Ellie Slade, Manager of the Ramona Public Library

Our speaker, Ellie Slade has been the Manager of the Ramona Community Library since December, 2007.  She is a local Ramona resident and enjoys creative writing, photography, travel, cultural arts, gardening and cooking.    She creatively crosses over in all library departments including children’s, teens and adults services.  In the past Ellie taught K-12 students and at various colleges. Ellie has a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science and another Masters in Education and Interdisciplinary Arts.  Ellie has lived in multiple states and also in Mexico.  Ellie is on the Board of the Ramona Sentinel and participates in many local activities. Ellie will be updating the Valley Club on the new Richard and Joan Wayman Technology Center due to open in the library this coming spring.  She will also introduce the group to various new library services, research tools and programs.

Gina Seashore

This month we will enjoy “Holiday Music” with Gina Seashore getting us into the Spirit of the Christmas Season. Gina is an instructor, par excellence, who has created performance music throughout the county. She began the Ramona Community Singers earlier this year.  The group consists of singers from high school to retirement, with a love for a variety of musical “adventures.”  So far, they have had great fun in learning choral versions of American classics, some with a Celtic twist, popular tunes, show tunes and now, “special and unique” holiday music.  They participated in the fund raiser for the Town Hall with lively versions of “Old Dan Tucker” and “I’ve been Working on the Railroad” – the likes of which Ramonans had never before heard and which earned rave reviews.  The group is growing with approximately twenty-five members, and open to any who wish to join, even those with little or no experience.  Regular sessions are in the Town Hall on Monday nights at 7:00 p.m. and choir members are regularly seen dancing, singing, humming and whistling back to their cars after each session!

Ramona Community Singers will perform Holiday Concerts in the true sense of “community spirit” ~

Dec. 5th in our beautiful Ramona Library at 7:00 p.m.

Dec. 6th in front of the Town Hall for the Tree Lighting Ceremony at 6:30 p.m.

Dec. 17th at the San Vicente Valley Club meeting – noon.

Since the members are not professionals, the expertise and enthusiasm of the group can only be attributed to the diligence and masterful leadership of their teacher, Gina Seashore.  The audiences will be WOWED, so make it a point to be there!  Each performance will be different and lively!  Families may want to see all of them.