Home Owners League

The Home Owners League is the oldest organization in Marin Valley, celebrating 55 years of volunteer service as the voice of the residents to Park Management, and is a PAC Standing Committee. HOL meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 4:30 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.  The home page on this website will also alert you to the latest HOL events. In addition to the numerous activities, classes, events, and services, HOL provides and maintains the iMac, PC, and shredder in the library, the lawn furniture and accessories around the pool, and coordinates the selection and offerings in the gym with Management.

Resident Maintenance
Input Form

Owl and Bat Boxes

Pool

Tube Flyer Delivery

Yard Maintenance

Recreation

Board Game Night

Activities and Classes

Aerobics — Water  

Art in the Park  

An organization of artists in the Park, spearheaded by David Gray and Susie Lahr, that promotes community artists through ongoing exhibits in the Marin Valley Gallery in the clubhouse, where resident artists can show and sell their work.

Ballroom Craft and Flea Market

On Saturdays from 1 – 4 pm of some months, residents offer homemade cookies, cakes, pies, and treats; jams, chutneys, and sauces; craft items; clothing; cards; and gifts for children, among other surprise items such as vintage clothing, antiques, jewelry, and objects d’art for sale. Setup is from 12–1 pm. Contact Tara Plocher.

Biography Night

Biography Night is a social event developed by Kim Holscher and designed to help residents get to know each other better by listening to and sharing 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 developments of a full life. Biographies of past events are available on our YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@marinvalley6258/videos

Board 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.

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. Contact Carol-Joy Harris.

Chair Yoga

Laura Schepps, who has taught various movement classes, including stretching and relaxation, focused on our age group, uses a gentle and sensitive approach. Classes are provided on a sliding scale of $5–$15 on Tuesdays from 11–12 in the ballroom. Laura is student-oriented and will spend extra time with you after class to help with your particular needs for no extra charge.

Craft and Chat

Love to knit, sew, or quilt? Join other craftspeople in the library on Tuesdays from 2 -3 pm to work on your own project in good company. If you’re not interested in creating art or crafts, bring your mending. Or 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 at the Ballroom Craft Market. Contact Tara Plocher.

Gym Longevity Training

Janie Klein provides longevity training using gym equipment and health practices for wellness and weight management. Sign-up information is located in the gym.

Mens Group  

On the first and third Wednesdays of the month, Michael Hagerty leads a discussion group for men who speak about being a man. Each session is led and organized by a different participant. The Men’s Group is closed at this time. But speak to Michael Hagerty about being on the waiting list.

Nei Gung: The  Underpinning of All Energy Systems

The internal aspects of all martial arts utilize Nei Gung, practiced through specific gestures and with forms such as Tai Chi and Chi Kung. The repetitive actions of forms and movements — important in their own right — are distinct from the life-enhancing and health-restoring benefits of Nei Gung. A systematic approach to enhance and maintain health will help prevent physical wilting as you age by rebuilding your body’s ability to articulate movement through increased strength and elasticity. Proper practice enhances metabolism and recirculates energy, fluids (blood, lymph), and the materials between organs.

Our bodies run on energy. The free circulation of energy is what the Chinese have been using in their healing, sports, and martial arts for over a thousand years. It is achievable/developable by combining breath work, specific posturing, mindful movement, and the release of tension. Classes are 5:30–6:30 pm, Mondays and Wednesdays (Ballroom), and 11 am–noon on Saturdays (Bamboo Room) with Jay Shelfer. Preregistration required — $10/class; no drop-ins. Contact Jay jjshelfer@yahoo.com.

Park Market

Four days a week, food from Extra Food is either delivered or picked up by resident volunteers, where Jill Boland and several other volunteers sort, distribute to the house-bound, and assemble for residents to select from tables in the breezeway. The six times when food is distributed each week are listed on the whiteboard in the breezeway.

Jill Boland and Janet Shouldis also sort and package bags of bottles and cans donated by residents and Park events, which have a California deposit and redemption value shown on the container side or lid with the initials CA CRV. They are brought to Bottle Bank for their redemptive value, which is then donated to Extra Food. Residents are urged to bring their bottles and cans with the CA CRV designation to the blue plastic bins in the back of the breezeway.

Rollin’ Root

On Thursday mornings from Noon to 1 pm, the Farmers Market visits with a refrigerated truck of local farmers’ organic, inorganic, and sustainable food to purchase. Contact John Hansen.

Silver Dragon Wellness

New residents, blackbelt Will and Susi Banuelos, offer a fitness class designed specifically for Marin Valley residents. This empowering program focuses on building strength and improving balance to keep you moving safely and confidently with joint-friendly, low-impact, real-world self-defense skills. Enhance your mobility, stay connected, and have fun in a safe, supportive environment.

Bamboo Room:
Sundays 3–4 pm   •  Mondays 2:30–3:30 pm  •   alternating Wednesdays 6–7 pm
$10  donation. Questions? 415-471-7707.

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