President’s Perspective

News Magazine of the Northstar Property Owners Association

Board Members

Michael Plishner, President mplishner@npoa.info Paul Schumacher, Vice President pschumacher@npoa.info Sue Cordonnier, Secretary-Treasurer scordonnier@npoa.info Jackie Apple, Board Member japple@npoa.info Colette Findley, Board Member cfindley@npoa.info

Steve Klei, Board Member sklei@npoa.info

Don Schreuder, Board Member dschreuder@npoa.info

NPOA Staff

Tim Fulton General Manager tim@npoa.info

Nancy Barna Administrative Manager nancy@npoa.info

Sean Cutunilli Operations Manager sean@npoa.info

John Forni Maintenance Manager john@npoa.info

Greg Aiken Design Review & Community Standards Manager greg@npoa.info

Contact NPOA/Northstar Living

2200 North Village Drive Truckee, CA 96161 P| 530.562.0322 F| 530.562.0324 website www.npoa.info

Office Hours (Subject to change) 8am – 4pm, Monday – Saturday

Recreation Center Summer Hours

(subject to change) 7am – 9pm Daily Reservations are no longer required to access the Recreation Center.

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CCMedia - Every Impression Matters P| 775.327.4200 The NPOA Recreation Center is in fullswing as we embrace our first near-normal Summer since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic two-plus years ago. We hope we will be able to continue with many new activities and that we will be able to avoid having things spoiled by wildfire smoke as happened last August. Fingers crossed. Here are some Summer updates:

New Summer Activities: Our Member Activities and Communications Committee, led by Jackie Apple, and with members Colette Findley and Paul Schumacher has been hard at work coming up with new activities to both keep us engaged and to encourage homeowners to get together at our facilities. As of this publication, some of these have already occurred and some are still to come, including: (1) a Tennis “Open House” in late June with our excellent tennis pros to start off the Summer season and to encourage new users to learn about and make the most of the wonderful tennis and pickleball programs available to our community at Northstar; (2) a 4th of July “Ice Cream by the Pool” for kids 17 and younger, with a free ice cream coupon sponsored by NPOA; (3) a midday Poolside Picnic on July 10th for NPOA members with BBQ, food and drinks provided by our poolside vendor, Bear Paw Provisions, with members paying a portion of the costs and NPOA subsidizing the event – a great event for members to get to know one another; (4) a Tennis and Pickleball Round Robin Mixer on July 16th with margaritas and light refreshments, a great opportunity to meet other Northstar players; (5) a Tennis Exhibition Match on July 23rd, with our tennis pros and other local pros battling in mixed doubles and singles matches, and with light refreshments served, compliments of NPOA and Northstar Tennis; (6) a “Jazz by the Pool” event on July 30th, on the grass at the Rec Center, with a local jazz duo; charcuterie plates provided by NPOA and with members bringing their own drinks; (7) Pickleball Clinics twice a week from July 7th through August 13th; (8) Yoga Basics, provided by Tahoe Yoga and Wellness, every Saturday from July 2nd through August 13th. Watch for Eblast reminders and make sure you are signed up to receive all of our email communications. In describing these activities, we need a add a huge shout-out to our Operations Manager, Sean Cutunilli, who has been leading the staff efforts to plan and coordinate all these events as well as oversee our Summer seasonal staff.

Return of Some Old Summer Activities:

For the first time since the start of the pandemic, we are happy to announce the return of the Bear Hut activities for younger kids this Summer. We have four activities leaders and various activities are available daily, with the daily program posted by the pool and at the Entry Desk. Swim lessons Continued on page 6

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are also available this Summer and can be scheduled through the Entry Desk.

Operations of the Poolside Deli: Full deli operations by Bear Paw Provisions, which also runs Copper Lane Café and Provisions in the Village, started Memorial Day weekend and then daily in mid-June. They will be running a compete operation all Summer through Labor Day, weather (and smoke) permitting. New for this year is that BPP has obtained a liquor license and is serving cocktails, wine and beer. Ordering can be done at the deli, or better yet, through their website menu ordering system which can be found at bearpawprovisions.net.

Return of the Post-Annual Meeting Picnic Dinner: Assuming no Covid-related changes, we expect to reinstitute the post-meeting picnic dinner on Saturday, September 3rd, provided by Bear Paw Provisions (BPP). Those who attended the smaller event we did last year after the Annual Meeting will recall what a great job BPP did there and we expect a fabulous picnic dinner which we hope will be well-attended.

Recreation Center Facilities Updates: As you know, last Fall we made some changes to facilities locations, moving most of the gym equipment back into the fitness building, re-opening the game room in the rear building and moving our meeting and gathering space up front to the entry building. The reasons for moving the game room to the rear building were several: (1) Parent Supervision: We believe this is a better location for having parents readily able to monitor their kids’ activities there. Our Rec Center rules state clearly that we do not provide supervision for the game room and that parents are responsible for this; during the day, we permit kids of any age in the game room so long as a parent is also somewhere at the Rec Center facilities -- in the Winter, this would typically be in the gym or the hot tubs; in the Summer, this would typically be around the pool area. Locating the game room in the rear building puts the kids closer to where their parents are using the facilities. (2) Noise in our Office Area: A consistent message from our staff over the years has been that the significant noise level generated from having the game room in the entry building makes work in the adjacent offices difficult and holding meetings there (particularly during Summer afternoons) almost impossible. Relocating the game room to the rear building has eliminated this concern. (3) Facilities Utilization: The rear building – when utilized as an “adult center” – was minimally used and in fact underutilized. Our goal in opening up the entry building for regular guest use is to reverse this, and in