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Reports for March 1-5, 2004

Previous weeks' news: Feb. 23-27 -- Feb. 16-20 -- Feb. 9-13

FRIDAY, March 5 -- Bush's overtime pay cuts are pure chutzpah (President Bender's column)
...plus -- WSLC opposes State Senate's effort to promote Health Care Lite™
...plus -- Contribute to help finish important Wojahn Oral History project
— In today's Yakima H-R -- Employee health insurance plan reform at dead end
— In today's Bellingham Herald -- U.S. Senate votes to block outsourcing of federal work
...plus -- Federal TAA aid urged for jobless service sector workers in new Inslee, Smith bill
— In today's Spokesman-Review -- Hard times help push union cause -- Union supporters will fan out on Sunday, gathering signatures for a ballot initiative to repeal Idaho's "Right to Work" law. Fears about job security and the state of the economy are lending momentum to the effort, organizers say.
— In today's Oregonian -- Oregon extends jobless benefits to thousands laid off in past year
At AFLCIO.org -- Sweeney statement on new UFCW President Joe Hansen
— In today's N.Y. Times -- No new jobs again in February -- Job creation all but stalled in February, surprising forecasters and making life difficult for President Bush as he begins his re-election campaign. (With 21,000 new jobs, only 2,579,000 to go to meet Bush's new-job prediction for 2004.)
— A related AP story in today's News Tribune -- Coke rewards execs, lays off "worker bees" -- The Coca-Cola Co. paid $8.4 million in bonuses to its top six executives last year, the equivalent of about $2,300 for each of the 3,700 employees the world's largest beverage maker laid off during that period.
— Also in today's N.Y. Times -- Social Security scares -- Krugman: Will politicians who hate the Social Security system use scare tactics and fuzzy math to bring it down?
...plus -- Sept. 11 and Nov. 2 -- Editorial: Any political candidate who attempts to piggyback onto the sense of national unity and instances of heroism that followed 9/11 (as Bush has done with his first $10 million round of television campaign advertisements) deserves to be shunned by the electorate.
— In today's Washington Post -- What Wal-Mart has wrought -- Meyerson column: Los Angeles obliterates its past, so it shouldn't be surprising that few Angelenos remember the role that unions played in making this city the epicenter of America's epochal post-World War II prosperity. Huge housing tracts were initially clustered around correspondingly huge aerospace factories, whose unionized workers could afford to buy new homes. But since the Cold War's end, the aerospace industry and other unionized manufacturing here have drastically downsized. The service sector waxed as manufacturing waned, but most service-sector jobs are nonunion and low-wage. The great exception was supermarket work. For decades, the industry and its union (UFCW) signed contracts that gave the workers employer-paid health insurance and decent wages. Five months ago, however, three major chains put forth a new contract that would turn supermarket employment into low-wage work with few benefits. Sixty thousand workers across Southern California either struck or were locked out. So many shoppers refused to cross the picket lines that the three chains lost more than $1.5 billion in sales. But late last week, the union threw in the towel.

THURSDAY, March 4 -- Urge legislators to lower health costs for pay-frozen state workers
...plus -- Check out the WSLC Legislative Tracker™ for the current status of bills affecting labor
— In today's Tri-City Herald -- Plan could put end to pesticide testing rules for farm workers
— In yesterday's Walla Walla U-B -- Sykes to close call center -- A cautionary tale of a firm granted millions in tax breaks and government loans to open a plant just across the Oregon border in 1999. Now it's closing and expanding overseas. One of the government loans won't be paid off until 2011.
— In today's Yakima H-R -- Blunt question asked: Are immigrants a benefit or detriment to area?
— In today's Seattle P-I -- SPEEA: Health care issue delays Wichita contract -- Boeing wants to jack premiums from $10 to over $50 a month for singles and from $30 to about $150 a month for families.
— In today's Bellingham Herald -- Intalco official optimistic that tax breaks will save local jobs
...plus -- Court rejects workers' claims against Teamsters Local 231, Whatcom County
— In today's Seattle Times -- Education tax package adds raise for workers -- To gain support from the WEA, a teacher pay raise is now part of a $1 billion tax package aimed at the November ballot.
— In today's Everett Herald -- Embattled Marysville schools chief Linda Whitehead is out
— In today's Oregonian -- PGE workers (IBEW 125) set Tuesday strike deadline as talks stall
...plus -- Impact of same-sex marriages on benefits yet to jell -- Workplace legal experts divided.
At UFCW.org -- UFCW President Doug Dority resigns; Joe Hansen of Milwaukee takes helm
At IAFF.org -- New Bush campaign ads smack of 9-11 opportunism, says Fire Fighters chief
— In today's N.Y. Times -- See dick run -- Dowd column: With $60 million to spend by convention time, Bush's campaign is plotting the most expensive political advertising seduction in history... In scary/gauzy images, the president does his best to shift the blame, take the credit and transmit concern about regular folks when he really spends more time helping his fat-cat corporate friends.

