A little background on why I named this blog what I did.

I should probably do a little explaining on my title of this blog. First my last name is White. Therefore I live in the "White House." Living in the "White House" makes me the 1st Lady. My physical address says I live in Westwood Ca. (not the one by Los Angeles) but a little mountain town in Northeastern Ca. However I really live in a section out of Westwood known as Pinetown. With all the joking going on between my friends, I inevitably became Pinetowns 1st Lady living in the "White House." With all that said, this is just going to be a more personal blog of my life here in Westwood/Pinetown. My family and friends being a big part of it.
Originally I really wanted to take a picture a day for one year and post it on this blog. Perhaps like a photo diary. My life though is quite quiet and perhaps is not photo worthy for a picture a day but I plan on trying. So why not hop in and take a ride with me through little mountain town U.S.A. You may just love it as much as I do!
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Allison

Westwood Family Practice shut it's doors

This is the straw that I believe has the ability to make our town, Westwood, Ca. a ghost town. Just this year in this blog I wrote and showed my readers Westwood Family Practice, darn near brand new, we NEEDED a bigger clinic and were all grateful it was built.
Well earlier this year this town closed out pharmacy. A terrible thing to do considering it is 21 miles over a mountain pass to the town of Susanville, or 13 miles to Chester, Ca. a diferent county and not the greatest road to travel in the winter.
Our community is made up of older folk and young families with little babies/kids. This was a real hard ship for all.
Back to my story
On July 31st they closed our clinic here in Westwood due to budget cuts. I do not see our town making it through this. It is much to hard to travel to the 2 towns listed above in the winter for our aging and our young families.
Yep, I fear this is the straw.
Our town will become a ghost town.
The Westwood rumor mill says the bank, our only bank has 90 days to close its doors. Of course that is a rumor and perhaps a later post.
 
Empty parking lot

Still looks brand new!

Well Hell, That's because it is still brand new.
What a terrible shame!

Westwood Family Practice

Ah another beautiful day. I walked on down to the Feather River Apartments to see how my brother-in-law Ray is doing. He's fighting a health battle and has been. He is extremely strong and I love him very much. I was hoping his wife, my sister-in-law would be there but I missed her. On the way back I stopped to take these pics of Westwood Family Practice. This is our only Drs. office in town. The nearest hospital is in Chester 13 miles away or Susanville over Fredonyer Pass 21 miles away.
This is a fairly new building, I would say less than 10 years old. The old one was just waaaaay to small for Westwood!

View Larger Map This is where I live. To the right of Westwood barely visible is the little section I live in called Pinetown. We have probably 150 to 200 people for our population. Westwood on the other hand is HUGE by comparison with a population of around 2000!
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A great big Thank you to Cheryl for this friendship award!

A great big Thank you to Cheryl for this friendship award!
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