Dear Owners,


Social Club:

We are very pleased to announce that this week we commissioned the final works required in the social club for the Indoor Pool and Jacuzzi.

Through Mario`s contacts and a lot of hard work we have been able to locate the original installers of the equipment in the social club. It will take 3 working days to get the equipment running, and then we will start filling the pool. We are hoping to have the works complete by the New Year.

If you are intending to be at Finca San Antonio over the New Year period please let us know as we would like to organize a celebration for the opening.

On the downside, whilst checking on the work required to get the pool operating we discovered that a valuable piece of steam generating equipment has been stolen from the Steam Room. This will need to be replaced before the Steam Room can operate. The cost for replacing this item together with issues associated with the running costs /use of the steam room and sauna will be reported to the A.G.M
For the time being we will concentrate on the pool and jacuzzi, together with toilet and shower facilities.


The Social Meeting Room:

The room is now being used as our social room offering book sharing , cd & video hire. A TV has kindly been donated and we have Sky fitted. We are hoping to have a WiFi spot operating in the room shortly. We are now able to use the table and chairs that were bought from previous pig roast funds, and we have bought the book shelves and a table tennis table from this year`s pig roast profits.

The committee would like to thank Pauline Monnington who has taken on the responsibility to open & close the room daily, and has taken a very active role in making the room successful. Without her help this would have been very difficult.


Large Outdoor Pool:

The tile repair works and re-grouting have now been completed on the pool. As part of this work, the overflow feature, which did not function properly has been sealed. The pool side tiling and the concrete pool edge is now continuous across the former cill to the overflow. The decision to do this work and incorporate it with the other pool repair works had to be made quickly. It came about following discussions with Mijas Town Hall who advised us that the overflow had to be made to work properly or sealed from the rest of the pool, otherwise we would not receive a pool license. After investigation we were unable to establish how the overflow could be made to work as intended, therefor we had no choice but to seal the overflow. We will be looking at the possibility of reusing the waterfall area as an independent water feature in the near future.


2009 has been a very big year for our community. We had a very difficult start to the year, but we can all be very pleased that our community is now moving forward and several major problems are now behind us. We may still have legal issues to sort out but now we can and should be very positive about our future.


We would like to thank Mario and his staff for helping our community and all the efforts they have made on our behalf.


Finally we take this opportunity to wish you all a Very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful and Prosperous New Year


Best Wishes.

Terri Jackson President
Graham Walker Vice President
& The Committee.
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Finca San Antonio


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