City Hire New Rec. Director
Steve Rymer is the new director of recreation and community services for the city of Morgan Hill. He will replace Rod Cooper, who has served as interim director since last September and put together the agreement between the city an the YMCA to run the new Indoor Recreation Center.
“I am extremely excited to have the opportunity to work with Morgan Hill residents in this position,” Rymer said.
As director, Rymer will be responsible for all city recreation facilities and community service programs. In addition to the Indoor Recreation Center, Rymer will oversee the Aquatics Center, Community and Cultural Center and Playhouse.
Rymer comes to Morgan Hill from the Minneapolis suburb of New Brighton, where he was director of parks and recreation. He has a graduate degree in public administration and a bachelor’s degree in parks, recreation and leisure studies.
Watch your wells
It’s up to owners of private wells to be vigilant and protect their water source.
That’s the message in an annual week-long campaign by the Santa Clara Valley Water District urging private well-owners to maintain their systems and test their wells annually for contaminants.
The campaign – during National Ground Water Awareness Week which ends today – advocates annual water well “checkups,” including maintenance inspections and water-testing.
“Our message is, if you don’t want to drink it, don’t put it on or in the ground,” said Larry Wilson, chairman of the district board of directors.
Though safely “locked” hundreds of feet beneath the ground, drinking water supplies in Santa Clara County’s aquifers face daily threats.
Through abandoned or poorly maintained wells, chemicals such as perchlorate or runoff from streets and agricultural fields can quickly foul groundwater basins. And because there is no local, regional or state agency responsible for maintaining and testing the county’s 5,000 private wells, it’s up to owners to watch over them.
Protecting groundwater basins – which provide us with about half of our annual drinking water supply – from contamination is the responsibility of everybody living and working in Santa Clara County, Wilson said.
