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Hello neighbors! Our monsoon rains and recent windstorms have left some trees, shrubs, and cacti reaching into the roadway. Since Hidden Valley has no sidewalks, the road’s edge is where we walk, jog, push strollers, walk dogs, and ride bikes. Now is a great time to check the front of your property for branches, shrubs and plants extending into the street. A little trimming goes a long way toward keeping everyone safe. Thank you for looking out for your neighbors!

This is just a quick thanks to the nearly 50% of our members (80 of us) who have already renewed for 2027, in just the first two weeks of our annual Membership Drive. As for the other half… come on, folks, you know you’re gonna do it… Sending in your dues is easy.  You can go online to our Square site. It takes just minutes. Or  you can mail in a check, payable to “Hidden Valley HOA” to: Treasurer, Hidden Valley HOA 6890 E Sunrise Dr, Suite 120, PMB 290 Tucson, AZ 85750 Let’s get our renewals done, so we can …

Two Weeks In: Nearly 50% Renewed! Read more →

Our monthly board meeting will be Wednesday, November 4th, at 7:00 pm.  Our host will be Kathy Bergan, at 8415 E Rawhide Trl. To join us, RSVP to HVHOA at 520-344-4823 or email info@HiddenValleyTucson.com.

We received this endorsement for our fellow HOA Board Member, Richard Flores, our FireWise Director, who also serves (along with Lee Alter, our Wes Miller Park Director) on the elected Board of the Hidden Valley Fire District, which supervises the money garnered from property taxes in our area to cover our fire and emergency response from Rural Metro Fire Department. (Other communities in our area require individual subscriptions by each property owner! We are blessed to be covered together.) Richard is up for re-election. Without publicly endorsing anyone ourselves, we did think this outside endorsement was newsworthy and pertinent to …

An outside endorsement for one of our own Read more →

Several of your Board Members received a survey notice from a University of Arizona student. Our President thought you might like to join us in participating…

Hard to believe it has been nearly two months since we posted our survey! Here, finally are the results. Generally, pollsters are happy to get back 3% of the population polled. We got back over 10%! But, still, 18 people is not a very representative base for the other 175 of us. And these are probably all Board Members and other die-hard community activists. But the answers were interesting so here we share them with you: (Sorry if the print is small, but you should be able to zoom up on these images to see them better.) The Raw Data: …

Community Survey Results Read more →

Many of you already know Bill Harman, who has been a member of this community for many years.  This week, Bill has accepted the role of Webmaster at the Board Meeting. He will also be training with me on the Data Manager role.  Bill has already created some of the posts you are reading and processed some of your memberships. This will give us some back up as I work on the Membership Drive this fall, and a smooth transition, as my wife and I leave to take up residence with our daughter in California in the new year.   Please remember …

Hidden Valley, Welcome Your New Webmaster! Read more →

Your HOA Board of Directors has some vacancies to fill: Positions are a 3 year commitment, but they have been known to last from 6 months to 20 years, so there’s plenty of flexibility in there. Please email Felix Gafner, President@HiddenValleyTucson.com if you might be interested in helping out. The Vice President fills in when the President is not available, and also handles internal communications with our neighborhood. Sometimes neighbors just need someone to let us know when something we are doing is a bother to someone else. The Vice President helps us to understand each other. If you have …

Help Wanted: YOU Read more →

On September 30, 2026, we kicked off our annual Membership Drive for 2027. Notices were mailed and emailed. And the response was IMPRESSIVE! We have already obtained nearly 28% of our base target of 165 memberships. We have 39 members who have renewed already and 4 new memberships. This is the highest response rate in the last 4 years! Keep it up, folks! Let’s all get this done. We are going to do it sometime, anyway. So how about right now? Just click on this link, and you can be done in a minute: Thinking about it? Remember : Wes …

Nicely Done, Hidden Valley! Read more →

This is the start of this year’s membership drive. Here is the information on signing up or renewing memberships for 2027.

Hi Neighbors, We are currently looking for volunteer Block Leaders for Block 12. I’ve attached a neighborhood map highlighting the two blocks so you can see if one of them is near you. You can also view it online here. The Block Leader role is intentionally pretty simple. The goal is just to have someone who keeps an eye on what’s happening around their block and lets us know if they notice anything unusual or suspicious. You don’t need to patrol the neighborhood, confront anyone, or take on a significant time commitment. It’s simply another way for neighbors to stay connected and …

Volunteer Block Leaders Needed: Block 12 Read more →

Courtesy of realtyfelix.com, here are the current real estate numbers for our neighborhood as of September 2, 2026.

“Landscape Irrigation by the Numbers” is a new booklet available from Tucson Water Department. They also have Rainwater Harvesting updates. These features and more in the September edition of Water Matters.

