Hello Everyone,

Huge thank you for today’s engrossing meeting to Boyd and Leslie for a great presentation on Gold Hill Emergency Preparation and Val on Advance Care Planning and to Val and Leslie with Ota for working hard and long to get the Zoom going.

From Boyd’s presentation: get your Emergency Buddy system going with neighbors, family, friends, and let Deb Yeager know who they are.

For information on Advance Care Planning in Colorado, including forms and where to go for guided help through the forms, click here: 

• Advance Healthcare Planning for Emergency Preparedness: with fewer healthcare services up here, mountain residents focus on planning article 

For more information on how to do Advance Health Care Planning, this is a dynamite, popular site: The Conversation Project . 

These links can help you make your wishes known to your individual healthcare agent–a family member or a close friend who will advocate for what means most to you. Make your wishes known while you can. Get these forms filled out so your doctors and family and friends know clearly what means most to you. This is a huge gift to ourselves and to our family if we ever lose the ability to communicate!

And fill out the File of Life and stick it on your fridge (those who didn’t attend the meeting today can get the form in June at the GH Fire Mitigation Festival June 15-16.)

This is a gift to ourselves and to our family not to mention the EMTs and Firefighters who serve our community (us), who want to know what matters most to you in terms of treating you if they are called to your home via 911.

Thank you,

Pam for the group

pamsher123@nullgmail.com