President's Pen
By Gary Swanson
President
Southeast Volusia Historical Society
As we enter the fall season, we are starting to welcome back our valuable “snowbird” volunteers. We’re so glad to have them contributing once again to the successful operations of the museum. Cindy and I were also able to spend a month up north, visiting friends and relatives. As we attended a high school get together, we were saddened by the recent death, due to COVID, of one of my former classmates. We have had several cases here as well, affecting museum members and volunteers. At least two of these resulted in stays of several days duration in ICU. Please, please, don’t take this pandemic lightly, it is still going on. If you are hesitant about getting vaccinated, consult your doctors, they are the experts.
A museum improvement we have made just in the last week is the consolidation of two of our rented storage units at one facility into one unit at another, resulting in significant monthly savings. Many thanks to the group of volunteers who put in two days of hard work to make this happen!
As our elevator project continues on, you will notice the great looking roof on the elevator shaft that perfectly compliments the rest of the building. Thanks to Curtis Hodges and crew for their workmanship! As this work continues on (under budget actually), we are expanding the scope to include some other needed improvements as well. Thanks again to our contractor Curtis, our project coordinator Mark Rakowski, and the county ECHO staff.
Here’s hoping everyone has a wonderful (and hurricane free) October!
Gary
