Category: Association News

Social Events

SunBird Lions Bingo Friday, Feb. 2 and 16, Ballroom, 5:30 p.m. SunBird Lions Bingo is back for another exciting season. As usual, our season runs through April on the first and third Friday of the month. Ticket sales begin at 5:30 p.m., and the first game begins at 6:30 p.m. There are 15 games nightly.…

Board of Directors Meeting Notes

Chuck Heitbrink, HOA Board Secretary The board of directors had a regular business meeting on Dec. 18 in the ballroom of the clubhouse. The following are notes from this meeting. Members present: Nancy Eckstein, Dirk Close, Jim Anderson, Dan Buescher, Bob Morris, Chuck Heitbrink, and Manager Layne Varney The meeting was called to order at 10…

Traffic Safety

The number-one priority of the Rules Compliance Committee (RCC) is safety. At each committee meeting, we discuss traffic safety. One goal of the committee is to prevent traffic accidents (car, golf cart, bike, and pedestrian) by driving awareness on the importance of traffic safety throughout the community. At the November 2023 RCC meeting, the committee…

Interested in Joining a Committee?

SunBird has a variety of committees with specific charters to assist the board of directors. Committees help by studying and reviewing suggested ideas and comments to improve SunBird. The committees are Architectural Control (ACC), Finance, Planning and Project Review, Rules Compliance, and Welcome and Marketing. Committee member terms (March through February) are for one year…

Citrus and Roof Rats—Eww!

Catherine Schaeffer, Dansco Real Estate Group Having grown up in Washington, D.C., and a city kid, I was fairly tolerant of rodents. We had city rats (as long as 20 inches and 2 pounds)! But I’ve been in Arizona now for over 30 years, and my tolerance has greatly diminished. Because of Arizona’s mild winter…

Manager’s Report

It’s active at the clubhouse. Some afternoons one can hear the thunderous drums of the cardio drum class beating on the yoga balls in the ballroom, or the SunBird Singers’ harmonious voices rehearsing for the next big show, or the roar of the crowd after a home run in the bean bag baseball league game,…