When is a retirement not a retirement?
In
a very short while Dom Guarnagia's two-year term as UCO vice president will be
coming to a close.
Did I say two years? Judging from the amount of work you and Kate have put into this Village, Dom, it seems as if it must have been a much longer time. I understand that you are running for the Executive Board, and—did I hear
right?—you may continue working on some construction matters with our CAM? When
is a retirement not a retirement? The answer: When you are a UCO volunteer
and, most assuredly, when your name is Dom Guarnagia!
I
hope you and Kate experience some relief now that your term is ending, Dom. And I hope
you know this: There are a great many Century Village residents who appreciate
all you have done for us.
In addition to your normal VP duties, you taught
those excellent classes on maintenance and upkeep, complete with those handout
sheets with your professionally-done color sketches. Our
physical plant was your specialty, and how you took that in hand! We will not
forget the yeoman work you did for many months (was it over a year?) in
not only being a VP, but doing the work of a CAM while we were without one. Unfailingly courteous to
all who came to you, you somehow did it all with a smile.
In
the March Reporter,
prefacing your article on “Things That Do Not Require Permitting” (which you DID suggest we cut out) you wrote: “Most of my articles are informational but in no way
worthy of clipping out of the Reporter and keeping for future reference.” Not so, I think. “WERE worthy of being cut out and
saved for future reference” is how I would put it.
Thank you, Dom, if I may say so, from a
Village full of people much indebted to you.
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