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THE MESA
NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATION
THE 3RD ANNUAL MEETING

Dear Neighbors,

The Mesa Neighborhood Organization conducted its third annual meeting under the stars at the Moorten Botanical Garden on Thursday, March 25. The evening’s weather was perfect for meeting your neighbors and discussing what our organization can accomplish in 2010 to improve the livability and enjoyment of our community.

    
Your Advisory Committee presented changes to our bylaws and presented projects that need your support in 2010. The Mesa Neighborhood Organization has made the decision not to request annual dues from residents in The Mesa. All residents of our community are members of our neighborhood group with voting rights regardless of their financial support. Of course, donations are needed and encouraged to accomplish the goals set at our annual meeting by the residents in attendance.

    
At the meeting we celebrated our accomplishments and established support for our 2010 goals. The Mesa blade sign committee was honored for their work in obtaining donations to design, create and install the unique symbols of our special community. Support was requested to accomplish twelve neighborhood projects in The Mesa for 2010. Of these, landscaping The Old Gate House on El Portal and the other entrances to The Mesa will be given priority this year because the gate house entry has been established as a symbol of the heritage of The Mesa that needs to be preserved.

    
An exciting and very enjoyable auction was conducted at our meeting to help raise funds for our 2010 projects. Local restaurants supported our community-improvement goals by donating their services and dinners to our evening’s auction event.

Best regards,

Tom DeWitt, Chair
The Mesa Neighborhood Organization


You can view all the photos of this event in our Gallery section.

You can read the minutes of this meeting on our Minutes page.

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THE MESA NEIGHBORHOOD
UNVEILS NEW BLADE SIGNS


At 10:00 am on Saturday March 27, 2010, approximately 20 residents of The Mesa congregated at the corner of Ridge Road and El Camino Way to formally unveil the newly installed blade signs sporting the logo and identity of our southwest Palm Springs neighborhood.


The Blade Sign Committee – composed of five residents of The Mesa – began work almost one year ago with a deliberative design phase to incorporate a historical symbol of The Mesa into blade signs.

The Committee designed a logo for The Mesa using the gatehouse on El Portal as the backdrop. The new logo was approved by the Advisory Committee of The Mesa Neighborhood Organization (TMNO) and the City’s Neighborhood Involvement Committee. The Mesa residents can now see the visible result of the Committee’s efforts.


This gatehouse on El Portal will be the focus of our efforts in 2010. We want to beautify the area surrounding the gatehouse with desertscape and lighting. A meeting of the El Portal Gateway Committee will be scheduled in the near future and residents interested in participating are encouraged to check our website www.psmesa.com for date and time.

Just as the blade signs were a visible result of our efforts in 2009, we want the El Portal Gatehouse project to similarly reflect our efforts in 2010.

   

   
All signs were adopted by Mesa neighbors and here is a list of who adopted which sign:

Camino Descanso & Camino Barranca	-	Francis
Crestview & Overlook	-	Mary and Joe
Mesa & Camino Alturas	-	Gene & Michael
Mesa & Camino Buena Vista	-	Dan & Tom
Mesa & Camino Carmelita	-	Pete & Greg
Mesa & Crestview	-	Meir & Michael
Mesa & El Camino	-	Keith
Mesa & El Portal	-	Tom & Gayle
Mesa & Overlook	-	Gary H. & Rosie
Palm Canyon & Camino Carmelita	-	Bob P.
Palm Canyon & Camino Descanso	-	Bob & Pamela
Palm Canyon & Camino Encanto	-	Irene and John
Palm Canyon & Crestview	-	Tom D. & Denny M.
Palm Canyon & El Camino	-	Dennis & David
Palm Canyon & El Portal	-	Patti & Bud
Palm Canyon & Lilliana	-	Rosie
Ridge & Crestview	-	Lee & Sidney
Ridge & El Camino	-	Ron & Joe

Thank you to all those involved in this project. We trust that everyone will enjoy the new signs. We are proud of living in The Mesa and our new blade signs show some of that pride!

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