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5.6 DONATIONS of equipment or other objects shall be proposed to the Assistant Vice- President in Charge of Grounds for approval and acceptance. CARETAKER/ISLAND MANAGER THE CARETAKER/ISLAND MANAGER employed by the Corporation shall have the control and direction of all its facilities. He shall be under the direction of and report to the Assistant Vice-President in Charge of Grounds, and through him/her to the Board of Directors. Members are requested not to give the Caretaker/Island Manager orders or instructions. Members are further requested to gain the approval of either the Caretaker/Island Manager or the Assistant Vice President in Charge of Grounds before undertaking any island maintenance. NON-RESPONSIBILITY The Corporation shall not be responsible for the safeguarding of any boat, nor for articles of any boat, nor for the mooring of any boat at any dock or mooring or at anchor, nor for articles lost or stolen, including those left with the Caretaker to store, nor for fire or other damage to any boat or its contents. All persons using the facilities of the Corporation do so at their own risk HISTORY GRINDSTONE JOE Facts and Legends -- An Informal Biography Joe Attello (or Attel or Atello, (no one knows for sure), a Chilean in his early thirties, arrived in our Terminous area in a sail rigged rowboat sometime around the 1906 earthquake. Joe told boating friends later that he had jumped ship in San Francisco harbor, going AWOL from duty with the Chilean navy, after many years at sea. With an unknown partner, he netted for sturgeon, bass and catfish on then-flooded Bouldin Island while establishing squatters' rights on what is now our "island". When Joe discovered his partner was skimming profits from the sales of fish in the Lodi and Stockton markets, he angrily demanded that the man get out. The untrustworthy partner left, but not before destroying their indispensable grinding wheel, the remaining half of which Joe salvaged and kept as a reminder of broken trust. The grindstone fragment became a symbol of Joe's integrity and much later the source of our Association's name. It can be found today permanently mounted on the deck and reproduced on our burgee. With net-fishing banned there was a need to augment his meager income. By brute strength and stamina he worked with shovel and wheelbarrow to build-up his island and, most importantly, to create a roadway link between the island and the levee. He planted trees, the initial flowers, and snagged floating timbers to create the first docks which attracted early boaters from the valley and the bay area starting in the late 20's. But from all reports Joe was very stern about whom he would allow to dock. He had rules which he insisted be observed or one could forget about returning. He disliked sailboats but loved his three dogs. Illiterate but intelligent, he was a stickler for good conduct, warning