By the Way! Yosemite Hwy120 Chamber of Commerce. Yosemite Hwy 120 Chamber of Commerce Holiday Party

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1 1 Yosemite Hwy120 COC Partners in Business Building Relationships By the Way! Yosemite Hwy120 Chamber of Commerce January 2015 Yosemite Hwy 120 Chamber of Commerce Holiday Party A big Thank You to all our members for making 2014 a wonderful and successful year! A very special Thank You to Duet Catering. Table of Contents Page 2-5: Water Conservation, Big Cash Giveaway Page 4-5: Christmas, Holiday Season Page 6-7 : Business of the Month, The Grill. Page 8-11: Chamber News, John Gray Page 12-13: Copy Service, 49 er Festival Page 14-17: Chamber Info, Fun Photos Page 18: Member Services, Board of Directors

2 2 Page 2 Water Conservation San Francisco Public Utilities Commission General Manager Harlan Kelly has issued the following statement On Friday, January 31st, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission will ask customers of the Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System to voluntarily curtail water consumption by at least 10%. Over the next few days, I will be working closely with Mayor Ed Lee, San Francisco city departments and our Bay Area wholesale customers to develop strategies to meet this water conservation goal. I believe voluntary water conservation efforts are the best way to avert mandatory cutbacks and other water restrictions should drought conditions persist. Water Conservation For Homes and Businesses As always, the SFPUC encourages our customers to conserve water. Here are some helpful tips to conserve water around the house. 1. Turn off the faucet when brushing your teeth, shaving, rinsing vegetables or doing the dishes - save 2 gallons per minute. 2. Take shorter showers. Each minute you cut saves 2.5 gallons. Make sure you have installed a high-efficiency showerhead. Fill bathtubs halfway at most. 3. Operate your clothes and dishwashers with full loads only, even if the machine has an adjustable load setting. 4. Use a broom to clean sidewalks, driveways and pavement instead of using a hose. 5. Don t use the toilet to flush away trash. 6. Water lawns and plants at night or early morning before dawn to reduce evaporation. 7. Detect leaks. Do you hear the toilet running or your faucet dripping? Contact us or your local water agency for information on locating your water meter and detecting plumbing leaks using meter readings. Conducting a dye-test in toilet tanks can identify costly silent leaks. 8. Install aerators on bathroom and kitchen sinks to reduce indoor water use by ~4%.

3 3 Page 3 9. Replace your old toilet, the largest water user inside your home. New highefficiency toilet models flush at 1.3 gallons or less compared to older models, which use up to 7 gallons per flush. Bay Area water agencies offer cash rebates for the purchase of select high-efficiency toilets. 10. Replace your clothes washer, the second largest water user in your home, with a high efficiency clothes washer to reduce water and energy use by 40%. Bay Area water agencies offer cash rebates for the purchase of select high-efficiency clothes washers. 11. Reduce outdoor watering needs by planting drought-resistant species appropriate for the Bay Area s dry climate. Water deeply but less frequently and use mulch around plants. Woodstoves and Fireplaces The Groveland Fire Department recommends having your woodstove/fireplace and flue inspected by a certified chimney sweep professional at least once a year. This reduces the chance of a flue fire and assures that the woodstove, piping, flue cap, and screen are all in good working order and bricks and mortar are in good repair. To prevent flue fires homeowners should burn small, hot fires using seasoned firewood with a good draft and plenty of airflow. If a flue fire starts call so the fire department can quickly respond to put out the fire and check for any extensions of the fire in the attic or on the roof. Make sure to get everyone out of the house and keep all a safe distance away. Once the fire is completely out call a professional to inspect, clean, and service the flue and assess the damage before using the woodstove/fireplace again. TIP: Throw a glass of water directly on the fire, it will flash into steam, rise up in the flue, inhibit oxygen, and snuff out the fire. In addition, turn down the air damper on the front of the stove and close the woodstove/fireplace doors. This will help keep the fire in the flue and in most cases put the fire out

