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Newsletter of the Olivenhain Town Council December, 2011 Message from the President — Jon Jerotz By the time you receive this Newsletter in the mail, or your email sample them to your delight for a mere $10 which includes your box, Thanksgiving will already be behind us and for me already very own Olivenhain wine glass. This has grown to be a missed. I love the smell of Turkey cooking in the oven, stuffing, blockbuster evening so please join us for our last event of the yams and all the other side dishes filling the air with the year and spread your holiday cheer. wonderful aroma of what is truly the start of the holiday season. I do not miss my stomach being pushed out a couple extra I have always loved Christmas growing up and still do to this inches because I had to have seconds of all of the above, but day. We all have our special holiday memories no matter what can you blame me? Oh the holidays! you celebrate and how you celebrate it. I enjoy putting the lights up and around the house, setting up the Christmas tree and Black Friday and Cyber Monday are here, too many people decorating it with a fire burning and music playing. It is a family vying for the same one out of ten toy of the year the store had at time to really cherish. Sometimes I think that Christmas is just the “special price” for five hours. Can you believe the stores for the kids, but you know, that is just not the case. It is the time opening at midnight for an all night shopping experience? Well, of the year to spoil a loved one, surprise them with a gift they no thanks, but maybe I am just getting old, the only thing I will may never suspect, that is the joy of it all. Spend some time shop for at midnight is a heat pad for my wife that is in labor, relaxing, putting the smart phone down, (except of course to (well a few years ago I did and I think it was closer to 2am) and video something fun) and I once could not contain myself the since she is not pregnant, I won’t have to worry about that night before Christmas, at least I thought I never even fell anytime soon! Is shopping all night really the holiday spirit? I asleep but of course I did. Now, I get to see the excitement in think not! my own kids eyes with Santa Claus, (who is a GIANT) in my sons eyes! I cannot wait to go again this year for photos with Holiday spirit is giving to the community that you live in, like Santa and see if maybe we can coax a smile out of them. Take Mary Jo Nortman giving once again to our great community in a ride on the Santa Train, did you know that Santa visits our putting together yet another Craft Fair. Yes, it may have been Coaster for day? I am very excited to be a Judge at the raining that day and yes maybe some folks had to pack it in Encinitas Holiday Parade this year celebrating the 25th year early to get out of the downpours, but that is Holiday spirit, since being incorporated. All of these things are so special to showing up, setting up and making the best of the day! Thank me and will not be forgotten memories. This is the Holiday you to the Nortman’s who year after year take the reins and Spirit! make the Craft Fair a special day in Olivenhain. I know the community thanks you as well! As time moves on and families grow, holiday traditions remain and grow as well. I know this Christmas will be a wonder of Holiday spirit is slowing down on the roads, letting a car in front smiles and laughter and most importantly love in my household of you changing lanes, opening a door for someone, donating to as we open the presents and let the kids have fun with their new a special charity, or just giving your time to help someone who toys. As my kids get older each year, I think Christmas will might need it. In the last month of the year, let us all slow down become even more exciting and adventurous as we keep our a notch; let the days just not speed on by us, but cherish the family tradition. I am looking forward as well to jumping on a moments you have as we near the end of this year. Cherish the plane Christmas night and waking up on the East Coast in the time with co-workers, friends and family. Get to know someone morning when we land, where we might, just might, have our new, meet a neighbor, go out of your comfort zone to smile and White Christmas. chat it up with a new acquaintance. I want to take this moment to wish each and every one of you, a If you would like to meet some new people and see some safe, happy, joy filled and most importantly healthy Holiday friendly faces, a perfect time to do this is coming up at our very Season! I am thankful to live in such an amazing community like own annual Wine Tasting Event on December 14th at 6:30pm. Olivenhain, thank you for making it what it is! Merry Christmas We will have wines from unlikely places and you will be able to and Happy New Year and keep that Holiday Spirit! www.olivenhain.org 1 “Colony Olivenhain” History Book In 1981, Richard Bumann, descendent of one of the original colonists, published a local history book titled Colony Olivenhain. The original printing sold out long ago, but thanks to a very generous donation by publishers Kristina and Reid Tracy, the Olivenhain Town Council has made this book available once again, and will be able to use all the proceeds from the sale for renovation and repair of the Germania Hotel. You can order using the order form on the cover sheet, or stop by and pick one up at the Postal Corner in Olivenhain Platz, on the corner of Rancho Santa Fe Road and Encinitas Boulevard. Olivenhain Cookbook The Colony Olivenhain Cookbook compiled by Debbie McCauley has over 500 recipes collected from members of the community. All the proceeds from the sales of this cookbook go to renovate the Germania Hotel. The cost is $15 (including tax), and you can pick them up at the Postal Corner in the Olivenhain Platz at the corner of Rancho Santa Fe Road and Encinitas Boulevard and at Olson's Car Wash on El Camino Real. Beer Steins Colony Olivenhain Beer License Plate Frames Steins are available at Chrome license plate frames are available at the Postal Postal Corner for $13 plus Corner in Olivenhain Platz. for $30 plus tax. All proceeds go toward maintenance of the Meeting Hall, tax for a 25 oz. Stein. the Germania Hotel, and the Meeting Hall grounds. These are the best Beer Steins ever! From our homes to yours … A wonderful Holiday Season and a very Happy New Year to everyone in the Olivenhain Valley!! Many thanks to EDCO for their donation of VAN SLYKE LANDSCAPE, INC LANDSCAPE DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION a dumpster and trash collection for the LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE Olivenhain Meeting Hall. ∗ Specializing in custom residential landscape design, installation and maintenance. Many thanks to Van Slyke Landscape, Inc. ∗ Fully licensed and insured with 35 years experience in the Olivenhain, Encinitas, Carlsbad and Rancho Santa Fe areas. for their donation of monthly grounds PAUL C. 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Christmas a legal holiday. Santa has a calculated 31 hours to deliver gifts thanks to the In 1647, the English parliament passed a law that made different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he Christmas illegal. Festivities were banned by Puritan leader, travels east to west. Oliver Cromwell, who considered feasting and revelry, on what was supposed to be a holy day, to be immoral. The ban was We give gifts because the three wise men brought baby Jesus lifted only when the Puritans lost power in 1660. three presents - gold, frankincense and myrrh.