by Lucas Hess
We have had a busy fall in Sacramento. Our yard sale (the final one after over 25 years of holding it) brought in $845.08. Several members are pledging extra money to bring our total to $1,000.00. We’ll decide how to allocate it at our next business meeting. We also had a very successful BBQ, specifically inviting Walnut Creek members, and extending the invitation to anyone else who wanted to come. It was a pleasant day. After latihan and testing, we spent a long afternoon on the patio eating and talking.
Our new HVAC system, purchased with a loan from the Region approved December 2018, is working very well. We switched from cooling to heating when temperatures dropped into the low 40’s at night.
Our property manager had all our large trees trimmed and cleaned out over the summer. Recent high winds felled numerous trees throughout the local area; ours survived with little effect and no damage. A very real gift to us since we experienced several large limb drops earlier this year. Luckily no one was injured.
We pulled weeds, trimmed existing bushes and planted many new flowers in our front gardening beds prior to the new school year. The change has been noted by many parents and our primary tenant and has made the front of our building far more inviting.
Our scheduled events continue with latihans on Wednesday night at 7 pm and Saturday mornings at 10 am, and monthly events including a pot luck lunch on the 4th Saturday following latihan, and a business meeting on the 3rd Saturday.
We are working on some repairs to both hall and duplex, including changing lighting fixtures both inside and out at the hall to LED. Our interior lights, now all compact fluorescent, will be changed out a pair a month until we are completely switched over. We expect our electricity bill to drop by 30% with this change. It dropped 20% some years ago when we moved from incandescent to CFL’s.
The Herrman’s have been busy. Benedict, an International Helper, attended the International meeting in Indonesia and Kalimantan after being sent to South America and Canada as part of his work. Aminah, who is currently on the Board of SD International traveled to India.
We look forward to hosting the Regional Council in April 2020.