eFEAtures February 8, 2009
Please Take the time to check out the Fourth Corner Website
HIGHLIGHTS:
New Educator Events:
February 24, 2009 and March 25, 2009 are the next New Educator events occurring at the
Skagit Ridge Hotel in Bow. Please contact the Fourth Corner Office if you plan on attending!
Pre-Retirement Seminar:
What will be covered: *Plan I, II, III*—*Financial Planning*—*Social Security and
Medicare*—*Estate Planning*—*Health and Medical Insurance*—*PERS/TRS*—*DCP
(Deferred Comp)
When: Friday, March 13, 2009 6 pm– 9 pm and continues
Saturday, March 14, 2009 8 am– 4 pm
Where:
WECU Education Center
511 E. Holly St.
Bellingham, WA
RSVP: No later than March 6, 2009
Presented by WEA Retired & WEA Fourth Corner
*Limited to 25 members so sign up early!
SB 5444/1410 Action:
1) Cyber lobby - Please cyber lobby everyday AND call your legislators!
Members can go to the WEA website www.ourvoicewashingtonea.org,
You can go here http://www.leg.wa.gov/legislature to find your legislators.
The legislative hotline is: 1-800-562-6000.
2) Olympia Here We Come -
4th Corner will pay mileage and release time for a select few for an exciting day in Olympia!!!
Even if you can’t go down, maybe we could all wear our black Take The Lead shirts (or just black)
on the dates listed to show support for those that do go down.
If you are interest please Email your name and date to Edna: eblopez@washingtonea.org
She will arrange the release time with the district.
I’m heading down on Monday the 16th !
We could meet and carpool at the park and ride where the Bellingham Drive-In use to be.
The Uniserv Olympia dates are as follows:
Monday, Feb 9
Tuesday, Feb 10
Wednesday, Feb 11
Monday, Feb 16 (Presidents' Day holiday - no school, but the legislature is in session. NOTE - we hope to get a larger group down that day!)
Wednesday, Feb 18
Monday, Feb 23
Tuesday, Feb 24
Wednesday, Feb 25
3) Be a Star - Send a "passport style" picture of yourself. Uniserv will be attaching them to an "Oppose SB 5444" postcard that member lobbyists will personally drop in Olympia. Legislators want to see that real educators (and real constituents) are concerned. Utilize any association meetings at your building and off-duty/lunch times to take pictures of willing members for this effort. Give Uniserv the pics, they will do the rest! Email to Edna at ebarnhouse-lopez@washingtonea.org or for those less techno-savvy, print a pic and hand-deliver or mail it to Tracie at Skyline.
Thank you in advance for your efforts!
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Tracie Morris
FEA President
*Working for the benefit of educators in the Ferndale School District to maintain quality for our students.