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By Rick Schultz

What a whirlwind few months it has been with the storm damage being done to the course Overall, we lost 33 trees and hundreds of other branches and, the 14 inches of rain we got in 17 days had the course underwater for weeks I want to thank the membership for your patience while the course was flooded and closed. Once again, this showed other deferred maintenance that was not done especially concerning the city drainage system Thankfully, Harj and his crew jumped in and did the work needed both inside our fence and outside the fence We also determined that many of our own drain lines are plugged and lids are overgrown We will address them so that the next time we get that much rain, flooding will be minimized Thanks once again to Harj, and his mighty crew of six, for working some long and hard hours cleaning up the course!

Even though our golf operations slowed down drastically in the past two months, our food and beverage operations did not Katie continues to keep our ballroom filled almost every weekend and has lots of future events booked for 2023 and 2024 Because we have been so busy with the non-member revenue, we did refocus Alicia toward making sure those events went smoothly. Until you witness all the setup and tear-down needed for these huge weddings, you cannot imagine the work it takes! Thanks go to Chris and his entire F & B staffforalltheirhardwork!

Our F & B team has a change to our Executive Chef position with Oliver Mendoza taking over for Chef Corey who took a position at another private club closer to his home. I can’t thank Corey enough for turning around our food quality. Chef Oliver has worked with Corey for almost a year so we are confident, our quality will not diminish.WearestillintheprocessoffindinganewSous Chef to take the place of Chef Oliver who was promoted Thanks also goes to Banquet Chef Henry, and his team, fortheirlonghourspreparingfoodforallthosebanquets!

Make sure to make reservations soon for our Bunny Breakfast on April 1st, Easter Brunch on April 9th and Bunny Bingo on the 19th of April In March, we have Bingoonthe15thandSt Patrick’sDinneronthe17th We have also started a BUNCO league with the first game on Match 8th; men and ladies are invited to play! Look for theflyersforalltheseeventsinthismonth’snewsletter.

Our golf operations are ramping up with several member and non-member tournaments in March and April Thanks go to Bing Kirk for once again helping to organize the Irish Open on March 17th; it will be another fun event! We also have the Junior Tour of Northern California playing again on Saturday afternoon, March 18th and Sunday morning, March 19th There will be some play disruption so check with the golf shop about tee times. This is a wonderful display of our great club to golfers all throughout Northern CA so thanks for your understanding!

Our golf lesson programming will also improve this year with Will Harris becoming our full-time Head Teaching Professional He has some short-game clinics already booked for the 1st and 3rd of March Look for moreclinicinformationsoon

I am still working on our pool summer programming with Chrissie Donlin who will be taking over running the program this year. Thanks go to Kristen Vanzetti for once again being our member liaison for the Shark Swim Team We will start with some swim clinics in late April and then official practices start May 1st Look for more informationsoon

Concerning our reorganization through Chapter 11 Things are still being worked out with a final outcome expected before the end of April. There are so many moving pieces to the process that while I’d love to report more information, right now, we just don’t know which way things will go from day to day I can tell you that our legal team and other hired professionals are doing a greatjobforus

Thanksforyourcontinuedsupportoftheclub!