Ramona's 2009 - 2011
 Honorary Mayor Candidates:

Sharon is running on the "Awaken the Sleeping Beauty" platform, and if elected will form a "Mayor's Candidate's Club," to promote volunteerism, tourism, and a "Shop Ramona First" campaign.

Sharon Davis is a former Art teacher originally from Pensacola, Florida. 

She traveled the world with her navy pilot husband, Ken, for twenty years. They settled in San Diego where she has owned and operated her own design business for twenty five years.  She has an advanced degree in Interior Design & Space planning from UCSD and is a former award winning model home designer.  Sharon has two children and five grandchildren.

Sharon Davis is a long time resident of Ramona and is an Interior Designer, Asid, (American Society of Interior Designers.) She is a director for the Ramona Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Ramona Pioneer Historical Society and former Museum Curator. She is a member of the Soroptimist club, San Diego College of History and the restore Town Hall committees.

She enjoys her vegetable garden, antiquing and junking, interior and special events design. She loves to write and most recently wrote 'Awaken the Sleeping Beauty'; see on this website. She was Ramona's Citizen of the Year' in 2003. She feels that 'everyday, as individuals, we have the power to make a difference'. Her service philosophy is:
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give!"

$2,770 Votes

Charlotte, an old fashioned gal, promises we will have good old fashioned times from here on!  Her platform is:  "IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK"

I’ve been a Ramona resident for nearly twenty years. I’ve been actively involved in almost every community event since then. These include the annual Christmas tree lighting event, fair, rodeo, and have been the Chair for the Oktoberfest since it’s beginning. I’m currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Ramona Chamber.

I have always served with the best interest of my community in the forefront. As a Ramona business woman myself, I keep in close communication with other businesses . As my business portrait shows on 10th and Main, I’m "keeping an eye on the Avenue" .This enables me to help all of us move together with Ramona’s best interest as our goal.

If you elect me for Honorary Mayor I will represent our community with integrity and pursue the restoration of our great Town Hall to bring it to it’s best use and give it back to the towns people to once again enjoy. I will serve with a passion together with my fellow community leaders.

Thank you for your support. Together WE CAN WIN!!

CHARLOTTE JENSEN
Your "STAR CANDIDATE"

Betty's campaign platform theme is "When I grow up, I want to be the Mayor and Restore the Town Hall."

I'm a native Californian, and grew up in Solana Beach.  I graduated from San Dieguito High School, and San Diego State University with two credentials, General Elementary and LDH, (Learning Disability Handicapped.) The most challenging and rewarding was teaching those with LDH and finding special programs to remediate them.  I have been a teacher for 33 years. 

In 1951 I married David.  We have a daughter and a son, six grandchildren, (Dave refers to them as our "Basketball Team and Cheer Leader.")  In 2007 we were blessed with a great grandson.

My community affiliations are Kiwanis, Ramona Woman's Club, Ramona Garden Club, and I am a member of St. Mary's Episcopal Church.  Dave and I volunteer at Ramona Food & Clothes Closet, (especially at Christmas time,) and the Senior Center.

My main interest is gardening at home, and floral arrangements for our church.  My specialty is making and baking apple pies from our homegrown apples.

We love Ramona for its small town feeling and the friendly and caring people who live here.  The best thing we did was move to Ramona in 1977.

$1,108 VOTES

Charlie is running on the "Open Door Policy" platform, and vows to continue his lifelong quest to find a fairy shrimp.  
 

I was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, spending my first 65 years there.   I married my wife Sandra in 1959, and we will celebrate our 50th Anniversary back in Connecticut on June 13, 09.  (We'll have another party here in Ramona at the end of June.) 

In 1956 I began my career in aviation, first as a flight instructor for the R.O.T.C. program, then as a commercial charter pilot, then airline pilot with Mohawk and Allegheny Airlines, then Corporate pilot, and finished with the Federal Administration for 13 years.  I retired in 2003 from  TYCO International as a sales and customer service manager.

I have always been involved in community service activities, including Kiwanis Club, the Connecticut Fire Museum, the Former Fire Chiefs Association, and as president of the Jaycees.  I have served as an elected official in local and state government, including twenty four years as a Fire Department line officer (including several years as F.D. Chief.)  I am also a 60 year veteran of the Boy Scouts of America, filling many positions including: Cub Master, Commissioner, Executive Board, etc., and awarded the Silver Beaver, the highest award a local council can present. 

Since retiring to Ramona in 2003, where our son and wife and grandchildren have a goat ranch, I have served on the Board of Directors of the Senior Center, and have been active with the Ramona Kiwanis Club, Ramona Community Theater, San Diego B.S.A., and am currently President of the Intermountain Fire and Rescue Department, which covers 125 sq. miles east of Ramona.  I am always active in local fundraising and handle public relations for several organizations.  We also have a son in Connecticut who is a Lieutenant in the Greenwich Fire Department, and a daughter who is a Police officer in Greenwich.

Paul K. is running to use the unofficial office of Honorary Mayor as a bully pulpit to keep Ramona rural, and to continue to raise funds to complete the Town Hall restoration.  He also vows to insure that each cabinet member he nominates is fully vetted.

My family moved to Ramona in 1969 when my parents opened an auto parts business on Main Street which they operated for over twenty years. After graduating from Ramona High School in 1969 I joined the United States Air Force. After serving two tours in the Air Force my wife Christy, a life long resident of Ramona, and I settled down in Ramona to raise our two kids.

After returning from duty with the USAF I completed my BS degree and worked in computer systems and electronic engineering for a high tech firm in San Diego. In 1988 several associates and I started our own high tech company. In 1995 we sold our firm to a conglomerate and for several years afterwards I was a consultant to a number of high tech companies. Since 2002 I have been a business consultant to a publishing company.

