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We are fortunate to have Maria Cooper as our Executive Chef for over eight continuous years. By any measure, this is a fantastic record of creativity, loyalty and service. To minimize burnout and maximize creativity, the secret to our success is twofold. 1) City Club is the only commercial kitchen in Colorado we know of that has no labor or food budget, so Maria plans her menu based on the best fresh ingredients available at the best price, not to meet a budget. 2) All City Club employees have unlimited vacation, as long as they have their work covered.

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A few years back, the biggest negative feedback we heard about City Club was that we had so few young members. Now that we have many great young members, the question is: how can we get our older members to mentor the younger ones.

Trying to get elder members to mentor younger members is like pushing on a string. The only effective way to mentor is by pulling, not pushing; by setting an example, not by talking.

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With fall in the air, the theme of this Newsletter is Change. Change of seasons, economic change (see article below), and changes in the management team of Highland City Club.

After a year of productive service, Samantha Wolf is moving on to bigger and better things, and Nathalie Wilson has take over as our Front of the House Manager. Nathalie’s main tool of communication with our members will be this Weekly “News”Letter. To celebrate this change, we have changed the format of the newsletter to make it cleaner, simpler, easy to read, and match the style of our new website.

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City Club has been a proud sponsor of the Jaipur Literature Festival since inception. 

What makes Boulder “The smallest cosmopolitan city in America” is events like The World Affairs Conference, The Shakespeare Festival, Boulder Symphony, Chautauqua, and now JFL. This free 3-day event is the intellectual Woodstock of our time, so please plan to attend.

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City Club staff are encouraged to make their decisions by prioritizing health first, family second, and business third.

City Club staff and a few privileged members are fortunate to have 24/7 access to Dr. David Tusek and his medical staff at Cloud Medical for all their health and wellness needs. 

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As stated in our Vision Statement, City Club strives to prove we can work hard, and have fun, while discharging our social responsibilities to make our city, country and the world a better place. 

Last week City Club, in cooperation with Boulder Lifestyle Magazine, hosted the second annual Grapes & Grass Festival. It promoted great bluegrass music, introduced our members and the general public to delicious wines, and benefited the non-profit Future Arts Foundation.

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For the past few months we have been hammering home the message that we are finally done with construction, and are now focused on building our new team and growing our membership. 

Every winning team needs a star quarterback, and we have been looking far and wide to find ours to grow City Club to its potential. Well, I am pleased to announce we have hired Nathalie Wilson as our front of the house manager.

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Kids are back in school and it's dark at 6 am when diving into the pool. Our gardens are still at their peak so plan to stop by to pick a few crab apples.

Our current focus is on building and positioning our team for more efficient operation and growth. More on this with an announcement in next week’s newsletter, meanwhile, we are all excited about next Weekend’s Grapes & Grass music and wine festival. The Friday night portion of this event is already sold out but you can still buy tickets for Saturday. Next weekend’s weather forecast is sunny in the 80’s, so we are looking for a fun and easy late summer gathering of members and friends, and excited to share our beautiful grounds with the general public.

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Maybe it's the weather. Or maybe we are growing too fast with not enough resources. Whatever the cause, it sure seems like chaos reigns and the best we can do is react, instead of be proactive. 

After six months of hard work, our migration to the new operating program is complete, so now we are focused on learning and integrating the new parking control system. Nobody likes change, so charging for parking after 40 years of offering it for free feels awkward, but it beats raising our membership fee, which we have not done since inception in 2005.

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It took us over two years and $2M to reinvent ourselves as Highland City Club. Hanging the new sign at the entry bridge was a symbolic gesture, showing we are done with this phase of our work and are focused on catching up with some deferred maintenance, completing our punch-list, and refining the operation of our facilities.

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By now most of us have had our summer vacations, are tired of the heat, and can’t wait for schools to start and ship out the kids. At City Club, we are planning for fall and want to give you a brief update on what’s going on here:

We are in the midst of making major staff changes in preparation for our post-construction growth phase. More details on this soon.

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Please take a close look at the lunch topics for next week. If you can’t find a topic or two that triggers your curiosity, tell us what programs you would like us to focus on.

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In 1892, at the height of the gold rush, City of Boulder commissioned to build Highland as it’s first flood-proof and fire-proof elementary school. Hence the name “High-Land.” That was 126 years ago!

Forty years ago this week, I bought the then abandoned and dilapidated Highland School with a vision to make it my home and community, as a place to live, work, eat, and entertain, with lush gardens and multiple fountains, an authentic and eclectic art collection alongside a state of art technological infrastructure. But most importantly, what I craved more than anything else was a community I could belong and feel comfortable in.

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…. refreshed, renewed and looking forward to starting our next cycle of growth. 

Unlike the the past few years’ focus on multiple renovation projects to morph the historic Highland from an office to a club, going forward our focus will be on growing our managment team and membership.

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