TheThe ViewViewView September 2018 Kohlers are 83 Years Married Story on Page 10 Photo by Robert DeLaurenti CONTACT INFORMATION SUN CITY SHADOW HILLS Sun City Shadow Hills Community Association COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 80-814 Sun City Boulevard, Indio, CA 92203 Hours of Operation www.scshca.com · 760-345-4349 Association Office Homeowner Association (HOA). Ext. 1 Monday – Friday · 9 AM – 12 PM, 1 – 4 PM Montecito Clubhouse Fax . 760-772-9891 First Saturday of the Month · 8 AM – 12 PM Montecito Clubhouse . Ext. 2120 Lifestyle Desk Daily · 8 AM – 5 PM Montecito Fitness Center . Ext. 2111 Santa Rosa Clubhouse Fax. 760-342-5976 Montecito Clubhouse Daily · 6 AM – 10 PM Santa Rosa Clubhouse. Ext. 2201 Montecito Fitness Center Shadow Hills Golf Club South . Ext. 2305 Daily · 5 AM – 8 PM Shadow Hills Golf Club North . Ext. 2211 Santa Rosa Clubhouse Shadows Restaurant . Ext. 2311 Daily · 6 AM – 9 PM Jefferson Front Gate (Phases 1 & 2) . 760-345-4458 Shadows Restaurant Avenue 40 Front Gate (Phase 3) . 760-342-4725 Sunday – Thursday · 8 AM – 6 PM Friday – Saturday · 8 AM – 8 PM Rich Smetana, General Manager Breakfast: 8 – 11 AM [email protected] . Ext. 2102 Lunch/Small Plates: 11 AM – 6 PM Tyler Ingle, Controller Happy Hour: 3 – 6 PM [email protected]. Ext. 2203 Golf Snack Bar Mark Galvin, Community Safety Director 5:30 – 11 AM [email protected] . Ext. 2202 Santa Rosa Bistro Jesse Barragan, Facilities Maintenance Director Daily · 6 AM – 1 PM [email protected] . Ext. 2403 Limited menu available through September 23; Connie King, Lifestyle Director Closed September 24 – October 12 [email protected] . Ext. 2124 Montecito Café Valeria Batross, Fitness Director CLOSED [email protected] . Ext. 2112 All hours are subject to change. Visit www.scshca.com for the latest hours. Liz Gutierrez, Lifestyle Coordinator [email protected] . Ext. 2123 Veronica Moya, Lifestyle Coordinator [email protected] . Ext. 2122 Gus Ramirez, Communications Manager [email protected] . Ext. 2204 The View is published monthly by the Sun City Shadow Hills Rolland Vaughn, General Manager of Shadow Hills Golf Club Community Association. This publication is copyrighted and may not be reproduced or reprinted without the written permission of SCSHCA. [email protected]. Ext. 2301 Mission Statement SCSH Community Association Board of Directors To promote the community and recognize the individuals who contribute to the identity of the community, and to impart Kim Fuller, President . [email protected] information relevant to the community as a whole. Fera Mostow, Vice President . [email protected] SCSHCA Communications Advisory Committee Bruce Marley, Treasurer . [email protected] Tom Hutson, Chair; Linda Aasen; Arnold Choy; Lee Powell; Bill Singer Erica Hedlund, Secretary. [email protected] Staff Robert Israel, Editor-in-Chief: Rich Smetana, General Manager Member at Large . [email protected] Production Manager: Connie King, Lifestyle Director To inquire about articles, content, and advertising – or to submit For warranty or customer service needs concerning stories for publication – please email [email protected] or contact Gus your home, please email: [email protected] Ramirez, Communications Manager, at 760-345-4349, ext. 2204. 2 September 2018 TheView President’s Report BY KIM FULLER PRESIDENT A beautiful morning, sun rising, roadrunners with information and up-to-date news regarding running, rabbits jumping, and new things the HOA. These announcements can range unfolding. Making our life easier is our new from new items for special events, to changes in website that has just been released. It was schedules, to emergency warnings, to updates on launched on August 6, 2018. Representatives HOA business. By signing up for this service you from the Information Advisory Committee will get all the announcements that we send out (IAC) and the Computer Club will be holding to residents on any given day. classes for anyone who wants help to learn To sign up, we need you to fill out a form. We how the new website works. But I have to say are not allowed simply to put you on the system; I found navigating and using the new site much State law requires you sign up for the service. We News from the Board easier than the old one. need to verify that you want us to send you such After more than a year of work, beta testing information. Some residents told us they were by many, and comments from users on concerned that, by signing up for such email improvements, the new website is now online. announcements, they would also receive all legal After seeing the demo given to the Board, we all notices by e-mail rather than by regular mail were impressed and looked forward to the new through the post office. This is not the case. format. On August 6, after watching the sunrise, When you sign up for the e-blast service you will I spent time