4 4 Page 4 Nature's Medicine Cabinet for Your Home Class Come join us to make over your medicine cabinet. Replace synthetic over-the-counter medications with natural solutions and feel side benefits, not side effects! Overcome various health issues including: colds/flus, digestive disorders, stress/emotional issues, compromised immune system, pain/inflammation, skin disorders, asthma/allergies and so much more! Saturday, Feb 28, 1pm at Curves on Main Street, Groveland, hosted by Erna Joncich Sunday, March 1, 1pm at Standard Pour in Standard, east of Sonora. Beverages provided. These classes are FREE and are an opportunity to absorb knowledge, gain awareness, ask questions, sample the oils. Claudia Day-Fossum (209) Cday77@outlook.com Greywater and Drought Landscaping Seminar From 9 AM to 12PM on Saturday, March 21, 2015, residents can attend a free, 3 hour, Do-It-Yourself Greywater Seminar at the Groveland Community Hall. Sierra Watershed Progressive will teach this GCSD sponsored course. The seminar includes information on various greywater systems legal in California and when to use which type, as well as proper dispersal methods and applicable plants, including fruit trees and some vegetables. You will learn proven methods to build a simple, cost-effective, and easy to maintain greywater system. GCSD will supply pertinent reference information to guide you with your project. After the seminar, from 12:30 to 4 PM, Sierra Watershed Progressive staff will conduct an optional hands-on installation of a greywater system in Groveland. Bring your sack lunch, work clothes, gloves, and transportation to the site. The installation will include building at least one Laundry to Landscape system, with site related topics including successful dispersal and maintenance methods. GCSD water and/or sewer customers who attend the seminar are eligible for rebates on two common greywater systems: Laundry to Landscape (25% of Household Water): Water from your washing machine to irrigate landscaping. No Permit is required. GCSD offers a $100 rebate for properly completing and registering your system. Branched Drain Simple System (75% of Household Water): Includes household baths, showers, laundry, and lavatory sinks, flows by gravity and branches out to your landscaping. Presently the County requires a $181 permit, however, Environmental Health is considering a simple registration system with no fee. GCSD offers a $200 rebate.

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6 6 Page 6 Business of the Month Gold Country Home Inspections Craig Seals-Owner Office Cell gcinspects@gmail.com Helping agents and their clients since 2003 I have been in construction for over 33 years, from custom homes to track homes. The last 17 years I owned a successful business as a HVAC contractor in the Bay Area. Recently, I acquired Gold Country Home Inspections and moved to Pine Mountain Lake permanently. I am excited to serve the community s needs for home inspections and HERS testing (Home Energy Rating Systems) and look forward to bringing my expertise into the community to meet your home inspection needs. Certification & Affiliations International Association of Home Inspectors Tuolumne County Board of Real Estate

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8 8 Page 8 Yosemite Hwy 120 Chamber of Commerce-News and Information Chamber Chatter Hi all this is Earl Wright representing YOUR Yosemite Highway 120 Chamber of Commerce in this months Chamber Chatter. This month I wanted to chat about Photos, Logos and Events how fun is that! Did you know that as a member you can (and SHOULD) submit any photos you have of your business, things around town, or anything you think is interesting to our admin and it may get featured on our website and/or in our newsletter? ( So if you have a great shot that promotes your business or something of interest please it to us! (info@groveland.org) We have set up monthly change-ups on our website to keep the pictures and links fresh so keep the images coming and if you don t get featured this month don t worry we may feature you next month. One of the other nifty features our website provides to members is displaying your company logo along with your member listing. This can be a photo of yourself if you don t have a logo, or a digital business card. So be sure to get your logo to Kevin WIlson ( ) if you haven t already. Let us know if you need any help. Now to my favorite part of this little chat EVENTS! I wonder how many people realize that the events calendar on the chamber website is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!! Yup. Anybody can submit an event directly from the website. How cool is that? So if you have something going on, a big sale on main st, an open house to advertise, an upcoming play, or a service meeting make sure it s on the calendar. That s it for this month (and I think that s quite enough!). Until next time Earl Wright Vice President Yosemite Hwy 120 Chamber of Commerce The Yosemite Park & Hwy 120 Information Center is Friday thru Tuesday 9-3. We have park information as well as reservation assistance, local dining and shopping, current activities and even a gift shop.

