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PALM DESERT COUNTRY CLUB
ASSOCIATION
ISSUE 300
DECEMBER 2013
Carols,
Holiday
An old-fashioned
Skits
Cookies,
Christmas program
and
Desserts,
Puppet by the children’s choir and
Show of St. John’s Church Beverages
Saturday, December 14, 2013
All
residents
of the
Palm
Desert
Country
Club
community
are invited!
2pm
PDCCA
complex,
Alice Marble Hall
77800 California Drive
No
Charge
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Palm Desert Country Club Association DAILY EVENTS AT PDCCA
Palm Desert
Country Club Association
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OFFICERS
President
Vice President
Secretary Treasurer (760) 772-0670
James Olsen
Josanne Smith (760) 834-8317
Ron Crisp
(760) 774-6457
Shirley Hotwagner(760) 610-1190
DIRECTORS
Charlie Ash
John Evans
Nicole Mare
Luanne Fitton
(760) 345-2875
(760) 345-2369
(760) 567-0562
(541) 647-7716
COMMITTEES
Architectural Control
Community Improvement
Luanne Fitton
Newspaper & Editor
Phyllis Harkins
Community Relations
Ron Crisp
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION MANAGER
Phyllis Harkins
[email protected]
OFFICE & POOL
Nancy Adams
[email protected]
December 2013
SATURDAY
6:30 am - AA
Jazzercise...8:30 a.m.
MONDAY
6:30 am - AA
Jazzercise...8:00 a.m.
Jazzercise...9:15 a.m.
Jazzercise...6-7 p.m.
TUESDAY
6:30 a.m. - AA
PDCCA Board Meets
Every First Tuesday...5:00 p.m.
A.A. Primary Purpose...7:00 p.m.
Jazzercise...9:15 a.m.
Jazzercise...6-7 p.m.
Salsa Class...7:30-9:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
6:30 a.m. - AA
Jazzercise...8:00 a.m.
Jazzercise...9:15 a.m.
WOMEN’S Group A.A....7:00 p.m. Weekly
Jazzercise...6-7 p.m.
Ballroom Dancing...7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
(760) 345-2331
[email protected] • www.pdcca.com
THURSDAY
6:30 a.m. - AA
Jazzercise...9:15 a.m.
Jazzercise...6-7 p.m.
FRIDAY
6:30 a.m. - AA
Jazzercise...8:00 a.m.
Jazzercise...9:15 a.m.
Salsa Class...7-10 p.m.
SUNDAY
6:30 a.m. - AA
Desert Harvest Four Square Gospel
Church 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Weekly
NEWS DEADLINE: Dec. 10, 2013
(10th of each month; if 10th falls on a weekend,
deadline reverts to the FRIDAY before)
POOL HOURS
OPEN 9:00 a.m. CLOSE 8:00 p.m.
POOL PARTIES
72 HOUR NOTICE REQUIRED
at PDCCA office. Limit 15 in party.
ALL CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE
OF 14 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED
BY AN ADULT AT POOLSIDE.
Members: Free with card
Office Hours: M, T, W, T
8:00 a.m. - 12 noon, 1:00 -3:30 P.M.
Friday: 8:00 - 12 noon
CALL 760.345.2331
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
December 3 Board Meeting
December 14 Christmas Program
December 25 Complex Closed
2014
January 7
February 4
March 4
March 4
Board Meeting
Board Meeting
Board Meeting
Annual Meeting
760-772-3731
Fax: 760-772-3735
PDCCA DISCLAIMER: Palm Desert Country Club Association does not endorse any advertisers in our community newsletter. Please verify contractor
information with the California State Contractors License Board and the Better Business Bureau. In addition, we reserve the right to publish information
in our newsletter that we consider to be of general interest to the community.
Palm Desert Country Club Association Participate in PDCCA’s 10th Annual
Christmas Decorating Contest.
You could be a winner!
Three prizes will be awarded for the best
decorated homes in the
Palm Desert Country Club Association:
1st place $100.00
2nd place $50.00
3rd place $25.00
Judging will take place mid December.
