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Monday Morning Memo
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September 13, 2021 Esperanza Estates Green Valley, AZ
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WHAT'S UP THIS WEEK IN EE?
| BOOK CLUB | 10:00 AM | THURSDAY | RAMADA | |
WATER AEROBICS
| 8:30 AM | MON, WED, FRI | POOL | |
PICKLEBALL GROUP PLAY
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7:00 AM
| EVERY DAY | PICKLEBALL COURTS | | HAPPY HOUR | 4:00 PM | FRIDAY | RAMADA |
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| Saguaro National Park on Labor Day
Photo from Visit Arizona, @zachokay |
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Book Club
From Linda Sielken
This season's EE Book Club is resuming on Thursday, September 16 at 10:00 in the Ramada. Please bring book suggestions for our reading list for the coming season. This Book Club is for both girls and guys, so come on over and share your book suggestions!
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Friday Happy Hour
Come join in for No-host Happy Hour again this Friday, September 17, 4 pm at the Ramada. Bring your own drinks, an appetizer to share (if you want to), and your own tableware. It's a fun time, and a great opportunity to greet your neighbors and meet new ones. |
EEHOA Board Meeting, Monday, September 20
From Dave Sielken, President, EEHOA
The next EEHOA Board Meeting will be Monday, September 20. All residents are welcome to attend via ZOOM (details for joining the meeting will be published in the next MMM). Among the topics of discussion will be the hard work done by the Common Area Maintenance, Gardeners and Weed Control volunteers during this highly productive rainy season. We will also discuss grounds maintenance of private properties and the owners' (residential or not) year round responsibilities for their properties.
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MMM Resuming Weekly Issues
Starting today, Monday, September 13, the MMM will resume weekly issues.
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Regina Valerio
- We are saddened to share that Regina Valerio (Excelso), a long time resident of Esperanza Estates, recently passed away in Green Valley. Regina had suffered from a long illness. Our most sincere condolences to Regina's family and friends.
Welcome new residents to Esperanza Estates!!
- Evelyn Noble, 801 Calle Del Regalo
- John and Rachel Fischer, 1000 Calle Del Regalo
Lost...
- Lost cell phone (black iPhone 6) Monday, September, perhaps during a walk along the EE trail between Portillo and the Pickleball Court or along some of the streets in between. If you have information about the phone, please contact Ron Friesz...
Ron Friesz
Townhouse 4
685 W. Camino Del Bondadoso, GV
(509) 750-6146
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Information for Solar System Owners
From John Nesavich, EE Resident
Dear Esperanza Estates Solar system owners,
I want to share with you a recent conversation I had with TEP. I put a TESLA solar system on my house in Arpril 2021, and I haven't had a utility bill since. I called TEP to see if I could give the excess production to a friend as my system was generating over $100+ worth over what I was using. They told me this $100+ dollar credit that I was accumulating was only good to reduce my bill. I dug deeper into the topic, and Mario, the TEP rep, told me that this credit would be would be wiped out on 10-01-2021 to zero and credit would start over. I pressed him further that this was unfair, and he finally told me that on my 10-01 bill on the very bottom there would be in very fine print a option that required me to contact TEP both in writing and by phone, and they would send me a check for excess production.
Please feel free to call me if you have any questions.
John Nesavich
303-880-3261
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'ONE TOTAL WHOLE': Whigham's Southwestern home style
From Green Valley News, September 1, 2021
Esperanza Estates and its developer, Earl Whigham's, architecture was featured recently in the  Green Valley News.
An Earl Whigham home is easy to spot - look for dramatic sculptural-shaped walls that surround and blend into the home. Along with unique, highly textured adobe-looking exteriors, traditional Spanish arches, red territorial tile roofs, bell towers, and niches for statues, Whigham homes exemplify what is known in design as The One Total Whole.
The style stands out. Whigham built more than 2,000 homes in the Tucson-Green Valley area. He drew inspiration from Santa Fe adobe homes and Alamo-style architecture, and used a mix of Sinaloa- and Pueblo-style finishes for the exterior walls that resembled hand-mudded adobe. By offsetting the concrete blocks, the walls replicate the imperfect look of sunbaked adobe bricks. The Sinaloa-Pueblo craftsmanship makes Whigham homes unique.
Earl and his wife, Kitty, became interested in Green Valley and senior living in the desert. He envisioned Esperanza Estates as an ideal senior living community and built there from 1976 to 1986.
Using the Sinaloa- and Pueblo-style exterior finishes, Whigham used texture to add emphasis. His signature texture is what makes the homes so recognizable. They stand out. The same element is repeated in Esperanza Estates' long streets of houses and quads, which come together in an aesthetically pleasing unity. How better to create a sense of community than to create a harmonious dwelling that connects people and their homes?
Esperanza Estates is a thriving neighborhood with lots of people willing to help maintain the unique look of a Whigham subdivision. HOA president, Dave Sielken, pointed out how well the layout of the homes works together for senior living. People can interact with neighbors or be as private as they want to be. Among the strengths of the community is that residents have pride of ownership and draw on people's expertise to help keep up the unique Whigham subdivision.
One of the interesting design elements of the houses or the quad layouts is the use of color. Individual houses that are connected by walls are painted the same color, such as tan, but the next series of houses may be white. The unity of colors make the individual facades look larger and harmonious. Artwork and mosaics adorn all of the niches that are generously used in a Whigham home. Sielken says the Whigham-built walls are very thick and make these homes cooler in the heat of the summer.
To read the entire article, click on this link in the Green Valley News.
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Let's keep Esperanza Estates laughing!!
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