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A Publication of the Sun City Mesquite Homeowners’ Association
JUNE 2019
Welcome Summer
First Day of Summer Happy HourFriday, June 21
4 p.m. until 6 p.m.
Come on over to the Pioneer Center. It’s only $5 per person. We will be serving hearty hors d’oeuvres. Of course, on the first day of summer, there must be drinks! There will be a Happy Hour open cash bar available. We are also pleased to announce that we will have our own Sun City Mesquite musicians John Cooley, Mike Rosetti and Darion Tapscott there to provide entertainment. Please sign up at the front desk. The deadline is when capacity is reached. There are no refunds after June 14
Photos from the Aviators game Thursday, May 23, 2019:
June 6 & 20** ARC Meeting Dates
June 2 Shin Lim Mirage Las Vegas
June 4 Hootenanny
June 5 Discussion on Aging June 7 Wiser Lunch - Why Does a Corporate Trustee Make Sense by Charles Schwab June 9 Fiddler on the Roof Smith Center
June 14 Jim Miller’s 100 birthday Celebration June 16 Father’s Day Celebration
June 18 Eureka Slot Tournament June 21 First Day of Summer Happy Hour
June 24 Bingo and Pizza
June 25 Coffee House by the Musicians Club
June 28 Ice Cream Social Sponsored by Leporte Insurance Servies ** Submittals for ARC must by received by 4 p.m. on the Friday prior to the date.
June Events
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Happy Father’s Day! On Sunday, June 16 at 1 p.m., we will be offering cake and punch in the lobby honoring Father’s Day. Celebrate the first day of summer with Happy Hour on Friday, June 21. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and drinks with your Sun City friends and neighbors. Our very own Sun City residents John Cooley, Mike Ro-setti and Darion Tapscott will be perform-ing background mingle music for you to enjoy. We will be having an Independence Day celebration lunch on none other than Thursday, July 4 at 11:30 a.m. We will have our annual water balloon toss and poolside chipping contest along with a great lunch that will feature chicken, po-tato salad, rolls and dessert. Mark your calendar for Friday, July 19, which will be Frankfurter Friday. Enjoy hotdogs with your favorite toppings and sides. You won’t want to miss Donuts and Dar-lins on Wednesday, July 24. Enjoy a won-derful performance by the Mama’s Wran-glers, plus entertainment sensation by the Jackson family band and cloggers. Enjoy a great show, juice and donuts for only $2 per person. Monday, August 5 we will be taking a bus trip to see the musical comedy “A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder” inside the Hafen Theatre. $74 per person includes round trip bus transportation and show ticket. Important dates to remember:
• Monday, August 19, Blood Drive at the Pioneer Center• Thursday, October 3, Colorado Raft Trip• Saturday, October 5, Art in the Park in Boulder City• Thursday, October 17, Sun City Resident Craft Fair• Saturday, October 19, Fall Community Garage Sale• Tuesday, October 22, Lake Mead evening dinner cruise. • Friday, November 8, Fab Four at Tuacahn
See your community website for more information on any of these events or call Shawn or Deborah at 702-346-6006.
A message from your Lifestyle Director Deborah Demos
Festivals/Events: Utah Shakespeare Festival
If you haven’t been, go this season! With such fantastic presentations as “Macbeth,”“Hamlet,” “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” “The Book of Will,” “Twelfh Night,” “Every Brilliant Thing” and “The Price,” the festival offers something to satisfy every theatrical taste. The venue, The Professional Theatre at Southern Utah University, is only an hour and a half away in Cedar City. For those wishing to see all the presentations, there are many hotels, motels and bed and breakfast inns in Cedar City that are happy to accommodate your visit. Tickets range from $20 - $77 with a $2 discount available for AAA members, military and seniors. If you buy tickets to five or six different shows, you will receive $4 off each ticket. Buy tickets to seven or eight different shows and receive $5 off each ticket. Gather a group of twelve or more to join you, and you’ll receive a $4 discount on each ticket. There are also insider tours that reveal how they create the world of make-believe. Backstage and Repertory Magic tours are only $8 each. You will be led by an actor or by a trained theater guide and can attend an instructive talk on how they make the necessary items for each show. As if that wasn’t enough to spark your interest, there is also free nightly outdoor entertainment, “The Greenshow”, held at the Ashton Family Greenshow Commons, from June 27 – September 7. Three different shows alternate nightly.
The Midsummer Magazine is the official magazine of the festival and is available online - every photo, article and advertisement. It’s free for download in Adobe Acrobat PDF files.
