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 THANKSGIVING… So much to be grateful for. This has been an amazing year at SAR. The talent we have both with the staff and with all of our chairmen and committees has been an inspiration. They have made being President an easy job. Our Members have benefited greatly from their knowledge and hard work. [...]  SAR Members raises and give a great deal of money to various community organizations, and I can say from going to events to represent you, that the organizations are doing great good against high odds. I was unacquainted with many of these organizations and am humbled by the work they do. What are you [...] SAFETY… When I think of safety for REALTORS®, I think of physical safety while showing property or holding open houses. In real estate, we do everything our parents taught us not to do: we put strangers in our cars and we meet people in vacant houses. I got my first car phone after being stranded in a bad neighborhood at twilight at a freeway entrance. Fortunately, I was able to walk to a service station for help. However, I bought my car phone the next day for $800. My, how things have changed! If you pay any attention at all to your safety as a REALTOR®, you know to meet new clients at the office. If you work alone or from your house, meet a new client at the title company. REALTORS® often get into dangerous situations the same way anyone does – by not paying attention to their surroundings and by not listening to their gut. Think of the 10-second rule:
(Thanks to Linda Justus, Sacramento REALTOR® and former police officer, for this handy 10-second rule.) My client wants to list a house that is in probate. How do I do that? Is it really true that some homes downtown are not connected to the sewer line? What is a dye test? How can I make Facebook work for me? The answers to these and other questions can be answered [...] By the time you read this, some 300 Sacramentans, including six representatives from SAR, will have returned from the Metro Chamber’s Cap-to-Cap trip to Washington DC. The annual Cap-to-Cap program brings the region’s business, labor and government leaders together to build consensus for important regional priorities. Volunteers working on 13 teams will bring the region’s top issues to our nation’s leaders via 90 issue papers and more than 230 appointments with elected leaders, the Obama administration and other agency officials. Cap-to-Cap is the largest local chamber of commerce program of its kind in the nation. I have a special regard for this effort. In 1943, in the middle of WWII, my father, Otto Rohwer, who was then the president of the Chamber of Commerce, went to Washington DC as part of a regional delegation to lobby Congress – not for more defense contracts – but for appropriations to build the Folsom Dam. Sixty-seven years later, I am serving on the Flood Protection team. On the Flood Protection team, we worked for 200-year flood protection. Funding is not the only issue; we worked to educate federal agencies on how outdated regulations and policies stand in the way of flood protection and improving regional water supply. The other Members of our delegation this year were Doug Covill, President-elect; Kathy Fox, Secretary- Treasurer; Nelson Janes, Executive Vice President; Caylyn Brown, Government Affairs Director, and Eric Rasmusson, Government Affairs Consultant. We spread out through the halls of Congress and numerous government agencies, bringing Sacramento’s message.
When I was a little girl, I rode trolleys up and down J Street. When you called and the phone was busy, you called again. The answering machine was the mother at the other end of the line, who took a message. A long distance call was cause for alarm since one never called long distance unless it was an emergency. At school, if you got into trouble, you got into more trouble at home. All children had books and paper and pencils. There were lockers so kids did not have to lug all of the day’s books around with them and there were no back packs. I was forbidden to go into the park next to my Junior High School at lunch because kids were smoking there… cigarettes. Milk was delivered to the door and moms met in the street to gossip at the vegetable man’s truck. Sacramento ended in East Sacramento on J Street at 57th. H Street went over the H Street bridge to become Fair Oaks Boulevard. The shopping mall was Town and Country, but it took too much gas to get there so we seldom went. In summer, we swam at Clunie Pool at McKinley Park unless it was closed for a polio scare. The library was a constant source of entertainment for me. We listened to the radio shows. We went to the State Fair at the old fairgrounds. We went to dances at Governor’s Hall. We took public transportation and did not worry about child abduction. |
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
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