All PDCCA residents are eligible.
Winners will be notified by mail.
December 2013
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2013 Holiday
Closing Notice
The Association pools, spa and
recreation hall will be closed on
Christmas Day December 25th, so
the Association staff can enjoy the
holidays with their families. The
Association complex will close at
12 noon on Christmas Eve,
December 24th.
The Association complex will close
at 6 pm on Tuesday
December 31, 2013.
Happy Holiday wishes to all from the
Association board of directors and staff.
Ron CRisp
Palm Desert Country Club Resident
and neighborhood Realtor
760.774.6457
License #00461982
[email protected]
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Palm Desert Country Club Association
PRESIDENT’S
MESSAGE
by James Olsen, PDCCA Board President
A recent year end meeting of
the Community Associations
Institute (CAI) resulted in
our PDCCA manager, Phyllis
Harkins, receiving two awards
from her fellow Association
Managers. She was awarded
the CAI-CV Committee Chair
of the Year for her work in
2013 on the Coachella Valley chapter magazine “Quorum” and
she also received the prestigious CAI-CV President’s Award for
her service to the Coachella Valley chapter in 2013. Phyllis is
active in this organization and it is of value to her position as
PDCCA Manager to network with other managers and to keep
December 2013
abreast of changing laws governing community associations.
In her almost 6 years as PDCCA Manager, Phyllis has also completed requirements for community association certifications
which certainly enhances her value to the association. She is a
CCAM (Certified Community Association Manager) bestowed
by the California Association of Community Managers, she is
also a CMCA (Certified Manager of Community Associations)
bestowed by the national HOA organization. She is also working on two additional certifications, Large Scale Community
Manager, and Professional Community Association Manager.
In addition, she is a member of the CACM Legislative Committee, Public Safety Commissioner for City of Palm Desert, Member of CAI/CV board of directors for 2014-2016 and a fifteen
year charter volunteer with the local Alzheimer’s Association
office. She is a busy lady.
Congratulations,Phyllis and homeowners please let Phyllis and
Nancy know how much you appreciate their efforts and let them
know of your appreciation.
Palm Desert Country Club Association
December 2013
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FROM THE EDITOR’S LAPTOP
Three hundred issues---wow, that’s a lot of newsprint.
This edition, December 2013, is the 300th edition of the Palm Desert Country Club Association newsletter. As you see
from the archived copies of this magazine pictured on this page, many changes to style, paper, and
masthead have occurred over twenty-six years. The original thin, white, newspaper style newsletter
grew into the glossy magazine you are holding. And we suspect a few months that it must not have
published in its early years, since twenty-six years times twelve per year equals three hundred and
twelve editions. Nevertheless, the Association board of directors has always strived to produce an interesting and informative newsletter
for the Palm Desert Country Club community. How many properties for sale have been listed in our newsletter? How many
advertisers have placed ads in our newsletter? In 26 years, the
answers to both questions have to be—thousands. Two editors
preceded me, two people who worked long hours and believed in
the value of the PDCCA newsletter—Joe Mann, who started the
newsletter in 1987, and Pam Hegel, who chaired the newsletter
committee and was its editor for many, many years. From the
history that we’ve been able to obtain, at some time in the midnineties, Joe was no longer the editor of the newsletter, and the
December 1987
board struggled to keep it afloat. Considering that until 2001, the
newsletter was completely “cut and paste” (not with a computer
I might add, but with glue sticks and typing on a typewriter), it
was no small task to prepare each edition. Pam Hegel took the
newsletter into the computer age and edited it for many years,
along with serving on the Association board of directors. Special
thanks to Joe Mann for creating the newsletter, special thanks
to Pam Hegel for continuing Joe’s legacy, and thanks to all who
advertised, who informed us of news and who read this unique
publication for the Palm Desert Country Club community for the
past 26 years. And a special thanks to Nancy Adams, who has
December 2001
proofed well over one hundred of the three hundred issues, no
small task for sure. Onward to the 400th edition!