The Utah Shakespeare Festival runs from June 27 to October 12. More information is available at www.bard.org and at 435-586-7878 or 1-800-PLAYTIX. The Festival is located at 195 West Center Street, Cedar City 84720.
In the Spotlight: Jim Miller
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Recipe Corner: Easy Summer Pie
INGREDIENTS 1 9-inch pie crust (frozen, thawed)1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese (softened)⅓ cup white sugar1 (11 ounce) can mandarin oranges (drained)1 cup fresh strawberries (halved)4 kiwi (peeled and sliced)1 cup fresh raspberries1 cup fresh blueberries
DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). 2. Roll pastry into an 11 inch circle. Lay flat on a baking sheet or pizza pan. Prick several times with a fork. Bake in preheated oven for 12 to 15 minutes, until light brown. Remove and allow to cool completely. 3. In a small mixing bowl, beat together cream cheese and sug-ar until mixture is creamy and smooth. Spread evenly onto cooled pastry. Arrange fruit in a decorative pattern over cream cheese layer. Chill until ready to serve.
In the Spotlight: Jim Miller
SCM’s oldest resident, Jim Miller celebrates his 100th birthday this month. Jim is an inspiration to everyone he meets. On any day, ask Jim how he’s doing, and he’ll tell you, “OK, so far.” He lives inde-pendently and continues to be active. You may have seen him playing bocce ball, billiards, or slots, out in his golf cart or taking a walk. Jim grew up in Lancaster, OH the eldest of three brothers and came of age during the Great Depression. After high school grad-uation, he worked in the glass-making industry and married his hometown sweetheart, Jean in 1941. After Pearl Harbor, Jim enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps. Upon rating as a pilot, he was assigned as flight instructor, progressed to flight commander and was promoted to instructor of flight instructors, flight standardization check pilot and 1st Lieutenant. He flew nine different aircraft while in service. When VJ day came, Jim was training to be a B-29 commander; however World War II ended before Jim was needed for overseas missions. He was chosen for the Nevada Honor Flight in 2014. Jim attended Ohio State University, obtaining a Bachelor of Sci-ence degree in Chemistry, Summa Cum Laude, in just 2 1/2 years with Phi Beta Kappa honors. Jim spent most of his career at Battelle Memorial Institute in Co-lumbus, OH as a research chemist, senior research associate and associate division chief. He holds six patents. Jim and Jean were married for 43 years. When Jean passed in 1985 Jim, then retired, moved to San Diego where his many ac-tivities included volunteering 17 years with the El Cajon Police Department volunteer patrol (R.S.V.P.) where he received many awards and honors. Jim’s daughter and son-in-law, Ellen and Don Gilmore also live in Sun City. Jim survives his parents and brothers, Clark and Bill. His “modern family” includes four grandkids, eight great-grand-kids, one great-great-grandson, five nieces and two nephews. Three hundred words aren’t much to cover 100 years of a life well lived. Want details? Ask Jim.
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Walking into a nursery can be overwhelming at times, because of the wide variety and number of plants. Look for the variety, height, texture, fragrance, flower, color and health.
Here are five easy tips to finding those perfect plants.
1. Pick up the plant and look for a label. The label should tell you what to expect. It gives the name of the plant and its cultural requirements. It should list the sun or shade requirement and the water needs. It should tell you the plant’s growth habits such as mature height and width. You don’t want to purchase a plant that will grow three feet wide and six feet high when you really want one that will grow one foot wide and three feet high.
2. Choose plants with buds. Plants in full bloom or with fruit setting have already put energy into producing flowers and may lack the energy to establish healthy new roots.
3. Look for good foliage color, insect and disease-free leaves.
4. Choose plants with good root structure. Roots should hold together, not be tangled, matted, root-bound or hanging out the container bottom. Carefully pull the plant out of the container and look at the roots. You want to see healthy, white, new roots.
5. Select compact plants with many stems in vigorous growth with buds developing. A plant with a few tall stems is not as mature as a plant with many short stems.
Don’t feel sorry for a sick plant. Leave it in the store. You don’t want to infect your healthy plants at home.
Follow these few easy techniques and you will leave the nursery feeling confident you have chosen the perfect plants for your garden.
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Gardening: Choose the Right Plant
Covenant Corner
Sun City Club: Ukulele
Hi everyone!
