Area XI Director: Barbara Bethel (858) 270-3483 
David Bisson
San Diego - Area XI Meetings
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Area Director’s Message
Area XI encompasses the southernmost portion of California and includes both San Diego and Imperial counties. Our eight divisions provide a wonderful web of support designed to fulfill CalRTA’s core mission of protecting and enhancing the pensions of CalSTRS members. Key goals include:
- Full purchasing power protection for all retired educators.
- Repeal of the Social Security Penalties (WEP and GPO).
- Secure access to affordable, comprehensive health insurance.
If these issues resonate with you than one of our groups will be a perfect fit!
In addition to being your partner in pension protection, our area divisions offer so many other benefits! Newsletters keep our nearly 4000 area members informed and connected. Regular meetings provide interesting programs; up-to-date information on issues affecting pensions, seniors and public education; and an excellent opportunity to foster friendships with new acquaintances and long-time colleagues. Our members also actively support the improvement of our communities by volunteering. This past year Area XI members alone logged over 357,000 volunteer hours! Additionally, many of our divisions contribute to the future by awarding college scholarships through their division scholarship foundations.
Please contact any one of us if you have questions or would like additional information about our dynamic area divisions. We are committed to your security in retirement. If you haven’t already, please join us and CalRTA today!
Barbara Bethel, Area XI Director
858-270-3483
bbethel@san.rr.com
Action Alert #33 Keep it Going! SSFairness.com
Oct. 21, 2011
Today we hit 5,000 signatures on our petition to the White House asking for the repeal of the WEP/GPO. Thank you, thank you, thank you!! This means that they will study the issue and report back to each of us who signed the petition. (Petitions started after Oct. 3 must have 25,000 signatures. Ours began Sept. 26.)
Barack Obama was still a senator when he wrote the National Education Association saying that he would sign a bill to repeal these Social Security Offsets if he became president. Has he forgotten us? Does his current staff even know about the problem? This is our chance to make our point. A petition to regulate puppy mills has more than 25,000 signatures. Surely, we can do this well if people continue to forward the information.
Please try again, if you didn’t get on. Send the link to your family, friends and to anyone you know who is still working but will be affected when they retire. (http://wh.gov/4KL) We need the voices of active employees and retired people in every district across the country. Our petition has signatures from 48 states! We are everywhere!! (only the Dakotas are missing)
It's - http://wh.gov/4KL just do it now!
Instructions are on our website at http://www.ssfairness.com/current-action/
Area XI Communications Chair
Hi Area XI Leaders,
Mollie Solorzano from Division 60 has been working on a fun event to celebrate Retired Teachers Week. All Area XI CalRTA leaderes/members as well as all other retired teachers (members or not) are invited to attend. Mollie needs to provide Viejas with a lunch count so please RSVP directly with her at mizmoll@cox.net
Here are the event details:
CalRTA Lunch and Day Out at Viejas
Date: Monday, November 7th
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
(Note: Buffet Lunch begins at 11:30 a.m. The cost
is $7.96 with a V Club card and $9.95 without a card.)
Where: Viejas Casio and Outlet Center
5000 Willows Road
Alpine, CA 91901
You are cordially invited to join fellow retirees in this fun celebration of Retired Teachers Week. We will meet in the enclosed dining area in the rear of the main buffet area to mingle, socialize and share lunch. Shopping opportunities and games of chance await both before and after the lunch activities. So plan to come early and/or stay late for a great celebration!
On behalf of all of us, I extend a special thank you to Mollie for her efforts on this event. It should be great fun! Let's all help her out by sharing this info with members and others who might be interested in attending AND by getting attendance/lunch counts to her ASAP.
Thanks for all you do for CalRTA and our members,
DON'T STICK YOUR ELBOW
OUT SO FAR
IT MAY GO HOME
IN ANOTHER CAR.
BURMA�SHAVE
Area XI Board Report
March 2011
Report204 Little Hoover Commission just released their report on pensions 106 Pages
Report204 Little Hoover Commission just released their report on pensions Summary 10 Pages
Dave Walrath, CRTA's Statewide Legislative Advocate
"Spotlight on Health and Insurance Matters" by Jay Klopfenstein
California Retired Teachers Association - Retirement PREP Program
Area11 CalRTA WebSite Printable web address
Ask your fellow retired teachers to join CRTA. Membership is available for both current and retired teachers, spouses, adult family members and friends.
Click the membership form above in the "How to Join" link to printout the PDF form. Membership is $3.50 per month ($42 a year). Members receive Division newsletters, and the state publication, Contact. Each member will receive major discounts by joining. Monthly meetings include guest speakers, luncheons and holiday celebrations. Joining the California Retired Teacher Association is a great opportunity to renew acquaintances and make new ones.
Grants/Scholarships
Area XI - Divisions award "Scholarships to High School Seniors" who are pursuing teaching careers. The scholarship winners are honored in May. The scholarship fund also provides "Mini-Grants for Current Teachers." Retired Teachers are honored in November during the 'Week of the Retired Teacher.' We, as retired teachers, in each of our "Divisions" within "Area XI" San Diego/Imperial Counties devote thousands of volunteer hours to our nearby schools and community. Each year thousands of dollars are raised to provide scholarships to college students pursuing careers in education
Anyone interested in CRTA Merchandise, such as jackets, denim shirts, sweatshirts, with CRTA logo, appreciation items for volunteers,, CRTA gifts for presenters or scholarship recipients, etc. Please contact David Bisson at 858-554-0333 E-Mail
Community Service
Members are also very involved in community service. In the most recent reporting cycle, members donated over 120,000 hours of their time in volunteer activities, worth more than two million dollars of free service for our local schools and nearby community.
Ann Slatten and Barb Bethel
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Barbara Bethel, Maruta Gardner,Toni Atkins, Joanne Climie, Vi Huprich, Edie Andrew-Akita