Our monthly board meeting will be Wednesday, September 2nd, at 7:00 pm.  Our hosts will be Lupita and Felix Gafner, at 8170 E Rawhide Trl. RSVP to HVHOA at 520-344-4823 or email info@HiddenValleyTucson.com.

Dear neighbors:   Thanks to all of you who joined us for our Saturday Social and Donation drive for Youth On Their Own.  You were all very generous with shelf stable foods and school supplies to be delivered to YOTO on 8/17.  And, now, a commercial for our next host for the Saturday Social.  This is the easiest party to host.  You make your home available on a Saturday night of your choosing.  You supply paper products and utensils.  Your HOA even has a supply of wine glasses to loan the host.  So how about it being our next host! …

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This doesn’t look to be just the culvert they have been making… it runs from Chieftain all the way to Sabino Canyon Rd. But if so, by September 14th, our teeth will chatter a bit less on that stretch.

Higher prices are everywhere. Here’s an opportunity to find a job to supplement.

A little miscellany of interest from Pima County…

Well, the summer respite for Respiratory Viruses is over. The state reporting takes a break. too. But they’ve resumed now… The good news is that everything looks as low starting off as it was last year. Flu is still the bigger concern.

Please read the missive below from member Hope Peterson. A person is now on a rabies treatment regime due to being scratched by an aggressive stray, wandering cat.  No matter how you feel about the freedom and independence of cats, we need to join together and locate this cat so that it can be taken care of properly.  Please turn your eyes to finding this poor creature, for its own sake and ours. -Mike Oliver, Webmaster@HiddenValleyTucson.com ———- Forwarded message ———From: Hope Peterson Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 4:00 PMSubject: Possible rabid catTo: <info@hiddenvalleytucson.com> There has been a large charcoal grey/black cat roaming …

Possible Rabid Cat! Read more →

We are currently in the midst of our “Youth On Their Own” Back-to-School supplies drive. At the end of the drive, Norie Nelson is sponsoring a Saturday Night Social at her house, 8258 E Big Horn Trl, 6 – 9 pm, on Saturday, August 15th. This is your invite.

Planning Tucson’s Water Future, a new customer portal. and saving water by not over-seeding — these are the topics in this month’s “Water Matters” newsletter from our supplier of clean drinking water, the City of Tucson Water.

Norie Nelson is leading this year’s effort to collect school supplies for Youth On Their Own(YOTO). The donation drive is from now until Saturday, August 15, 2026. YOTO provides students with essential school supplies like backpacks, binders, USB flashdrives, crayons, and lined paper. For a complete list of YOTO needs, please check out the YOTOwebsite. Always welcome are individually packaged food and snacks like trail mix, fruit snacksjerky, macaroni and cheese cups, ramen cups, dry pasta and sauce (no glass containers), cannedfruit, shelf stable milk, hygiene products, and household goods. Donations may be placed in the containers in Norie’s courtyard, …

YOTO Back to School Drive AND Saturday Night Social Read more →

We have a group on NextDoor for Hidden Valley Homeowners Association. Only members can join, but we will not “join” you. It’s a great place for you to post back to our community, without us having to code anything. So try it out. We select items from the NextDoor group and repost them here as well. This one came in last week from one of our neighbors: Thank you to the kind unknown person who picked up my fly away, recycling… This is what being a community is all about.

A neighbor has reported to the county the downed Street sign at the corner of Moonstone and Rawhide. This is what community is about. Hi Felix. I noticed cycling this week that the street sign on the corner of Moonstone and Rawhide (on the east side) is laying down. Not sure if the storm or a human took it out. I called Pima County Road Maintenance. A work order has been filed. Best,Carol

A bir of everything from Pima County this month. Think about it: the County wans us to appreciate them. Perhaps we should.

On July 12, a microburst came through the neighborhood, knocked out the power, and donwed some trees, including some in the Wes Miller Park.  I have gone through the trails to remove imminent hazardous.  The rest will be taken care of in about a week. Please remember the park is a wild place, so watch your step — below and above — appreciate your surroundings, stay alert, and feel welcome to report any hazards or suggestions. Thank you, Lee AlterPark Director

The work appears to be complete. Crews determined that the leak was coming from the main water line and were able to make the repair without shutting off water service to any homes. The road has been reopened to traffic, and the area has been patched. While the patch is a bit rough, the roadway is open and passable. Thank you to everyone for your patience while the repairs were being completed.

Neighborhood Construction Update – Sunday, July 5 (10:45 AM) We wanted to share a quick update for neighbors regarding the activity on Moonstone this morning. Construction crews and the water company are currently responding to a water leak in the wash along Moonstone. At this time, they are working to determine whether the leak is coming from a water line or a sewer line. If they determine it is a sewer line issue, the appropriate sewer crews will also be dispatched. Road closure signs have been placed at Ocotillo & Moonstone and are expected to also be in place at Moonstone & Bighorn. …

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The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator …

In Congress, July 4, 1776 Read more →