As the holiday season begins, we hope that you enjoy the many
and varied outdoor holiday displays throughout the PDCCA community. Three homes will be winners—will yours be one of them?
Winners of the Association contest will be notified by mail, and
their addresses will be published in the February newsletter.
CVWD has returned with an informative article about its 50th
anniversary. And the City of Palm Desert requested that we
publish the Conditional Use Permit hearing for the golf course
outdoor music on December 3rd at City Hall. Information about
this hearing is available on page 11.
The Association board of directors and the Association staff wish
you and your families a joyful and safe holiday season. Thanks
for supporting our advertisers, see you next month.
Phyllis Harkins, Editor
PALM DESERT
COUNTRY CLUB ASSOCIATION
Community Monthly News
ISSUE 228
DECEMBER 2007
PDCCA HAPPENINGS
December 2007
Celebrate the season, and win some cash too. PDCCA will award three prizes-- 1st-$100.00, 2nd-$50.00, 3rd-$25.00-- to the
best decorated homes in the Palm Desert Country Club community. Judging will take place the week of December 17th. Winners will be notified by mail and will be listed in the next edition of the PDCCA newsletter. The first place winner’s name will be
entered on our Contest plaque at the PDCCA hall.
December 2007
January 2008
PALM DESERT COUNTRY CLUB
Ballots for the PDCCA annual Board election will be mailed by January 5, 2008. There are 3 Board positions for this election.
Instructions for voting will be included in the voting packet. All mailed ballots must be received by February 8, 2008; 51% of all
PDCCA ballots must be received to have a quorum.
ASSOCIATION
Neighborhood Watch Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 6PM, PDCCA Hall. There are still streets that need
Block Captains. Call Robin Breanda, PDCCA Board Director/Neighborhood Watch Chairperson (760-837-2071) for more information.
ISSUE 2882008
February
DECEMBER 2012
Spaghetti Social for all PDCC residents is February 9, 2008, prior to the PDCCA Annual meeting. Social hour at 5:30 PM, dinner
at 6:00 PM. All PDCC residents are welcome to attend the Social. Please RVSP to PDCCA office by February 5th.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Annual PDCCA homeowners’ meeting is Saturday February 9, 2008 at 7 PM, PDCCA hall. Arla Scott, City of Palm Desert, will
speak to PDCCA residents about the utility under-grounding project.
by James Olsen, PDCCA Board President
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Palm Desert Country Club Association
December 2013
Coachella Valley Water District
Marks 50th Anniversary as
State Project Contractor
by Jim Barrett, Coachella Valley Water District
T
his year we mark the 50th anniversary of the Coachella Valley Water
District becoming a State Water Project
contractor.
The anniversary is significant because it
supports one of the district’s main objectives to ensure a long-term water supply:
expanded groundwater replenishment
efforts. While the Coachella Valley is fortunate to be located above a vast aquifer
containing high quality water, any longrange plan for a sustainable water supply requires that water pumped from the
aquifer be replenished. To do so, CVWD
must import water to supplement natural
mountain rainfall and snow melt.
By replenishing the aquifer, we
combat overdraft, which helps to
protect water quality, preserves
storage capacity and minimizes
land subsidence. Increased water
conservation, the development of additional affordable water supplies and the
use of recycled and imported Colorado
River water for irrigation purposes further preserve the health of the aquifer.
The State Water Project delivers water from supply and storage facilities in
Northern California to areas as far north
as Plumas County and as far south
as the border with Mexico, representing more than 25 million residents and
750,000 acres of agricultural land.
Two-thirds of California residents receive at least a portion of their water
from the project, which annually delivers on average 2.5 million acre-feet of
water through the California Aqueduct
system.
While a direct connection from the California Aqueduct to the Coachella Valley
was not constructed because of the
expense and significant engineering
challenges, CVWD and Desert Water
Agency negotiated an agreement with
the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California for a “bucket-for-bucket”
exchange of SWP water for Colorado
River water.
