The Sunriver Music Festival announces its 35th season summer lineup. Member tickets go on sale starting April 1.
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE Nature Center.............. 10 Calendar...................... 13 SR Gardener................ 15 Women’s Club.............. 18
SROA News.................. 22 Public Safety................ 30 Classified..................... 37 Commentary................ 39
The Artists Gallery Sunriver is hosting beginner art classes. Bring out your inner Picasso while enjoying wine, snacks and fun!
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S U N R I V E R
S C E N E A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE SUNRIVER OWNERS ASSOCIATION
APRIL • 2012
volume xxxVIII • Number 4
FAST Campers first SHARC swimmers
Don’t forget to
✔ VOTE! Ballots must be
returned no later than noon, April 19
Property exchange information receives little owner attention Communications task force worried owners aren’t engaged enough to make solid decision and vote By John Salzer, SROA Communications Task Force A special election regarding a proposed property exchange between SROA and the Resort (Sunriver Resort Limited Partnership) is under way right now. This election opened March 19, with the mailing of ballots and voter information pamphlets and will close at noon, April 19. The basics of this trade proposal revolve around exchanging the SROA owned South Pool property, adjacent to the Resort’s main lodge and Great Hall, for numerous parcels throughout the community currently owned by the Resort. In addition to the trading of property, the election would also determine whether Resort core development restrictions put in place in the early 1990s could be removed. As the communication task force leader for this measure, I write this article not intending to “plumb the depths” of the election issues, but rather to point you in the right direction in order to get informed. The main goal of our task force is to fully inform the membership of the election measure as well as to encourage each member to participate Turn to Exchange, page 17 SUNRIVER SCENE SUNRIVER OWNERS ASSN. VOLUME XXXVIII • NUMBER 4 P.O. BOX 3278 SUNRIVER, OR 97707
Marti croal photo
Youngsters enjoy a game of basketball at the indoor pool at SHARC. The Three Rivers School students were invited to swim at SHARC so photos of people enjoying the pool could be taken and used for publicity purposes.
Three Rivers School students enrolled in SROA’s after school program (known as FAST Camp) were the first to swim in the SHARC indoor pool. SROA invited the youngsters to test the facilities and be “live bodies” in the pool for publicity images. Supervised by camp leaders and lifeguards, the children had a blast playing in the bubblers, getting doused by the dumping bucket and spinning flower, drifting with the current in the vortex whirlpool, shooting hoops and swimming laps. Based on their reaction to the facility, SHARC is going to be a hit with all ages. The indoor portions of SHARC (pool, locker rooms, meeting rooms, owners living and fitness center) will be open April 21-22, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The indoor facilities will be open full-time April 30-May 25 from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. The outdoor facilities (pools, lazy river, waterslides, tubing hill) begin operations May 26. A ribbon cutting ceremony will take place April 14 at 10 a.m., followed by an open house until 2 p.m. SROA members are encouraged to witness the ribbon cutting. The open house continues April 15, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A gala dinner and dance in the 5,000-square-foot Benham Hall will occur April 28, 5-11 p.m. Tickets are $75. Reservations required by April 16, call 541-585-3144.
So long South Pool: Decommissioned pool turned to rubble By Brooke Snavely, Sunriver Scene The South Pool, Sunriver’s iconic large outdoor pool near Sunriver Lodge, where an estimated three million people swam during 43 years of operation, was demolished in February and March at a cost of $55,000. All that remains are the pool bathhouse and the perimeter fence overlooking areas of crushed rock where the main and children’s wading pools once stood. Before demolition began, a study was conducted to determine if any hazard-
ous materials existed on the site or in the materials to be removed. None were found. Demolition got under way with the scraping away of PebbleFlex decking, a rubbery material that improved traction
for bathers walking barefoot around the pool. That exposed the concrete deck to drills, which were used to break the deck into large chunks. The drilling continued down the walls and into the pool bottom. The two-story fiberglass waterslide was unbolted in sections like a large Lego toy. Workers yielding acetylene torches and metal saws made quick work of the supporting metal frame that held the slide together. Sunriver Turn to Pool, page 5 PRSRT STD. U.S. POSTAGE PAID BEND, OR PERMIT NO. 213