We're planning an exciting annual meeting for OSTA members at The Village Green in Cottage Grove from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, November 8.
The registration table should be open somewhere between 9 a.m.and 9:30 for early birds to chat and drop off silent auction donations, items, and baskets.The brief business meeting will be at 10. Then it's on to the program, which will include information from Chelsea Catto of Casa of Oregon on what to do if you're interested in buying your park and Legislative plans and review from Rep. Nancy Nathanson, who is a major supporter of manufactured home owners.
For lunch you have a choice of chicken penne with marinara sauce, a /3 lb. hamburger and potato salad, or a vegan stir fry of tofu, fresh vegetables and rice with Teriyaki sauce. There will be cake and coffee. Actually, there will be coffee all day, and the Inn's restaurant will be open for breakfast. Those spending Friday night will get breakfast as part of their room rate.
After lunch to aid your digestion, there will be music of sorts from the OSTA Players, lasting until you boo them off stage.
An afternoon panel on Promoting Neighborhood Villages will feature former State Representative and national board member of OWL, Nancie Fadeley, and residents of several parks telling how they encourage neighborhood care-giving. We expect to hear additional ideas from those attending. Hopefully we can send everyone home with good ways to help each other.
The finale of the day will be a question and answer session on legal issues with Matthew Johnson, attorney and OSTA board member. This will be a return of his popular session last year, so bring your questions.
Then, as frosting on the cake, we'll have the results of the silent auction, again being run by Pat Negus from SongBrook. Hopefully you'll all go home with wonderful buys that you love. Your generous bidding will again aid our Helping Hands program.
There were problems with delivery of the most recent OSTA Quarterly Reviews, so if you haven't received yours, please scroll down the left column of the blog and click on the Fall 2014 issue. If you can't download a registration form, all we need is your name, the name of your park, which of the three entries you want on your plate lunch, and your $20 registration fee.You can also email me with questions. --Jane Capron
Let's have a wonderful day!
If
you want to buy your park…
Park
Purchase Letters Need to be Sent
Until January 1, 2015, when the new statute on
Opportunity to Purchase goes into effect, a park purchase committee still needs
to send a yearly letter to the owner asking to be notified if the park goes up
for sale. After January 1, park owners will be legally obligated to notify residents
or a resident committee about possible sales.
Hi, OSTA Members!
Just a little update to let you know what's happening with your OSTA state board. First, we had our last board meeting via Skype, the online site that lets us see and talk to each other. While we're not yet quite sure we like it, we will keep trying to meet with our computers because it's save all kinds of travel money. That's savings we can use for such things as Helping Hands.
Speaking of Helping Hands, I'm disappointed that we're not getting an extra $1 or so from members when they send in their renewals. If we ever, ever get some corporate funding, we need to show that our members support this program. I collected over $5 at our community garage sale for Helping Hands and hit up my chapter's members at our meetings. Rita collected some in her park and sent it in, and a couple of chapters presidents have promised to also put out donation baskets at meetings. We're not looking for a lot of money, although I have to tell you that our state board members donated very generously. If you send in any, please count every person in your household and any relatives that also give you 25 or 50 cents or even a dime. Like I said, it doesn't have to be much. We need numbers!
Of course that's what we say about OSTA membership: the more members we have, the stronger we are!
I'm working on the next OSTA Quarterly Review right now and have asked all my helpful people, chapter presidents and representatives, to send in news about what they're doing. I hope you all enjoy reading these little blurbs. We will have a new mediator writing for us starting this issue. "Memo from Marlena" replaces "Ask Aandy." Anndy retired. We'll miss her, but I think you'll like Marlena's column. If you like Gus Daum's "Thoughts on Aging," I'm sure he'd like to know that. Send me a little note and I'll pass it on. Also my granddaughter, Jacqueline, is still writing and is a loyal OSTA member. She won't be a little kid much longer; she's almost a teenager. So I'll be looking for another kid who likes to write. Teenagers get pretty busy. Jacqueline and her father played a classical cello duet at a gathering this summer. A couple of you have sent her little notes through me, and she was very pleased to get them.
We're also putting together the annual meeting. Read all about it in this next OSTA Quarterly Review. It isn't until Nov. 8, so you'll have to mark your calendars in big red letters so you don't forget. Also, this year you'll need to tell me what you want for lunch as we'll have a choice of three plates. The entertainment, which is always awesome, will be spectacular this year! And we'll have the silent auction again, so bring a little extra money and whatever goodies you think will sell. Last year all auction proceeds went to Helping Hands.
