INVITATION

Sierra Pines Ground Breaking Ceremony

You are invited to attend the ground breaking ceremony
at Sierra Pines scheduled for
Tuesday, January 19th,
at 11:00 A.M.

Come on out and see what all the excitment is about!

PHONE DIRECTORY, CONCERT, & SIERRA PINES CLUBS AND GROUPS
By Dodie Robeck, Activities Director

Phone Directory
Be sure to check with Administration if you did not receive your new Resident Phone Directory. Volunteers from the various golf clubs attempted to deliver them over the weekend of January 8 - 10, but if you were not home they left a card directing you to the Admin Office.

Rhythm Riders Concert
We still have tickets available for the January 22, 7:00 PM Rhythm Riders concert. This is an outstanding Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline tribute band, and you can preview their sound by going to their website at www.rhythmridersmusic.com. Stop by the monitors desk to purchase tickets. Maybe dinner at Timbers first to complete a happy night out!

Sierra Pines Clubs & Groups
All the Sierra Pines clubs and groups are now starting to meet here at the Lodge, as the construction begins at Sierra Pines. Be sure to check with an officer of your club or group if you have any questions about your meeting space for the next several months. Christine Pedersen spent countless hours shifting and shuffling and communicating to get everyone accommodated someplace at the Lodge. We have received a few requests from clubs and groups who currently meet at the Lodge who would like to move to the remodeled Sierra Pines, and we will be reviewing those requests in the near future. If your club or group would like to be considered for relocation at the "new" Sierra Pines, just let us know……..but again, through one of your officers. We thank everyone for their patience and cooperation during the remodel time period.

WHAT'S NEW
By Jason Smith, Timbers Restaurant Manager

Pasta Nights
We will have a pasta night on February 10th and again on February 24th. If you haven’t had a chance to enjoy our pasta nights, please call and make your reservation today. All you can eat for only $10.95.

Valentines Day
Our Chef Kevin has put together another outstanding meal for Valentines Day. We will have five different items to choose from. We will start the evening with a complimentary glass of champagne. The restaurant will be open from 5pm to 8pm. Please call 774 3838 for reservations.

New Menu
On Wednesday, February 17th, we will be starting all our new spring menus. Kevin has enhanced many menu items and created some exciting new items as well. All the classic Timber’s items will remain on the menu. Please come join us in the Timbers Restaurant.

Crab Feed
Wednesday March 10th will be our 2nd annual Crab Feed event. If you weren’t able to attend last year’s event please hurry and make your reservation as this will sell out quickly. The price is $40 including tax and gratuity. All meals will be served family style. Event starts at 5:30pm for cocktails and 6:30pm for dinner.

By using your brain and challenging it in new ways with the Brain Fitness Program, you can regain up to 10 years of mental capacity. In this program, you'll use a computer to complete memory and auditory tasks that will increase in difficulty as you improve. You will complete 40 computer sessions. The sessions will be one hour each, Monday through Friday, at 7:45 AM, beginning on February 16th for 8 weeks.

Once you are comfortable with the program, there are opportunities to complete it during afternoon open computer room hours. The fee is now reduced to $62. This is reduced by half because the Sun City Roseville Foundation will be volunteering their time to administer the program. If you complete 75% of the program sessions, you will be reimbursed $25 by the Sun City Roseville Foundation. This puts your overall potential cost at $37 for 40 sessions. That's less than a dollar per hour. A membership to the computer club is also included in the fee.

Only four residents can use this program at a time. In an effort to extend an equal opportunity for participation to all residents, we will draw names from a list of interested residents. If you'd like to put your name into the lottery, please call 774-3831 or sign-up in the Fitness Center. The lottery will close on February 9th and payment will be collected from those who were randomly selected to participate.

Health and Wellness Fair
Join us on March 1 from 9AM- 12PM in the ballroom for a chance to meet local health and wellness providers. It's free!

Pro Shop
By Mark M. Gouger, Sun City Roseville Golf Pro

Golf Lessons
As we begin the new decade, Timber Creek golf shop will turn more of its focus toward online shoppers. In November of 2009, Timber Creek jumped into the online market by opening the Timber Creek Golf Outlet on eBay, and immediately we began to see sales in used and outdated golf clubs.

