December 1997

HURRAH!

As recently as November 10, President Skip Kruszona signed a contract with Home Base to deliver and install 184 long-panel Clopay doors in the HOA. Additionally, the installer will offer homeowners the following services:

1. hook up your current opener, which should meet the CA safety codes: $38.25.
2. install a Genie, model 15550-1. Cost opener: $144.00: installation: $72.25. Total Cost: $216.25.
3. move and reinstall owner's cabinets that are in the way: $87.50.

HELP!

You'll get a registration form in the mail from Curtis. One of its uses will be in connection with the garage-door project. Won't you fill it out and return it promptly.

FIRST ALERT

Your Board of Directors has scheduled a Xmas party at the clubhouse for children under ten accompanied by a parent(s). The date: December, 14: the time: 1-2:30 PM. Food, fun, Santa.

ATTENTION

Homeowners who would like to be the first to get new garage doors might consider the following. Those living n a given 4-Unit building might get together and agree on a representative. That individual is to collect keys/door openers to be picked up by John Marsh, project officer, the day before inspection/installation is scheduled. He'll return them to the representative as soon as possible. It might be helpful for this individual to identify himself early on.

DOG OWNERS

Please remember to have your dogs on lead in the common areas at all times. Not all our residents like dogs. In fact, some are afraid of them, and a dog off-lead is an alarming sight- whatever his size.

COMPARISON SHOPPERS

Those of you who's like to know how our fees and services compare with other associations might welcome seeing a list of other HOA Association fees provided by an area company:

• Rancho Penasquitos Area 105 units, $115 pool, spa
• San Marcos Area 108 units, $132 pool, spa
• Solana Beach area 79 units, $110 Association responsible for: Landscape, exterior of building, roof
• Solana Beach Area 328 units, $139 pool, spa
• Solana Beach Area 64 units, $205 pool, spa Association responsible for: Landscape, exterior of building, roof
• Point Loma Area 220 units, $174 pool, spa Association responsible for: Landscape, exterior of building, roof

CLASSIC VIDEOS

The year 1939 was surely "golden" for Hollywood, the movie industry releasing an extraordinary number of memorable films: from GONE WITH THE WIND to GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS. The latter, in particular, has long been a prime favorite with video buffs, drawn to Robert Donat's Academy Award winning performance. It's Donat, as a much-loved English schoolmaster who tells a questioner, "I thought I heard you say, 'twas a pity I never had any children.' But I have... thousands of them ... and all boys."

Peter O'Toole may have brought a greater subtlety to the role of Chips in the overblown 1969 musical remake, but it is Donat who movingly embodies the individual's longing to belong in a given social context--an English public school. And it is the sincerity of his longing that made GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS not only a very poignant film but a successful one at the box office. Arresting then, as well as today, is the portrait of a school that gives students a sense of decency and of proportion. Oh, for a Mr. Chips today!