I am currently the Nobel Grand Humbug (President) of the John P. Squibob Chapter of the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus, a fraternal organization dedicated to the preservation of history, and am also a member of the Elks.

Our Chapters latest Historic Plaque is to the Ramona Town Hall and is to be dedicated on April 25^th. While Ramona Town Hall on its architectural merits alone deserves an historic marker, there are also significant aspects related to this building – Ramona’s Crown Jewel - which represent Ramona’s unique sense of community service. It was this virtue of citizens contributing to the community that led Augustus and Martha Barnett to provide funds to erect the building and Milton Santee to donate the land. This sense of community service is alive and well in Ramona today.

If elected honorary mayor I will continue to work with the Trustees of Ramona Town Hall to raise the resources – financial, material and qualified labor- to achieve the complete restoration of the Town Hall, and as a goodwill ambassador for our rural community.

There are nine candidates for Honorary Mayor, each working for as many 1$ votes as they can muster - which all goes to support the Ramona Town Hall. While only one will be ‘elected’, in my book they are all winners.

Susan's platform theme is "Traditions" and wants to see Augustus Barnett's gift of the Town Hall carried on for Ramona's future generations.  Susan also wants to be the "Boss."

I was born and raised on the Central Coast of California in the little farming community of Lompoc.   Being 5^th generation citizen of Lompoc, I grew up with great pride in my Portuguese heritage there.  I strive to instill these same traits into my three children, Eric (11,) Skylar (7,) and Sarah (5,) all “first generation Ramonaians”!!!    Ramona is now our “hometown” and where our “roots” are firmly planted. 

 The Barnett’s splendid gift is something to cherish as “our” own.  The townspeople of Ramona all share ties of community, spirit, pride, and ownership thru this piece of history that was left for us to share and make part of our lives.   Not only do we wish to see the Ramona Town Hall returned to its original splendor, but to see life in its halls, offices, rooms and grounds.  The community can make this happen, all it will take is just a little effort from each and every one of us.  Come join the effort and put a little piece of “Ramona” in your life!!!

 I’m Ramona’s Sweetheart!!!  I am involved in every area of “community spirit” in the town of Ramona.  I am the Community Services Director for Ramona Rotary, I teach the Children’s Choir at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, I assist and work at the various events hosted thru the Ramona Chamber of Commerce, such as The Country Fair, Oktoberfest and the monthly Chamber Mixers, involved with the Ramona Rodeo, part of ACTOR and Act’n up with the kids!!!

"Ranger" Doug  is running to maintain and encourage open space and country atmosphere, not just in Ramona, but throughout Southern California.

I am a native San Diegan, born and raised "down the hill", when a lot of "down the hill" was rural and open. I was raised in La Mesa, graduating from Helix High School in 1969. I was a La Mesa Police Officer for 32 years, retiring in 2004.

My wife, Lynn, and moved to Ramona in 1991 in order to have the room to keep our horses and the open spaces in which to ride them. Immediately after coming to Ramona, I became involved in the community. We joined the Ramona Trails Association, which led to involvement with the Ramona Rodeo. I was on the rodeo committee from 1994 through 2008, handling the parade, contestant parking and security. I also served on the Ramona Community Planning Group from 1994 through 1998.

I became a Ramona businessman in 2007, opening Ranger Doug’s Shootists’ Emporium at 649 Main St. Since having opening the store, I have made a great many friends through business relationships. Through these wonderful people, I have learned a great deal about the history of Ramona. It is the rich history of Ramona, the Town Hall being a large part it, and the wonderful open space and country atmosphere that I will strive to maintain and encourage, not only in town, but throughout Southern California .

Paul T. is running to "Advance Ramona as an Independent Entity," and to return Ramona to its rural heritage, with the Town Hall as the cornerstone of our community. 

I was born in Escondido, and spent my childhood years in Warner Springs, then Whittier, then Palos Verdes before I moved to San Diego in 1979 to go to college.  I finished with a degree in Finance/Real Estate investment from Long Beach State where I met my bride Bryn.  We talked about living in a rural community where we could have horses and raise kids, and ended up in Ramona.  I was a loan officer at first, and then got my Broker’s license and we both sold real estate and wrote loans.   

I joined the Ramona Kiwanis Club in 1991,  and served as President in 1993-94.  I am currently the Kiwanis membership chair.  After 9/11 there was a proposal to consider Ramona as a relocation site for Lindberg Field, which prompted me to join the Ramona Citizens Against the Airport group.  Through that effort, I began to realize that until Ramona incorporated, it would continue to be at the mercy of people who do not live here.  I then helped form the non-profit organization City of Ramona, NOW! to study the feasibility of incorporating Ramona, and to put a measure on the ballot to let the people of Ramona decide if they wanted local control of Ramona and independence from the County.

I feel proud to know the people I do that are so involved in the betterment of our town.  I fully expect to retire here, and look forward to doing my share.

 
Mindy promises to promote community involvement with a heartfelt smile if elected.  Her favorite quote is by Franklin D. Roosevelt:  "When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
 

I am a native Californian and grew up in Glendale then moved to San Diego to attend SDSU.  My two favorite jobs I’ve had were working as a Sea Maid at Sea World and in Reservations with American Airlines which enabled me to travel the world. When it was time to settle down and raise a family I chose Ramona and have lived here since 1993, working as a Medical Assistant. This is truly a wonderful and caring community.

 

My community activities include:

Hanson Elementary School Parent Volunteer, 
            Hanson Elementary School Site Council,

Ramona Pregnancy Center Care Clinic Board of Directors

Ramona Rodeo

ACT’N UP Theater Group

Christian Youth Theater

 

I love raising my children in the ‘friendliest town in San Diego!”
We look forward to hearing your stories about your memories of Town Hall.