Historical opportunities on horizon

Go, Nancy, Go …

When Nancy Canfield campaigned earlier this year to be Rancho Bernardo’s honorary mayor, her platform was to support the RB Historical Society’s efforts to build or acquire a permanent museum.

Since then, she has been a dynamo for the cause, accepting the chairmanship of a fundraising effort that’s about to begin in earnest.

If your ears have been burning, it’s because Nancy and her volunteers (including Deputy Honorary Mayor Karen Rott) have been mentioning your name and deciding how you would best like to contribute. There will be lots of opportunities:

• Buying bricks and tiles that will commemorate your gift when the museum opens on the grounds of the Bernardo Winery.

• Enjoying a pancake breakfast and while buying raffle tickets and bidding on auction items sometime this fall — or donating raffle and auction items

• Attending a concert that will be designed to be reminiscent of the Concerts on the Green of the 1970s. This is being planned sometime early next year...

And donors will be offered opportunities to have their names on a “Pioneer Wall” welcoming visitors to the museum’s permanent exhibit.

These are just a few of the projects that Nancy has found volunteers to champion. Watch for details of these and other events, and if you want to pitch in and help, give her a call at 485-6129 or send her an e-mail at ncanf@san.rr.com.

Working together is a chance to turn back time and reunite with friends from the past … c’mon along!!!

Two New Directors …

at Casa de las Campanas are Bob Trettin and Carlos Arbelaez. Trettin knows our community well having served in both city and county government for elected officials representing RB. In more recent years, he has worked as a consultant, helping clients and organizations to process government applications.

Arbelaez and his wife, Sharon, took a leadership role in raising funds for the Rancho Bernardo Library, and he has now retired from his professional career. He worked for 23 years for Purina and, in 1984, he and other partners acquired the South American segment of Purina’s Seafood Division. He became president of Seatech International which was based in San Diego.

It’s Poinsettia Time, Again …

last year the question was: “how many poinsettia plants would fit into my car?” or better yet “who would I get to help me get all these poinsettias from where they were to where I wanted them to be?”

I had ordered enough poinsettias from the Children’s Hospital Auxiliary to fill the Christmas tree-shaped plant stand I had ordered from one of those thousands of holiday catalogues. I hadn’t anticipated how big and beautiful they would be. They simply would not fit into my car. Luckily Meda Menius agreed to caravan with me so that, with both cars full, we got them to their desired destination.

They made our home festive for the holidays, and, believe it or not, most of them are still healthy and green, almost a year later. This year I will be replacing the few that didn’t survive a parching they got during our summer vacation. And, I’m going to be adding two of the “grandes” to be placed somewhere yet to be determined inside or outside of my home.

The order form has arrived; I’ve filled it out; and I invite you to join me in this good cause. It will warm your heart to help Children’s Hospital, and the plants will brighten your holiday season and beyond.

Plants range in price from $8 to $48, and in size from 2 3/8-inch pots to the Holiday Grande size of 8 1/2- inch pots, and the deadline for ordering is Nov. 15. If you order more than $100 worth, you won’t have to figure out how to get them to your home, because they will be delivered.

The contact person for the 2006 committee is Carolyn Stalcup and phone numbers to call for more information and to get an order form are 382-0014 and 395-7272.