WEDNESDAY, March 3 -- Take action! Tell Senators to vote NO on worker blacklisting bill
Legislative news -- In today's Seattle P-I -- Move ahead with farm worker tests -- Editorial: Three decades after California introduced medical monitoring of farm workers who handle some especially toxic pesticides, Washington -- and our State Senate -- are still playing games with workers' health.
— In today's Olympian -- Budget hits speed bump over health premiums for state employees
— In today's Bellingham Herald -- State Senate OKs Intalco tax relief contingent on job preservation
...plus -- Link minimum wage increases with jobless rate (editorial)
— In the new Seattle Weekly -- GOP Sen. Zarelli kills popular bill for mental-health parity
Other labor news -- USWA meeting Saturday in Fife to discuss Kaiser retiree plan changes
— In today's Bellingham Herald -- Darigold workers in Lynden walk out after Seattle talks break down
— In today's Bremerton Sun -- Navy backs off on controversial proposal decried as "union-busting"
— In today's Seattle P-I -- SPEEA paints a bleak picture of Boeing -- Boeing's second-largest union has released a critique of the nation's largest exporter describing sagging morale, fewer dollars for research and development and shrinking market share.
— In today's News Tribune -- Boeing's Mulally defends all those layoffs -- "I'm still glad we (laid off 35,000 workers) when we did. It was the right thing for the industry, the right thing for our customers, the right thing for our shareholders." 
— In today's Everett Herald -- Rumors swirling on Boeing 767 tanker deal's fate (Corliss column)
— In today's Tri-City Herald -- Wal-Mart distribution center opens in Grandview -- In the next 2 years, Wal-Mart expects to build another 45 stores in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.
— In today's Seattle Times -- Judge approves transfer of Fircrest residents
...plus -- Two private firms clear hurdle to begin providing passenger-only ferry service
— In yesterday's Aberdeen Daily World -- Stalled teacher talks prompt picket in Hoquiam
— In today's Olympian -- Senate Majority Leader Luke Esser joins race for Dunn's seat
At AFLCIO.org -- FTAA witness: Miami Police Dept. abuse shouldn't happen in America
— In today's N.Y. Times -- Sen. Kerry stands atop united Democratic Party after sweep -- But the Bush campaign is about to begin spending the first of its tens of millions of dollars in an effort to define John Kerry in the most unflattering light possible.
— In today's Washington Post -- In private, Bush sees Kerry as a formidable foe