Gardening: Choose the Right Plant
Sun City Mesquite Times
Time on your hands? Want to join an organization that provides exceptional service to Mesquite and the to surrounding area? Check out the Mesquite Rotary Club. According to the club Secretary, Linda Gault, the club can always use new members and/or new volunteers to assist with the many activities the club supports. Started in 2007, the Mesquite Rotary Club currently consists of 15 members whose goal is to provide community support. They initiate and/or support many local activities; for example, on April 27, 2019, they joined others for a community service day as they assisted the Mesquite Fire Department install smoke alarms in homes that did not currently have them, and they also replaced batteries in alarms that were already in place. Rotary Club members support the Virgin Valley Food Bank with donations of food and money, and then volunteer monthly to help distribute the food. They also support Mesquite Reads, a program to ensure all children can read by the third grade, and many other local activities.
The club has adopted the Beaver Dam High School and initiated an Interact Club that teaches stu-dents about community service. Rotary members and Interact students join together in support of the Salvation Army Bell Ringing during the holidays, and students also participate in the locally organized Samaritan’s Purse Shoebox program. This program gathers small items that will fit into a shoe box, (grooming products, soap, toothbrushes, small toys, anything that will fit into a shoebox — except nothing liquid.) The boxes are then sent to underdeveloped countries (usually around the holidays) to help children realize that people outside of their country care for them. The club is also continuing with the Beaver Dam High School beautification program to help instill a sense of school pride in parents, teachers and students. The club has donated “Buddy Benches” to area elementary schools, and next will be partnering to help with future beautification efforts in the City of Mesquite. The club raises money through various activities. For example in late September they will host their annual 5K Glow Run/WaIk fundraiser. For more information contact Linda at 307-760-9544.
Non-Profit Feature: Rotary Club
One of the newest clubs in Sun City Mesquite, the Ukelele Club was formed by Jim Iverson. Jim was musically inclined in high school and college. He played trumpet and guitar. Throughout his life he was always searching for the perfect instrument. Eight years ago, he became very ill, and during this time he finally found what he was looking for, the ukulele! There are 3 types of ukuleles or Ukes: the small “soprano”, the medium “concert”, and the large “tenor”. There is also a “baritone” uke which is really a 4-string guitar. The ukulele began in the Portuguese Azores as a small guitar-like instrument called the machete. When it came to Hawaii, it became the ukulele which means “jumping fleas” because the fingers move so fast on the fretboard. The Uke was made famous there by Don Ho singing “Tiny Bubbles”. Israel Kamakawiwoʻole beautifully sang “Some-where over the Rainbow” using the uke.Jim Iverson, president of the Ukulele Club, was born in Idaho and met his wife Kathy at the University of Idaho. They were married in 1970 and have two children, Gregory and Laura Katherine. After college Jim joined the Peace Corps and worked on plant breeding in Bolivia and Costa Rica. Kathy joined him after marriage and helped start 4H clubs there.The Ukulele Club consists of Jim, Fred and Alice Nicol, Margo AshCraft, Lorrie Blumer and Jon Amundson. Jim has several Ukuleles that you may use and would love for either beginners or experienced Uke players to come to one of their meetings on Thursdays from 2:30 - 4 pm in the Movement Studio. Contact Jim Iverson with questions at 602-910-9666 or [email protected] Harrison loved the uke and believed the world would be a happier place if everyone played the uke. George wrote “Everyone I know who is into the ukulele is cracker. You can’t play it and not laugh” !
Sun City Club: Ukulele
Animal Corner: Sleeping Patterns of PetsSun City Mesquite Homeowners’ AssociationSun City Mesquite Times
1880 GrilleCome also join us for our Monthly Prime Rib Buffett.
When: Sunday June 30.
Time: Seating is available at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Price: $22 per person (plus tax)
Note: Reservations can be made in advance at the 1880 Grille or by
phone at 702-346-4292.
Thank you for your support and see you there!
Conestoga Golf ClubNo special activities during June for members at the Conestoga; however, the course will be closed for aerification on June 24 and 25.
