Be at the Club at 8:15am to board the coach for a day of play and win. Bring those lucky charms and some “Yes I will win attitude”.

Our group will receive a personal welcome and coupons for discounts, match plays and free items. There is also the grand buffet for us to enjoy any time between 11:30am and 2:30pm.

We will arrive back in Ocean Shores around 5:30pm.

Cost: $15.00 per person
Limit: 45 persons
Sign-Up/Refund Deadline: Friday, May 18, 2012

May Bingo
Club Café - Noon
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Join us in the Club café Tuesday, May 29 at noon for bingo. Please bring a wrapped inexpensive or unneeded gift (one per person).

This will be a fun filled afternoon. We’ll be serving hot dogs, potato salad, chips, beverage and dessert.

Cost: $6.00 per person
Limit: 40 persons
Sign-Up/Refund Deadline: May 28, 2012

Did You Say Shopping?
Centralia, WA.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Did someone say shopping? Join us at 9:00am Tuesday, June 12 at the Club for a full day of shopping with good friends and no driving. We’re going to the Centralia Outlet Mall to shop at a variety of stores including Bass, Chico’s, Coach Factory, Eddie Bauer, Lane Bryant and many more. So grab your BFF’S and sign up for a fun filled day. There will be plenty of room for all your treasures. Limited seating available.

Included in this trip: Bus, Great Driver, and Driver’s Tip. Lunch will be on your own.

Cost: $40.00 per person
Limit: 24 persons
Sign-Up/Refund Deadline: Friday, June 8, 2012

July Bingo
Monday, July 23, 2012
Club Café

Bring your friends, children, grandchildren and join us in the Club café Monday, July 23 at noon for Bingo. Please bring a wrapped inexpensive or unneeded gift (one per person).

This will be a fun filled afternoon. We will be serving chicken, pasta salad, dessert and beverages.

Cost: $6.00 per person
Limit: 40 persons
Sign-Up/Refund Deadline: July 22, 2012

Ocean Shores Annual Picnic
Clubhouse
Saturday August 25, 2012

Join us for the Ocean Shores Community Club’s annual family picnic at the Bayshore clubhouse on Saturday, August 25, at 3:00 PM

Please sign up in advance. You are requested to bring a salad or dessert that will serve 10 people. The club will provide the hamburgers, hot dogs, and beverages. Bring the whole family and enjoy a fun time together with fellow club members.

Sign up at the front desk or call us at 360-289-2433

Lucky Eagle Resort
Rochester, WA
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Summer is in full swing so join us for a leisurely visit to the Lucky Eagle Casino. We will leave the Club at 8:15am.

Our group will receive a personal welcome and coupons for discounts, match plays and free items. There is also the grand buffet for us to enjoy any time between 11:30am and 2:30pm.

We will arrive back in Ocean Shores around 5:00pm.

Cost: 15.00 per person
Limit: 45 persons
Sign-Up/Refund Deadline: Friday, August 24, 2012

PLEASE NOTE: All events require payment at the time of sign-up.

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Café: (Fri-Sun)* am – 2:30pm
Open Monday, May 28

Club Office: 360-289-2433
www.oceanshorescc.com

Bayshore Pool Schedule

Monday – Friday:
Adult Swim 6am – 8am
Adult Lap Swim 8am – 10am
Adult Water Exercise 10am – 11am*
Open Swim 11am – 7:30pm

Saturday – Adult Swim: 8am – 9am
- Open Swim: 9am – 7:30pm

Sunday – Adult Swim: 8am – 9am
- Open Swim: 9am – 4:30pm**

* Subject to Change For Holidays/School Vacations
Cancelled: Memorial Day, Monday, May 28

** Sunday, May 27 - Open Until 7:30pm

Cabana Pool Schedule
(Outdoor Heated Pool)

Hours: Monday – Saturday: 12:00pm – 7:00pm
Sunday: 12:00pm – 4:00pm

Dates: Open Memorial Day Weekend: May 26*, 27*, 28**
Open Saturday/Sunday Only: June 2 – June 17
Open Daily: June 18 – September 3

* Saturday & Sunday, May 26 & 27 – Open Until 7:00pm
** Monday, May 28 – Open Until 4:00pm

No Guest Fees @ Cabana Pool

Jane A. Swygard - President
Claire Teague - Vice President
Bob Howe - Secretary
Ken Peterson - Treasurer
Jerry Guddat
Rich Hartman
Mark Lawlis
Carol Warfield
Lee York

Upcoming Open Board Meeting Dates
May 19
June 23 (Annual Meeting @ 1:00pm)
July 28
August 25
September 22

Meetings begin at noon.
All members in good standing are invited to attend.

