There goes your cell phone. Or beeper. Or home or office phone. You’re reminded of a parent-teacher conference or a change in the soccer practice schedule.

Many of you are familiar with the auto-alert systems used by local schools and sports organizations. A single important message goes out almost instantaneously to tens or hundreds of households.

The Placerita Canyon Property Owners Association Board of Directors has approved the implementation of a similar system to notify Canyon residents of emergencies in the Canyon. The closing of 13^th Street at the Railroad tracks a few months ago inconvenienced and perturbed many of us. Now you’ll be informed of such occurrences and given suggestions of ways to work around them.

The plan is to use this system for emergencies. But as the system becomes part of our Canyon life, it can easily be expanded to notify families of PCPOA Committee meetings and civic events of interest to our membership.

If you want to be on the receiving end of a PLACERITA CANYON ALERT CALL, email Valerie Thomas (email link).  Include in your email, four seven-digit numbers which are the best for notifying your family. (It’s your choice of using home, office, cell phones, or beepers.) Those numbers will be input into the system and we should be up and going by the first of the year.