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From : Lila Hayes
Sent : Apr 17, 2006
Subject : OFRG update
Old Fire Recovery Group Email Newsletter
SAN BERNARDINO FINE, BOB 69, A great-grandson of an original Mormon founder of San Bernardino, Bushrod Wilson, passed away to join his parents on April 5, 2006. He is survived by his wife, Carol; 2 sons, Robert Ray Fine, Jr. and Charles Ray Fine; step-daughters, Christina Goldsberry and Kathleen McCormick; sister and her husband, Lois and Creighton Depew; grandchildren, John and Jordan Fine, Joseph Guisti, Eden and Rebecca Goldsberry, Tyler and Andrew Fine; great-granddaughter, Caitlin Fine, as well as many wonderful friends. Bob retired from General Telephone and Keough Communications. His passion was working with his many tools in his garage, a "Jack of all trades", repairing and building what was necessary. His love was to bring life back to the old mechanical music machines that he would locate and bring home to his garage. He then faced the challenge of restoring the mechanical parts and refinishing the beautiful wooden cases. He would then bring them into the house and listen to the magical music rolls play lively tunes such as heard from merry go rounds. His family was always his first concern and love. Graveside services will be Monday, April 10, 2006 at 2:00PM, Mt. View Cemetery, 570 E. Highland Ave., San Bernardino. In lieu of flowers the family suggest donations be made in Bob's name to charity of choice. BOBBITT MEMORIAL CHAPEL Send condolences at: www.bobbittchapel.com
Published in the Press-Enterprise on 4/8/2006.
On April 7-9, a small group of disaster survivors from Southern California will come to New Orleans to talk about and exchange know-how with other survivors regarding post-disaster recovery and rebuilding. Three of the visitors come from communities that experienced extensive fire disaster damage and themselves survived in various ways (Lila Hayes's mother's house and childhood home was extensively damaged in 2003 and Lila served as coordinator for the Old Fire Recovery Group while helping her mother through the recovery process; Ursula Hyman's house was the only one left standing on the entire block in the wildfire-destroyed foothill neighborhood of Altadena, California in 1993 and Ursula served as volunteer president of the Eaton Canyon Recovery Alliance; Dave Stuart lives in and works extensively in a leadership role with his survivor-neighbors in Lake Arrowhead through the organization Rebuilding Mountain Hearts and Lives).
As the fourth member of the party, my work at Community Partners through our 2003 Fire Recovery Initiative has been in serving as convener and facilitator across several alliances. All of us have played leadership or support roles in organizing local recovery and rebuilding alliances. While the flood disaster and its consequences (particularly the scale and some of the insurance issues) differ in significant ways from a fire disaster, the survivor and rebuilding experience is similar in crucial ways. Each one of this group contributed in some way to the contents of From Chaos to Community: A Guide to Helping Friends and Neighbors Recover and Rebuild After a Major Disaster, available with the companion booklet Fire Stories at:
http://www.communitypartners.org/pub/documents/from_chaos_to_community.pdf http://www.communitypartners.org/pub/documents/Fire_Stories.pdfThe booklets distill the experience of Southern California disaster survivors in building durable and effective post-disaster, long-term recovery and rebuilding alliances in their neighborhoods.I also mentioned that your newspaper had published an op-ed piece by one of our visitors, Ursula Hyman, a few months ago. I've attached the web reference for it here.