The main room of the Clubhouse
complex is Friendship Hall. The hall measures 49 feet by 77 feet and will
hold all of the members for a meeting or social event. The south end of
the room is lit with a stained glass window, created by a volunteer several
years ago. The room has a sound system, sound absorbing ceiling and wall
treatment, an organ, a player piano, and stage. The Hilltoppers, our social
activities organization, just recently purchased two hundred new chairs
for the hall.
Many group activites
are scheduled for Friendship Hall, including committee meetings, social
hours, dancing lessons, meals, aerobics, and games. Many card and tile games
including Mah Jongg are played every day and in the evening there are often
larger groups playing Hand and Foot, Pokeno, or some other game of skill
or chance.
Next to Friendship Hall is the
kitchen where many great meals have been prepared. The volunteer cooks also
bake cookies and make coffee to take to the members working on projects
throughout the park, and on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, ice cream is
served to the membership.
Large crafts
and sewing rooms are located in the main building. Here you will find classes
in various kinds of crafts as well as different people making their crafty
wares. At least once a year there is a crafts sale to benefit the Hilltoppers
and help pay for equipment and supplies for these rooms.
One of the four laundries on the resort grounds is located in the main building. This gives members the opportunity to do their daily chores while participating in activities at the Clubhouse.
The annex building next to Friendship
Hall contains the resort's post office, with a lockbox assigned to each
site. Volunteers sort the mail each day when it arrives from the Aguanga
Post Office. However, Jojoba Hills SKP Resort does not act as a Mail Receiving/Forwarding
Agency like Escapees in Livingston where the mail is collected and then
sent in bulk when you call and ask for it. If a member is going to be out
of the park, they supply address labels to the resort post office and their
first class mail will be forwarded as directed on the labels. The resort
post office has no provision to receive mail for guests. Guests can use
General Delivery at the Aguanga post office just down the road.
The cardroom in the annex is
equipped for a variety of card games. On the west side is the "Wall
of Fame" showing pictures of everyone in the park on a map of the sites.
It is useful for relating member name to site.
The billiard room contains three
pocket billiard tables where members meet from time to time to practice
their shark skills, not to say any one of them is a pool shark. But be careful
before you challenge any of the women to a game of pool. There are some
very talented ladies in this resort.
An exercise room with a fine
selection of equipment is available in the annex to all members and guests.
Much of this equipment was donated when new members arrived and still had
their exercise equipment in storage. Much better to put it to use in the
exercise room. The equipment in this room along with the hills throughout
the resort keep most of the members in good physical shape, all things considered.
Next to the exercise room and pool are the men's and women's
restrooms, each complete with showers and a sauna.
The library lounge in the annex
has an excellent selection of current books and magazines and a large selection
of video VHS tapes and a growing DVD collection. Members can check out these
materials and take them back to their rigs, or they can enjoy them in the
quiet of the reading room. The centerpiece of this room is the large display
cabinet built by members where the fine collections of other members are
shown, ranging from sea shells to dolls to antique figurines to indian articrafts.