I have no idea how many of you read the blog, but I sure hope some of you do! Let us know! --Jane
Just a little update to let you know what's happening with your OSTA state board. First, we had our last board meeting via Skype, the online site that lets us see and talk to each other. While we're not yet quite sure we like it, we will keep trying to meet with our computers because it's save all kinds of travel money. That's savings we can use for such things as Helping Hands.
Speaking of Helping Hands, I'm disappointed that we're not getting an extra $1 or so from members when they send in their renewals. If we ever, ever get some corporate funding, we need to show that our members support this program. I collected over $5 at our community garage sale for Helping Hands and hit up my chapter's members at our meetings. Rita collected some in her park and sent it in, and a couple of chapters presidents have promised to also put out donation baskets at meetings. We're not looking for a lot of money, although I have to tell you that our state board members donated very generously. If you send in any, please count every person in your household and any relatives that also give you 25 or 50 cents or even a dime. Like I said, it doesn't have to be much. We need numbers!
Of course that's what we say about OSTA membership: the more members we have, the stronger we are!
I'm working on the next OSTA Quarterly Review right now and have asked all my helpful people, chapter presidents and representatives, to send in news about what they're doing. I hope you all enjoy reading these little blurbs. We will have a new mediator writing for us starting this issue. "Memo from Marlena" replaces "Ask Aandy." Anndy retired. We'll miss her, but I think you'll like Marlena's column. If you like Gus Daum's "Thoughts on Aging," I'm sure he'd like to know that. Send me a little note and I'll pass it on. Also my granddaughter, Jacqueline, is still writing and is a loyal OSTA member. She won't be a little kid much longer; she's almost a teenager. So I'll be looking for another kid who likes to write. Teenagers get pretty busy. Jacqueline and her father played a classical cello duet at a gathering this summer. A couple of you have sent her little notes through me, and she was very pleased to get them.
We're also putting together the annual meeting. Read all about it in this next OSTA Quarterly Review. It isn't until Nov. 8, so you'll have to mark your calendars in big red letters so you don't forget. Also, this year you'll need to tell me what you want for lunch as we'll have a choice of three plates. The entertainment, which is always awesome, will be spectacular this year! And we'll have the silent auction again, so bring a little extra money and whatever goodies you think will sell. Last year all auction proceeds went to Helping Hands.
I have no idea how many of you read the blog, but I sure hope some of you do! Let us know! --Jane
The Summer, 2014 OSTA Quarterly Review Coming Soon!
The next issue of The OSTA Quarterly Review due out June 1, will be a bit late because we're waiting to take a picture of the Governor signing the Opportunity to Purchase bill. That is scheduled to happen on May 29 and we want to get a celebration picture to put on the front page. The Review will go to the printer on June 1, so those of you who get copies in your P.O. boxes should receive them the second week of June. Those of you who chose the email version should get it on June 1.
We always enjoy your comments that come to our P.O. box or email inboxes, especially when they're nice! And, of course, we're thrilled when you send a donation for Helping Hands and make the temperature rise on the thermometers you see to the left of your screen. We've got a long way to go to get 1,000 donations. Please count everybody in your house when you send in yours. And if your friends and relatives add a bit, be sure to count them, too. We like offering a Helping Hand and want to continue as long as we have the funds.
We always enjoy your comments that come to our P.O. box or email inboxes, especially when they're nice! And, of course, we're thrilled when you send a donation for Helping Hands and make the temperature rise on the thermometers you see to the left of your screen. We've got a long way to go to get 1,000 donations. Please count everybody in your house when you send in yours. And if your friends and relatives add a bit, be sure to count them, too. We like offering a Helping Hand and want to continue as long as we have the funds.
All of us pitching in a little helps a lot!
Lawyers Help Jackson County Residents
The Center for Non-Profit Legal Services in Medford has an ongoing program to help people who can't afford to hire lawyers to solve complex legal problems. In Jackson County, 137 lawyers (out of 300) have donated $26,321 to a legal defense fund to support cases involving child custody, immigration, landlord/tenant disputes, and other issues. Statewide the Campaign for Equal Justice has raised $1.25 million for pro bono work with more being donated in Jackson County than in any other county. Legal Services has helped 40 young people file applications for legal residence in the valley.
Aging in Place in Southern Oregon
On April 26 AARP is offering information about making your home safe and convenient with workshops on how to install age-friendly features. To register go to aarp.org/or.
AARP also sponsors the Age-Friendly Rogue Valley series on community-access station RVTV on second Thursdays through June.
AARP also sponsors the Age-Friendly Rogue Valley series on community-access station RVTV on second Thursdays through June.
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