COPPER MOUNTAIN MESA
Community Association

Our October 17th “End-of-Summer-Blast B-B-Q” was a great success and we had a good turnout. I autographed a few copies of my book and thoroughly enjoyed seeing old Friends and meeting new ones. The food was fabulous, as Steve Tuttle and Ray Foyil barbecued the delicious hamburgers and hotdogs to perfection. Kathy Quinn and Mary Helen Tuttle teased each other mercilessly about whose dish was more delicious: Kathy’s potato salad or Mary Helen’s bean salad! Bob DeLoyd brought his camera and took photos of all of us having fun in the Sun: they’re on the website if you want to check it out: www.coppermountainmesa.com.

The next Community gathering was the Annual Member Recognition Thanksgiving Pot Luck Party. Steve and Ray were in the Community Center kitchen by 4a.m. and had four Turkeys roasted to perfection. They left the smallest turkey unstuffed just for little old me and my gluten intolerance: I was so touched by their kindness and consideration. Sixty people showed up for the Party and everyone brought the most delicious dishes to enhance the superbly juicy Turkeys. I got to hang out with Earl Wilbert and Marie Morrison, as we shared stories of “Life on the Mesa”. He shared his bottle of wine with us and we got a little tipsy, giggling like teenagers. It was a lovely party and we gained some new Members.

Our beloved Marcie Hines, who has done such a great job running the Thrift Room all these years, lost her husband Lee over the Thanksgiving holiday. Lee Hines was a Board Member and a regular at all Community Center events. Marcie: we’re so sorry for your loss and heartache. We love you and we’re here for you. Our condolences and very best wishes to You and your Family.

This is a difficult and painful season for many of us and for those living alone, it can be a time of great depression and loneliness. May we all be enveloped in warmth and love this Holiday Season: each and every one of us. And may 2010 be kinder to us than 2009 has been: Phew!

So…on to Business: Our Fabulous Saturday Breakfast continues on the first Saturday of every month, from 8-11a.m.

Recycle your Tires inside the fenced compound, behind the Fire Station, on the first two Saturday mornings of every month. Please, no rims and no dumping after hours.

Tuesday night Bingo is still held every Tuesday from 6.30-9p.m. and Neighbors get together for a delicious Supper and a good game of Bingo. For a $10/= buy-in, with U-Pik-Em and Blackout pots for the winning, we hope you’ll join us soon.

The Community Board Meeting will now be held on the second Monday of every month, starting at 7p.m. We changed the day and time, because we are hoping more Community Residents will be able to attend our meetings, after work, during the week. Meetings are fun and becoming more lively as more Folks attend.

Our USDA Food Give-away is always on the 3rd Monday of every month from 9-11a.m. and supplies good staple foods to the Needy. Chris Jonas and his Crew always do a great job organizing this and they help a lot of hungry People.

Some of the dishes at the Pot-Luck Party - held from 4p.m. on the last Saturday of every month – are quite simply D-licious! Please join us and bring your own culinary creations to share.

The Thrift Room is open during all events, or by appointment. Please call the Center at (760)362-5212 for more information.

We are still taking applications for our Christmas dinner give-away for the truly needy in our Community; but we only have a few more days to sign up. Call Board Member Rob Reese at (760)362-4546 or e-mail us at: cmmcanewsletter@gmail.com. Most of you have already renewed your 2010 Annual Membership in C.M.M.C.A. and your updated Membership cards have either already been sent to you, or are attached to this Newsletter. However, if you still need to re-up, please find a Membership Renewal form on the back of this page, for your convenience.

Looking back, I feel encouraged and grateful. We’ve known tough times on the Mesa before, but 2009 was really hard for a lot of us. However, tough times make us rise to the occasion, reach out and try harder. I’ve seen a more closely-knit Community this year and more kindness in Neighbors’ eyes. As always, thanks to all of You who continue to keep this little Desert Ship afloat! I wish you Happy Holidays and a Marvellous New Year. Until next time…

Stay well, Annelies Kuiper

Karen's Corner
By Karen Van Noort
00/00/2010

We're all waiting for Karen's Next Story
and if you want her to hurry up and write something about her adventures
please email her at coppermountainmesa@hotmail.com
and I'll make sure she gets them!

National Do Not Call Registry "The National Do Not Call Registry gives you a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls at home. Most telemarketers should not call your number once it has been on the registry for 31 days. If they do, you can file a complaint at this Website. You can register your home or mobile phone for free."

Opt Out Credit Card Prescreen "Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Consumer Credit Reporting Companies are permitted to include your name on lists used by creditors or insurers to make firm offers of credit or insurance that are not initiated by you ("Firm Offers"). The FCRA also provides you the right to "Opt-Out", which prevents Consumer Credit Reporting Companies from providing your credit file information for Firm Offers."

