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Infamous One Call- Can You Hear Me Now?


Do you spend most of your time on Fort Ord or La Mesa? Do you live in Pinnacle Housing? Now here is the most important question: do you know about the over 100 events hosted by Pinnacle for the military families throughout the year?

I am guessing your answer is NO. If it is, I am also going to guess why. When you signed your lease with the Pinnacle leasing office, most everything is in the active duty person's name. As the spouse, you rarely initialed or signed anything. HOWEVER, there was a paper called One-Call. It was probably described to you as the phone number and email Pinnacle will use in case there is an emergency. So you probably did what we did, and said, "okay, put the active duty person's information." (I am 5'2" on a good day. I can do little to stop a fire or stave off an emergency situation.)

Here is the BUT, and it is a BIG BUT!! The One-Call is also used to send out weekly information via email about all the upcoming events hosted and paid for by Pinnacle for military families. The schedule of free exercise classes is also sent out for the month so you can take advantage of them. As the holiday season approaches, two big, must go-to events are going to take place: the Halloween Spooktacular and the Winter Wonderland.

So, if you want to add your information to the One-Call, because frankly, like me, you are in charge of scheduling your family's free time, call or stop by the leasing office and have your information added. You will feel much more informed!

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for letting me know!! I've been living here at Fort Ord since the end of February, and this is the first I've heard of that! My husband is in the army and taking Arabic, set to graduate next year. I FINALLY found a decent job out here last week, but adjusting to military life has been hard. (My husband only joined last year, and we came here right after he finished basic.) And, this community is the least "involved" from what I hear. So thanks for having this blog and posting this information! It really helps those of us looking for some level of normalcy in their lives!!

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  2. Thank you Michelle and I completely understand what you are going through! Glad to hear you are finally settling in!

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