Exchange water is delivered to the
Whitewater River and Mission Creek
groundwater replenishment facilities
through turnouts off the Colorado River
Aqueduct, which traverses the Coachella Valley.
The exchange accord was amended to
enable MWD to deposit Colorado River
water in the valley’s aquifer during years
of above average precipitation and make
withdrawals in years of drought. This arrangement benefits the valley since the
storage of additional groundwater aids in
overdraft reduction.
Groundwater replenishment is a critical part of our commitment to be good
stewards of the aquifer. Thanks in part to
our 50-year involvement with the State
Water Project, we can report that, to
date, total groundwater replenishment
from imported supply has reached 3.16
million acre-feet. That is an impressive
milestone to celebrate!
Jim Barrett is General Manager of the Coachella Valley
Water District. You can contact Jim at (760) 398-2651
or by email at [email protected].
2014 CITY OF PALM DESERT CALENDARS
NOW AVAILABLE AT THE ASSOCIATION OFFICE
Stop by the Association office, during normal business hours,
to obtain a free 2014 City of Palm Desert calendar.
This calendar features vintage photos of Palm Desert in
its early years. The vintage photos are courtesy of the
Historical Society of Palm Desert.
Palm Desert Country Club Association
December 2013
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Got a Honey - Do List?
Call Nick PDCC Resident
760-218-0509
KANDY MURPHY MUSIC STUDIOS
Private Instruction
Guitar, piano, brass woodwinds
Call: (760) 534-5249
CAVANAUGH ELECTRIC
Air Conditioning & Electric Contractor
347-3608
Lic # 286936 Rodney Cavanaugh
GARDENING SERVICE
Fine Homes, Detail, Gardening
Trimming, Commercial Accounts,
Sprinkler Work, Clean Ups, Etc.
CALL Gregory Sustaita
760-775-4179 or 760-619-8990 cell
“HANDYMAN”
Home Repairs & Maintenance
Call “Nelson” First
(760) 831-3841
Mike The Handyman
CALL: 760-837-7085
SOLAR
ROOFING
SKYLIGHTS
FOR ALL YOUR RE-ROOF & REPAIR NEEDS
TEL: 760.772.2151
Serving PDCC Residents Over 16 Years!
P.O. BOX 1155 • PALM DESERT, CA 92261
December 2013
Palm Desert Country Club Association December 2013
Size 1280 x 913
Save the Date: PDCCA 2014 annual meeting of the owners is Tuesday,
March 4, 2014, 6 pm, in Alice Marble Hall. More information to follow in the
January magazine.
Heard
Any changes to the exterior of your Association property
require the approval of the Association’s Architectural Review Committee.
The Architectural Request Form can be downloaded from our
website---www.pdcca.com, Owner Access, Forms.
Have You
The new style 2014 annual summary reports and the 2014
annual assessment billings have been mailed. If you have not received
your reports and billing, please contact the Association office, 760-345-2331, or
[email protected] to obtain a replacement set.
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FULL & SELF SERVICE GASOLINE
Official Smog Inspection & Repair
Brake • A/C
10% OFF
Car Repair
Over $100
& Up to $50 Corner of Washington St. & Ave. of the States
360-9600
(NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER COUPON)
77920 Ave. of the States • Palm Desert
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Palm Desert Country Club Association ‘Tis the Season...
by Fred Stock
This is the month our human race learns for too short a period, to live
in peace and harmony. It is possible that when you read these words
there will be happy stories and good events pervading our otherwise
negative news fare. It is also possible that some terrible occurrence
has grabbed the top line of the evening news line-up. Whichever (or
something very different that has not occurred to me), we will be entering the time of happiness for many, gift scrambling for many, and
struggles for yet others.
Here in Palm Desert, our beautiful surroundings and pleasant
weather for the most part have insulated most of us from the efforting
many endure for daily living. Certainly, the happy chords resonate
under the activity we endeavor to accomplish. Spent my youth in
greater Buffalo new York, where snow and icy roadways are daily
challenges. I recall icicles perhaps two stories tall hanging from the
roof where the heat escaped in sufficient quantities as to create a
constant drip in subfreezing temperatures. Many of the readers of
this publication have escaped recently from the same frozen universe, and know well the reasons for their annual trek. Nearly fifty
years ago I married a California girl and shortly tried to transplant her
to snow country. Believe me, they don’t root well in frozen ground!
