Greetings to All,
First of all I want to express my hope that all of you guys and gals are doing well and staying safe while the Shelter In Place order is in effect. I have not heard any reports of any of our members being infected with this deadly virus. I hope that is the case. Like you all, my life has been greatly affected in that it has restricted where I go, who I can go with and what I can do when I get there, wherever "there" is. Like everyone, I watch the news, but nowadays I limit the amount of news that I watch or listen to, looking mainly for facts about the disease and how it is affecting our local community on a daily basis. This is important to me because the work that I do has been deemed an essential service and I need to know how to stay safe while performing those services.
Unrelated to the pandemic, it is with great sadness that I have to announce ?the passing of two of our long time members, JR Gibbs and Bob Belche. JR Gibbs passed away on April 2nd after a long courageous battle with cancer. Bob Belche followed him West the following day according to his daughter. As soon as I receive information regarding services for both JR and Bob, I will pass the information along. Both men were greatly loved and respected in our chapter.
People, one day in the hopefully not too far future, we will be over this pandemic, and in the meantime it is important for us to stay in touch with each other and insure that Chapter 393 continues to exist and function. This means that we will have the April General meeting to conduct chapter business and have a VMC presentation to stimulate aviation related thought and lively discussion.?Your Chapter Board has decided to hold this month's General Meeting on the regular third Wednesday of this month which is the 22nd at 7:00 pm.
You may be asking "Ron how is that even possible?" It is made possible by the internet, more specifically Zoom. This may cause some angst among you guys, so let me share with you that the board has held two meetings on Zoom with good results. For those who are new to Zoom or indeed new to the idea of an online meeting, we have a solution for helping members to check in to the meeting on Zoom.?
Starting Sunday evening, the following members have volunteered to make themselves available as Personal Assistants to help those of you who wish to participate sign in to Zoom. I will get to who those volunteers are and what area they will specialize in (PC or Mac/Apple) in a moment. What I want to emphatically emphasize is that Zoom is free and does not require any type of registration. If you want to participate, you will need a password which will be provided to you via the Zoom invitation that will be sent out.
Here are the Personal Assistants and their areas of expertise:
Rose Desmond ? ? ?707-483-4861 ? ? ? ? PC ? ? ? ? ?
Bennett Ashley ? ? ?925-323-6670 ? ? ? ? PC and MAC/Apple
Mike Cunningham 925-890-8631 ? ? ? ? PC
Harvard Holmes ? ?510-526-5347 ? ? ? ? Ipad
Pete Mitchell ? ? ? ? 925-685-3700 ? ? ? ? Android
Ron Lem ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 925-395-0672 ? ? ? ? MAC/Apple and some PC experience
Please respond to the forthcoming Zoom invitation and if you encounter difficulties, call or text one of the Personal Assistants who will help you check in.?
Ron Lem