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A publication of the Fiddletown Community Center and the
Spring 2010 Edition - Delivered FREE to our Neighbors |
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Dear Friends and Neighbors, At this moment in my day it is raining This last few months have been The balance of the year promises to be As a part of the education effort, we Dan Slater, President |
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I am honored to be named the next president of the Fiddletown Preservation Society, an organization that my mother and my grandparents helped to found in order to save the old Schoolhouse from ruin, many years ago. FPS has been in able hands ever since, and has many remarkable accomplishments, the most recent being the gaining and administration of a grant to save two more Chinese brick buildings on Main Street. I bring with me fifty-three years of commitment to Fiddletown as my home, and administrative experience in several volunteer organizations, including the Amador Arts Council and Mother Lode Harvest. My two businesses, a market garden and a bed and breakfast, are right over the ridge from Main Street, on American Flat Road. Once again our focus must be on the old Schoolhouse, which requires some structural work in order to be usable. We will need an engineer and a building contractor to help with plans and work on the foundation, which will also require fundraising and possibly grant writing. Water, septic and electrical issues are being resolved, and a new porch was built recently. Our goal is to have the Schoolhouse available and used as a venue for public and private meetings, gatherings and parties. The remaining work on the Chinese buildings is to design and build a wall with the dedicated bricks of the many donors who contributed to the project, which we hope to complete soon. We would also like to see the popular Fiddletown Heritage Day revived, and we need new participants to bring in fresh energy and ideas to make that happen. Thanks to a committed group of volunteers we are able to open the Chew Kee Store museum to the public every Saturday, April through October. All in all, we look forward to a challenging and productive year of preserving and improving our community. Alice Kaiser, President |
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