District 52 State Representative Suzanne VanOrman made an appearance.
Pat Whelden of the U.S. Census Bureau was there.

Newly elected board member George Wilson took his chair.

A quorum of the Board of Directors of the Villages at Mt. Hood showed up.

All of this, throw in a free pancake breakfast, and a grand total of 19
members of the community were on hand for the Villages Town Hall Meeting
Nov. 21.

By any count, it was a disappointment.

Undaunted, the board carried on with the Villages business.

VanOrman announced the opening of her new office in Sandy, although the
hours are still to be determined. She reviewed a couple committee
assignments she has been handed, and of Johnson & Johnson funding she had
attracted for children’s health legislation, and described the new car she had
recently purchased and the mileage she had already logged.

The office phone number: 668-7913.

Whelden touted the new short form census questionnaire being distributed for
the 2010 counting of American heads. The form is much simpler than previous
attempts, colorfully coded in English (blue) and Spanish (green). The only odd
guideline, in part, reads: “Do not count anyone in a nursing home, jail, prison,
detention facility.” The grouping is the odd part.

An election was held for the open spot on the board. Wilson ran unopposed,
and won his seat.

The board reviewed its survey results that were reported in the November
issue of The Mountain Times. Fifty-nine surveys were turned in – 1.3 percent
of the community population.

From this, the board will develop an action plan.

The board also announced a new Web site for the Villages, which is promised
to be online by Christmas. It will include: content controlled by the board; no
editorial comments; a community calendar; a key-word search; a contact
form; and a mailing list.

The breakfast was served up by The Still Creek Inn and included pancakes,
sausages and coffee.

As unanimous as Wilson’s election, all (19) agreed the breakfast was
delicious.