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Golf Maintenance
By Kent Walton, Sun City Roseville Director of Facility Operations

I am happy to report that your Maintenance Department was very busy and productive during 2009. In addition to our normal day-to-day operations, we completed several significant projects. Reductions in electrical usage were achieved due to installation of motion sensors at the Lodge and the Golf Maintenance facility. Further reductions were gained by installing parking lot lighting control, Creative Arts kiln timing control, kitchen lighting, and similar.

The Bocce Club is very happy with their newly refurbished courts. The refurbishing included replacing the wood, rubber and carpet on each court. As a part of the Fitness Center Refurbishment, we installed a UV filtration system that improves the air quality for the indoor pool area. We also installed an integrated building management system in the Fitness Center that enables us to control temperatures from the management office to reduce wasteful consumption. Eventually, we hope to expand this system to the lodge.

What is happening in 2010? We have already begun the early stages of other special projects, such as replacing the ballroom curtains and controls. In 2011 we will undertake a major refurbishment of the restaurant kitchen to improve safety, food temperature controls and energy efficiency.

Stay tuned for other exciting maintenance projects happening throughout our community.

ATTENTION! LOOK WHAT'S NEW!
By Dick Geistert, Director Neighborhood Watch / Citizens Patrol

Have you seen the Citizen Patrol vehicles go by? Last year we had two little white cars that look like every other little white car at night. That was last year.

By now we should have our lit signs on top of the cars. They will say "Citizens Patrol" -- Sun City Roseville. On the sides there will be our "No bad guys" logo. The sign will be positioned on the roof just behind the windshield. The patrol will plug it in each night before going out. With the lit signs the vehicles will be very easy to identify as they patrol our community.

Our residents will now have the ability to know when the patrol passes their house. Just watch for the car with the lit sign. The "bad guys" will be able to see us and stay away from Sun City.

Neighborhood Watch

Pedestrians should always use the sidewalks to be safe. We have sidewalks in Sun City. Not using them is "taking your life in your hands." Del Webb and Sun City boulevards are wide enough for 3 people to walk abreast on the sidewalk.

California Vehicle Code
Pedestrian in Bicycle Lane
21966. No pedestrian shall proceed along a bicycle path or lane where there is an adjacent adequate pedestrian facility. Added Ch. 751, Stats. 1976. Effective January 1, 1977.

Sidewalk
555. "Sidewalk" is that portion of a highway, other than the roadway, set apart by curbs, barriers, markings or other delineation for pedestrian travel. Amended Ch. 979, Stats. 1959. Eff. Sep.18, 1959.

The Director is always available to talk at your Neighborhood Watch meetings or Club meetings.

Important Phone #’s
• Emergency 9-1-1
• Non-Emergency Police 774-5000
• Sun City After Hours Emergency 789-0808
• Citizens Patrol North Vehicle 223-1064 (8:-10:30 PM)
• Citizens Patrol South Vehicle 223-1065 (8:-10:30 PM)
• Neighborhood Watch Office 774-3817  neighborhoodwatch@scrca.org
• Citizens Patrol Office 774-3853  citizenspatrol@scrca.org

WANT ANOTHER REASON TO KEEP YOUR SYSTEM UP-TO-DATE AND YOUR VIRUS DEFINITIONS CURRENT? RANSOMWARE!
By Terry Boren, IT Manager, Sun City Roseville

Ransomware is type of malware that holds your files or whole system hostage until a ransom is paid. Unbelievable. While varieties of Ransomware are not many, they are out there and it pays to understand the two main types and how they operate.

Typically, Ransomware usually arrives as an attachment to an email with a innocent sounding name. When launched, it installs a program that begins encrypting your Documents folder and then tells you have to pay to download the encryption key to unlock your files. Alternatively, another type of Ransomware threatens to start deleting files unless a payment is made. The message will tell you to send a payment or buy some merchandise, or else some random file will be deleted every 30 minutes until you do.

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