Association News

From the Board of Directors

Our mission as the SCOV Board is to lead in maintaining and enhancing the quality of life in Sun City Oro Valley as an active adult community.

All Board minutes, agendas and reports are available online and in the SCOV Library. Board meetings are open to residents.

Board of Directors

mlabarberascov@gmail.com

Many Ways to Serve

by Mike LaBarbera

I want to congratulate Jane Fairchild and Eileen Buskirk on being the two newly elected Board members who take office on May 1. They will serve and support our community on the Board of Directors (BOD) for the next three years. I am also honored to serve as the BOD president for the next year.

With the never-ending winter weather gone, we welcome our Arizona summer. Seasonal residents are migrating to their summer homes to be near family and cooler weather. For the rest of us full-timers, the pace of SCOV slows down, and we can enjoy our amenities with some breathing room. Club meetings, artisan studios, and lap lanes are easier to reserve, and getting a table at The Views Restaurant is not an issue. I moved to SCOV during the month of May and found it satisfying to be able to go to club events without overcrowding while getting to meet and know more residents.

Memorial Day is a time to remember our fallen Veteran heroes. Their military sacrifices were borne to serve our country domestically and abroad. The first national celebration of the holiday, called Decoration Day, took place at Arlington National Cemetery in 1868, where both Confederate and Union soldiers were buried. The name Memorial Day was officially adopted in 1968. Please don’t wish anyone a “Happy Memorial Day” as it was established to honor troops who gave their lives in service to America. If you are able, attend the Monday, May 29, Memorial Day ceremony at the Marana Veterans Cemetery, 8 AM, 15950 N. Luckett Rd., Marana, AZ.

SCOV is an amazing place to live and play. Consider donating your time to our community. Volunteers are needed in a myriad of capacities around SCOV. Look to volunteer at the Library, at your favorite club as an officer, by collating the Tipster or as a member of one of the many Association committees or the Board of Directors. Volunteers are the backbone of our community. Giving back to SCOV is a rewarding, immeasurable, way to meet new friends and socialize, which promotes good health.

mwade@suncityorovalley.com

520-917-8080

Be Involved in Copper Center Decisions

May I take a minute to remind those of you owners who are leaving for the summer to update your summer address online: Members > Member Services > This & That or in the Administration office at the Welcome Center?

When I first came to Arizona about 14 years ago, I remember dreading the summer heat, and I’d walk around with a terry cloth hand towel draped around my neck to wipe the sweat from my brow. Now I welcome the hot days and am cold when I go back up north. I’ve become accustomed to working in the heat or staying inside in the air-conditioning when it becomes brutally hot. I can even golf at 105 degrees pretty comfortably as long as I have plenty of water to drink. It took a few years, but I became acclimated to the heat and now quite enjoy it.

When SCOV, then Vistoso, first purchased the Welcome Center building, there were some who did not like it and thought it was a waste of money. Now we praise the foresight of the Board who made that purchase and wonder what we would ever do without it. When the idea to renovate the Fitness Center first came up about a decade ago, I imagine there were some who thought it would not get that much use, and that spending that amount of money on the project was not wise. Now we can see what a great addition the Fitness Center facility has been for SCOV.

Once again, we have an opportunity to expand and create something in the Copper Center that future generations will be able to appreciate. As we move forward in determining what should be done with that building, I encourage you to share your opinion by attending meetings and expressing your thoughts. You may or may not see your thoughts match with most residents, but your voice will have been heard and your ideas considered. And who knows, once your thoughts are shared, others who may not have thought about your idea may embrace it and may change their minds. Your idea may be the one that future generations look at and say, “What would we ever do without that?” If on the other hand, you don’t like something that is put in the Copper Center, hang on a few years and maybe you too, will come to like it.

Please have a safe summer wherever you go and whatever you do.

May Board of Directors Meetings

Study Session: Thursday, May 11, 9 AM

Board Meeting: Tuesday, May 23, 9 AM

Meetings take place in Activity Center/Kiva and on Zoom