Bob and I selected Sun City Anthem 5 years ago as our home because it perfectly fit our dreams for a wonderful retirement life. We sought warm weather without high humidity, a readily accessible airport, and un-crowded neighborhoods.

Del Webb’s one-story homes; with its generous room dimensions, affordable entertainment options in the local and state areas, and the style of luxurious community amenities designed for seniors was a perfect fit. Anthem offered so much more than the quality homes, golf courses, and club houses of so many other retirement communities.

Sun City Anthem also offered the unique benefits of being high up on Black Mountain where the views of the Strip are spectacular, the air is vastly superior to Las Vegas, the temperature is usually a few degrees cooler than the valley, and the din of “Sin City” is far enough away to be ignored. I say we live in a “cruise ship on the desert.”

This is a truly unique and wonderful place to spend the rest of our lives. Yes, the resort-style engineering, design, infrastructure and location are remarkable components of our special lifestyle in Sun City Anthem; but there is far more than that to make us so proud to live here.

We are part of a huge community that is exceptionally well-designed to be operated at low cost over its lifetime. With 7,144 homeowners paying assessments, the member assessments and other costs of living in Sun City Anthem should always be significantly lower than the typical upscale, age-restricted development in Nevada. What a bonus!

In addition, our three recreation centers are better designed than many of those found in other senior communities. We know that is true because we looked at so many others facilities before selecting SCA as our home.

Our Anthem setup allows for an amazing number of clubs and special interest groups (SIGs) to be operating simultaneously. We can participate in our hobbies, attend fitness center facilities specializing in senior programs, or just socialize throughout our vast community center facilities.

If you don’t find your hobbies served by the current clubs or SIGs, you can easily start your own. The community is large enough that groups and speakers are interested in coming to club and association programs. Even more importantly, our SCA members are typically selfless in their attitudes towards others.

Our many SCA clubs and groups are proven community leaders as they reach out to Henderson and Las Vegas by volunteering and donating time, talent and fund raising expertise.  Although the vast majority of SCA members moved here from other states or other nations, we have not forgotten we are of the American generation that volunteered for scout troops, food banks, schools, churches and charities– and we continue to volunteer. Our community has proved it is particularly unselfish and compassionate with regards to others.

So, while this community is the best senior community I have ever seen, it is not perfect. There are some important things needing to be done to put it on the path being considered a “paradise”.

That is why I am a candidate for the SCA board, and why I have offered my time and skills to working with others who share my enthusiasm for continuous improvements for the future.

Please elect me to the board and join our efforts.