Board Meeting is scheduled for August 21st, 2010 starting at 10am at the Fire Station

To see the draft agenda http://www.pmpoinfo.com/Pages/Next_Meeting.htm

Mike Tracey, Mountain resident has been working on the Mountain helping property owners with many different projects.  He now has time available to help you with any of the following:

Electricial, carpentry, handyman jobs

Hanging or repair of doors and gates

Weed eating, brush, downed branches cleanup

Property cleanup to Forestry Standards

Dry, oak firewood delivered and stacked

Cabin cleaning

Mice and bat cleanup and exclusion

Your work is much appreciated,

Mike Tracey 760 215-9283

From: Mike Chesney  

PMPO Board Member Spotlight

At our last Annual General Meeting, four new Board Members were elected, Click Below for the first in a series of Spotlights introducing your new PMPO Board Members

George Evangelou was born in Virginia in 1952 and has lived in San Diego County since infancy.
A semi-retired lawyer, George has been a regular visitor to the Mountain for the last 46 years.
George does residential and commercial electrical repairs, and owns a machine shop where he manufactures parts for local businesses.
Click here to learn more about George

Welcome to the Board, George!

Many of us got an email today looking like it was from someone most of us know on the mountain with the message below.  It was an example of an email e-dress being captured, used with dishonest intentions, and is being dealt with.   After several messages from some of you questioning the situation, I thought it would be good to turn around Ann’s below.   I did X out the name and e-dress to avoid causing any more grief for the pirated sender.   It is not uncommon to get a message like this from someone you may know – just don’t send money!  Now, go out and make it a great day!   Bonnie Phelps 

From: ANN SOWARDS

Subject: Fraudulent email making the rounds?