1) First Saturday Breakfast 4th!
2) Neighborhood Watch Meeting Monday 13th from 6pm to 7pm
3) Monday 13th Board meeting 7PM
4) USDA Food Distribution is on Monday 13th.
5) PotLuck this month is on Saturday 25th!
Our little Community’s Saturday Breakfast is going on at the Center today, from 8-11a.m. Located at 65-336 Winters Road – 4 miles East of Border Avenue and 5 miles West of Lear Avenue - the Community Center is the hub of Copper Mountain Mesa. When Neighbors gather, wonderful things happen and we hope to welcome you to one of our Community Events very soon.
I was unable to attend the first Potluck Party of 2012, but Bob Deloyd was kind enough to share his culinary experiences with us: “I headed down to our Potluck with some turkey stuffing and rice. There, almost thirty of our community’s finest showed up. Tim Atzei cooked up his Mac and something. Elaine brought her family: husband Kevin, and two sons Timothy and Matthew (their first time at the community center). Karry Kearns provided us all with beverages. Dave Royer baked up a fancy French (I thought he wrote trench) lemon tart pie thingy. Marybeth Rubin made some curry bites that were delicious. Marybeth and husband Alan had property here for thirty years and just moved in permanently six months ago. Chris Jonas made his famous world renowned macaroni salad. Rose Matich brought along her husband Joe and steamed up her peas and corn for us to enjoy. Mary and Chris Koval created a lemon pumpkin dump cake (Mighty fine) and chicken mushroom mac casserole. Ruth Malton surprised us with red jello. Marie Morrison whipped up a German Chocolate Cake! There was plenty of fun in the Thrift Room especially when young Cody was clowning around with a woman’s wig and a bra: the girls got a kick out of that.” Thanks Bob: that young Cody is turning out to be quite the clown and certainly enjoys making the girls giggle!
The USDA Food Give-away is on February 13th: second Monday of this month, because the 3rd Monday falls on President’s Day. With the give-away from 8:30-11a.m; the Neighborhood Watch meeting at 6p.m. and the monthly Board meeting at 7, Monday February 13th will be a very Community-oriented Day! Don’t forget Bingo on Tuesdays; stay well!
ONE YEAR AGO THIS WEEK The Year 2011
Annelies Kuiper 02/05/2011
Our little Community says a big “Thank You” to Bob Deloyd for his many
years of service. We will miss his ‘down-home’, weekly columns, but he
will continue to run our website, www.coppermountainmesa.com. I know
we all wish Bob the very best and I am honored to take over his
column. I was born in Kenya, East Africa, where I lived for 18 years.
After traveling extensively, I immigrated to California in 1982.
Author of the “Kenya Cowgirl” series, as well as various short stories
and poems; I am also a Massage Therapist. I have one son; my partner
Jim has two children; we have two foster children and between them,
they have given us a whole herd of grandbabies! When I moved up to the
Mesa in 1993, I was disillusioned, heartbroken and just wanted to fall
off the Planet! I am so very grateful to the Desert and our little
Community, for restoring my faith in Life and helping me get back on
my feet. Several years ago, I was asked to take over the Community
Newsletter and soon after, I became a Board member. I’m also part of
the Membership Committee, with Kathy Quinn, Daniel Gray and Bob
Deloyd.
Onto Community events: our February Breakfast is from 8 to 11am today,
at the Community Center, 65-336 Winters Road; 4 miles east of Border,
5 miles west of Lear. Volunteers: Steve Tuttle, Ray Foyil, Daniel
Gray, Mary Helen Tuttle, Kathy Quinn with her Kids and Patrick Whalen
take care of the food preparation, service and clean-up, while Ila
Foyil and I take turns as cashier. Membership is not required to enjoy
our fabulous Breakfast and we’d love to see you! Tire recycling is
also open today until noon: no rims please. Don’t forget, our weekly
supper and Bingo party is every Tuesday night, starting at 5:30. If
you have Mesa News you’d like me to include in the column, please
e-mail me at cmmcanewsletter@gmail.com; or leave me a message at the
Community Center: (760)362-5212. Until next time, stay well, Annelies.