As a result, I have been a California resident now for some forty
four years and finally have learned to call it home. Admittedly, in this
decoration-filled, musically fraught part of our calendar, I find it difficult to adjust even now to twinkle lights on cactus plants, and Santa
arriving in a vintage open topped Jaguar. Remembering snow drifts
up to the second story window back home, the fleecy cotton fluff
around our department store Santas seems a bit plastic. But they do
the best they can, don’t they!
As a kid, the heavy wood-framed storm windows Dad laboriously
mounted every fall would be subjected to cold Canadian nor-westers
on the outside, and little boys breathing frost onto them inside. We
would then proceed to draw finger paintings on the frosted surface,
and quickly sketch the same artwork on a sheet of school paper. In
the next morning, we would compare and delight to the sparkling
modifications Mother Nature had added over night. Colorful coronas
and rainbows of the morning sunbeams through the frozen microlenses. Little triangles and streaks of prismatic color! Exquisite!
Probably not something our California-native neighbors ever experienced! Then it would be out to deliver newspapers from twin snowsleighs full of Sunday editions an inch and a half thick. Not the same
experience here. If anyone gets a newspaper delivered at all, they
hear a flying object smack the driveway at 5:00 A.M. as an old noisy
muffler rattles by, both windows open, blaring mariachi music. Just
not as charming, if a bit more comfortable for the delivery person!
Oh my!
Anyway, we at our house, and I am sure all the folks at PDCCA
Newsletter as well, wish you and yours the very best of the holidays.
December 2013
If you are a lifetime local, you may be in your high point of the year. If
you are a displaced muck-luck type as am I, you can look closely at
the Christmas cards flowing in and flash back to scenes that looked
much like those one-horse open sleigh etchings before you. Either
way, absorb the pleasant feelings and happy faces of the youngsters. If you can help someone, give them a bit of unexpected love,
perhaps, go for it! Add to those good vibrations out there. They are
after all, what we work so hard all year to achieve. Merry Christmas,
Happy Channukah, or the very best of this delightful season to you,
no matter how you celebrate! Blessings!! -fhs
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The Cactus Club in Palm Desert Country Club
is your neighborhood place to enjoy great food & live music
in a relaxing setting. Come check out our special events!
• Happy Hour: Daily from 3 pm—5 pm
• Taco Tuesday: All you can eat beef & chicken tacos, rice &
beans, served from 5 pm-7 pm . . . $8.95
• Thursday Live Pasta Bar: Choose your pasta, sauce &
additions, prepared right in front of you. All you can eat, served
from 5 pm-7 pm . . . $12.95
• Friday & Saturday: Live music on our fire-lit patio from 6 pm9 pm, full dinner menu served from 5 pm-8:30 pm.
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Palm Desert Country Club Association
December 2013
CITY OF PALM DESERT
LEGAL NOTICE
CASE NO. CUP 13-97
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held before the Palm Desert
Planning Commission to consider a request by Palm Desert Country Club Diner, LLC for
consideration of a Conditional Use Permit to allow outdoor music at the clubhouse on
Friday and Saturday nights from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The property is located at 77200 California Drive.
SAID public hearing will be held on Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council
Chamber at the Palm Desert Civic Center, 73-510 Fred Waring Drive, Palm Desert,
California, at which time and place all interested persons are invited to attend and be
heard. Written comments concerning all items covered by this public hearing notice shall
be accepted up to the date of the hearing. Information concerning the proposed project is
available for review in the Department of Community Development at the above address
between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. If you challenge the
proposed actions in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone
else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence
delivered to the Planning Commission at, or prior to, the public hearing.
PUBLISH:
Desert Sun
November 8, 2013
LAURI AYLAIAN, Secretary
Palm Desert Planning Commission
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