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February 2016 Volume 5 • Number 1
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Permanent Mountain House Library Early Roots of MH Development Design Looks to Take Shape Shared at January Rotary "Photos for Foster Kids" Initiative Unveiled as well
By Bryan Harrison
The Mountain House Community Services District hosted the first in a three-part series of community workshops Saturday, January 13, 2016 seeking community input on ideas which will ultimately contribute to designs for the permanent MH Library building. Held at the MH High School Multi-Purpose Room, organizers had prepared for a considerably larger turn-out than the numbers who showed up. Those who did attend learned a great deal about initial plans and groundwork idea-gathering already done in preparation for these workshops.
In weeks prior to the workshop, a team of professionals, staff and board members toured
By Bryan Harrison
various library locations in the Bay Area to as a means of gathering ideas for what the library of the future in town may include and look like.
The Tracy Sunrise Rotary Satellite Club at Mountain House held two general meetings in January, gathering at the Mountain House Fire Station Community Room on two Thursday mornings occasions.
MH General Mgr Ed Pattison A slideshow at the workshop, presented by the architectural & planning consultant team to Mountain House, Field and Paoli, showed an extensive array of diverse designs and ideas that have been succontinued page 12
LUSD To Hold Recruitment Fair And Health Fair February 20, 2016 Submitted By Dr. Khushwinder Gill Assistant Superintendent, LUSD
In anticipation of a heavy demand for Certificated and Classified positions Lammersville Unified School District (LUSD) will be hosting their first Recruitment Fair on Saturday, February 20th from 8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at Mountain House High School located at 1090 South Central Parkway; Mountain House, CA.
LUSD is working hard to recruit exceptional candidates for the 2016/2017 school year. Candidates will get a chance to learn more about the district and meet LUSD Staff.
Participants should come prepared with a resume and will be able to visit different tables to gather information on openings in the district. On site interviews will be conducted to find quality employees for the upcoming year! If you are ready for a new and exciting job, please take a look at our website (www.lammersvilleschooldistrict.net) to see the wide range of positions available. Check out the Human Resources page to see current openings, as well as registering for this worth-
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Initially, she said, their idea was to have the high school be located in the center of town, with a community center and any local government offices nearby. The whole notion, from her perspective, of a defined local government, even a limited one like our current Community Services District, was a secondary thought at best. Mountain House would be founded as unincorporated San Joaquin County.
Kicking-off the new year January 7, 2016, the upstart group welcomed Ms. Penny Van Der Meer, of Willson & Company, a financial services firm in Tracy. Ms. Van Der Meer was a member of the Lammersville School District back in the late 1980s and early '90s, when the whole notion of building a new town called Mountain House first materialized. She shared her experience, knowledge and memories Penny Van Der Meer shared her binder from early planning days. from those early days. She explained that master developer, Trimark, came to the LSD board with their idea for this town, stating that it "happened to fall within the jurisdiction of our school board". LSD was given the opportunity to help define and establish how such a place would be conceived and laid out.
In considering the ultimate planned build-out of some 16,000 homes and about 44,000 residents, they - together with Trimark - put forth the concept of a town made-up of villages, each built around their own central K-8 school.
Ms. Van Der Meer spoke with a strong sense of pride in the early work her board did to help shape this community.
"There are other developments in various stages today: builtout, building still, and those yet to be built," she explained, "but none in this area is anything like the complete town that Mountain House is becoming."
Van Der Meer's presentation was fascinating, from the historical viewpoint, and enlightening, even in consideration of how things are run today.
Thursday, January 21st, the Rotary met once again at the fire house, this time welcoming local photographer Jenni Tellers, of Portraits of Grace Photography, as their guest speaker. continued page 10
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