Friday Family Movie Night - Additional Fun Details

Hi Members,

Just a reminder - this Friday (21st) is Family Movie Night! We'll be watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, starting at 6:30 pm in the clubhouse. The movie and popcorn are free! Bring your own blankets, pillows and/or folding chairs. 

For extra fun - the HH Neighborhood Association has rented the bounce houses from Jump and Slide (one of oursponsors) - and since their rentals run from Friday - Monday, we'll have the bounce houses at the pool Friday night for movie night! 

They'll be setup around 4 pm. So if you want to bring a picnic dinner or order pizza or take out - please come early and enjoy dinner with your friends and neighbors, while the kids bounce away their energy before the movie.  

Hope to see you there!

-Leslie Freymann

Labor Day Weekend - Potluck and Cookout

Hi Members,

Hard to believe summer is almost (officially) over! We hope you'll be around this Labor Day weekend, to enjoy the pool before we close. 

We will be having an impromptu, last minute potluck dinner this Friday (Aug 31st). We'll start at 6 pm. Click here to rsvp and list what you think you might bring. Potluck is on - rain or shine. If it's raining, we'll show a kid movie in the clubhouse. 

We will also be having our Labor Day Cookout on Monday (Sept 3rd) from 12:30 - 2:30. Same deal as Friday night cookouts - $4 for a hotdog or burger, chips and drink. If you have punches left on your punch card after the cookout - don't worry, you can use them next summer. And if you'd like to help us end the summer with themost awesome cookout ever - please consider bringing a salad, side dish or dessert to share with everyone. Or maybe even a pitcher of your favorite "summer drink". 

And by the way - thanks to our great sponsor, Jump and Slide, we'll have a bounce house for the kids - AND it will be setup all weekend, starting Friday afternoon. Please consider Jump and Slide for your next party - they have been good to Huntley Hills and you can't beat their prices!

We hope you've enjoyed the summer and we hope to see you at the pool this weekend!! 

- HHSTC Board

Swim at Your Own Risk Hours

Hi Members,

We can see that the addition of swim-at-your-own-risk hours has been very popular! It took us a long to time do the research regarding insurance, waivers and other issues – before we were comfortable offering this option to our members. It was not something we added just because we wanted it – there was lots of thought, and much debate, that went into the decision.

We know many of you requested that the hours be extended once school started and the opening hours were changed from 10:30 to 3 pm. Even before official requests were made, we were already discussing/debating this, via email, and were in the process of voting on the issue.

Ultimately, the majority voted not to extend the hours this year – but to revisit it for next year. If it passes next year, we would need to rewrite the waiver and change the signs (which has to be done, per our insurance). We also need to make sure systems are in place to ensure the water chemistry remains consistent for all of those unattended hours – which may mean having a guard check the pool each morning.

So while we could have just said – “sure, let’s extend the hours” – that is not how we operate. We are all volunteers, and while sometimes decisions, actions and communications take longer than we’d like, we always try and do our best to ensure that we think things through, cover all the bases and work in the best interest of the club and all of our members.

With that said – we will be discussing this issue in future Board meetings. If you have an opinion on it, please reply to this email and everyone on the Board will receive it. Also, if you have any questions or suggestions for the future, please let us know.

Thanks!

-HHSTC Board <http://www.hhstc.com/Board.html> 

Friday Cookout/Movie Night & Other Important Updates

Hi Members,

We just secured the cookout volunteers, so Friday's cookout is ON!! This is last Friday night cookout of the summer - we hope you can make it! Also, we've now rescheduled Saturday's Movie Night to this Friday. Not sure what movie we'll be showing - we'll bring a bunch of G movies and let the kids pick. Rain or shine - we will be there! 

In other news...

* We finally fixed the transformer on the back tennis court light! It took longer than expected (and was very expensive) b/c we had to find someone who could get a special lift that would reach that high, at a weird angle, over the fence. Sorry for the delay and many thanks to Luis Moreno for making sure this project got completed.  

* We now have someone professionally cleaning the bathrooms, kitchen and clubhouse! Next year we plan to have this done weekly, starting as soon as we open. This is something we should have done a long time ago, but better late than never. Also, once we close, we are going to have a volunteer workday to remove the bathroom mats and either clean them or replace them with something else, depending on the condition of the floor underneath. 

* We still haven't found the yellow jacket nest(s) - but we did find the beginning of a wasp's nest and we are taking care of that. We will probably have to come up with a different plan for recycling, as they really seem to love that easily accessible high fructose corn syrup. 

* Don't forget about the charity tennis tournament/cookout on Saturday, August 11th. Click here for details. We will also be offering kids tennis lessons/games this Fall - stay tuned for details about that. 

* Our hours change when school starts on August 13th and we don't open until 3pm (check around - all other pools do the same thing, as it's crazy expensive to justify life guards when so few people use the pool during this time of summer). 

* If you are in town for Labor Day - plan to be at the pool! It's the last day we are open - we'll have a cookout and some other fun surprises :) 

* We plan to continue the fun after we close with some Fall potluck dinners and family movie nights. If you'd like to help plan an event, please let us know. 

* Membership is awesome, our budget is great and it's time to start planning for the future. This Fall we will be working on a Master Plan that will either include some major repairs/upgrades to our clubhouse or a whole new clubhouse. Please look closely at our facilities and property and start thinking about what changes/improvements you'd like to see. And stay tuned for details about a planning meeting in September. 

That's all for now...

We hope you are enjoying your summer! 

-HHSTC Board

Charity Tennis Tournament/Cookout - August 11

Hi Members,

See below, regarding a fun tennis tournament at our Club on Saturday, August 11th. Feel free to join the tournament (rsvp using the link below) or just come and watch the games. We had a potluck dinner scheduled that night (as it's the last Saturday before school starts and our pool hours change) - but instead, we are now doing this :) 

There will be the usual cookout food available for purchase (price is $5/meal, because this is a fundraiser and all the proceeds go to charity). 

We hope you can make it!! 

-HHSTC Board

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Calling all Tennis Players!

On Saturday August 11, I will be hosting a charity tennis tournament to benefit the Paws4People Foundation.  Paws4People http://paws4people.org is an organization dedicated to training and placing service dogs with Veterans and children with disabilities.

The purpose of this event is to bring together neighbors and friends who enjoy the game of tennis and also want to support a great cause.  There will be food, drinks, prizes and tons of fun!

For more information and to register for the event please visit  http://huntleyhillsopen.eventbrite.com  Registration closes on August 4 so please register early to reserve your spot!

Thanks and I'm looking forward to seeing you all on the courts!

Karyn Christiansen