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The Pioneer's Club

The Pioneer’s Club Newsletter

Volume 6, Issue  8 & 9

August/September 2012

Rochester Picnic

Obituary Page

We lost  five individuals that I am aware of since the last newsletter.

 

They will be missed by who knew them.

 

Richard F. List - July 4, 2012, Fairport, NY. Dick worked in the Line Department at Western Monroe.

 

Steve Bohrer - July 8, 2012, Ashland, Oh. Steve worked in BeeBee and Russell Station.

 

Patrick T. Carroll July 20,2012, Chili, NY at age 72. Pat retired from Transportation.

 

Antonio Feola - July 24, 2012, Greece. NY at age 84. Antonio retired from Russell Station.Tony ran the coffee shop in the break room at Russell Sta. He was a true gentle man. Not too many guys leave their mark by being nice guys, but Tony was one of them. God rest, and God bless him. Respectfully, Frank TenBroeck

 

Jorge Saavedra, July 28, 2012  Macedon: Passed away peacefully Saturday, July 28, 2012, at age 84. He was predeceased by his parents, Federico and Encarnacion. He is survived by his loving and devoted wife of 57 years, Dora; his sons, Jorge (Anne), Richard (Michelle), Frederick; 8 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. Jorge was a graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point in 1953, a retiree of the United States Naval Reserve and also a retiree of Rochester Gas and Electric. He will always be remembered as an avid traveler, reader and history buff.

 

Richard G. Krenzer, August 8, 2012 Bradenton, Fl at age 77. Dick retired from Line Maintenance after 35 years,

 

Richard "Dick" O. Cook -August 21, 2012, Henrietta, NY. Dick was retired from the Information's Systems Department. Dick was a close friend. He was one of the members of our 1st Friday lunch group

September Events

Here are the important dates for September

 

       September 9th     Grandparents Day

       September 11th    Patriot Day

       September 16th    Rosh Hashanah

       September 17th    Respect for the Aged—Japan

       September 21st    International Say of Peace

       September 22nd    First Day of Autumn

       September 26th    Family Day

       September 25th    Yom Kippur

       September 28th    Retirement Party (Ron Ruden –       Ginna)

August Birthdays

Our Retiree Benefits

Jefferson Road Group

Help Wanted

Web Page

As many of you found, our web site had problems. When anyone tried to go to our site Google produced an error message that we had an unsafe site and proceeding on was not advised.

 

So after a lot of complaining and moaning, I repaired all 5000+ pages and took off the code that Google was complaining about.

 

Our web site is back up and running and has been error free for a couple of months. Please check it out and if you find any errors let me know so I can work on them. The only error I know of is the Calendar page. It just plain doesn't work and I’m not sure how to fix it.

 

The Pioneers Club

At the August Picnic I had at least three individuals pull me aside and explain about our dental benefits.

 

He’s a the scoop. We do have a dental benefit through MVP not RG&E.  It is a yearly benefit of $200 to be used for cleanings and x-rays only.

 

Contact MVP and they will mail you the forms, which you take to your dentist. If your dentist accepts them, he’ll fill them out and return them to MVP.

 

This is sort of like the old dental plan RG&E used to offer without all the extras.

 

Now just for fun, two of the individuals did have problems,

 

One called RG&E and they didn’t know anything about the benefit. He called MVP and got the forms.

 

The second called MVP and the representative he talked to said there was no such thing. He called right back, got another rep and received the forms in the mail a couple of days later.

 

It all goes to show that you must be persistent in dealing with these people.

The Jefferson Road Luncheon Group dropped me a note that their August Lunch will be cancelled due to the Pioneer’s Picnic.

 

But it will resume in September.

 

 

I received an email from Mary Gardener. I hope we can help.

 

Dear Mr. Clegg:

 

I have been hired on in a part-time consulting role to Dick Ash and CPWard Company to help them write their corporate history.  I am quite convinced that this will be an interesting story, when we can fill in many blanks.  Dick asked Phil Brooks for some direction in seeing how we can benefit from some study of RG&E's archives;

he suggested we contact you.  CPW's history is very much connected to RG&E, and in fact, to the history of the City of Rochester, certainly in terms of its built

environment.

 

I would be happy to meet with you and/or others or to pursue any avenue that would help us gather historical information.  We know that Conrad P. Ward worked with

the Rochester Railway & Light Co., the precursor of RG&E.  Thank you in advance for your suggestions about how I might proceed.  I am trying to to accelerate

information gathering in the next two weeks. 

 

Mary Gardner (315-685-2047) 

mary gardner mlgardner37@yahoo.com

 

Now I know that someone from one of the operating departments can set her on the right path.

Another Rochester Picnic goes down In the history books. I didn't have the final count but Arnie assures me it will be right around 200 attendees.

 

It was a warm day but every appeared to have fun. The food was great, the door prizes were neat, the little fans helped with the heat, and best of all, the bar was air conditioned.

 

We reserved the Exempt for August 1st, 2013 the first Thursday of the month. So mark your calendars early.

 

We thank all the people who helped make the day a success.

 

The Pioneers Club will continue for another year because of those of you   attending.

September Birthdays

This is another appeal for you help.

Speaking of our web site, remember that if you plan on making a purchase at Amazon.com, use our web site to connect with them.

 

They have a program that awards us (with money!) any time a person signs on to their web site through our web site and makes a purchase. The more income I can generate through these means, the less we need to generate through the Picnic ticket sales.

 

Remember it is not your Father’s RG&E, we’re on our own.

 

Amazon can be reached through “Fun Stuff” on our web page or this link

 

Amazon

Picnic Pictures!!!!

Thanks to Sharon Cavaleri for these wonderful pictures. There are 84 of them in total. I’m only going to post a few of them here. The total amount will be on the web page within the nrxt couple of weeks.