By the Way!

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Yosemite Hwy120 COC
Partners in Business
Building Relationships
By the Way!
Yosemite Hwy120 Chamber of Commerce
January 2015
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Yosemite Hwy 120 Chamber
of Commerce Holiday Party
A big Thank You to all our
members for making 2014 a
wonderful
and successful year!
A very special Thank You
to Duet Catering .
Table of Contents
Page 2-5:
Water Conservation, Big Cash Giveaway
Page 4-5:
Christmas, Holiday Season
Page 6-7 : Business of the Month, The Grill.
Page 8-11: Chamber News, John Gray
Page 12-13: Copy Service, 49’er Festival
Page 14-17: Chamber Info, Fun Photos
Page 18:
Member Services, Board of Directors
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Water Conservation
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission General Manager Harlan Kelly has
issued the following statement
“On Friday, January 31st, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission will ask customers of the Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System to voluntarily curtail water consumption by at least 10%. Over the next few days, I will be working closely with
Mayor Ed Lee, San Francisco city departments and our Bay Area wholesale customers to develop strategies to meet this water conservation goal.
I believe voluntary water conservation efforts are the best way to avert mandatory cutbacks and other water restrictions should drought conditions persist.”
Water Conservation For Homes and Businesses
As always, the SFPUC encourages our customers to conserve water. Here are some
helpful tips to conserve water around the house.
1. Turn off the faucet when brushing your teeth, shaving, rinsing vegetables or doing
the dishes - save 2 gallons per minute.
2. Take shorter showers. Each minute you cut saves 2.5 gallons. Make sure you have
installed a high-efficiency showerhead. Fill bathtubs halfway at most.
3. Operate your clothes and dishwashers with full loads only, even if the machine has
an adjustable load setting.
4. Use a broom to clean sidewalks, driveways and pavement instead of using a hose.
5. Don’t use the toilet to flush away trash.
6. Water lawns and plants at night or early morning before dawn to reduce evaporation.
7. Detect leaks. Do you hear the toilet running or your faucet dripping? Contact us or
your local water agency for information on locating your water meter and detecting
plumbing leaks using meter readings. Conducting a dye-test in toilet tanks can identify costly silent leaks.
8. Install aerators on bathroom and kitchen sinks to reduce indoor water use by ~4%.
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9. Replace your old toilet, the largest water user inside your home. New highefficiency toilet models flush at 1.3 gallons or less compared to older models, which
use up to 7 gallons per flush. Bay Area water agencies offer cash rebates for the purchase of select high-efficiency toilets.
10. Replace your clothes washer, the second largest water user in your home, with a
high efficiency clothes washer to reduce water and energy use by 40%. Bay Area water agencies offer cash rebates for the purchase of select high-efficiency clothes
washers.
11. Reduce outdoor watering needs by planting drought-resistant species appropriate
for the Bay Area’s dry climate. Water deeply but less frequently and use mulch around
plants.
Woodstoves and Fireplaces
The Groveland Fire Department recommends having your woodstove/fireplace and
flue inspected by a certified chimney sweep professional at least once a year. This reduces the chance of a flue fire and assures that the woodstove, piping, flue cap, and
screen are all in good working order and bricks and mortar are in good repair. To prevent flue fires homeowners should burn small, hot fires using seasoned firewood with
a good draft and plenty of airflow.
If a flue fire starts call 9-1-1 so the fire department can quickly respond to put out the
fire and check for any extensions of the fire in the attic or on the roof. Make sure to
get everyone out of the house and keep all a safe distance away. Once the fire is
completely out call a professional to inspect, clean, and service the flue and assess
the damage before using the woodstove/fireplace again.
TIP: Throw a glass of water directly on the fire, it will flash into steam, rise up in the
flue, inhibit oxygen, and snuff out the fire. In addition, turn down the air damper on the
front of the stove and close the woodstove/fireplace doors. This will help keep the fire
in the flue and in most cases put the fire out
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Nature's Medicine Cabinet for Your Home Class
Come join us to make over your medicine cabinet. Replace synthetic over-the-counter medications with natural
solutions and feel side benefits, not side effects!
Overcome various health issues including: colds/flus, digestive disorders, stress/emotional issues, compromised
immune system, pain/inflammation, skin disorders, asthma/allergies and so much more!