Got a window that needs a sun-reducing glare screen or have a screen that needs repair? ACE is the place of the helpful hardware staff! Yes indeed, from “soup to nuts” you can find it at your local ACE hard-ware store. Staffed by 30 or so of the most courteous, knowledgeable and professional employees, the store prides itself for having the best customer service in town. Little known facts: You can get free delivery in the local area for items costing over $150, and ACE employees will assemble items as needed. Also, the store offers a good assortment of large and small equipment items for rent. The store has a great variety of lawn and garden furniture and supplies, as well as BBQ grills and smokers. The selection of hardware items is, without question, unmatched; however, if there is an item you need that is not available, special orders are usually filled within two or three days. Especially notable for Sun City residents, the local store carries the halogen light bulbs to illuminate the house numbers. The store also makes all types of keys, including chipped and programming keys. ACE customers who have the ACE Hardware card (available free) can receive points for all purchases and receive coupons and monetary rewards in the mail, as a result. The store has monthly sales, so look for a Father’s Day sale later this month. The store hours are 7a.m. – 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday during the summer, and 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday during the winter, and every Sunday from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. throughout the year. For further information, contact Michelle, the store manager at 702-346-5277.
Business of the Month: Ace Hardware
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Keys to Good ZZZs
We all know that dogs and cats are completely different animals. The same is true when it comes to their sleeping habits. A dog’s instinct is to always be on alert to protect their pack from intruders. As a result, they’re able to wake more easily, and it’s common for them to wake up before completing a full sleep-wake cycle. Because of this, they need more sleep overall to get adequate rest. Cats, on the other hand, are crepuscular creatures, meaning they are most ac-tive during the twilight hours of dawn and dusk. Their instinct is to give chase and hunt, mainly at night, so it’s typical for them to be active when it’s dark out. A healthy adult dog needs approximately 11 to 12 hours of sleep a day, but they are flexible sleepers. They have no problem adjusting their sleep schedule to their owner’s needs. Cats average at least 13 hours of sleep a day, but they split the hours between day and night. This explains why they seem to sleep so much during the day when we are awake, and spend so much time awake at night when we need to sleep. Dogs find comfort in routine, so it’s relatively easy to get them into a regular sleep habit. Take them for a nightly walk, buy them a comfy bed, and everyone should be ready for sweet dreams at the same time. Adjusting a cat’s sleep schedule to yours may be challenging, but it can be done through consistency and patience. Here are a few suggestions:• Play with your cat in the evening before bedtime.• If your cat is sleeping during the day, gently wake it and encourage play.• Establish your bedroom as a no-play zone.• Try to ignore their nighttime behaviors.
Animal Corner: Sleeping Patterns of Pets
Ray and Catherine Moser - White Pine Country, NVHank and Marlene Woodworth - Irvine, CAScott and Mary Connole - West Jordon, UTDavid and Marilyn Batt - Glendora, CABill and Becky Coles - La Grande, ORDennis and Irene Marrin - Grand Junction, CAChet and Diane Owens- Cameron Park, CAEric and Rebecca Johnson - Las Vegas, NV
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Festivals and Events
Business of the Month: Ace Hardware
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Deborah Demos Lifestyle Director
702-346-6005 cell [email protected]
Shawn RiceLifestyle Assistant
702-346-6428 cell [email protected]
John DavisFacilities Director
Lori ArnoneConcierge Supervisor/
Communication Coordinator702-346-6158
Lorraine DeshayesDirector of Compliance and Standards
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Treasurer - Jim KarrasSecretary - Donna Eads
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2016 will be an exciting year for both the board of directors
2016 BOD Meetings
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Board of Directors Corner by Donna Eads
Breaking News: There will be a test program of extending the Pioneer Center hours during the weekends to 8 p.m. Starting on June 15 and ending July 28, the Pioneer Center will remain open these extended hours, and the usage of this additional 2-hour opportunity will be monitored. The Board of Directors will review this data at the July meeting to continue this extension for the future.
Other important issues are:
• TDS is refunding over charged fees to AMM.• Multiple suggestions and discussions have been conducted for your HOA by our Landscape Committee, our BOD President and our golf course partners to resolve the current concern about water quality and aroma.• Common area fence painting is out to bid. At the July BOD meeting, these bids will be opened, and work should begin in August for approximately 90 days.• Ongoing refinement of the standards for exterior home appearance is being addressed by staff and committees and updated.• Pioneer Center refreshment program has been sent to experts to consider for the interior as well as for landscaping.• Homeowner requested items have been reviewed. The
need for more hand sanitizers and new shades for the library will be addressed quickly. The half-basketball court and more pool furniture have been referred to the Pioneer Center refreshment program. Under study are the requests for trail maps and more sound system equipment. Once more room is available perhaps more billiards tables and a shuffleboard table can be obtained.
For more details on these items, come to the next Coffee Chat on Friday, June 7 either at 9 a.m. or 3 p.m. Next Board of Directors meeting will be Tuesday, July 16 at 1:30 p.m.
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