DMA’s Mail Preference Service "With DMA's MPS you can remove your name from DMA member prospect lists. Please note that signing up with MPS may prevent you from receiving mail you want, such as new catalogs, coupons, announcements about new businesses in your community, and notices of special offers. Members of the DMA are required to use our name-removal service, and all marketers are encouraged to use it. Because some mailings are prepared far in advance, please allow 30-90 days for your registration with MPS to become fully effective."
Note: At one time they charged a $1.00 fee for the service but now it's free. You will need to provide a credit card number if you do it online, or you can also mail in the form.

DTV converter box with the $40 coupon that the government sends out (1-888-DTV-2009 or online at WWW.DTV2009.GOV). I had earlier called the station (County Service Area 70 TV-5 at 367-1833), which sends our signal over UHF; a nice lady told me we wouldn’t be needing converters in our area. But I bought one anyways just in case I wanted to someday sell my old analog TV set. Well I connected it to my TV just to make sure it all functioned ok and wasn’t really expecting to receive anything. I turned the dang thing on; it did a scan, and found four channels! Unfortunately three were paid advertisements and one was a Spanish station. I tried it later that night and found that the three advertisement ones changed to Korean and Armenian languages, while the third played Spanish. I watched a little of a Korean soap opera, but had trouble keeping up with the subtitles. I’ll tell you one thing the picture I received was crystal clear just like satellite! Maybe someday we can get some American-speaking channels on it. That would be nice!

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ROGER SMITH'S

DESERT GARDEN
By Roger Smith
00/00/2010

We're all waiting for Roger's Next Story
and if you want him to hurry up and write something about his Gardening adventures
please email him at coppermountainmesa@hotmail.com
and I'll make sure he gets them!

I’m so happy to share the launching of my new Website: www.kenyacowgirl.com which includes info ‘About the Author’ and my “Kenya Cowgirl” Book Series, plus my Photo Gallery, Product information and more… Please forward this e-mail to all your Friends, Loved Ones and Contacts and ask them to forward it on to all their Contacts, etc. Help me launch the “Kenya Cowgirl” Book Series into CyberSpace!

Many thanks and lots of Love
Annelies Kuiper
xox

Annelies Kuiper lives in our little community and is a professional writer: "Kenya Cowgirl" Uhuru International 1990. Also she is a board member of the Copper Mountain Mesa Association. Annelies has decided to return to her place of birth "Kenya" and wants to share her adventure with us. Kenya has been going through a period of unrest lately... Click Here to read her emails from Kenya

Something interesting happened close to where we live on Mesa Rd. Perhaps something for your website. I am sending it to Hi Desert Star as well.
At about 9.00 pm on June 24 going about 3/4 of mile west on Mesa Rd from Border we discovered a 25ft trailer blocking the Rd completely. A white pick-up truck was hooked up to the trailer, but no sign of human beings.
We called Sheriffs department who referred us to CHP. The call was logged at CHP office around 9:30 pm. CHP promised to investigate.
In the morning I walked to the trailer. The truck was gone. I called CHP again. I was referred to Code Enforcement who referred me to the County traffic divison. I was informed that the Mesa Rd is County maintained from Border to Sunburst. The trailer is sitting on Mesa Rd between Sunburst and Sunset
Confused I called CHP again. Apparently no officer investigated the trailer June 24. However this morning June 25, Officer Moffit CHP showed up by the trailer. Le Fevre's Towing company is as far as we know in the process of removing the trailer today (11.00 Am).
I want to give credit to CHP and Le Fevre's Towing who responded and took some action quickly. Many of us are using Mesa Rd to get to Border and are just upset that some people don't have respect for the environment and just dump stuff in the desert causing headaces for us living here.
Attached are a pictures of Officer Moffit and the trailer as well as the trailer itself. (Used by permission of Officer Moffit)
Lennart Nyberg

Hi Bob
I don't really have to ask what's new with you all up there read your site every week to keep up! my daughter Anna does too. One of these days I'll just have to come up and see you all again and maybe have breakfast or play a little Bingo! We'll shall see, might just do that.
Just wanted to say hi to everyone and tell you all what is new with my family. My oldest Son Dave is in the Air Force stationed in Wyoming. He is married as all you know and he has two boys, Zane 3 and Owen 2 will enclose pictures later. But the real news is my Daughter Anna you all know she got married a few years ago cause we had her shower for that at the center. She now lives in Houston Texas and works for NASA. Anyway She is going to have her first in August and we know already it's going to be a boy. Then some of you remember my youngest BJ well he is all grown up now and owns 2 Fork Lift sales, repair and rental shops sown here in Santa Fe Springs. Then there is me well same stuff different day with me. Just getting older like the rest of you. So that is my life with my kids all in a nutshell.
Just really wanted to tell you hi and let you know I think about you all often. Please say hi to everyone for me! Hope to see you all soon,
Jackie Johnston