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

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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

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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.

asktheboard@cccc1.com

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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.