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This Week's Official CLPOA News

Lodge welcomes Celtic Tenors tomorrow
With the flip of a calendar page, March arrives tomorrow and brings with it thoughts of spring and green – Irish green, that is! Now, in the eighth blockbuster year of their coming together, Ireland’s Celtic Tenors will appear in Canyon Lake’s Holiday Bay Room at the Lodge tomorrow evening, March 1, bringing with them their celebrated crossover music from the Emerald Isle.

City Connection: Police Blotter
Canyon Lake resident Judith Ann Black, 38, pled guilty last Wednesday to one felony count of driving under the influence and causing great bodily injury, with enhancements for multiple victims, for a golf cart accident that occurred in the community last Memorial Day weekend.

City Connection: News and Notes
A public hearing will be held during the course of March’s regular Canyon Lake City Council meeting to consider a conditional use permit request submitted by Sports Stop Bar and Grill owner Pete Riley concerning extending the establishment’s operating hours. The Council meeting is scheduled for next Wednesday, March 5, at 7 p.m.

Make opinion known in survey
How readers react when they look at pictures like these are evidence of the dilemma facing members of the Setback Storage Investigation Committee, whose survey appears for the third week in a row on Page A-7 and in the CLPOA section of The Friday Flyer website.

Schedule to begin Goetz bridge construction revised again
Developers for the Audie Murphy Ranch project have again had to revise the date to begin construction of the bridge on Goetz Rd., moving it out to the beginning of June at the earliest because of requirements by a local water utility.

Sewer spill on Canyon Club Dr. quickly contained
On Monday morning around 8:15 a.m., Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District was notified by a Canyon Lake resident that sewage was seeping from a manhole on Country Club Dr. Within 15 minutes the EVMWD lift station crew working in the area responded and promptly stopped the seepage.

Canyon Lake Little League opens 2008 season
The morning skies might have been foreboding and the air a bit chilly last Saturday, but it would have taken more than that to put a damper on opening day festivities for the Canyon Lake Little League’s 2008 season. According to board member Alex Cook, the morning started out busy, with 250 pancake breakfasts sold before the start of ceremonies, while TC Fugate, Creative Arts Pastor for the Canyon Lake Community Church Threshold service, performed for the crowd.

What happened in February of past years?
In 1973, Jay Kegan, Jr., was administrator of the Canyon Lake Property Owners Association, and Ralph Brogdon, Rae Simonson and Don Martin were officers. A waterfront home was advertised in the Lighthouse Magazine with two bedroom and two baths for $44,500, and a condominium in Canyon Lake could be purchased for only $35,000.

Movie Reviews by Reel People: 'Vantage Point'
Today, it seems almost everyone has a different point of view. As we learn from the litany of TV crime solvers, witnesses to any event can offer varying accounts of the facts, depending on perception and vantage point. In this rapidly paced international thriller, we witness an assassination attempt on our President from eight different perspectives.

Business Showcase: Alternative Wellness focuses on holistic health
Healthy eating and healthy living go hand in hand. With more Americans coming to realize just how their fast food culture has widened their hips and shrunk the capacity of their arteries, clogging them with cholesterol, a renewed focus on nutrition, exercise and natural remedies has developed, with many taking a closer look at the things they do to, and put into, their bodies.

School Daze: Stark budget facts related at town hall meeting
During a cold, rainy evening on February 20, close to 150 parents attended a budget presentation held at Canyon Lake Middle School. Like the weather, those at the meeting learned the state’s fiscal crisis was “very unpredictable,” according to District Superintendent Dr. Frank Passarella.

Teen Talk: Got something to say? Wear it on your sleeve
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet. And who would have thought that a name, on a T-shirt of all places, would be such a big deal on the slopes of Mammoth Mountain?

It's Miller Time: Forget the flu - worry about the decorating bug
It never ends! When I left this morning, my house was in its usually state of organized chaos. When I returned, the house looked like it had been robbed. My mom had been bitten by the decorating bug . . . again.

Announcement: Leap Year babies celebrate special birthdays today
It’s a cause for a special celebration when one has a birthday once every four years, as will be the case for a few Canyon Lakers today.

Announcement: High school sweethearts celebrate 60th anniversary
George and Nancy Dahl will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary this weekend with a party at the Canyon Lake home of George’s sister, Lillian Burgess.

Announcement: Book signing extravaganza
Local history fans should mark their calendars for tomorrow, March 1. The largest mass book signing of its kind will be held at Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Corona on that day from 1 to 5 p.m., featuring over 25 authors of the Images of American Series and other local books.

Announcement: Photography awards
Bailey Howe, 14, a freshman at Elsinore High School and Miss Pre-Teen Canyon Lake, won several photography awards at the 2008 Riverside National Fair Date Festival.

Letter: Need checks and balances
While I acknowledge past POA President Travis Montgomery’s views on my “State of Emergency” letter, perhaps he did not grasp the overall purpose, which was to generate ideas that would eventually lead to the betterment of the community.

Letter: Need straight talk
The Board has indicated the homeowner’s monthly assessment fee may be increased this spring. Many of us are still smarting about the last two increases put upon us. Since the main source of POA money comes from you and I, the homeowners, I’d like some “straight talk” from management.

Letter: Flood insurance woes
I have lived here for 23 years and am disabled. Ever since Katrina happened I have been charged $3,000 for flood insurance by my insurance company. This doesn’t seem right to me and I am wondering if other people are experiencing the same problem.

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Board approves 2008-2009 fee schedule
At its regular meeting in February, the Board of Directors approved the fee schedule for the upcoming fiscal year in preparation for the 2008-09 budget Directors will vote on next month. The annual assessment each property owner will pay will be based on that budget.

Meeting and election schedule announced
To comply with the Association’s election policy and outline for Members the sequence of events leading up to the election, the Board approved the Annual Meeting and Election of Directors calendar for the 2008 meeting. “Notice of Intent to Run” forms are now available at the POA office.

Drain line planned for 'nuisance water'
Pardee Homes has been developing the area parallel to Big Tee Dr. and holes #6 and #7 on the Golf Course. The watershed for this development flows into a drainage retention basin and then under Big Tee Dr. onto the Golf Course. This created a need to address the increased nuisance water that will run onto the fairways.

Teachers needed for upcoming computer classes
Because of scheduling conflicts for teachers Stephanie Steenstra and Babette Stubbs, instructors are being sought for two computer classes that will begin in late spring. In most cases, the five-session classes are two hours long.

Sign up for next week's cooking class
Another of Chef Scott Sebring’s popular cooking classes will be held next Wednesday, March 5, at 7 p.m. at the Lodge. The menu will be filet with béarnaise sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy, broccoli with cheese sauce, salad and fruit with sabayon sauce for $25 per person.

More gambling at Cahuilla
Because the first trip was so successful, POA Activities Director Kathie Barnes announces another free bus trip to the Cahuilla Casino in Anza on Tuesday, March 25. The bus will leave from the Lodge parking lot at 9 a.m. and return at 4 p.m.

Meet Your Community Patrol Officer: William Cusick
Officer William Cusick, one of the patrol officers who drive through the streets of Canyon Lake, has been employed by Allied Barton Security Services for five years, beginning with a security job at the Disney offices in Burbank.

ACCording to the ACC: Community Setback, easements
The Community Setback adjacent to each lot is actually part of the private street lot owned by the Association. The Community Setback typically should only be improved with softscape landscaping. This would fall into the category of grass, bark or landscape gravel.

Community Patrol Log

YMCA News

Senior Center Activities

POA Notes

Setback Review Committee Survey

Canyon Lake Property Owners March 2008 Calendar