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Letter from the President

October 16, 2015 by Alice Shaprio

Letter from the President

My Dear Shalom Bayit community WOW has it been a busy few months at

the Shul!

It is wonderful to have our Rabbi back in town. We had an enriching holiday

season and our services were well attended. I was exhausted by the end of

the high holidays and all the work preparing for them. Rabbi Jay has been

on the radio since his return to town with a very enlightening program about

the holidays. I encourage everybody to tune into KPOV radio 88.9 or

KPOV.org to listen to Jay’s shows, Alice will let you know when the next

one will be aired. We are hopeful that these shows will increase the

exposure of JCCO in our community. Has anybody seen Jay on Facebook?

No? That is because he isn’t on it yet, we need to encourage him to join us.

Lots going on to update the membership about.

After being an “idea” for 15 years we have actually created a new

community garden area. It is located on the South side of the property near

the playground. It is a large parcel of about 2,000 square feet, the plan is to

have about a quarter of it as a corn patch. The remaining area will be

available to our community to rent approximately 100 square foot individual

garden plots. The soil has been amended with compost and manure so it

will be in great shape to plant in the spring. Automatic irrigation is provided

by the Shul. This is a great opportunity for you to grow organic food close

to home, this benefits us all in so many ways. We will also have visiting

gardening instructors to assist us in learning how to garden in Central

Oregon. Please contact Ben if you would like a garden plot we have a

limited number of them so sign up soon.

We have completed a number of energy saving and maintenance projects

at the Shul including painting by Howard Huskey. We have had fantastic

help from many volunteers ranging in age from 8 to “senior citizens”. The

response from the community to the improved appearance and operation of

our facilities has been great. We now have a wonderful pre school

operating at the Shul as well, this is bringing in income that defrays our

operating expenses.

As part of our improvements we have reorganized the library. We realized

that we needed additional space and shelving in order to accommodate our

growing collection. Our GREAT Librarian Pat Givens has come up with a

plan that the board has approved. We will convert the larger classroom into

an adult library area. This will provide more space for the children’s book

area in the school section of the building. These improvements will require

the acquisition of 4 new bookcases. We are seeking donations of $230 for

each bookcase. So if you can BUY A BOOKCASE you may have a name of

your choice memorialized on it. We are grateful for the support that our

membership provides.

We have been challenged in fulfilling our plans for developing a youth

program. First our youth leader had to withdraw as a result of other

demands on his time, football. We then received a proposal from TBT to

join with them in a youth group that they were developing. Unfortunately the

TBT program experienced the same problem when they lost their leader.

Neither program has yet located a new leader, so we are back to square

one. We really need a leader for this program that can attract young people

from the entire Jewish community of Central Oregon, any ideas?

We are still in need of a photographer for our events. We would like to have

more music at our services so if anybody knows of musicians looking for a

special gig please let me know. We also need a person that would be

willing to organize special events and programs.

I look forward to seeing all of you soon.

With Love, Ben

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