FIVE YEARS AGO THIS WEEK The Year 2007
By Bob DeLoyd 02/03/2007
Our little Community wants ya all to remember that we have Bingo every Tuesday night from 6pm. There ain’t a lot of folks attending anymore and we’d be mighty honored if ya all come on over to our community center, it’s a good way to meet yer neighbors and make friends. The folks who do attend are a fine and descent lot and if yer new to Bingo they’d be mighty please to show ya the ropes.
Birthdays for February are: Dennis McDermott, Stevie Villarreal, Pamela Waddey, Marcia McKinney, Stuart Watson, John Waddell, and Earl Wilbert.
Thought for the week: If you’re a procrastinator like me, you might want to try the 5 minute rule. The rule is simple: you get up from your couch and spend 5 minutes on a project you been letting slide. Chances are you’ll get involved spending additional time on the project; possibly finishing it.
TEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK The Year 2002 By Bob DeLoyd 02/02/2002
Our little Community had a wonderful potluck last Saturday. Everyone ate like there was no tomorrow and there were still lots of leftovers to take home. After potluck I took a look at the now cleaned out baseball field. It just needs a little more work done then we can start spring training. Play ball anyone?
Tuesday we had a light dusting of snow up here. My dog, Blackey, didn't know what to think of it and ran around trying to bite the flakes. Had the new woodstove pumping out the heat that day.
First of the month breakfast will be today, Saturday. Starts at 8 A.M. and goes till 10 A.M. Then next Saturday, 2/9, we'll have our Sweetheart Breakfast, featuring champagne, ham and scrambled eggs, and lots of extras. Our regular monthly Board Meeting will follow the Sweetheart Breakfast that starts at 8 A.M.
The Bingo Bunch would like you to know that they are adding a Power Ball game to their Tuesday night games. Come join their friendly game.
Bob Seeley told me that the FDA food program will be on Monday 02/11. Starts at 9 A.M. and ends at 11 A.M. Bob has been the person in charge of the program in our community for several years and we all owe him and his helpers a heap of thanks for a job well done.
Thought for the week: I am not loosing my memory; just making room for all the new stuff.
Our little Community’s column in this extraordinary local newspaper, has demanded my focused attention on Copper Mountain Mesa, every Thursday noon-hour deadline, for the last 52 weeks! With an average of 345 words per week, that’s almost 18,000 words: an epic epistle; an entire year with 100 square miles of stories! I My hope is that the generations of children and grandchildren who have yet to be born, will one day read the stories in the Copper Mountain Mesa columns and learn more about where their people came from and what kind of lives they led. History, if you will; or, in many cases: Herstory!
Joking aside, writing this column has been a joyful, learning experience for me. Obviously, some weeks it was more difficult to find subject matter than others, but for the most part the constant line-up of Neighborhood news, encounters and stories, dotted with my own experiences, have kept the column writing itself. I have had more reaction to some columns than others: the rodent repelling; scrapmetal hauling and Neighborhood watch meeting segments have attracted the most Community response. I have received mostly positive comments about the Copper Mountain Mesa column: please accept my humble thanks!
My predecessor, Bob Deloyd, who wrote this column for 11 years, continues to run our Community website: www.coppermountainmesa.com. My favorite feature, is where Bob displays the latest column, followed by his own columns from 5 and 10 years ago. It’s a fascinating comparison of Life in our Community back then and how Life is now.
The Tuesday night Bingo and Supper party has been around forever and attracted 17 players last week. Steve Tuttle, Earl Wilbert and Ray Foyil served Chicken and Rice for dinner. We were very happy to see Mary Reeves and Claudia Bridges. Their busy schedules with Outreach means we don’t get to see them as much. Welcome, Ladies! Ruthie Malton won the big money with U-Pik-Em: she was so happy and all-a-wiggle with excitement! You go, Ruthie!
The Potluck party starts at 4pm today and the monthly Saturday Breakfast is next week. Until then, stay well!