navigating through the new website. only be getting announcements in your e-mail. I have to say, great job to the IAC for a job more All other legal documents will still be sent by than well done. Many changes have been made regular mail. Sign-up forms are available on the to make it much easier to determine where to new website or at the HOA office. Please help go for information about the HOA. As you use us communicate with you by signing up for the the new website, feel free to make suggestions e-blast service today. because changes and improvements can be made Thank you all for another day in paradise. It is as we go along at any time. easy to look around and know, “It doesn’t get I want to thank the IAC for the long hours of any better than this.” hard work they put in to make this happen. Committee members Linda Aasen, Lin Conrad, Terry Coon, Kris Downey, Bob Firring, Claudia Kim Marley, George Stephens, and Board Liaison Contact the author at [email protected]. Fera Mostow all worked together along with Gus Ramirez, Communications Manager, from staff. A very special thanks to the Committee Chair, : News from the Board . 3 Erin Smith, for the last two years of seeing this Association News . 6 project through to reality. Feature Stories . 10 This project was designed to improve communication with all residents by providing Lifestyle Update . 16 accurate information about the HOA in a timely Golf Update . 27 manner. As part of this process, we are asking Fitness Calendar . 28 everyone to sign up for the email announcement Food & Beverage . 30 system called “e-blasts.” The HOA sends out Club News . 34 announcements weekly, and sometimes more, INTHISISSUEAdvertising . 48 Log on to www.scshca.com September 2018 3 Treasurer’s Report BY BRUCE MARLEY TREASURER This report has been approved by the Board, subject to audit. Contact Bruce Marley at [email protected]. 4 September 2018 TheView News from the Board Next Board Meeting: Date: Monday, September 24, 2018 Time: 2:00 pm Location: Ballroom Please join us! Log on to www.scshca.com 5 People Who Make Our Lives Better Advisory Committees Communications Advisory Committee [email protected] Chair: Tom Hutson Covenants Committee [email protected] Co-Chairs: Traci Barnett Hone & Lee Powell Design Review Committee [email protected] Chair: Vicki L Berg · Vice Chair: Ted Shettler Emergency Preparedness Subcommittee [email protected] Chair: Jeff Kirkpatrick Facilities Services Advisory Committee [email protected] Chair: John Petersen Finance Advisory Committee [email protected] Chair: Bill Wethe Photo by Gus Ramirez Food & Beverage Committee [email protected] Chair: Jurgen Gross Jose Zaragoza Golf Advisory Committee [email protected] Employee of the Month Chair: Dave Bakshy August 2018 Information Advisory Committee We are pleased to announce Jose Zaragoza as the [email protected] Chair: Erin Smith Employee of the Month for August. Landscape Advisory Committee Jose has been with us since November 2011 and [email protected] has always showed great core values. He takes care Chair: Chris Stevens of all building exteriors, cleaning throughout the Safety Advisory Committee community, and he is always there when we need him. [email protected] Recently while helping clean inside the Montecito Chair: Ed Chavez Clubhouse, Jose found a small purse and reported it right away to his supervisor. His supervisor turned the purse in to our Director of Security, who was able to locate the purse’s owner. The owner was very grateful and worried the purse would not be seen again. The owner was about to return back to Canada that day and had a large amount of money in the purse that Jose had found – needless to say, the owner was very thankful. We thank Jose for his honesty and loyalty to this community and its residents. 6 September 2018 TheView COMMITTEE REPORTS From The Library BY CINDY DEGRAF As of September 1, we will once again be accepting book donations at the Montecito library. We truly appreciate your donated books but only have limited space. Please check the list Association News below to determine what we can and cannot accept. Are you interested in volunteering at the library? Do you have an extra 30 or 60 minutes a week? We’d love to have you. You can choose the day you go in and the times you will work. Please contact Barbara Perler at 760-772-4484 or [email protected] if you wish to volunteer, or if you have any questions or comments about the library. We Accept as Donations: 3 Hardcover and paperback fiction, historical/ political, biographies/autobiographies 3 Audio books and DVDs 3 Recent magazines We Do Not Accept: 7 Cooking, sports, self-help or “how to” books 7 Coffee table or picture books 7 Religious or travel books 7 VCR tapes or music CDs We request that donated books be in excellent condition; and please donate no more than 10 per month, per household.