Message from Our New Volunteer Coordinator

Hello Cabrillo National Monument Volunteers: What an exciting new assignment I will be fullfilling as CABR. Volunteer Program Manager and Coordinator. As we transition together there will be administrative steps to complete for fiscal 2016. Updating and keeping all VIP agreement forms current has already begun. I will be reaching out to each VIP prior to your next shifts(s) so we can take a moment … Continue reading Message from Our New Volunteer Coordinator

Input Sought for Superintendent Selection

Martha Lee, Acting Regional Director, Pacific West Region, is soliciting input from park staff and VIPs on finding a replacement for Tom Workman as superintendent of CNM. You can read her request to us below. Please provide your input by 15 December 2015. Dear Cabrillo National Monument folks, As you know, Superintendent Tom Workman will be retiring in about a month, at the very start … Continue reading Input Sought for Superintendent Selection

Got Any Spare Linen Towels?

We need linen tea towels to clean the lens in the lantern room of the Old Point Loma Lighthouse. Linen was always used by lighthouse keepers; it doesn’t scratch glass and leaves no streaks. Karen and Kim, our lens caretakers (and so much more) said, “Our grandmothers would be tickled to know how useful theirs have been after nearly 15 years in the lighthouse, yet, our … Continue reading Got Any Spare Linen Towels?

VIPs Needed – Open Tower Day

Help commemorate the 160th anniversary of the Old Point Loma Lighthouse being placed into service on 15 November 1855 by volunteering to assist with our last Open Tower Day of the year. Please sign up in Volgistics if you can help out. As a reminder, the Open Tower Days each year are: 22 March – Anniversary of the light being extinguished for the last time (1891) 25 August – … Continue reading VIPs Needed – Open Tower Day