The Fiddler

A publication of the Fiddletown Community Center and the
Fiddletown Preservation Society

Fall 2009 Edition - Delivered FREE to our Neighbors

Fiddletown Community
Center

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

We are in the last quarter of 2009. This
year's Fiddlers' Jam is now history. The
event was successful. It appeared that
all who attended had a good time. Once
again, I want to thank you all for your
participation and/or your patience
during this event.

We are coming up on our annual
Halloween Party for the kids, and after
that we will have our Thanksgiving
Potluck in November. The balance of
the year will be pretty quiet at the hall.

Common Ground Senior Center is still
interested in providing “Congregate
Meals” for seniors in the Fiddletown
area. They define a senior as someone
60 years of age or older. If there is
enough interest in the program, the
meals will be served at the FCC Community Hall. There are no disability
or income restrictions on this service.
The idea is to get seniors out of their
homes once a week to visit with others
and have a nutritional meal. Please, if
you are interested or care for a senior
who might benefit from this progarm,
call Candice at Common Ground at
209-223-3015, or call me at
209-296-0918.

We are thinking of changing our
meetings from once-per-month to
once-per-quarter. The attendance at
our meetings is low, and some months
we really don't have a lot to discuss.
We are still planning to have speakers
and programs at the hall. Those events
will be advertised on the board at the
park. If you have thoughts on this
matter, please, let me know.

In December we will be electing the
FCC officers for next year. Please, let
me or another officer know if you or
someone you know has an interest in
being an officer. We would like to have
the names by November 6th.

My Best to You All,

Dan Slater

Fiddletown Preservation
Society

As 2009 draws to a close,I want to
take this opportunity to thank the tremendous number of people who have helped the Fiddletown Preservation Society over the past few years. As many of you know, we have been successful in obtaining two state grants to help us refurbish the Chinese General Store and also the Chinese gambling hall in Fiddletown. Those funds, combined the funds we raised from other donors and from fundraising enabled us to complete Phase I of the restoration project. Thanks are also
due to Brian Oneto and the other Amador County supervisors, with
their help we were able to get complete signoff and payment of the project in late July. We are grateful to all those local residents who helped on the project and gave so willingly of their time, and supported us over the 8
years it took to complete the project. We are now thinking about Phase 2,
and how we can turn the buildings
into local centers of education, and interest. We would welcome all ideas and comments about what you'd like
to see the buildings become.

We also want to announce that we are not planning to hold a Heritage Day in 2010, as we are concentrating all of
our efforts in 2010 on completing
the Schoolhouse restration project, including a septic system and toilets, and rebuilding the porch which has rotted badly in the past 2-3 years.
So please join us on November 8th
for the annual Fiddletown Schoolhouse Breakfast, which again will be held at the community center.

ALL funds raised will go to help with completing the schoolhouse projct,
so please come and join us for the excellent food prepared by
Mary Kwoka and her helpers! We
also would welcome voulnteers to
help us clean up the hall afterwards, see you on 11/08/09!

Thanks

Roger Nunn, President
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