Hello!
This is Wendilyn Grasseschi, Mono County Wildfire Mitigation Coordinator,
As some of you know from conversations with me earlier this summer and the past few weeks, I have been working toward getting some Town Hall-style Wildfire Mitigation/Prevention workshops organized for North County.
We now have not one, but TWO awesome guest speakers coming next week (Tuesday, Sept 26, 6-8 p.m. at the Lee Vining Community Center and Wednesday, Sept. 27, 6-8 p.m. at the Bridgeport Memorial Hall) who will share professional, expert tips on the best, latest, least expensive Home Hardening tips AND on how to best organize your communities and neighborhoods to become wildfire resilient – and possibly, save on property insurance (see below). There will be light refreshments served.
I am hoping all of you on the RPACs and the June Lake CAC can help get the word out and forward all or any of this to anyone you think might be interested. You can either send the pdfs and/or share the links to the Facebook events page, or just spread the word the old fashioned way! I will also be putting up printed flyers in as many places in North County as I can today.
Why am I excited about these Town Halls and why do I think you will be too? Because Yana Valachovic will be here to talk about the best, latest, least expensive, most pragmatic Home Hardening techniques to protect your home and, Beth Burnam, who is now the brand new Eastern Sierra Firewise USA Regional Coordinator, will be here to talk about why creating Firewise Communities is one of the best first steps to organizing neighborhoods and communities to become more fire resilient, and possibly to get a break on your insurance. She will also address what it takes to create Fire Safe Councils. There will be time for questions and answers from both speakers. They are both really good and will give everyone the most critical, up-to-date info possible.
There are a lot more details about both speakers in the Facebook events page link, or you can email me at any time if you want more details; I don’t want to make this email longer than it already it!
Attached find two PDFs, one that includes the QR code for poster printing, and one without the QR code for social media.
Below are the shareable links to the Facebook event page for each workshop.
Sept 26
https://tinyurl.com/mv2ev27b [1]
Sept 27
https://tinyurl.com/5hexrbn7 [2]
Thank you all for your help getting this out to your communities and I hope to see you next week.
Wendilyn Grasseschi
Mono County Wildfire Mitigation Coordinator
Mono County Office of Emergency Services
PO Box 696
Bridgeport, CA 93517
Phone: 970-509-0126