TUESDAY, March 2 -- It's not too early to sign up (online!) for Labor Neighbor 2004
— In today's Bellingham Herald -- Teamsters at Darigold plant in Lynden threaten walkout -- Action depends on today's bargaining session between management and locked-out workers in Seattle area.
— In today's News Tribune -- Boeing 767 tanker deal "in jeopardy," says key U.S. Senator
...plus -- State says it can't reveal any more about Boeing 7E7 deal
(also see the Chicago Tribune's So why does Harry Stonecipher think he can turn around Boeing?)
— In today's Seattle P-I -- Public operation is best ride for monorail (op-ed by ATU's Lance Norton)
— In today's Seattle Times -- Felons call voting ban unfair to minorities -- An estimated one in four black men in Washington state is unable to vote. Plaintiffs in a suit against the state say our felon-disenfranchisement laws are sort of like the old poll taxes and literacy tests -- Jim Crow laws that were race-neutral on the surface, but that kept poor minority voters from the polls.
— In today's Olympian -- Traditional battle over budget eclipsed by primary question (AP)
— In today's Bremerton Sun -- Democrat Betti Sheldon to leave State Senate
— In today's Bellingham Herald -- Republicans say good candidates are hard to find
— In today's Oregonian -- Bi-Mart workers buy the company -- Bi-Mart, the 10th-largest private company in Oregon, operates 64 retail stores in Oregon, Montana and Washington.
...plus -- As contract talks loom, Freightliner looks for factory cost reductions
National labor news:
— In today's L.A. Times -- California UFCW members begin process of getting back to work
...plus -- This family's getting out of grocery work -- A three-generation family of grocery workers once saw their jobs as tickets to the middle class. No longer. After the strike/lockout, the family matriarch is giving friends in the union the same advice she gave her daughters: "I think they should get out."
— In The American Prospect -- United front -- Two of the country's most innovative and effective unions (UNITE and HERE) are joining together, making them 440,000 members strong.
— In Sunday's Atlanta J-C -- Wal-Mart stands out on state health care program -- A snapshot of Georgia's program for uninsured children shows that it's packed with kids of Wal-Mart employees.
— In today's Washington Post -- Bush's privatization plan straining federal agencies, GAO finds
...plus -- GOP plans to put Kerry, Democrats on the spot with votes on gays, guns and abortion
— In today's N.Y. Times -- Education chief again apologizes for calling teachers' union "terrorists"
...plus -- Maestro of chutzpah -- MUST-READ Krugman column: In the 1980s, Alan Greenspan pushed through an increase in Social Security taxes on working Americans, generating a program surplus. Then he used that surplus to argue for tax cuts that deliver very little relief to most people, but are worth a lot to those making more than $300,000 a year. And now that those tax cuts have contributed to a soaring deficit, he wants to cut Social Security benefits... By using his office to promote a partisan agenda, he has betrayed his institution, and the nation.

MONDAY, March 1 -- Get politically active, get college credit through George Meany
— In the P.S. Business Journal -- Boeing sending IT work overseas
...plus -- Ballot battle looms over L&I post; BIAW files initiative, wants agency director elected
— In today's Seattle Times -- Moderate (freeze) high-cost minimum wage (editorial)
...plus -- State budget conferees facing big gap on higher education
— In today's Seattle P-I -- Legislators mustn't pass primary buck to voters (editorial)
...plus on Saturday -- Fircrest ruling coming Tuesday; judge to decide if transfer violates constitution
— In today's News Tribune -- Gregoire feels chill of freeze on fund-raising
...plus -- High-tech jobs seen part of aid package -- Reps. Smith and Inslee fight for TAA assistance.
— In Sunday's Columbian -- Georgia-Pacific expects a better year at Camas mill
— In Sunday's Bremerton Sun -- Cowboy at the helm -- Is Mike Thorne sinking the state ferry system or saving it? Two years after he took over, everyone has an opinion.
— In today's King County Journal -- A year after tough report, teacher negotiations loom in Issaquah
This morning from AP -- California grocery workers OK new contract
At AFLCIO.org -- Sweeney: California grocery workers "heroes" in battle for health care
— In today's L.A. Times -- AFL-CIO push for labor law reform finds solidarity with Kerry, Edwards 
— Today at BusinessWeek Online -- What investors want now: Jobs -- With burned-out employees hitting the productivity wall, the bulls need a sign: a "Now Hiring" sign.

Previous weeks' news: Feb. 23-27 -- Feb. 16-20 -- Feb. 9-13

FRIDAY,  MARCH 5
WSLC opposes Senate effort to promote Health Care Lite™

HB 2460 was a bill sponsored by Rep. Eileen Cody (D-Seattle) to respond to complaints from small employers that they can't afford health insurance for their workers. These companies say they would be able to afford health benefits if the state didn't mandate so many types of coverage as part of an employee insurance plan. They want to be able to offer a "bare-bones" stripped-down health plan.

Rep. Cody's bill, a good-faith effort to address their concerns, would have dropped mandates for companies with fewer than 50 workers that they cover mental health counseling, chemical dependency treatment and some other requirements. The Washington State Labor Council -- as was the case with the original employee reference bill (HB 2779) -- was not enamored with the legislation but, acknowledging that there are small employers who want to provide health coverage but can't, the WSLC did not actively oppose HB 2460. It passed the Democrat-controlled House on a 63-33 vote.

But this year it seems business lobbyists aren't satisfied with compromise, they want the whole ball of wax.

