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cosmetic move.
Our Board also wanted to refresh
our “lollipop” lights by cleaning
the globes and priming and
painting the poles black. This
gives a more contemporary look,
and provides a more attractive
light.
We removed the old bulletin
board (practically never seen by
the Paseo Real and Calle Avila
residents), and replaced it with a
new easily visible board on
Paseo Real just inside the gates.
We have been working with the
Golf Club and Welk Resorts to
improve the our areas and fea-
tures for which they have mainte-
nance responsibility. By the time
you read this, the Paseo Real
lollipop lights will be cleaned
and painted consistent with our
other newly painted ones. They
have been working to get the
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T he economy
has had its
challenges, but that hasn’t
stopped the Cathedral Can-
yon Country Club #1 Board of
Directors from constantly
working hard to improve your
investment.
Look around HOA #1 and
you’ll see that we’ve been
trying to address a lot of is-
sues. You will notice, for in-
stance, that in the last few
months, we’ve added to the
plantings in front of many of
the units for a lusher look. To
save money, we buy young
plants to take a year or so to
give some real impact, but
still you’ll notice more full-
ness than you saw last year.
If you walk on some of the
paths between and behind
the units, triangle areas that were
sparsely planted or had dying
cacti (some of which were dan-
gerous) were redesigned with a
variety of beautiful desert plants.
You will see several new trees
planted through the common
area. It’s unfortunate that we had
so many trees removed a few
years ago (typically due to dis-
ease), and we wanted to finally
rectify this loss.
We are identifying areas that
have never received much sun
and don’t seem to support plants,
and filling in these unattractive
mud patches with decorative
rock.
You may have noticed that all of
our mailboxes now have easy to
read standardized address num-
bers on them. We would love to
replace the boxes, but we do not
yet have enough in that reserve
category to do this. So, in the
meantime, we opted to do this
The Summer of Sprucing!
Pool Season Tips
Do not leave kids alone. An
adult must be present when
minors are using any of the
pools.
Keep gates locked — To
avoid outsiders using our
pools, please remember to
re-lock the gate when you
leave the pool area.
Pool furniture —Please keep
our pool chairs and chaises
in good condition by always
placing a towel between you
and the furniture surface.
Both tanning oil and natural
skin oil cause the material
to deteriorate.
Towels and floating devices —Remember to take your
towels and pool toys with
you when you leave the pool
area.
Cathedral Canyon
Association #1 Newsletter
Issue 11
Newsletter Date 8/24/11
A U G U S T 2 0 1 1
Sprucing! 1
Tips of the Season 1
HOA Facelift Pix 2
New Architectural 3
Association News 3
Board Meetings 4
Summer Pasta! 4
HOA #2 Warning 4
Inside this issue:
Color Now Welcomes You to Cathedral Canyon HOA #1
Page 2 Cathedral Canyon
Association #1 Newsletter
Colorful Boulders & Cacti New Bulletin Board Greets You Near the Main Gate
Colorful Desert Plants and
an “Efficient”-rated Water Bill
New Trees Planted
Throughout
A Fabulous Mexican Bird of Paradise New Mailbox Numbers and Plant Color
A Rejuvenated Cathedral Canyon HOA #1
Pole Lights Cleaned,
Primed and Repainted
The HOA’s financials are in great
shape. We have worked hard to
stay under-budget each year, so that
no special assessments are needed.
For 2011, we are on target again to
be under budget. Each year that we
are under, we transfer our excess to
the reserves. Today these reserves
are very strong, standing at the
highest amount we’ve seen in over a
decade. We want to be always be
able to replace or repair any of our
assets without pain. Our receivables
are also in the best shape they’ve
been in in years. We thank our
homeowners for this through your
timely payment of monthly assess-
ments. By continuing your payments
in this manner, and through contin-
ued careful budgeting and spend-
ing, we will be able to continue the
downward stabilization of our
monthly assessment.
Landscape improvements. As
we’ve stated elsewhere, we will
soon start adding additional plant-
ings to the sides and rears of the
units, so that a more lush look can
be enjoyed from our patios. We will
be working in sections of the com-
plex to do this over the next year.
A major turf improvement initia-
tive is coming. Over the past years,
our entire Cathedral Canyon com-
plex has been plagued with increas-
ing amounts of nut grass, clover, and
weeds, and all the gardening compa-
nies are doing what they can to battle
these pests. This year, we will take a
much more aggressive stance to try
to eradicate these predator plants
from our complex. As we do scalping
this year, our gardeners will deploy
special treatments to our grass to
specifically target the nut grass, as
well as the clover and weeds.
Because of strength of these treat-
ments, our turf will go through a
major “ugly duckling” period, af-
ter which the winter rye should start to permeate. Please do not
panic as you start to see dead grass
in the coming months.
Along with that dead grass will be
dead nut grass and dead weeds. Fol-
lowed by much healthier winter turf
in place by the time the season starts.
We will repeat these anti-predator
treatments in the spring. We wish
there were an easier way to kill off
the unwanted plants, but there simply
isn’t. It will all simply look worse be-
fore it looks better. We ask your pa-
tience during this period.
A new Golf Course Committee
was recently formed that unites the
various Cathedral Canyon associa-
tions to work diligently with Billy
Casper Golf to improve the look and
playability of the course. The better
the course, the more prestige we
have, and the higher our resale val-
ues will be (eventually).
Your HOA President Keith Jeffer-
ies has been working closely with
the other “Main Gate” presidents
and Welk and the Golf Club on a
long-range plan to improve the
main gate and Cathedral Canyon
Drive parkway. We were able to get
the Golf Club to paint the guard
house, repair the windows and the
overhead lighting, and to paint the
main gate in a more professional
manner. The desired goal is a much
grander approach and entrance to
our part of the complex, beautiful to
us as we come home as well as wel-
coming to visitors to the Golf Club.
