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From : Lila Hayes
Sent : June 15, 2005
Subject : OFRG weekly update
Meeting Reminder
Our next meeting is Sunday, June 24 2:00 PM at the
Calvary Baptist Church. Please remember that this
meeting will be our last official meeting at the Calvary Baptist Church.
We are very grateful that they have donated their space to us this past year and
8(+-) months.
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Editor's Note
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Starting in July we will be visiting survivors
homes once a month until the two year anniversary in October 2005. The
first one will be July 24th, 2PM at Margie & Joe Arnett's located at 1681
Echo Drive. This will be a potluck event so please bring something to
share! If there is anyone else located within a couple of blocks of this
location, we would also love to visit your house. Please let me know in
advance!
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Index
1. AB 873 Homeowners Insurance:
Copies of Policy
2. Laguna Hills Landslide
Survivors
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In The News
1. Calif.
Legislature Takes Action on Insurance Measures
2. Two fires burn in, near SB
3.
Cedar Glen needs county assistance
4. Restoring Yucaipa's fire
fighting past
5. A City's Burden Is Bigger This Time
6. Many
volunteers, one goal: to rebuild
7. Hubbell to open doors to
public
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1. AB 873 (Bogh) Homeowners Insurance: Copies of
Policy
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AB 873 would
amend the California standard fire policy to require insurers to provide
insureds with free copies of their policies within 30 calendar days of date of
the request. In the event of declared emergencies, AB 873 would require insurers
to provide insureds with free copies of their policies within 60 calendar days
of the date of the request. AB 873 passed the Senate Banking, Finance and
Insurance Committee 11-0. The bill is now before the full Assembly.
ACIC (Association
of California Insurance Companies) supports the bill. So far, this bill has passed without opposition (no "No"
votes).
Full story at end of newsletter.
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2. Laguna Hills Landslide
Survivors
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I have recently heard on the news that the
Landslide Survivors in Laguna Hills have support through "Laguna Relief".
On their website http://www.lagunarelief.com, they
describe themselves as follows:
The Laguna Relief
and Resource Center originated in 1993 as the Fire Relief Coalition. The
coalition was a joining together of churches, business people, and individuals
to assist the victims of the firestorm that struck the city in November 1993.
We provided financial aid, food, and clothing together with assisting victims
with contacting other relief organizations, insurance, counseling, and
rebuilding. The organization was deactivated in 1995. Then reactivated in 1996
to assist victims of the canyon flood. Following the flood, the decision was
made to keep the organization active on a full time basis as the Laguna
Relief and Resource Center assisting disaster victims, low income
families, and the homeless.
Since these survivors are not covered by insurance,
and many no longer even have land to build on, the resource center
has created at "Adopt a Family" program to help these people (many of whom
are not as rich as the current home prices would suggest) with their recovery
process. Information about this program (which is still in it's infancy)
can be found at
We all know that no matter if a disaster happens on
a small scale or a large scale, it still effects individuals and families the
same. I applaud their efforts to stick together in an ongoing effort to
help people in their area with their continuing "disaster"
needs.
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In The News
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1. Calif. Legislature Takes Action on
Insurance Measures
June 13, 2005
Sam Sorich, president, Association of California
Insurance Companies.
The following bills were heard last week in
the California legislature. Several measures are scheduled for consideration
this week.
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2. Two fires burn in, near SB
Man injured;
brush warning issued
June 13, 2005
By Guy McCarthy, San
Bernardino Staff Writer
Residents and firefighters stopped two blazes Monday
in brush-choked neighborhoods next to a Del Rosa mobile-home park and a San
Bernardino middle school before flames reached any property.
But a Del Rosa man who rushed barefoot to fight a
fire behind his Golden Avenue home suffered second-degree burns Monday
afternoon. His relatives were with him at a San Bernardino hospital. His was the
only injury reported.
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3. Cedar Glen needs county assistance
OUT OF THE ASHES
June 12, 2005
Supervisors agreed to buy water company, but now they
should OK redevelopment loan.
Progress is slow in rebuilding the fire-ravaged
community of Cedar Glen.
A year and a half after the Old Fire destroyed more
than 300 homes, only a few residents have constructed new dwellings. Most have
not.
A large part of the problem is, there simply are
not enough intact properties left to provide the tax revenues necessary for
redevelopment.
Fade to the county Board of Supervisors, which last
week postponed a vote on loaning $4.2 million to the Redevelopment Agency to
jump-start rebuilding.
[more HERE]
scroll to middle of page
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4. Restoring
Yucaipa's fire fighting past
Yucaipa Valley
society works to preserve city's fire fighting past
10:08 PM PDT on
Saturday, June 11, 2005
By KARIN MARRIOTT / The
Press-Enterprise
YUCAIPA - When the air raid-type siren
atop the old fire station on Avenue A wailed, Thomas Funnell said he jumped into
action.
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5. A City's Burden Is
Bigger This Time
Officials can't count on the same federal help they got for a similar
disaster in 1978. The mayor vows to 'leave no stone unturned.'
By Dan Weikel, Jean O. Pasco
and Sara Lin, Times Staff Writers
June 13,
2005
After a landslide destroyed 24 houses in Bluebird
Canyon just after dawn on Oct. 2, 1978, it took Laguna Beach almost a year and
roughly $4 million in federal money to reconstruct the hillside so homes could
be rebuilt.
But history will have difficulty repeating itself in the
aftermath of the latest Bluebird Canyon slide.
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6. Many volunteers, one goal: to rebuild
Reagan carrier sailors join effort on tribal
land
By Brooke Williams
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
June 24, 2004
When October's wildfires reached the San
Pasqual band of Kumeyaay Indians' reservation, Frances Jones didn't bother
gathering belongings from the home she had lived in since 1973.
"I looked out of the window, and 50 feet away
was a big bonfire burning," said Jones, who at 95 is the eldest of the tribe's
elders.
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7. Hubbell to open doors to
public
By J. Harry Jones UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
June 10, 2005
WYNOLA – A week after the
Cedar fire had burned through this town east of Santa Ysabel, renowned
artist-designer James Hubbell still hadn't been allowed back to his compound.
Hubbell lived and
worked on a hilltop in a series of unique hand-built structures he and his wife,
Anne, began building in 1958. They were filled with decades of his artwork.
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