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Disaster Preparedness
Here is a Disaster Preparedness Checklist from our Neighbohood Watch Meeting, 29 August 2008. Are you prepared?
Planning for Yourself and Your Family:
- Store your vital documents in safe place
- Make an inventory list of your household items
- Create a family emergency plan
- Teach your children about disasters and what to expect from them
- Make provisions for the elderly and disabled
Preparing Yourself and Your Family:
- Store one gallon of water per person per day in a sturdy plastic container
- Maintain a three to five day supply of food
- Assemble emergency supplies for your family
- Prepare portable disaster supply kits for your car and workplace
- Store your supplies in a safe, accessible location
Protecting your Family and Your Home:
- Identify, secure and correct any potential hazards in your home
- Examine the structural safety of your home
- Locate your utility shut-off valves
- Store hazardous household products in a safe location
- Install smoke detectors
- Learn how to use a fire extinguisher
Here is a copy of the flyer for our 13 December 2009 walkabout:
First Annual Holiday Walkabout
Please join us for an Italian-style ‘passeggiata’, a walk through Cherryhill Neighborhood to meet each other, spread some holiday cheer and enjoy festive outdoor decorations.
Join a progressive evening stroll (meet at Michael’s Hallmark by 4pm) or make ad hoc visits to the 7 host stations in the neighborhood. Either way, make your final stop at Crandano Court so we may conclude the evening with a toast to everyone’s health and happiness in the coming year.
Each station will offer hot drinks and homebaked holiday goodies. Let’s make this event as green as possible by bringing our own reusable mugs and keeping the paper goods to a minimum. We are looking for baked goods donations at all stations! Starbucks is generously donating hot coffee travelers; certain host stations will provide hot chocolate and spiced cider as well.
To help those less fortunate, we are asking that you consider bringing donations of dry foods, warm socks and/or unwrapped toys that we will collectively donate to Sunnyvale`Community Services. This is a voluntary effort; please do not feel pressured to participate. Donations may be brought to any neighborhood host station (except Michael’s Hallmark store).
For children, there will be a raffle at Crandano Court. Download and print the Map and Raffle Entry, collect stickers at each host station, then drop entries into the drawing basket at Crandano court. Raffle prizes include a $25 GameStop gift card, Baskin Robbins Yule Log cake and Michael’s Hallmark goodies.
Host Stations (in order of the progressive walk):
- Michael’s Hallmark (gather at 4pm)
- 1081 Yorktown Drive - hosted by Fritz and Andrea Stawitcke
- 1010 Valley Forge Drive - hosted by Prince and Ancy Nechikat
- Ticonderoga & Elderberry - hosted by Amy McFarland and Bev Brown
- 1090 Syracuse - hosted by Kyle Welch, Karen Nguyen and Mark Tran, Geri Filippini
- 1234 Cranberry Drive - hosted by Carol Malone and Jan Keilig
- Crandano Court - hosted by Joanne Callahan, Dan and Nina McQueen
The complete walkabout map is shown below. Please feel free to just walk out your front door and visit any stations near you or maybe join the walk as it goes past your home. Townsend Terrace, Blackberry Terrace, and Robin Way are not included on the map but are part of our association, so please come out and join us.
Approximate Walkabout Schedule
Here is an approximate schedule derived using Google Maps that shows approximately when the walkabout entourage will arrive at each of the seven stops. That way neighbors who don’t want to walk the whole course can join in along the way.
The total walking distance is about 2 miles. The walking time is about 80 minutes.
If we stop for 10 – 15 minutes at each stop we will get to the stops approximately as follows:
- Arrive 1 (Hallmark) 4:00 pm
- Leave 1 (Hallmark) 4:10 pm
- Arrive 2 (Yorktown) 4:30 pm
- Arrive 3 (Valley Forge) 4:45 pm
- Arrive 4 (Elderberry) 5:00 pm
- Arrive 5 (Syracuse) 5:15 pm
- Arrive 6 (Cranberry) 5:30 pm
- Arrive 7 (Crandano) 5:45 pm
We hope that everyone in the neighborhood can join us at some point. The whole idea is to get out and meet your neighbors. So just get out and walk a bit, even if you don't meet the entourage. The stops will most likely be set up for the whole two hours, so there is no problem with neignbors congregating at the stops any old time.