Whiteplains Communications Report

4/20/2006


Newsletter : Nancy Van Wormer and Susan Ramsey

The first newsletter was created and distributed and/or mailed to all residents and hangar owners during the week of March 13, 2006.

The second newsletter will be created in the Fall of 2006 by Susan Ramsey. Any items for the newsletter should be in her hands by October 15.


Caring and Sharing: Peggy Como

Cards will be sent to residents and hangar owners in the event of a death in the immediate family.

Flowers sent to funeral homes will be on a personal, friendship group basis only and will not be in the domain of this committee.

Small flower bouquets ( $10-$15 range ) will be sent to residents and hangar owners in the event of injury or surgery.

Peggy needs to be informed via e-mail ( billandpeggycomo@alltel.net) or phone ( 951-0773 ) if you wish to receive this gesture of caring. Therefore the name – Caring and Sharing. Before we can care – you have to share!

Peggy submitted a detailed account of expenses for future budget planning.


Welcoming Committee – Peg Peterson, Nancy Bonacum, Cindy Ross, Vicky
Gardner, Gwen Mochak

This committee has met and created packets for new residents which will be delivered to them when they move in to their new home. To keep costs at a minimum some items will be listed that residents can find on line to be downloaded themselves. One such item is the Whiteplains Directory. Calendars will not be included in the packet since these are sold to residents. New residents will be directed to Nancy Van Wormer if they wish to purchase one.


Web Site – Michael Cone, Don Cook

Michael Cone continues to work on the structure for the whiteplainsplantation.com website that was created over a year ago.

Don Cook is piloting a BLOG ( a BLOG is a message board/notebook) with some new technology he received from his daughter. His goal is to have a user-friendly site that any Whiteplains’ resident can access, contribute to, update, etc. It would be community based . Any page submitted to the site would be screened by Don for appropriate content which would include a calendar, meeting minutes, photographs from community wide events, items offered for sale, etc. There would also be links to AOPA, FAA,EAA Chapter 242, Young Eagles, Weather, etc.

This site will soon be piloted with 8 families at Whiteplains.

It is hoped and planned that this message board could be eventually accessed through the official Whiteplains web site.

An up-dated Whiteplains Directory was e-mailed to all residents and hangar owners during the week of April 10, 2006, by Ken Plesser. Folks will be notified of any corrections and/or additions by Nancy Van Wormer via announcements@whiteplains.com


Calendar: Nancy Van Wormer

This is a work in progress .

Bulletin Boards: Everyone

If you have not noticed, Susan Ramsey has posted a note about walking together. Take a look and join in if you wish.



Respectfully submitted by Nancy Van Wormer
Communications Coordinator