A Video Blog or Some Such by Bob DeLoyd September 03 2011
Community Center located 4 miles east of Border Ave, 5 miles west of Lear Ave at:
65-336 Winters Road (760)362-5212
Newsletter: Fall 2011 By Annelies Kuiper
Hello Everyone:
During the Summer, a Neighborhood Watch group was formed: in an effort
to combat the illegal scrapping and dumping in our area. Many of us
have recently seen and heard big trucks: either thundering west on
Pole Line or East on Winters, before turning North on Coppermoon: to
drop off and pick up huge containers, allegedly full of scrap metal.
Our mission is not to spy on neighbors and report every petty crime;
but simply to keep Copper Mountain Mesa pristine and safe for all of
us fortunate enough to live out here. Meetings take place at 6p.m. on
the 2nd Monday of every month; preceding the monthly Board meetings,
which follow at 7p.m. Please join us.
After the Summerbreak, our Community Center reopened on Saturday,
September 3rd, with the monthly Saturday Breakfast. Tuesday-night
Bingo, the monthly Board meetings on the 2nd Monday and the USDA Food
Give-aways, from 8-11a.m. on the 3rd Monday of every month, also
resumed. The October 1st Breakfast was a record-breaker, as we served
60 people.
This year, the Membership Committee will host our annual Community
B-B-Q” on Saturday November 12th. In an effort to persuade more
Neighbors to become involved in their Community, the Annual Community
Board Meeting will be held on the same day as the
B-B-Q. This meeting is from 11a.m. until noon. Volunteers: Steve
Tuttle, Ray Foyil and John Demers, will then put on their Chef hats
and prepare a delicious BBQ’d lunch. With $1.00 Hotdogs and $2.00
Hamburgers, plus all the yummy Fixin’s and Desserts, Community
participation will be rewarded most deliciously! We’ll also have
coffee, water and the soda machine; or…bring a cooler with your
favorite beverages. Then, at 2p.m., during the General Membership
meeting (which rarely lasts longer than 30 minutes) the old Year will
be closed and the new Board Members voted in. This will be followed by
an Ice Cream Social, with mouth-watering ice-creams in a variety of
delicious flavors, provided by Indy Amos and ‘Joshua Treets Ice
Cream’. At this point, there will also be live Music, provided by
excellent local Musicians and we encourage you to dance and cavort
joyously!
Gather your Friends and Family and come on down for the Party!
The Thrift Room will have a special Sale on that day and is also open
during all other events, or by appointment.
Remember, Tuesday night Bingo is back in full swing too and the
‘U-Pik-Em’ and ‘Blackout’ pots are full for the winning! Every Tuesday
evening from 5:30-9p.m., Neighbors get together for a delicious Supper
and a good game of Bingo. For a $10/= buy-in, we hope you’ll join us
soon.
Some of the dishes at the Pot-Luck Party - held from 4p.m. on the last
Saturday of every month – are unusual, creative and quite scrumptious!
Please join us and bring your own favorite dishes to share. Many
people bring a main course and a dessert, but any culinary
contribution is welcome.
We are planning our Annual Member Recognition Thanksgiving Pot Luck
Party on Thursday November 24th, from 1p.m. Turkey, Stuffing and
Mashed potatoes will be provided. Please join us: Membership and a
food-dish to share are required for this event. We will be taking
applications for our Christmas dinner give-away for the truly needy in
our Community. To sign up, call Mary Helen Tuttle at the Center:
(760)362-5212 , before December 20th or e-mail us at:
cmmcanewsletter@gmail.com.
Also, we respectfully urge you to renew your Annual Membership in the
Copper Mountain Mesa Community Association. The form on the back of
this page may be used for new or renewing memberships. The Board
recently approved upping the dues to $10.00 per person annually; the
first increase in Years! We ask everyone to renew in the Fall, so we
can send updated, valid Member cards out in the same mailing: cutting
down on administrative mix-ups! We’re all volunteers at the Center,
doing the best we can to keep the Community Center doors open: both as
a Red Cross Disaster Center and as a social haven for our
Neighborhood. Memberships and proceeds from our Events are the only
income the Association has and we need your support to keep the “Hub”
of our Community open and running. We’re always looking for new
Volunteers and it’s a lot of fun working with Neighbors for the
improvement of our Community! Hope to see you at the Center soon!
