Dear Bonny Dooners, We are creating a Quilt-to-be-raffled-off that will benefit the Bonny Doon Fire Team entitled "Visions of Bonny Doon 2010". We will need forty-five (45) blocks to complete it. We would like for you to volunteer to make a 10 1/2" X 10 1/2" block with your vision of Bonny Doon from preshrunk fabric. Your block may be pieced, appliquéd, fabric painted, embroidered, etc. Please sign or initial your block. We have sample pieces of the backing fabric (green, brown and orange trees), the border fabric (dark green leaves) and other fabrics available. You may incorporate these into your block or use them to coordinate your own fabric choices. I also have books of pattern ideas if you wish to look at them, or visit the library's huge selection of books on quilting topics. Quilt raffle tickets will be available as soon as the blocks start rolling in. If you have any questions or need more information, please contact me at 831-427-3787 or email shirinmelville@hotmail.com Have fun and draw on your sense of humor and imagination. Shirin Schumacher and Jean Meyer

Saturday, December 19 8:00 pm: Annual Christmas Carol Sing at the Chapel Royal of Boomeria

Bill Visscher, spectacular pipe organist and organ builder, will be roaring out the carols on the 40 rank Baroque organ at The Chapel Royal of Boomeria.  Hot cider and cake will be served in the Crew's Quarters after the sing. Dress warmly. SEE and HEAR the Pipe Organ http://home.comcast.net/~pqboom/tour/pipeorgn.html You may print out an Internet map to Boomeria at 60 Verde Drive, Santa Cruz, CA 95060. Phone 426-2617.

Thursday, December 24 8:00 pm: Bonny Doon Presbyterian Church Christmas Eve Candlelight Service Please note: the time is 8:00, not 8:30 as in the Battle Mountain News Everyone is welcome. Sunday Morning Service at 10:00 am. If you have never been to our Christmas Eve Candlelight Service, it is well worth the hour spent.  If you have been, come again!  7065 Bonny Doon Road Call 426-6858 for more information on church services.

Bonny Doon Volunteer Fire/Rescue, Inc. A Charitable Non-Profit Corporation (831) 426-1561   www.bonnydoonfire.com Telephone 911 For All Emergencies

Burn Season Begins December 1st.  Yard trimmings can be burned only on "burn days".  Telephone 1-800-CAL-BURN to hear the Monterey Bay Air Pollution Control District's daily recording declaring whether that day is a "burn day" or a "no burn day".  Their decisions are based on air pollution factors and not fire safety.  Before burning, residents should judge fire safety factors such as high winds.  Detailed regulations and fire safety information are available from the California Department of Forestry, 6059 Highway 9 in Felton, telephone 335-5353.  Some basic rules include: Material being burned must have grown on the property and should be dry. Burning is limited to daylight hours. An adult must be in attendance. Burn piles should be small and a safe distance from flammable vegetation and buildings. A water source should be available.

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

Battle Mountain News - Morgan Rankin - 426-6412 Keep up with all the events in Bonny Doon with the Battle Mountain News.  Arriving the first of every month at all 1100 Bonny Doon households, this is the best way to advertise in Bonny Doon.  Ads are due by the 24th of the month for the next month's edition.  Rates as of November 2009 are: $20 for up to 10 lines.  Call the publisher, Morgan Rankin, at 426-6412, and deliver your ads to her at 222 Ice Cream Grade.

Rural Bonny Doon Association To read The Highlander on-line, visit the RBDA website www.bonnydoon.got.net

Friends of Bonny Doon Fire - 426-3085 or 459-8853 Keep up with the latest on the formation of an independent Fire District. Visit www.friendsofbonnydoonfire.org for the latest. Visit www.bonnydoonfire.com for general information.

Bosch Baha'i Conference Center, 500 Comstock Lane, 423-3387 Please see the Battle Mountain News or call for the schedule of events.

Memories of the Mountain The Ladies of Bonny Doon This wonderful book is still available.  A "must have" for new and old Dooner's alike.  The Ladies of Bonny Doon Club produced this book in 2004.  Many Bonny Dooners contributed stories, pictures, and editing skills. Order your book online at authorhouse.com or call 800-839-8640.  $20.50 plus postage.