9 9 Page 9 From the Desk of John Gray Tuolumne County 4 th District Supervisor Supervisor article Feb 2015 Taking care of business As care takers of the earth we learn and grow from past experiences. One such devastating episode in our local history has been the Rim Fire. Over the past few months I have attended a number of meetings on forest management and Rim Fire recovery. Many studies have been done that tell us that we must have a better plan in place for forest management or we will continue to have catastrophic fire events. From my perspective, the solution really is not that complicated. Just 20 years ago, the United States Forest Service was spending approximately 15 percent of its total budget on fire fighting. In contrast today they spend 40 percent or more on firefighting. In the past two decades, the United States Forest Service has been forced to shift away from prevention and forest health activities to focus more of the limited resources on fire suppression. The inability to remove the build-up of forest growth has made this become complicated. When you spend all of your money putting out fires, you have little left to manage product removal projects like logging, bio-mass removal and general forest thinning. Ultimately, this different work has created a large backlog of needed preventions and forest health projects that have gone unfunded. We must advocate for a change in the manner in which forest management is funded. It is essential to create a system to pay for the expense of the wildfire disaster response in a similar way to the funding of other natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornados and floods. As an example, FEMA funds the responses to those types of disasters out of a fund that is separate. In other words, they do not take operating funds to manage post disaster clean-up. Wildfires, however, have never been funded in two parts. There is an effort to change this approach but it will take congressional action. Two bills under consideration are S 1875 *(Wyden, DOR) and a companion measure HR 3992 (Simpson R-ID) known as Wildlife Disaster Funding Act (WDFA) that seek to alter the way wildlife disasters are funded. If this could be accomplished, more product could be harvested in an environmentally sound way that would provide additional jobs. If you agree, please let our representative know your feelings to support this effort. Cont.

10 10 Page 10 As you may know, over 70% of Tuolumne County lands are under government ownership. This land is not taxable which puts the County in a position to rely on Secure Rural Schools (SRS) help for funding stability in the forest counties and school districts to supplement local funding for education, services, roads, conservation projects, search and rescue missions, fire prevention programs, and other county projects. Along with the Payment In Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program, SRS provides stability for forest counties and school districts that have been and continue to be impacted by reduced revenue due to dramatically curtailed federal timber receipts. This ties into what I wrote about earlier. Nearly every year this funding is in jeopardy. Without the timber receipts money which the County would receive if more product was removed from the forest we have become extremely dependent on the PILT and SRS program. The Federal Government must come to grips that there has to be a guaranteed way they fund. We cannot operate on a "maybe" we will fund SRS on PILT. Either increase forest health by removing more material and return forest receipts to the counties (the nest choice) or adequately fund the programs I mentioned. Better forest management would be my choice. The second subject that I would like to address are the changes in the Wildlife Fish Planting Policies by the State Department of Wildlife due to budget restrictions. The DFS has decided to reduce the poundage of fish produced each year across the State. What this means to Tuolumne County is they will release much smaller fish. The Board of Supervisors has sent a letter to DFS criticizing their decision. The complete letter can be found in the Board of Supervisors Agenda materials for January 6, 2015, item number 19. I don t know about you, but it certainly won t make my day to spend over 40 dollars for fishing license and only bring home five (5), six (6) inch fishes. That is the size I throw back. Some good news for Groveland, we finally have our new street lights in the ground and working! A great improvement over the old ones and keeping in the character of our historic community. A very big thank you is sent to all that helped with this project, especially Duke York, our Roads Division Supervisor, Cal Trans and PG&E. Many of you may know of the ongoing effort to develop a better and much safer walking path in Groveland. Cal Trans will begin work to make things a little safer this spring. Cross walks will change locations a little and by adjusting the center line on 120 to the south, the walkway will be improved on the north side of 120 from Powderhouse St. to the Bridge. As funds are made available and a complete plan is developed, more improvements are anticipated. Cont..

