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The California Aassociation of Realtors Reports, Home Permits Decline 44 percent in 2009.

California homebuilders pulled 36,209 permits statewide in 2009, a 44 percent decline compared with 2008, and 83 percent lower compared with 2004, the peak of the current cycle, according to the California Building Industry Association (CBIA).  Last year also marked the second consecutive year of record-low housing production in California, affecting Lake Arrowhead Real Estate, according to CBIA.

consistent with statistics compiled by the CIRB, homebuilders pulled permits for 25,046 single-family homes in 2009, down 24 percent from 2008, while multifamily permits totaled 11,163, down 65 percent from the previous year.

Permits totaled 3,594 in December, a 23 percent decline compared with December 2008, but a 39 percent increase from November 2009. Single-family permits totaled 2,460, up 28 percent from December 2008 and up 39 percent from November, while multifamily permits totaled 1,134, down 59 percent from December 2008 but up 40 percent from the previous month.

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Do you own a TRUE Lake Arrowhead Lake Front?

Arrowhead Lake Association

According to the Arrowhead Lake Association, in actuality, there are very few TRUE “Lake Front” properties on Lake Arrowhead. In fact the Arrowhead Lake Association owns the shoreline. This common Lake Arrowhead Real Estate misconception is the cause of un-permitted work and destruction of vegetation on Association property and penalties for such actions can be considerable. To prevent any misunderstandings regarding Lake Front property some important items to remember are… 

• The width of the Association’s property varies up to 500′ around the Lake.

• Anyone who purchases property described as “Lake Front“ be advised, the property between their home and the lake’s edge is not their property.

• As of 9/1/09 ALA requires the buyer or seller of shared property lines to provide ALA with a survey by a licensed surveyor before the ALA will convey a Pier Site Easement. (A document that gives a slip right owner the right to have the slip physically located on Lake Arrowhead).

• Improvements on ALA Property may be permitted with an application approved by the association.

For more information contact The Arrowhead Lake Association Shoreline Department @ (909) 337-2595

Or CLICK HERE

Valentine’s Day Quotations
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,

My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself.

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires;
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
- Zora Neale Hurston

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.
- Leo Tolstoy

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
- Dorothy Parker

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
- Alice Walker

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way
than this: where I does not exist nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
- Pablo Neruda, “Love Sonnet XVII”

February 12 – 14, 2010

Mountain Arts Gallery “Valentine’s Day Boutique”

The Mountain Arts Gallery is holding a Valentine’s Day Boutique Sale on February 12th 13th and 14th. 12-4pm.

Find the perfect Valentine gift for your special love!

The gallery is featuring a great selection of one-of-a-kind Artisan jewelry. Stop by and view our selection of fine art gifts, made by local artists. We have paintings, watercolors, sculpture, china painting, and more.

The gallery is open Thursday through Sunday, 12-4.

We are located in the Historic Willow Woods, 28561 Highway 18, in Sky Forest. The gallery is at street level, next to Arturo’s Mexican restaurant.
Tel: 909-337-1238 • www.mountainartsnetwork.org

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every February, across the country, candy, flowers, and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. But who is this mysterious saint and why do we celebrate this holiday? The history of Valentine’s Day — and its patron saint — is shrouded in mystery. But we do know that February has long been a month of romance. St. Valentine’s Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. So, who was Saint Valentine and how did he become associated with this ancient rite? Today, the Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred.
One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men — his crop of potential soldiers. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine’s actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.

Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons where they were often beaten and tortured.
According to one legend, Valentine actually sent the first ‘valentine’ greeting himself. While in prison, it is believed that Valentine fell in love with a young girl — who may have been his jailor’s daughter — who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter, which he signed ‘From your Valentine,’ an expression that is still in use today. Although the truth behind the Valentine legends is murky, the stories certainly emphasize his appeal as a sympathetic, heroic, and, most importantly, romantic figure. It’s no surprise that by the Middle Ages, Valentine was one of the most popular saints in England and France.
While some believe that Valentine’s Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine’s death or burial — which probably occurred around 270 A.D — others claim that the Christian church may have decided to celebrate Valentine’s feast day in the middle of February in an effort to ‘christianize’ celebrations of the pagan Lupercalia festival. In ancient Rome, February was the official beginning of spring and was considered a time for purification. Houses were ritually cleansed by sweeping them out and then sprinkling salt and a type of wheat called spelt throughout their interiors. Lupercalia, which began at the ides of February, February 15, was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.

Rim of the World Recreation and Park District

“We Create Community Through People, Parks and Programs.”

        As a RE/MAX Lakeside agent who specializes in Lake Arrowhead Real Estate, I find that clients seek as much information on Lake Arrowhead as possible before considering relocation. The Rim of The World Recreation & Park District is just one of the organizations I like to touch upon when offering such information.

         The Rim of The World Recreation & Park District has been serving Lake Arrowhead and its surrounding communities including Blue Jay, Crestline, Green Valley Lake, Rim Forest and Running Springs since 1985. This independent local district is an important part of our lovely mountain community. There mission is: “creating community through people, parks and programs”. If you live in Lake Arrowhead or  the surrounding communities chances are you have visited one or more of there facilities or participated in one of the various Recreation programs they offer. Programs consist of a varity of activities including Basket Ball, Track & field, Drama & Acting and even CPR classes.  For more information on The Rim of The World Recreation & Park district’s programs or facilities just CLICK HERE!