Saturday, Feb 28, 1pm at Curves on Main Street, Groveland, hosted by Erna Joncich
Sunday, March 1, 1pm at Standard Pour in Standard, east of Sonora. Beverages provided.
These classes are FREE and are an opportunity to absorb knowledge, gain awareness, ask questions, sample the oils.
Claudia Day-Fossum
(209) 962-7196
Cday77@outlook.com
Greywater and Drought Landscaping Seminar
From 9 AM to 12PM on Saturday, March 21, 2015, residents can attend a free, 3
hour, Do-It-Yourself Greywater Seminar at the Groveland Community Hall. Sierra
Watershed Progressive will teach this GCSD sponsored course.
The seminar includes information on various greywater systems legal in California
and when to use which type, as well as proper dispersal methods and applicable
plants, including fruit trees and some vegetables.
You will learn proven methods to build a simple, cost-effective, and easy to maintain
greywater system. GCSD will supply pertinent reference information to guide you
with your project.
After the seminar, from 12:30 to 4 PM, Sierra Watershed Progressive staff will conduct an optional hands-on installation of a greywater system in Groveland. Bring
your sack lunch, work clothes, gloves, and transportation to the site. The installation
will include building at least one Laundry to Landscape system, with site related topics including successful dispersal and maintenance methods.
GCSD water and/or sewer customers who attend the seminar are eligible for rebates on two common greywater systems:
Laundry to Landscape (25% of Household Water): Water from your washing machine to irrigate landscaping. No Permit is required. GCSD offers a $100 rebate for properly completing and registering your system.
Branched Drain “Simple System” (75% of Household Water): Includes household baths, showers, laundry, and lavatory sinks, flows by gravity and branches out to your landscaping.
Presently the County requires a $181 permit, however, Environmental Health is considering a simple registration system with no fee. GCSD offers a $200 rebate.
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Business of the Month
Gold Country Home Inspections
Craig Seals-Owner
209-962-6657 Office
209-923-3175 Cell
gcinspects@gmail.com
Helping agents and their
clients since 2003
I have been in construction for over 33 years, from custom homes to
track homes. The last 17 years I owned a successful business as a
HVAC contractor in the Bay Area.
Recently, I acquired Gold Country Home Inspections and moved to Pine
Mountain Lake permanently. I am excited to serve the community’s
needs for home inspections and HERS testing (Home Energy Rating
Systems) and look forward to bringing my expertise into the community
to meet your home inspection needs.
Certification & Affiliations
International Association of Home Inspectors
Tuolumne County Board of Real Estate
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Yosemite Hwy 120 Chamber of Commerce-News and Information
Chamber Chatter
Hi all – this is Earl Wright representing YOUR Yosemite Highway 120 Chamber of
Commerce in this months “Chamber Chatter.” This month I wanted to chat about
Photos, Logos and Events – how fun is that!
Did you know that as a member you can (and SHOULD) submit any photos you
have of your business, things around town, or anything you think is interesting to our
admin and it may get featured on our website and/or in our newsletter?
(www.groveland.org) So if you have a great shot that promotes your business or
something of interest please email it to us! (info@groveland.org) We have set up
monthly “change-ups” on our website to keep the pictures and links fresh so keep
the images coming and if you don’t get featured this month don’t worry – we may
feature you next month.
One of the other nifty features our website provides to members is displaying your
company logo along with your member listing. This can be a photo of yourself if you
don’t have a logo, or a digital business card. So be sure to get your logo to Kevin
WIlson (209-962-0429) if you haven’t already. Let us know if you need any help.
Now to my favorite part of this little chat – EVENTS! I wonder how many people realize that the events calendar on the chamber website is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!!
Yup. Anybody can submit an event directly from the website. How cool is that? So if
you have something going on, a big sale on main st, an open house to advertise, an
upcoming play, or a service meeting make sure it’s on the calendar.
That’s it for this month (and I think that’s quite enough!).
Until next time –
Earl Wright
Vice President – Yosemite Hwy 120 Chamber of Commerce
The Yosemite Park & Hwy 120 Information Center is Friday
thru Tuesday 9-3. We have park information as well as reservation assistance, local dining and shopping, current activities
and even a gift shop.