Just as they convinced the Republican-controlled Senate to convert the employee reference bill into an outright worker blacklisting bill, Cody's HB 2460 has been rewritten by Sen. Alex Deccio (R-Yakima) to give insurers complete and total freedom to determine what they want to cover, requiring only basic doctor visits and hospital coverage. The rewritten ESHB 2460 passed the Senate 32-16.

The Washington State Labor Council is now compelled to oppose this bill as the House considers whether to agree to the rewritten ESHB 2460.

CALL TO ACTION: Please e-mail Rep. Eileen Cody and urge her not to agree to ESHB 2460 as rewritten in the Senate.

Once again, rather than join the rest of us in seeking some long-term solutions to skyrocketing and unsustainable health care costs, Corporate Washington is pushing to simply eliminate coverage (and pass on higher out-of-pocket costs to workers) rather than address the real problems. Under the guise of expanding coverage by making it affordable for small employers, business lobbyists just want cheaper (and less effective) Health Care Lite™.

Perhaps some employers that currently offer nothing would begin offering Health Care Lite™, but you can bet that many employers that do offer decent health benefits also would want health care on-the-cheap so they'd switch.  And if ESHB 2460 becomes law, the ink wouldn't even be dry before employers will be drafting another bill to offer Health Care Lite™ to all employers -- in the name of business competitiveness, of course.

As amended in the Senate, ESHB 2460 will undo years of work by consumer and provider advocates to assure that important health benefits are included in insurance plans. That's the wrong way to respond to the health care crisis. It does nothing to address the causes of skyrocketing costs and instead promotes a deterioration in the quality of health benefits. More and more working families will end up on Health Care Lite™, and pretty soon, even that won't be affordable.

Given that many observers, including Sen. Deccio's hometown newspaper, think his changes may doom any chance for progress on the issue, one has to wonder whether politics is coming before policy this year in the State Senate.  With both the worker blacklisting and Health Care Lite™ bills, Senate Republicans have taken good-faith efforts to address business community concerns -- efforts that were the products of negotiation and compromise -- and then replaced them with all-or-nothing bills they know will be opposed by House Democrats concerned about worker and consumer rights.

If ESHB 2460 and ESHB 2779 die the deaths they deserve, look for the State Republican Party to start the presses on campaign mail highlighting those votes and portraying Democrats as job-killing anti-business liberals who just don't get it.

On the other hand, if the bills pass, look for the State Republican Party to start the presses on campaign mail highlighting some other votes that portray Democrats as job-killing anti-business liberals who just don't get it.

FRIDAY,  MARCH 5
Contribute to help finish important Wojahn Oral History project

The Washington State Oral History Program is nearing completion of an important project transcribing more than 50 hours of taped interviews with former State Sen. Lorraine Wojahn. The WSLC urges all who are interested in labor history and its preservation to make a contribution to help pay for the contract transcriptionist to finish the work. It is our understanding that less than $1,000 is needed to finish the Wojahn project.

Last session, the legislature passed HB 1154 that allows the Secretary of State's office to solicit and accept donations to assist in the production of oral histories. The Oral History Advisory Committee, a statutory committee which sets the policy for the program, has determined that its highest priority for donations is the completion of Sen. Wojahn's oral history, because she is currently experiencing serious health problems.

The money, when donated, goes into a special account and is not mixed with agency funds. It can only be used for approved purposes. Donations are tax deductible in accordance with IRS Publication 526.

Please send a check payable to the "Office of the Secretary of State" -- and designate it for "The Oral History Program" and specifically for the "Wojahn Oral History" -- to:

Washington State Oral History Program
P.O. Box 40243
Olympia, WA  98504-0243

THURSDAY,  MARCH 4
Urge legislators to lower health costs for state employees

The Washington Federation of State Employees, AFSCME Council 28 and a number of other unions representing public employees in this state are urging their members to contact legislators and urge their support for lower state employee health premiums. The Washington State Labor Council urges all other union members and community supporters of affordable health benefits to do the same.

Our state's hard-working public employees have already suffered disproportionately by having their pay frozen.  It's just not right to also increase their out-of-pocket health costs when it can be avoided without raising taxes, especially as lawmakers continue to pass more and more business tax breaks.