Stay well, Annelies
Well, here's hopefully the beginning of some more articles on my further gardening endeavors.
The flowers are of a desert penstemon according to the seed packet. They are readying to bloom again this spring so they are not annuals but how long a life they have I can't say. In the background is a bed of garlic and in the lower right hand corner some carrot tops are just showing.
The penstemmons have shed their seed and this year the offspring are up and growing throughout the garden. And to think of how many times I tried to get these to sprout with nothing to show for my efforts. So, along with an unknown and tall growing grass, johnny jump-ups, and California poppies, there is now a new resident "weed" in the garden.
So this is it for this note. There is more to come so stay tuned.
Roger
Go Greener with LED LIGHTS November 2011
By Rob Lowbitz
Get Greener at Home with LED Lighting
Let’s face it: there are so many ways to go green we might not know how to begin. Sure it’s easy enough to take out the recyclables every week, turn off the water when not in use, and flipping off a light switch when leaving a room. But these easy steps have been preached for years. And with the growing awareness about how important it is to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle, a lot of people wonder what exactly they can do?
If you think the only way to lend another helping hand is converting a major portion of your backyard to a compost heap or shelling out tens of thousands of dollars on a full solar panel spread on your rooftop, don’t worry. There are plenty of simpler, and cheaper, ways to get greener and do your part. One of which is to turn on to LED lights.
Think about it. What do you use more energy in your house for than lighting? We already talked about flipping off the light switches sure but what about all the time spent actually burning through light bulbs? The energy to light your house on both the interior and exterior is huge!
LED lights will address this issue and change the way you look at lighting, something so commonplace we never even consider doing it differently. Using LED lights will save exponentially more energy if you outfit your house with them. They can last anywhere from 25,000 to 50,000 hours. This is a major difference compared to Incandescent light bulbs, which only last from 1,000 to 2,000 hours. Imagine how often you buy light bulbs now. Then imagine having bulbs that last 25 times longer!
And because LED lights use less energy, they burn at a much cooler temperature. This makes them especially safe for any household with young children running around.
LED lights cost more than other lights upfront but because they last so long and use so little energy your wallet will thank you in the long run. The best places to start converting your lighting are in the places where you use lights the most. Think porch lights and lamps on this one. If you have an overhanging light over the dinner table this would be an excellent place to install LED lights too. Next up start in on other areas of your house like the garage or any spare rooms. It is okay to take this in steps and make the conversion gradual.
After a while, you may not be able to remember when you even installed the LED lights since it will be so long ago. Though you probably will not forget how much money you are saving on the electric bill and not having to go out and buy more light bulbs all the time.
LED lights - simply one of the easiest ways to get a little greener and help the planet!
SPECIAL NOTICES:
Shati has been FOUND! Ok, I know this has been here for a long time Shati been home for many months now So dog dang it! give me something else to post!
The time has come to take a bold jump into the unknown and fight the beast with yer bare hands. To go the way of yer ancestors and build a fire for warmth, to slay a critter for food. To understand the meaning of hunger in a time of plenty. To spit in the eyes of yer antagonist! To howl at the moon... And enjoy life! LIVE!
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Our little Community wants ya all to remember that we have Bingo every Tuesday night from 6pm. There ain’t a lot of folks attending anymore and we’d be mighty honored if ya all come on over to our community center, it’s a good way to meet yer neighbors and make friends. The folks who do attend are a fine and descent lot and if yer new to Bingo they’d be mighty please to show ya the ropes. 
Our little Community had a wonderful potluck last Saturday. Everyone ate like there was no tomorrow and there were still lots of leftovers to take home. After potluck I took a look at the now cleaned out baseball field. It just needs a little more work done then we can start spring training. Play ball anyone?
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