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From the Desk of John Gray
Tuolumne County 4th District Supervisor
Supervisor article Feb 2015
Taking care of business…
As “care takers of the earth” we learn and grow from past experiences. One such devastating episode in our local history has been the Rim Fire. Over the past few months
I have attended a number of meetings on forest management and Rim Fire recovery.
Many studies have been done that tell us that we must have a better plan in place for
forest management or we will continue to have catastrophic fire events. From my perspective, the solution really is not that complicated.
Just 20 years ago, the United States Forest Service was spending approximately 15
percent of its total budget on fire fighting. In contrast today they spend 40 percent or
more on firefighting. In the past two decades, the United States Forest Service has
been forced to shift away from prevention and forest health activities to focus more of
the limited resources on fire suppression. The inability to remove the build-up of forest growth has made this become “complicated”. When you spend all of your money
putting out fires, you have little left to manage product removal projects like logging,
bio-mass removal and general forest thinning.
Ultimately, this different work has created a large backlog of needed preventions and
forest health projects that have gone unfunded. We must advocate for a change in
the manner in which forest management is funded. It is essential to create a system
to pay for the expense of the wildfire disaster response in a similar way to the funding
of other natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornados and floods.
As an example, FEMA funds the responses to those types of disasters out of a fund
that is separate. In other words, they do not take “operating” funds to manage post
disaster clean-up.
Wildfires, however, have never been funded in two parts. There is an effort to change
this approach but it will take congressional action. Two bills under consideration are
S 1875 *(Wyden, DOR) and a companion measure HR 3992 (Simpson R-ID) known
as Wildlife Disaster Funding Act (WDFA) that seek to alter the way wildlife disasters
are funded. If this could be accomplished, more product could be harvested in an environmentally sound way that would provide additional jobs. If you agree, please let
our representative know your feelings to support this effort.
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As you may know, over 70% of Tuolumne County lands are under government ownership. This land is not taxable which puts the County in a position to rely on Secure
Rural Schools (SRS) help for funding stability in the forest counties and school districts to supplement local funding for education, services, roads, conservation projects, search and rescue missions, fire prevention programs, and other county projects. Along with the Payment In Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program, SRS provides stability
for forest counties and school districts that have been and continue to be impacted by
reduced revenue due to dramatically curtailed federal timber receipts. This ties into
what I wrote about earlier.
Nearly every year this funding is in jeopardy. Without the timber receipts money
which the County would receive if more product was removed from the forest we have
become extremely dependent on the PILT and SRS program. The Federal Government must come to grips that there has to be a guaranteed way they fund. We cannot
operate on a "maybe" we will fund SRS on PILT. Either increase forest health by removing more material and return forest receipts to the counties (the nest choice) or
adequately fund the programs I mentioned.
Better forest management would be my choice.
The second subject that I would like to address are the changes in the Wildlife Fish
Planting Policies by the State Department of Wildlife due to budget restrictions. The
DFS has decided to reduce the poundage of fish produced each year across the
State. What this means to Tuolumne County is they will release much smaller fish.
The Board of Supervisors has sent a letter to DFS criticizing their decision. The complete letter can be found in the Board of Supervisors Agenda materials for January 6,
2015, item number 19. I don’t know about you, but it certainly won’t “make my day” to
spend over 40 dollars for fishing license and only bring home five (5), six (6) inch
fishes. That is the size I throw back.
Some good news for Groveland, we finally have our new street lights in the ground
and working! A great improvement over the old ones and keeping in the character of
our historic community. A very big thank you is sent to all that helped with this project,
especially Duke York, our Roads Division Supervisor, Cal Trans and PG&E.
Many of you may know of the ongoing effort to develop a better and much safer walking path in Groveland. Cal Trans will begin work to make things a little safer this
spring. Cross walks will change locations a little and by adjusting the center line on
120 to the south, the walkway will be improved on the north side of 120 from Powderhouse St. to the Bridge. As funds are made available and a complete plan is developed, more improvements are anticipated.
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Working together, we are able to accomplish great things. Some may be large and
take a while with others seemingly small and taking just as long.. But accomplished
just the same. Let’s keep those ideas coming
Remember office hours in Groveland will be 9 to 11 on the second Monday of the
Month and in Lake Don Pedro “by appointment”. As always, if you need to meet
please call me at 533-5521 or email me at jgray@co.tuolumne.ca.us.