Here is a Call to Action distributed by WFSE on Wednesday:

CALL TO ACTION ON HEALTH INSURANCE

Budget negotiations affecting how much you pay for your health insurance premiums have reached a critical stage. The House wants to lower your rates, the Senate wants to raise them and the governor meets with both sides today (Wednesday).

So call legislators and Gov. Gary Locke at 1-800-562-6000 and urge them to support the state employee health premium level in the House budget, ESHB 2459. Call on your own time and on your own equipment.

Why is this so important?

There are only eight (now seven) days left in this legislative session and health insurance is the key issue in play that affects all state employees.

Why is the House budget the best on health insurance?

The House plan would lower your average monthly premiums by $14 a month, from $79 a month now to $65 a month in 2005.

But the Senate plan would raise your average monthly premiums by $28 a month, from $79 a month now to $107 a month in 2005. 

WEDNESDAY,  MARCH 3
Take action! Tell Senators to vote NO on worker blacklisting bill

The State Senate is poised for floor action on a bill that would grant employers legal immunity if they prevent former employees from getting new jobs by giving negative job references related their union activity or other lawful actions. (See CALL TO ACTION below.)

ESHB 2779, the worker blacklisting bill, was amended in Senate committee at the request of business lobbyists to strip language protecting "lawful" activities by workers. The more acceptable version that passed the House on a 51-45 vote Feb. 17 would grant legal immunity for employers unless the job reference is knowingly false or misleading.

But business lobbying groups now say that's not enough. If an employee, for example, took family or medical leave, which is their right under federal law, business lobbyists say an employer should be able to tell prospective employers about their "absenteeism." Or if an employee helped organize a union or was a strong advocate as shop steward, employers believe they should be allowed to discourage other companies from hiring that worker and get legal immunity for this blacklisting.

Business lobbyists say the original bill's language regarding employee protections for "lawful activities" was too vague. In a good-faith effort at compromise (on a bill we were not enamored with anyway), organized labor offered more specific substitute language, but it was rejected out of hand in Sen. Jim Honeyford's (R-Sunnyside) Senate Commerce and Trade But Not Labor Committee. Now the bill has advanced with the protections for "lawful" activities stripped. 

It could be voted upon any time between today and Friday, the cutoff deadline for bills to pass opposite houses. House Speaker Frank Chopp (D-Seattle) has indicated to the WSLC that he plans to block ESHB 2779 if it passes the Senate without acceptable language protecting employee's lawful activities.

But this outrageous bill should be amended and fixed -- or killed -- in the State Senate.

CALL TO ACTION:  Although Senate Democrats will likely try to amend ESHB 2779 during floor action, there is no reason to believe the Republican-controlled body will allow that. So please send an e-mail or call the Legislative Hotline at 1-800-562-6000 and urge your State Senator to VOTE NO on ESHB 2779, the worker blacklisting bill. 

This is an outrageous power grab by the employer community. Working people know their families' livelihoods depend upon their reputation and good names, especially in small rural communities. There is no evidence that there has been an increase in litigation related to job references; employers are just riding a political wave for "tort reform" and seeking to take away our right to protect our good names.

The Washington State Labor Council will be sure to publicize now and throughout this election season which of our State Senators choose to support this unacceptable attack on working families, and which of our elected officials opposed it.

Thank you for taking a moment to contact your State Senator on this important issue.

WEDNESDAY,  MARCH 3
USWA meeting Saturday to discuss Kaiser retiree plan changes

An important informational meeting has been scheduled by the United Steelworkers of America to address changes in Kaiser Aluminum's retiree medical benefits.  It will be held this Saturday, March 6 in Fife from 9 to 11 a.m. at the ILWU Local 23 Hall, 1306 Alexander Ave.  (The hall is at the end of a private drive on south side of Alexander, between Hwy. 509 and Pacific Hwy. East. Turn in beside the Longshore Credit Union building.)

USWA District 11 Director and Chairman of Kaiser Aluminum Negotiations, David Foster, will be in Washington to present information about the changes in retiree medical due to the Kaiser bankruptcy and subsequent negotiations. The recently ratified agreement will be discussed in-depth. The Associate Member Program is a valuable tool to fight for retiree health care, and other issues related to saving jobs and protecting workers.  The program also offers other unrelated benefits that will also be discussed at the meeting.