11 11 Page 11 Working together, we are able to accomplish great things. Some may be large and take a while with others seemingly small and taking just as long.. But accomplished just the same. Let s keep those ideas coming Remember office hours in Groveland will be 9 to 11 on the second Monday of the Month and in Lake Don Pedro by appointment. As always, if you need to meet please call me at or me at jgray@co.tuolumne.ca.us. John Gray, Tuolumne County 4 th District Supervisor Yosemite Hwy 120 Chamber of Commerce Presents The 10th Annual 1 ST Saturday FLEA MARKET Dates: 5/2, 6/13, 7/4, 8/1, 9/5 and 10/3 at Mary Laveroni Park, Groveland 8 AM - 2 PM Gates open to Vendors at 7 AM FREE Admission to Buyers Space Cost: $10 for Chamber Members, $15 for non-members For Information: Ron or Tony All are Welcome Sell your treasures & have some fun! YCC

12 12 Page 12 Yosemite Hwy 120 Chamber of Commerce Ponderosa Ln St.A Groveland, Ca Copy/Print Prices Prices good until July 1 st, 2014 Color(per side) B/W(per side) * * *.06 *Prices based on 5% page coverage, using standard paper. Original must be print ready. *Same day service may be available, call for availability. Fax Services $1.79 per page(cover counts as one page) *Fax service available from 9am to 3pm.

13 13 Page 13 Yosemite Hwy 120 Chamber of Commerce er Festival, Parade and Chili/Salsa Cook-Off Committee meetings will be the first Tuesday of the month. If you are interested in being a part of the organization committee, please contact Kevin at Upcoming Network Nights Dec. 18th at the Lake Lodge Annual Holiday Party for all chamber members. Have You Joined a YCC Committee? Any member of YCC can serve on a Committee, you do not have to be on the YCC Board of Directors! What interests you the most? Working on fun Events? Helping to grow YCC s Membership ranks? Being a liaison for local Business or with

14 14 Page 14 Yosemite Hwy 120 Chamber of Commerce Network Night at the Groveland Community Hall Thursday, Feb. 26th starting at 5:30pm. We have several wonderful speakers lined up for this month s function. Topics range from severe drought conditions o new events. It is going to be fun and informative. This month s function is being co-hosted by several of our local service clubs. Come out and meet the business community. As always, please bring a raffle prize, it really adds to the fun and excitement. If you have any questions, please call or Kevin at or info@groveland.org. We need Hosts and Co-Hosts for our monthly Mixers. Last year we had some wonderful venues and we welcome those back if they would like. If you would like to be a host/co-host or if you know someone that would, call Kevin at

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16 16 Favorite Photos and Fun Pics Photos provided by Peggy Mosley

17 17 Favorite Photos and Fun Pics Photos provided by Jenn Edwards Welcome to our newest members Yosemite Gateway Antiques Grizzley s Place Arrow Survey s Inc. For Info on how to join the Chamber of Commerce info@groveland.org or call (209)

18 18 Yosemite Highway120 Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors Fiscal Year Tom Hernandez, President SoulBeGood Residential Support Services Pine Mountain Drive Groveland, Ca Phone: Earl Wright, Vice President Groveland Pizza Factory Main Street P.O. Box 805 Groveland, Ca Groveland, Ca Cathy Leetham, Treasurer Accounting Plus Phone: Phone: Cory Swank, Secretary Carole Smith Rabobank NA Groveland Branch Carron Tax Associates Main St Ridgecrest Way Groveland, Ca Groveland, Ca Phone: Phone: Rudy Manzo, Director Digipix Photography Nob Hill Circle Clements Road Groveland, Ca Groveland, CA Marc Fossum, Director Pine Mountain Lake Realty Phone: Phone: James Nagle, Director Paul S. Bunt Real Estate Big Foot Circle Groveland, CA Phone: ext 10 By the Way is published by the Yosemite Hwy120 COC Ponderosa Lane, Suite A Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1263 Groveland, CA Phone: (209) info@groveland.org YosemiteHighway120ChamberofCommerce.com Find Us On Facebook yosemitechamber Follow us on Twitter COC Submission Deadlines & Formats: Submissions must be received by the 5th of the month, or the Monday following the 5th if it falls on a weekend. Submissions should not be formatted, please send your stories in the body of an , no attachment is necessary unless you are sending images. Advertising Information & Costs: Business Card Size Ad $33.60 per quarter. Ads auto renew unless notice to cancel is received by the 5th of the month for the upcoming quarter. All ads must be received in a JPG or PDF format file. Chamber Network Night Mixer 4 th Thursday of the month with exceptions in the 4 th Quarter 5:30 Thursday Feb 26 at Groveland Community Hall Chamber Board of Directors Meetings - All Members Welcome! Usually Noon on 2 nd Thursday of the Month with exceptions as needed (Note Below!) 11:30 Thursday March 12 at Pizza Factory