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MESSAGE FROM YOUR PRESIDENT
As I sit at my computer, sheltering-in-place, I have come to realize how truly fortunate I am. At this moment, my at-risk husband is healthy. My daughter Alicia, an emergency room physician, and her family are still all well. My daughter Michelle, her newborn and the rest of her family are feeling fine. Our son Paul moved out of New York City last fall. He moved to a small town outside of Boulder, Colorado and therefore has missed out on the ravages the pandemic is wreaking there. My family is safe. I hope and pray that your families are equally safe.
Our extended Sausalito Woman’s Club family is hopefully safe as well. To stay that way, we must all adhere to the new normal: wash hands frequently, keep a 6-foot distance between yourself and anyone else if you have to leave your home for food, medicine, or exercise, but try not to leave your home at all. Sheltering at home is the best thing we can each do to assure that we do not infect anyone else or become infected ourselves. This particularly applies to those of us who are over 65. As hard as it is, try not to visit children or grandchildren right now; the little ones are generally asymptomatic petri dishes.
This is the perfect opportunity for each of us to reach out to SWC members whom we might not have seen or spoken with recently. Pick up your yearbook and your phone and call a Jinks sister, or someone whom you have served on a committee with, or someone you really don’t know that well. What a great chance to make new connections or renew old ones!!
If you are healthy and under 65, you might consider asking an older member if she needs help with anything. I know this has been happening already, and I am truly grateful to be part of such a loving, giving community. Members of the SWC rock!!!
Please contact me if you need food delivered to you, medicines picked up, or need other help. Driver’s Market will deliver orders or bring phoned-in orders to the curb for pick-up. Local restaurants are also offering delivery or curb services. And, we always have club members who will help. Stay safe, stay healthy!
SWC MEETINGS BY ZOOM
SWC is joining the virtual community!! We will be conducting our immediate future SWC meetings by Zoom. This is a free program that you may use on your computer, tablet or phone. We will be able to see and hear one another. You need to register to join a meeting. Go to zoom.com and follow the prompts. We will have a trial run and will send an email blast with an invitation to join very soon.
YOUNGER CARSS DRIVERS NEEDED
CARRS, (Call a Ride for Sausalito Seniors) is asking for drivers under the age of 65. They are providing an errand only service at the moment, but many of their regular volunteer drivers are over 65 and are at high risk. If you are under that age and have time to help out, call (415) 332-3325 for information or to volunteer. You may also check out the following websites for information: www.sausalitovillage.org or www.cars4you.org
THE SWC CLUBHOUSE IS STILL CLOSED TO ALL GROUPS!
Thank you one and all!!
Susan Daniloff, President
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The City of Sausalito and The Sausalito Chamber of Commerce are working together to provide the most update information about current Covid 19 alerts, businesses that are essential and restaurants and cafes that are available for take out service, as well as resources for small-large businesses seeking relief. Please use these tools to stay up to date with changes by either frequenting the website or signing up for newsletters and alerts.
This is not an effort to promote particular businesses, just inform the community on what’s happening on a more “boots on the ground” level in our community while we all work through these difficult times.
Take Out & Delivery Food
Click here for a list of restaurants open for business who are providing Take Out & Delivery Options for customers. Most providing curbside and no contact service.
Essential Businesses
Find a list of essential businesses that are open for food, medication and the items you need now. We will be sending out more information regarding other ways you can support our local small businesses and those businesses that remain open.
How to Support Local Businesses
Supporting local businesses s always important. Now the only way many will be able to survive at all after this crisis is support them now. Find a list of local businesses who need your assistance now.
Resources for all Businesses & Employers
During this uncertain time we want our members and community to know we are here to support you. Please bookmark this page for updates on services, online webinars and more that will help keep you going through these difficult times. Sausalito is resilient! More info >>>
Sign up for newsletters from the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce
(link on home page)
Sign up for the Currents from the City of Sausalito
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We were asked recently - What is Sustainability?
SWC’s Sustainability Committee was formed in an effort to help us
- understand how to reach Marin Counties Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) Zero Waste Goals by 2025
- what to compost and why composting is so important
- what to recycle
This is still our main focus, because while many people have responded to these basic community goals, it can still be confusing and elusive.
Trash - Zero Waste by 2025
Every day 1,000 tons of garbage is deposited at the Redwood Landfill in north Novato. According to Redwood Landfill’s District Manager, the landfill will be filled to its current capacity (26 million cubic yards) by 2025. In 2012, it was filled to 17 million cubic yards and the rate of disposal has skyrocketed. Marin County generates the most garbage per capita of any county in the country.
Compost – Why you should
Trashed food waste goes to landfill where it generates, methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Methane emissions are significantly reduced by composting food waste. Composting yard and food wastes creates a product that can be used to help improve soils, help sink carbon, grow the next generation of crops, and improve water quality.
Recycle - SWC and Bay Cities Refuse Guidelines
See the Club guidelines posted on SWC's site under the Community tab and click here. Refer to BCRS guidelines http://www.baycitiesrefuse.com/bcr/recycling-organics-collection/
Sustainability Defined – to supply current needs without compromising future generations.
In Environmental Science, Sustainability is the quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance necessary for continued human civilization and existence - capacity for the biosphere and human civilization to coexist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmQby7adocM
Why we all need to participate
If we have learned anything from the Pandemic, it is that we are all in this together.
"The answers to the biggest challenges of our time come not from government and business, but from you and me, from communities working together. If we wait for governments, it will be too late. If we act as individuals, it will be too little. But if we act as communities, it might just be enough, and it might just be in time.” From What Is To What If, by Bob Hopkins
In tough times we remember, that we each have the capacity to amplify what is useful, good, and beautiful in our world.
From your Sustainability Committee:
Julie Carlson, Sue Currier, Shari Hansen, Jann Johnson, Laurie Tandy, Dana Whitson
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