Home Owners League

 

The Home Owners League is the oldest organization in Marin Valley, celebrating 53 years of volunteer service as the voice of the residents to Park Management. HOL meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 6 pm in the Fireside Room. All residents are encouraged to attend as everyone has a voice at every meeting. HOL is very active in making Marin Valley a safe, healthy, and happy environment while providing and sponsoring educational and recreational activities that promote the general welfare of all residents. Keep your eye on the HOL bulletin board next to the lobby front counter to watch for monthly events, minutes of the monthly meeting, and current news. The home page on this website will also alert you to the latest HOL news. In addition to the numerous activities, classes, events, and services, HOL provides and maintains the iMac, PC, shredder in the library, the lawn furniture and accessories around the pool, and coordinates with Management about the selection and offerings in the gym.

HOL Events

Upcoming

Current

Recent

HOL Services

Buddy System

Handyman/ Contractor Guide

Just-1-Hour

Park Directory

Park Market

Wildlife Committee

Dump Runs

Resident Input Form

Rollin’ Root

Activities and Classes

The Arts

Art in the Park
Biography Night
Book Group
Craft and Chat

 

Classes

Taiji
Chair Yoga
Circle of Friends

 

Strength Training

Exercise

Gym
Water Aerobics
Dancing
Depression & Anxiety Group
Strength Training

 

Recreation

Billiards • Pool
Bridge
Canasta
Darts
Game Night
Mahjong
Ping Pong
Poker

The Arts

Art in the Park  

An organization of artists in the Park spearheaded by Suzie Lahr that promotes community artists with ongoing exhibits in the Marin Valley Gallery in the clubhouse for resident artists to show and sell their work.

Biography Night

Biography Night is a social event designed for residents to get to know each other better by listening to and telling stories from our lives. Biography is the art of reflecting upon, organizing, and interpreting the events of a lifetime. The process of choosing which story to tell can lead to new insights into one’s own life. Listening to another’s story often engenders awe, wonder, and gratitude for the miraculous developments of a full life.

Book Club  

On the 4th Wednesday of the month at 4:30 pm book club members meet either at a participant’s home or in the Fireside Room to discuss the book selected by the club the previous month.

Craft and Chat

Love to knit, sew, or quilt? Join other craftspeople in the library on Tuesdays from 10:30 to 11:30 am to work on your own project in good company. If you’re not interested in creating art or crafts, bring your mending. Or just bring yourself to connect with others the old-fashioned way (think: quilting bee). Craft Show and Sale — Periodically during the year the craftspeople display their creations for sale in the clubhouse.

Classes and Gatherings

Aerobics — Water  

An exercise tape for water aerobics offers the chance to work out in warm, soft salt water in the community pool on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings from 10 to 11 am.  Solar panels heat the pool, which is open during the warm season usually from April through October depending on the weather.

Chair Yoga

On Thursdays from 10 – 11 am in the Fireside Room, you can start the day with Donna Simonsen and fellow residents to exercise, manage stress, relax the body and mind, stretch, balance, strengthen, focus, and learn. Suggested donation.

Circle of Friends  

Join Aneesha Dillon and Timo Navsky when the Circle of Friends meets usually every two months in the Fireside Room at 4 pm to discuss, share, and learn how to prepare for and care for ourselves and those nearing the last stages of life.

Healing Meditation

On Sunday mornings from 10–10:00, the names of residents who are experiencing challenges are shared by Anila Manning with a group of meditators who hold them in their hearts and minds during a half-hour of healing meditation on Zoom.

Last Monday Lectures

On the last Monday of each month, Marshall Krause and Marty Gelman sponsor a speaker of special interest to our senior community at 4:30 in the Fireside Room. Residents are welcome to recommend topics and speakers.

Park Market

Five days a week, food from Extra Food is either delivered or picked up by resident volunteers, sorted, distributed to the house-bound, and assembled for residents to select from tables in the breezeway. A notice of the available food to select from is sent to residents for usually nine to ten deliveries a week.

Rollin’ Root

On Thursday mornings from 11 am to Noon, the Farmers Market visits with a refrigerated truck of local farmers’ organic, inorganic, and sustainable food to purchase.

Strength Training

On Sunday morning from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm, bring your weights (or two water bottles), a yoga mat, and stretch bands for an hour of Group Strength — gentle strength training for seniors with Nan Watanabe. Suggested donation.

Taiji

Resident David MacLam is on the clubhouse back deck Sunday, and Tuesday through Friday to practice and teach Taiji from 7:30 to 9 am. You are welcome to come to the deck anytime and join in.

Exercise

Gym  

HOL works with Management to purchase gym equipment to stay in touch with residents’ exercise needs. Users are asked to maintain a clean environment and to wipe equipment after use.

Recreation

Cards

Bridge (now full) — Play bridge on the third Wednesday of the month starting at 11 am in the Fireside Room. Another group plays on Mondays from 1 to 4 pm. Both bridge games are full as a specific number of players is required.

Billiards   •   Pool  

At the bottom of the clubhouse stairs, through the door on the right, you’ll find the card and ping pong room. Inside this room you’ll find another door, which leads to the billiard room with three newly refurbished pool tables, a snooker table, new lights, and equipment. Be sure to bring your clubhouse key.

Darts

A wooden box on the wall behind the ping pong table in the card room can be opened to reveal a traditional dart board. All the darts are stored in the wooden floor cabinet. Look for the door on your right at the bottom of the stairs of the clubhouse. Bring your clubhouse key.

Dancing

Usually three times a week the Meadow Dance Group meets for about an hour-and-a-half to dance in the meadow, on the deck, or in the ballroom to the sounds of our local DJs. The time is determined by the season, the day, and the DJ,  and everyone on the dance list is notified when and where it will take place. Ask Steve Plocher or David Tetta to be put on the mailing list.

Game Night

Join Ed Collins the second Thursday of the month from 6 to 10 pm in the Fireside Room for Board Game Night. He brings a variety of word games, strategy games, party games and some cards. Bring your favorite game.

Mahjong

The Fireside Room is the place for enthusiasts Sunday afternoons. If another event is happening there, look for them in the Bamboo Room.

Ping Pong

Ping pong paddles, balls, and a ping pong table with net await any avid ping pong player ready for a worthy partner in the card room, which is on your right at the bottom of the stairs of the clubhouse. See the wooden floor cabinet for the equipment. Bring your clubhouse key. 

HOL Officers

John Feld, President
Ed Collins, 1st Vice President
Timo Navsky, 2nd Vice President
Ann Lakota, Secretary
Tara Plocher, Treasurer
Janie Klimes, Activities and Events Director
Michale Dancer, At Large
Lisa Jackler, At Large
Sandy Zeichner, At Large
 
Standing Committee Chairs
Art in the Park, Suzie Lahr
Contractor Rating Guide, John Feld
Just-1-Hour Lisa Jackler
Park Directory, Erma Wheatley
Pet Committee, Timo Navsky

Wildlife Committee 

HOL Documents