Monday Morning Memo

December 14, 2020                Esperanza Estates                    Green Valley, AZ
EE Mystery Spot
Have you seen this beautiful nativity scene in our neighborhood?
photo by Hugh Rhine
WHAT'S UP THIS WEEK IN EE?
GARDENERS
9:00 AM
TUESDAY
MESQUITE PARK
WOMEN'S PICKLEBALL
10:00 AM
WED & FRI
PICKLEBALL COURTS
JINGLE BELLS PARADE
11:00 AM
THURSDAY
EE STREETS
PICKLEBALL GROUP PLAY
8:00-10:00 AM
EVERY DAY
PICKLEBALL COURTS
 NEWS
Get Your Hat Ready!! Jingle Bells Christmas Golf Cart Parade 
This Thursday, Dec 17

The First Annual Esperanza Estates Jingle Bells Christmas Golf Cart Parade will be Thursday, December 17, at 11 amparaders gather at Flag Park at 10:45.
Got a Christmas hat?  Got a hat you can fix up for Christmas?  We are donning our Christmas hats for the Jingle Bells Parade on Dec 17....both Watchers and Paraders.  Paraders are decorating their vehicles too, if they want to.  Our roving photographer will be wandering around taking pictures of Christmas hats, so "wear 'em if you got 'em!"
Everyone is welcome, even if you don't do the hat thing.  Mark your calendars and come join in the fun!
Don't Forget Our Landscape Crew
From Cyndie Alto
Thanks to everyone who has already donated to the Christmas gratuity for our Points West Landscape Crew. The team is very conscientious, gracious, dependable, hard working and really take pride in working for Esperanza Estates and keeping our neighborhood beautiful.  I am taking up a Christmas donation for their hard work for us throughout the year.  If you would like to donate, please contact me or drop your donation by our home before December 17th.  Or, we'll also be taking donations at the Jingle Bells Parade on Dec 17.  Call Cyndie Alto 509-881-7569 or visit us at 184 S Camino Holgado.  
Lend a Hand Give A Can
From Sharon Falor
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the food drive.  If anyone has a food donation but is unable to drop it off, I am willing to pick it up at your home.  Food insecurities are very high this year, so our contributions are very important.  Please text or call me if you have a bag for me to pick up: Sharon Welsh Falor 928-853-3474! Or the drop off location is 1180 W Circulo Del Sur.  
Stay Well My Friends and Happy Holidays....Sharon
Gardeners
From Mary Harp
The Gardeners will meet on Tuesday, December 15, from 9:00 until approx. 10:30 a.m. at Mesquite Park on Holgado.   Bring tools you want to work with to clean up the park and do some transplanting.  Practice COVID protocol. Call Rod Harp at 520.329.9103 if you have any questions.
EEHOA Board of Directors Candidates
From Ken Lindeman, HOA Board Secretary
Ballots for three open seats on the Board of Directors have been delivered to homeowners.  Ballots can be mailed or deposited in the ballot box at the Ramada. The candidates are Kay Bonham, Sharon Falor, John Nesavich, Gary Rautio, and Kevin Welsh.  Their bio's can be accessed online here.  Voting is in process now, and the results of the election will be announced at the 2021 Annual EEHOA meeting in January. If you have not received a ballot, please call Ken Lindeman, 970-577-3395.
Book Club
The EE Book Club braved the chilly weather and met last Thursday at the Ramada for their Christmas book exchange.  What a dedicated group of book enthusiasts! The next meeting is January 14, at 10 am at the Ramada.  The book to read for January is When All Is Said by Anne Griffen, leader Lynn Theder.
2021 EEHOA Dues 
From Dean Lockwood, HOA Board Treasurer
The bills for 2021 HOA dues have been delivered to all residents. Thanks to EE residents who have already paid their 2021 HOA dues.  Dues are due on January 1, 2021. You can drop your payment off (please include the Owner Information form) at the Ramada in the black Suggestion Box, or you can mail it in the envelope provided with the dues notice.  Please call Dean Lockwood at 612-240-0945 with questions.
December EEHOA Board Meeting
The next EEHOA Board Meeting is next Monday, December 21, at 1 pm. The meeting will be held online via Zoom.  Directions for attending the meeting will be sent out later this week.  All EE homeowners are welcome and encouraged to attend. 
What!!!  Dog Poop Problems AGAIN??
Good Grief!  We have to say it again, "PLEASE PICK UP AND PROPERLY DEPOSIT YOUR DOG POOP!"  Why is this a never ending problem?  Now, get this....sometimes poop is picked up and then left lying in poop bags along the EE trails! What's up with that?!!  Do these people think we have poop bag pickup in EE?  We don't!!  The Poop Patrol is positively prostrated.  Words fail us....

          Poop-------------->  Bag--------------->  Your Trash       
FUNNY BONE

ME: (sobbing my heart out, eyes were swollen, nose red)...I can't see you anymore. I am not going to let you hurt me like this again!
TRAINER: It was a sit-up. You did one sit-up.
Thanks Neighbor Jim Sollars!
You know you're old when you go to bed at the time you used to go out...
Thanks Neighbor Barbara Copeland
"A vodka please."
"Umm, this is McDonalds."
"OK, a McVodka please."
Source: Unknown
I wonder what my parents did to fight boredom before the internet....
I asked my 17 brothers and sisters, and they didn't know either.
Source:  Unknown
Please share your jokes....Judy Hayes at jkhayes70@gmail.com.  
Let's keep Esperanza Estates laughing!!
The Mystery Spot is the Nativity Scene at the Pizza Oven, compliments of Kevin and Linda Welsh!
Quick Links... 

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