For more information, call (253) 351-0511.

TUESDAY,  MARCH 2
It's not too early to sign up (online!) for Labor Neighbor 2004

If you were among the hundreds of union members who converged on Olympia for the WSLC Legislative Conference on Feb. 20, you heard firsthand how the issues being debated right now at the State Capitol underscore how critical this fall's election will be. Many issues, such as offshore outsourcing of jobs and union organizing rights, are being addressed (or not addressed, as the case may be) in both Washingtons, which is why congressional races will be so important as well. 

And then there's President Bush. Print out the AFL-CIO's BushWatch page documenting all of the anti-union actions taken by the president; just make sure you have plenty of paper. The Bush administration and Republican-controlled Congress have not only driven the U.S. economy into a jobless ditch, they have attacked everything from overtime pay to your very right to join a union.

YOU CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE in this important election by volunteering for the WSLC's Labor Neighbor program.

In Olympia, the Democrat-controlled State House of Representatives has passed good bills promoting apprenticeship and accountability for tax breaks, only to have them die in the Senate where Republicans have a one-vote majority and certain anti-labor Senators have positions of power. Meanwhile, the Senate has passed a series of labor-opposed bills on everything from cutting injured worker benefits to freezing the minimum wage. Thankfully, friends of working families have killed (or are killing) those bills in the House.

"State Senators don’t seem to realize that Initiative 688 (raising and indexing our state minimum wage) passed by a two-to-one margin and was approved in every single county in this state," said WSLC President Rick Bender during his Legislative Conference speech. "We’re going to make sure people know how Senators voted on this."

One way the WSLC intends to make sure union members are informed of how their elected representatives vote on workplace issues is through the WSLC's very successful Labor Neighbor program, which recruits rank-and-file volunteers to spend a few hours on weekends meeting fellow union members to distribute literature and talk about the upcoming election.

The WSLC Executive Board has set an aggressive goal of recruiting 10,000 Labor Neighbor volunteers for this fall's election, and the WSLC already moving to meet that goal. 

Please fill out the new volunteer form online so we can contact you about opportunities to participate in Labor Neighbor activities in your community. Those of you who have done so in the past know how fun and rewarding these neighborhood walks can be. The union members you'll visit are often surprised that someone made the effort to drop by their house and they appreciate getting some straight talk from people like them.

Contact WSLC Political Director Diane McDaniel at (206) 281-8901 for more information.

MONDAY,  MARCH 1
Get politically active, get college credit through George Meany

The following announcement comes from the George Meany Center for Labor Studies' National Labor College:

Are you interested in receiving college credit for political work you will be doing this fall?  The George Meany Center for Labor Studies – National Labor College will be offering three- or six-credit Political Action Internships for union leaders who will be involved in national, state or local political campaigns.  Anyone from a participating union is eligible to register for this internship, regardless of candidate, campaign, or political party affiliation.

The National Labor College is a college education program sponsored by the AFL-CIO.  It is a flexible program that is designed to meet the needs of working people who are interested in pursing a Bachelor of Arts degree while continuing their trade union work.  The program recognizes the importance of experiential learning -- that is, education received outside the traditional classroom -- which allows students to earn college credits before even entering the college classroom.

Political Action Internship activities can include, but are not limited to:

• Organizing/helping coordinate rallies, forums, and/or debates;

• Housecalling, canvassing, phonebanking;

• Voter registration

• Designing campaign materials

• Other member mobilization and get out the vote activities

Required Course assignments include:

Working with a Direct Supervisor:  The Intern must work with an individual who will directly observe the day-to-day political action work.  This individual will be responsible for verifying the work assignments as described below.

Completion of a Political Action Log:  A record of internship activities completed and submitted at the completion of the internship term.

A written Final Paper:  A paper that highlights what you have learned and analyzing the aspects of the campaign you worked on, including some discussion of what was successful and what could have been done differently.  (due when internship term is completed)

Evaluation:  At the completion of the internship term, the student will submit the log and the final paper to a National Labor College Instructor for evaluation.  All internships will be graded on a Pass-Fail basis; students can request a grade at the time of registration.

If you would like more information on this unique educational opportunity, or would like to learn more about the National Labor College, please contact David G. Alexander at (503) 803-2602, or by email at Davida2647@aol.com.