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Library Committee Welcome to your Four Seasons library. The residents make it the best by donating all of our books, hardbound and paperback, plus our magazines. Without YOU there wouldn't be a library here. We simply work at keeping it organized and continuously shelve returned and new book donations. We also donate books to the downtown public library that we cannot display. We are excited to have our pull-out shelving in place. The audiotapes and CD's are so much easier to select now. Comments are made to us all the time about how the pull-out shelves have improved gaining access. Please use the chair provided by the cabinet to make your selection. We are really in need of audio books on DVD as few people have cassette players any more. Thank you in advance! The children's movies and CDs received a pull-out shelf as well. We have been aware that 50 percent of our movies for our grandchildren are missing. Would you please check your home and see if you have a movie that you need to return. Thank you. Help us to keep the library current. Please donate hardbound prolific authors from the year 2000 up. Our paperbacks are 2010-2014. The magazine rack holds three months of donated material. As of this newsletter, please bring March, April and May issues for us to display. Our non-fiction section is filled with biographies and a broad range of interesting topics. We now have some room on the bottom shelf for different topics normally not accepted. A travel section was started and we could use more books. Check them out in the lower shelves. We never accept technical books and actually the downtown library doesn't accept them either. We have had a problem lately with someone using the library to make business calls. Sounds innocent but they are shutting the door to the library. There are some who won't enter while the door is closed. If you have lived here eight to ten years you will remember the library was used as a meeting room and game room. It was hard to pick out a book or shelve any returns. You certainly couldn't read there. Please, the door must remain open at all times. The committee and residents thank you. Committee member Char Weakly read The Silver Star, by Jeannette Walls. It is 1970 in a small town in California. "Bean" Holladay is 12 and her sister, Liz, is 15 when their artistic mother, Charlotte, takes off to find herself, leaving the girls enough money to last a month or two. When Bean returns from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz decide to take the bus to Virginia where their Uncle Tinsley lives. He takes them in, just "until their mother returns." They stay the summer, and when fall comes, start school. Bean learns who her father was and hears stories about why her mother left Virginia in the first place. They adjust fairly well to their new circumstances until something happens to Liz. 13 | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | MAY 2014 | | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | MAY 2014 | 14 Facilities Committee A Veterans Memorial is being planned. We are in the process of reviewing design options and possible sites for the memorial. The completed package will be submitted to the Board for their consideration. We are reviewing a bid to repair and resurface the two tennis and four pickleball courts. Consideration is also being given to upgrading the pickleball courts to eliminate "soft spots." The original K.Hovnanian court plans included just four tennis courts. No provision was made for pickleball. The tennis court design included a floating surface which would satisfy major tournament play requirements. However, pickleball is preferably played on a non-floating surface. This was not taken into consideration when, at a later date, two of the original tennis courts were converted to accommodate the new game. After reviewing all the bids submitted, Western Exterminators was selected as our recommendation for a new rodent control contract. The board approved the selection, and the vendor is working with Euclid Management to develop a new rodent control plan. The handicap lift located poolside was tested and deemed unusable. We recommended that a replacement lift be purchased. Evaluation of the Plaza Remodeling Project is underway, and the responsible sub-committee will begin meeting with the selected architectural firm that was selected. Since this project is a major undertaking, the plan is to complete it in stages as funding becomes available. We are reviewing bids received for replacement of the Bocce Ball court clay surface to eliminate the many divots present. The former practice of "roto-tilling" the surface will be discontinued. We appreciate your concern for the safety and welfare of our community. We have an inspection plan in place to look for deficiencies, but we don't find everything. We ask that you continue to be on the lookout for items such as inoperative street lights (which we are not able to evaluate in the light of day) dangerously uplifted sidewalks, and other safety issues that you believe require attention. Please report these and other appropriate observations to the Lodge front desk. Win a FREE SUNDAY BRUNCH for TWO The Bistro at Four Seasons (not valid on holidays or special events) Name: _____________________________________ Address: ___________________________________ Phone: _____________________________________ HOA Financials Balance Sheet for March 2014: The total assets balance is $4,689,540.89. This includes a reserve account of $3,400,350.53. Total liabilities at this time are $431,447.98. Total equity has a surplus balance of $857,732.38. Financial Report

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