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Beware the Grinch! Holiday Security Tips for your Home
● Be extra-cautious about locking doors and windows
● Keep gifts hidden from view through outside windows.
● After opening gifts, break down and bag up boxes from expensive gifts or fancy stores.
● Burglars look for occupancy cues like outdoor lights burning 24 hours a day, piled up
newspapers, mail or advertising flyers handing on the door knob.
● Use a light timer when you’re away and discontinue your mail and newspaper or ask a
neighbor to pick them up.
● Turn on lights and a radio or television so the house appears occupied if you’re not home.
● Don’t hide spare keys in your yard or above door ledges, give them to a trusted neighbor.
● Don’t run lights or extension cords through a window that prevents it from being secured.
● Don’t post your family name on your mailbox or on your house. A burglar can call
Directory Assistance to get your telephone number and call you home while in front of your
house to confirm that you’re away.
● Don’t leave descriptive voicemails or post social media messages about your absence or
vacation plans. Bad guys love to hear that they have plenty of time to break into your home.
Adapted from Sutter Health Holiday Security Tips, 2011.
Join the Courtland Community
Church for a Thanksgiving Meal
After services and before turkey dinners are
delivered to members in the community in
need, a turkey dinner will be hosted at the
church on Sunday, November 20th.
Call 775-2126 for more
details or to advise of a
member of the community
who may be in need of a
free holiday meal.
Want to donate locally?
Sacramento Food Bank
Ample Harvest Takes your Extra Crops
Food For Families Holiday Gift Bags, $10
Have ideas, submissions or corrections for this newletter?
Email courtlandtownassociation@gmail.com.
New “subscribers” welcome, just email to get on the list!
The CourtlandCrier November 2011
Holiday Edition
Courtland, CA
Be Careful on the Roads!
The holiday season is a dangerous time
for driving on the Delta, and with all the
recent highway improvements, markers
are hard to see in the fog and darkness.
Beware of drunk and buzzed drivers this
holiday, and if you think you’ve
overindulged, please call a friend or
neighbor to drive you home.
Resources:
Free Tipsy Tow 1-800-AAA-HELP.
Free 5 mile towing on Major Holidays
Jay’s Towing participates: 916-776-2773
Online Breathalizer
The Power of Thanks This Holiday Season
At the Emmons lab at UC Davis, leading researcher Robert Emmons has measured benefits
of practicing gratitude in children, young adults and adults. Studies show that those who
express and experience gratitude are happier, healthier, more energetic and perform better at
work. Read more about gratitude here and here. (Thanks!)
Courtland Library Book Sale
Friday, December 9, 2011
1pm-6pm
New and Gently Used Books,
Handmade Bags and More!
Friends of the Library Shop Early
from Noon to 1pm.
Volunteers and book donations still
accepted. Contact Kerri Stump at
916.290.7788 to help.
Library members wanted! Rejoin at
the library or here and be sure to
donate to Courtland. Thank you!
The CourtlandCrier November 2011
Holiday Edition
Courtland Holiday
Party & Potluck
6pm Thursday, December 8th
Masonic Lodge,
Riverside Boulevard.
All are welcome!
Santa will be bringing treats for
kids aged 12 and under.
Bring a dish to share.
RSVP with your children’s
name, age and gender before
December 4th to
Gloria at 916-775-4011 or
Sonia at 916-813-9852.
Santa
Claus
is coming
to town!
Courtland, CA
Bates School Winter Show & Bake Sale
You are invited to join Bates School for their Winter
Program which is free of charge and open to the
community. School kids will perform
songs and a play. Arrive early to shop the
6th Grade Camp Bake Sale. Thursday,
December 15th at 6pm.
Courtland Community Calendar:
11/24:
12/8:
12/9:
12/10:
12/13:
12/15:
12/16:
12/25:
1/1:
Senior Holiday Social
Join local seniors at the upcoming Senior Social
on December 16th from 12-3pm at the Hood Fire
Station. It’s free to attend and lunch is provided.
Attendees may RSVP to Danette Dahlberg at
916-897-6562.
Courtland Welcomes New Owners of La Posada
Arisdelcy Ornelas & Manuel Gutierrez are the new
proprietors of the restaurant, which is open Tuesday
Through Friday from 9:30am-6:30pm and Saturday
and Sunday from 9:30am-8pm. On Sunday nights they
serenade diners with “karaoke” of Spanish songs.
They are planning to
host a holiday posada,
stop by for details.
Thanksgiving Day
Holiday Party & Potluck 6pm
Library Book Sale, 1pm
Holiday Card Making, Courtland
Library, 1pm
CFD Board Meeting 6:30pm
Bates School Holiday Show &
Bake Sale, 6pm
Senior Social, Hood 12-3pm
Merry Christmas!
Happy 2012, Courtland!