Photo top: from left to right: Windermere agents Richard Paoletti (PDSP) and Sherri Forbes (La Quinta); Windermere Brokers Sandy Beakey, Charlie White, Neil Lingle YMCA Campaign Co-chair, Broker Don Rossignol and Rob Ballew, YMCA CEO.
Photo bottom: from left to right: Windermere agents Richard Paoletti (PDSP) and Sherri Forbes (La Quinta); Rob Ballew, YMCA CEO; Windermere Brokers Charlie White, Sandy Beakey and Don Rossignol, and Neil Lingle, YMCA Campaign Co-chair.
The Palm Springs/Palm Desert YMCA recently kicked off their annual fund-raising drive with an awards ceremony to rival the Oscars. Windermere Real Estate Coachella Valley helped get the 2010 Sustaining Campaign off to a great start with a contribution of $5,000 from the Windermere Foundation.
“Every time a Windermere sales associate sells a home, a donation is made to the Windermere Foundation,” explains Windermere Coachella Valley owner Bob Deville. “Windermere’s commitment to serving our communities goes beyond providing the best in real estate services. Windermere reaches out to help address the challenges faced by homeless and low-income families in the communities where we live and work, through grants from the Windermere Foundation,” adds Deville.
Windermere Real Estate Coachella Valley will hold a valley-wide Open House Gala on Easter weekend, April 3 and 4. More than 200 homes will be open to the public.
A $500 Visa gift card will be given away in a drawing on Monday, April 12, 2010. Anyone over the age of 18 is eligible to enter at any of the open house locations, on Saturday and Sunday. Visitors may enter at each open house location.
The public is invited to visit www.OpenHouseGala.com in advance for complete property information, photos, maps and more.
Windermere Real Estate agents and brokers contributed over $1,600 in Easter Baskets to the California Desert Association of Realtors Scholarship Fund and Save-A-Pet, at the Annual “C.D.A.R. Easter Basket Auction” held on Thursday, March 25th.
Realtors from Palm Desert, Indian Wells, Rancho Mirage and La Quinta contributed Easter baskets to the California Desert Association of Realtors which were auctioned off to fellow Realtors and other members of the Real Estate community. Awards were also given for Most Creative, Most Beautiful and Most Humorous baskets, for which Windermere won the award for Most Creative.
“Windermere has always had a core philosophy of giving back to the community and our agents were happy to participate in the Easter Basket Auction to assist the Scholarship Fund and Save-A-Pet,” noted Windermere Real Estate Coachella Valley owner Bob Deville.
Pictured above, from left to right: Windermere brokers Charlie White, Sandy Beakey, Don Rossignol, Emily DiSimone and Diana Weiss.
“We didn’t plan to be #1 in home sales in the Coachella Valley. We planned to be the best real estate company in the desert area. Becoming #1 was the result,” said Windermere SoCal co-owners Bob Bennion and Bob Deville at yesterday’s All-Agent meeting held at the Rancho Rancho Las Palmas Resort and Spa in Rancho Mirage.
Keynote speaker, Patrick Veling, Principal of Real Data Strategies, discussed Windermere’s current market dominance and strategies for 2010. All strategies and statistics aside, everyone was in agreement that the ultimate goal, as always, is to provide the best real estate solutions and services to our valued home buyers and sellers.
Windermere Southern California owner, Bob Deville was recently nominated Business Man of the Year by the Rancho Mirage Chamber of Commerce. Rancho Mirage office Managing Broker, Diana Weiss, was nominated Business Woman of the Year. Pictured above are Bob and Diana, along with fellow Realtors who attended the recent Rancho Mirage Chamber of Commerce Rammy Awards. Photo (from left to right) Dan McGeary, Jane Comelli, Trent Tiecke (standing), Bob Deville, Brenda Scott (standing), Diana Weiss, Alvin Greenwalt, Joel Cohen (standing) and his wife Susan. Photo courtesy of Realtor Terry Nelson.
A Children And Community Health And Fitness Expo will be held Sunday January 24th from 10:00am until 6:00pm to benefit the Wellness Foundation Palm Springs. The Expo will take place at ACE Hotel and Swim Club on 701 East Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs and is sponsored by Windermere Real Estate Coachella Valley.
Presenters and exhibitors will include Zoo Yoga, Animal Samaritans, Action All-Star Cheer, Action Gymnastics, Urban Yoga Center, My Gym, Desert Recreation District, Sisters Cupcakes by Design, Helene’s Learn to Swim, Arbonne, Ren Yogamaya, Safe House of the Desert, Desert Recreation District, Datura Art Studio, Action Gymnastics, Gilda’s Club Desert Cities, Enchanted Memories, Desert Arc, Windermere Real Estate and others.
“Windermere really does believe that helping our community is essential. So many agents from our offices have been involved in our community awareness days, special events and fund raising. Our agents and staff really help support others,” says Paduano. “I have always been impressed with the owners, Bob Deville and Bob Bennion. They continue to stress to us how important it is to give back,” adds Paduano.
For more information about this event please contact the Wellness Foundation Palm Springs executive director, Michael Paduano, at 760-831-3761 or e-mail mpaduano@windermere.com. Wellness Foundation Palm Springs is a non-profit 501-c3 Tax ID #2604397952. www.WellnessFoundationPalmSprings.org.