There are some significant chal-
lenges and tricky ownership and
maintenance contractual arrange-
ments to address, but we felt it im-
portant to start the process, formu-
late our goals and seek solutions
that can work for all of us.
New Architectural Guidelines
Your Board feels that it is important to keep a visual consistency around our complex for the exterior things that residents would
like to change or customize. Traditionally, if you wanted to add a screen door, screen your entry gate, put up a porch light , or add
shade-screening over your sliding glass doors, you would have to complete an Architectural Variance Form and submit it to the
Board for consideration. While the Form is still used for most customizations, the Board has gone ahead and approved Architec-
tural Guidelines for a variety of items so that — if you abide by the specifications in the guideline document — you do not have to
submit the Architectural Variance Form. The website (www.cccc1.com) contains these new guidelines, and they are included in the
mailing with this newsletter. The guidelines (some of which were recently approved) cover:
Screen doors, retractable screen doors and iron security doors for your front door
Shade-screening for your sliding glass doors
Pet screens and general screening for your unit’s entry gate
Garage doors
Exterior lights for the front outside walls of your unit, including porch lights and coach lamps next to your garage door
All of these guidelines are in effect today. Please be sure to read the new guidelines for their specifics, and for ideas on how you
can use these features for your unit.
Cathedral Canyon
Association #1 Newsletter Page 3
What’s New...What’s Happening in our Association
Paseo Real median lights working con-
sistently (electrical and timer issues
have been plaguing this), and we have
been insisting on more attention to the
endcap plants and weeding. They
have also done some cleaning of the
pond and maintenance around its
shores. And because we were never
happy with the poor paint job on the
entry gates from last year, we had
them properly prime and paint the
gates with a change back to the previ-
ous cream color.
With these successes, we’ve had some
challenges. Several Cathedral Canyon
associations have been plagued with
grass problems, such a larger than
usual amount of clover, weeds and nut
grass mixed in with summer Bermuda
and winter rye. And yes, there are also
some brown spots in our common area
that are not to our liking. We are work-
ing with our gardening contractor to
try some very aggressive measures
over the coming year to address these
issues.
Early in the spring/summer, we had
pool issues: our famed ducks started
to do a lot of their “business” around
and in the pools, as well as use the
pools for R&R. Well, even though they
are cute, it’s a health hazard for them
to be in the pools, so we employed
some humane techniques to banish
them. These actions seemed to be
successful.
So, yes, we’ve had a lot going on this
year! And it continues. The board is
getting ready to formulate plans for
adding foliage to the sides and rears
of the units. This project is expected
to take several months, but should
make our rear patio areas more lush
and colorful.
And we promised that along with
getting our common area in order,
we’d help our homeowners to do
their part in the improvement of our
HOA by providing ways to clean up
some of non-authorized exclusive-
use common area additions. We’ve
recently approved additions to the
Architectural Guidelines that allow
for new types of entry gate pet
screening, retractable screen doors
for your front door screening, as well
as patio shades. As we head toward
this flexibility and more unified look,
we will ask for your cooperation.
— Keith Jefferies
Our association is in the best financial state it’s been in for the past decade. Thank you, homeowners, for timely payment of your monthly HOA obligation.
Have a great rest of summer,
Keith Jefferies
We pay a lot of money each month to maintain our
beautiful pools and spas here in HOA #1. However,
some of our residents have been walking over to
HOA #2 and using their pools and spas. There have been some recent unpleasant exchanges between HOA
#2 board members, residents and those HOA #1 resi-
dents that do this.
HOA #2’s Board wanted us to remind all of you that
using their pools and spas is considered illegal tres-
pass, and that they will call the Cathedral City police to have you ejected and arrested for trespassing if you
use their pools or spas. Please heed their warnings.
Editor
Keith Jefferies
Publisher
Board of Directors,
Cathedral Canyon
Country Club
Condominium
Association #1, Inc.
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Recipe—Angel Hair Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes and Basil
The Summer of Sprucing! (continued from page 1)
An Important Reminder:
capellini (DeCecco)
1.5 cups of good Parmesan
Extra olive oil for the pot
Extra chopped basil and
Parmesan for serving
In a big bowl, mix the to-
matoes, basil, thyme, pep-
per, red pepper flakes, a
tablespoon of the salt, with
1/2 cup of the olive oil.
Cover with tin foil or plastic
wrap and let sit at room
temperature for about 4
hours. Boil salted water in
large pot with a bit of oil.
Add pasta to the boiling
water and stir once. Cook
for about 2 minutes (adjust to
package directions). Drain,
reserving some of the water.
Place pasta in large serving
bowl. Add the tomato mixture
and toss to mix well. If pasta
seems too dry, add some of the
pasta water. Serve topped with
extra basil and parmesan.
This is a classic summer dish
that is easy to prepare, and
packs a punch of flavor. And
you don’t even have to cook
the sauce! Lead time 4.5 hrs.
4 pints of small cherry toma-
toes, halved
6 cloves of garlic, minced
18-20 basil leaves, julienned
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
2 tbsp chopped Ital. parsley
2 tbsp chopped fresh thyme
1 tsp ground black pepper
2 pinches of red pepper flakes
Kosher salt
3/4 pound of angel hair or
Cathedral Canyon
Association #1 Newsletter
Board of Directors
meetings are held the
last Thursday of each
month starting at
3 p.m. sharp.
We welcome your
comments and
suggestions during
open forum at the
start of the meeting.