John Gray, Tuolumne County 4th District Supervisor
Yosemite Hwy 120
Chamber of Commerce Presents
The 10th Annual 1 Saturday
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FLEA MARKET
Dates: 5/2, 6/13, 7/4, 8/1, 9/5 and 10/3
at Mary Laveroni Park, Groveland 8 AM - 2 PM
Gates open to Vendors at 7 AM – FREE Admission to Buyers
Space Cost: $10 for Chamber Members, $15 for non-members
For Information: Ron - 962-6316 or Tony - 962-0824
All are Welcome – Sell your treasures & have some fun!
YCC - 209-962-0429 • www.groveland.org
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Yosemite Hwy 120
Chamber of Commerce
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Yosemite Hwy 120 Chamber of Commerce
2015 49’er Festival, Parade and Chili/Salsa
Cook-Off
Committee meetings will be the first
Tuesday of the month. If you are interested in being a part of the organization
committee, please contact Kevin at 209962-0429.
Upcoming Network Nights
Dec. 18th at the Lake Lodge
Annual Holiday Party for all chamber
members.
Have You Joined a YCC Committee?
Any member of YCC can serve on a Committee,
you do not have to be on the YCC Board of Directors!
What interests you the most? Working on fun
Events? Helping to grow YCC’s Membership
ranks? Being a liaison for local Business or with
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Yosemite Hwy 120 Chamber of Commerce Network
Night at the Groveland Community Hall
Thursday, Feb. 26th starting at 5:30pm.
We have several wonderful speakers lined up for this month’s
function. Topics range from severe drought conditions o new
events. It is going to be fun and informative.
This month’s function is being co-hosted by several of our local
service clubs. Come out and meet the business community.
As always, please bring a raffle prize, it really adds to the fun and
excitement.
If you have any questions, please call or e-mail Kevin at 209-9620429 or info@groveland.org.
We need Hosts and Co-Hosts for our monthly Mixers.
Last year we had some wonderful venues and we welcome those back if
they would like.
If you would like to be a host/co-host or if you know someone that would,
call Kevin at 209-962-0429.
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Cont.
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Favorite Photos and Fun Pics
Photos provided by
Peggy Mosley
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Favorite Photos and Fun Pics
Photos provided by
Jenn Edwards
Welcome to our newest members
Yosemite Gateway Antiques
Grizzley’s Place
Arrow Survey’s Inc.
For Info on how to join the Chamber of
Commerce emailinfo@groveland.org
or call (209) 962-0429
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Yosemite Highway120
Chamber of Commerce
Board of Directors
Fiscal Year 2013-2014
Tom Hernandez , President
SoulBeGood Residential Support Services
19439 Pine Mountain Drive
Groveland, Ca. 95321
Phone: 962-7407
E-mail: thadventures@yahoo.com
Earl Wright, Vice President
Cathy Leetham, Treasurer
Groveland Pizza Factory
18583 Main Street
Groveland, Ca. 95321
Phone: 962-7757
E-mail: pizzafactory@bobwrong.com
Accounting Plus
P.O. Box 805
Groveland, Ca. 95321
Phone: 962-6500
E-mail: Leetham@inreach.com
Cory Swank, Secretary
Carole Smith
Rabobank NA– Groveland Branch
18543 Main St.
Groveland, Ca. 95321
Phone: 436-1808
E-mail: cory.swank@rabobank.com
Carron Tax Associates
20093 Ridgecrest Way
Groveland, Ca. 95321
Phone: 962-6119
E-mail: carolesmith@carrontax.com
Rudy Manzo, Director
Marc Fossum, Director
Digipix Photography
20511 Nob Hill Circle
Groveland, Ca. 95321
Phone: 962-5219
E-mail: pmlrudy@gosnc.com
Pine Mountain Lake Realty
13139 Clements Road
Groveland, CA 95321
Phone: 209-770-4750
Email: marc@pmlr.com
James Nagle, Director
Paul S. Bunt Real Estate
20770 Big Foot Circle
Groveland, CA 95321
Phone: 962-5900 ext 10
E-mail: jamesa.nagle@gmail.com
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