The Winner of the most recent Windermere Palm Springs South Balloon Ride free drawing was announced on December 21st. Palm Springs resident, Misha Talley’s name was drawn from hundreds of entries at the Palm Springs South office in the Smoke Tree Commons shopping center. Misha, pictured in the photo (center), was extremely excited and has never been up in a Hot-Air Balloon. Check this blog regularly for the next Windermere free drawing.
In the photo from left to right is: Michael Larson, Carol Berger, Bryan Arnold, Misha Talley (winner), Joe Simeone, Michael Ricks.
Windermere So Cal owners, Bob Deville (left) and Bob Bennion (right), hosted the Annual Holiday Party at The Living Desert In Palm Desert. The country-themed celebration of the season was held on Friday the 11th and attended by hundreds of Windermere Coachella Valley agents and guests. Below, partiers danced the night away to the Kelly Rae Country Music Band.
On Thursday, December 10th, the California Desert Association of REALTORS® installed it’s 2010 directors at the Renaissance Esmeralda in Indian Wells. Names were Windermere agents:
Diane Busch, 2010 Director and Local Government Relations Chair
Wendy Formica, 2010 Director and Programs Chair
Peter Schmidt, 2010 Director
Charlie White, 2010 Director
David Banks, 2010 MLS Committee Chair
Leslie Munger, 2010 Commercial/Investment Committee Chair
Gary Anderson, 2010 Grievance Committee Chair
Don Rossignol, 2010 Scholarship Committee Co-Chair�
David Banks and Peter Schmidt, 2009 President’s Award recipients
Ini Asmann, 2009 CDAR REALTOR® of the Year
Congratulations to all!
Top photo David Banks (left) with Peter Schmidt (right). Bottom photo Diane Busch (left) with Heather Ozur (right).
Windermere’s annual Community Service Day was a huge success. Agents and staff from the La Quinta office donated school supplies to the Oasis School on Friday, November 13th.
Thank you to everyone who contributed. The La Quinta office is already collecting items to donate to Oasis School later this month.
The Windermere Palm Desert-Cook & Hovley office collected items to donate to Carter Elementary school in Palm Desert. Agents and staff were able to fulfill all items on the teachers’ wish lists, plus more!
Broker Emily DiSimone, along with agents Debbie Sander and Michele Mayer, brought the items to Carter Elementary on Friday, November 13th.
The Windermere Palm Desert-San Pablo Office collected money to purchase certificate paper for the Renaissance Department of the Palm Desert Charter Middle School. These are the students that prepare all the achievement award certificates for the entire school and they needed funds to purchase the paper.
The San Pablo office collected over $300.00 which is what was needed to make the purchase. On Friday, November 13th, they presented the class with the supplies. Joe Tucker, Counselor for the school was also on hand to receive the donations.
On Friday, November 13th, our two Windermere offices in Indian Wells donated school supplies to Gerald Ford Elementary School, as part of our annual company wide Community Service Day.
A thank you is extended to everyone who contributed school supplies for the students at Gerald Ford Elementary School; with a special thanks to our team leaders Kerry Anderson and Pamela Stone. They delivered two huge bins of supplies to an extremely happy school principal.
A BIG Thank you from students at Raymond Cree Middle School
Our two Windermere offices of Palm Springs have contributed their time and money to help the students and teachers of Raymond Cree Middle School, as part of our annual company wide Community Service Day. With services and supplies being cut back over the last two years, teachers are forced to spend their paychecks to teach our children.
On Monday, November 16th, agents and staff presented a $1500 Visa Gift card and numerous school supplies such as the traditional paper, markers, rulers, gardening tools, and a podium for their speech class. “It is the non-traditional supply items that are needed that are not afforded in the school budgets,” says Windermere Office Manager, Frances Chafe.
One day each year Windermere Real Estate’s agents, owners and staff volunteer at improvement projects in their local communities. This year’s Community Service Day will be held November 13th.
Windermere Coachella Valley will be donating much needed school supplies to local public schools. Each Windermere office is sponsoring a school serving their community and asked for a “wish list” from them.
“Our agents put their heads together to determine what worthy project we could do this year and the need for school supplies kept popping up at the top of the list,” says Windermere owner Bob Deville. “With services and supplies being cut back over the last two years, some of those suffering the most have been our children. Windermere feels strongly about starting from the bottom and working up. Our children and their education today are clearly our future.”
The schools receiving donated supplies are Rancho Mirage Elementary, Palm Desert Charter Middle School, Carter Elementary in Palm Desert, Raymond Cree Middle School in Palm Springs, Gerald Ford Elementary in Indian Wells and Oasis School of the Desert in Indio.
The photo above was taken at the Oasis School of the Desert in Indio. The La Quinta office is actively involved with the school throughout the year.
On Thursday, December 10th, the California Desert Association of REALTORS® installed it’s 2010 directors at the Renaissance Esmeralda in Indian Wells. Names were Windermere agents:
The Windermere Palm Desert-San Pablo Office collected money to purchase certificate paper for the Renaissance Department of the Palm Desert Charter Middle School. These are the students that prepare all the achievement award certificates for the entire school and they needed funds to purchase the paper.
One day each year Windermere Real Estate’s agents, owners and staff volunteer at improvement projects in their local communities. This year’s Community Service Day will be held November 13th.