Club Manager

John Scalisi.

Membership Dues

The current membership dues of the Ocean Shoes Community Club are $145.00 annually.

The Ocean Observer

Published monthly and mailed to all Ocean Shores Community Club members. To contact the office of the Ocean Observer, please call 360-289-4576 or e-mail wildwood@coastaccess.com.

Lost Membership Card

Contact our office at 360-289-2433 or stop in and see us to obtain a replacement.

Directions to Bayshore Clubhouse

When you enter the gates of Ocean Shores, you are on Point Brown Avenue, go approximately 4.6 miles and you will see Blue Signs directing you to the Bayshore Clubhouse, go approximately 1 block and turn left onto Discovery Ave. At the "Stop Sign" fade left, go approximately one block (the Discovery Inn is on your left) and turn right onto Catala Avenue SE. Go approximately .2 miles, the Community Club is on your right just past Harbour Pointe Shores assisted living facility. The address is 1016 Catala Ave SE.

Cabana Pool
900 Torrisdale Ave SW

Pacific Park Pool
152 Ocean Shores Blvd NW

Damon Park
48 Volans Ave SE

Bill Ellis Park
698 Mt. Olympus Ave SE

Lunch Menu

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This is the Club’s main facility. The clubhouse is equipped with an indoor heated swimming pool, changing rooms with lockers, showers and restrooms, two saunas, spa, gymnasium, fitness center, TV/reading room, meeting room, game room and café. The facility also has a spacious outdoor deck and playground area. The building is situated on waterfront property overlooking beautiful Grays Harbor Bay.

Bill Ellis Park

This Club property provides a scenic view of Duck Lake, a fishing dock, an open cabana, picnic tables, playground and restroom facilities.

Cabana Park

The Cabana Park facility includes an outdoor heated swimming pool, changing rooms with lockers, showers and restrooms, and sheltered picnic tables poolside. Located on the property is beautiful Perkins Pond with surrounding nature trail, park benches and picnic tables.

Damon Park

This park is equipped with a covered cabana with pit for grilling, picnic tables and restroom facilities. The park includes pickleball/badmiton courts, basketball court and swingset.

Pacific Park

The Pacific Park facility includes an outdoor heated swimming pool, changing rooms with showers and restrooms. The property also has a tennis court and basketball court.

by Gene Woodwick

Long before Western Man appeared in the area, now known as Point Brown Peninsula, Native American people used the area for a variety of purposes. The Chehalis occupied a permanent camp close to the beginning of the Point, later the Chinook people kept a permanent food gathering encampment on the ocean end of the point. However, the entire area was used in common by a variety of tribes, particularly those who later became part of the Confederated Tribes of the Quinault Indian Nation.

On May 7, 1792 British explorer Capt. Robert Gray sailed through the bar, into the bay, and named the area Bullfinch Harbor. Later explorers re-named the area after the Captain. The first white established settler on the Point was Matthew McGee in the early 1860s. He sold the southern portion of the peninsula to A.O. Damon in 1878 for a trading supply center whose dock extended into the Oyehut channel. A.O. Damon took over the entire peninsula from McGee with the land passed along to his grandson, Ralph Minard who used the area as a cattle ranch from 1929 until he sold to the Ocean Shores Investment Corporation in 1960 for $1,000,000.

The Ocean Shores Development Corporation opened their sale of lots in a travel trailer parked in the dunes and soon the whole world knew about the California-style development of the place called Ocean Shores. The price of lots began at $595 and were sold sight unseen from the first plat maps. As the numbers of lots sold, the prices rose. Property lots were staked and numbered only as the road construction crews began to layout the massive road system. However, the first roads were only 20 miles in length, but, the downtown area had vapor lights to show this was a booming city. The first year 25 homes were constructed and their owners had charter membership certificates in the Ocean Shores Community Club.

As the development grew, the Ginny Simms Restaurant and Nightclub brought in the Hollywood set; in fact, on Grand Opening night chartered planes flew up a whole continent of Hollywood stars and 11,000 people turned out at Bowerman Basin to see the celebs.

By December, 1960, 25 miles of canals were planned, a six hole golf course was drawing players and the mall shopping area was ready for the 1961 Ocean Shores Estates construction boom. The mall, l00 motel units, three restaurants and the airstrip sprang up from the sandy ground with the marina opening in 1963. The S.S. Catala was brought up from California to become a "boatel" and charter fleet office. Two years later a southwest winter storm drove her into the sand and for many years she was the most famous shipwreck on the Washington Coast. In 1966 the famous gates to the city were installed.

Pat Boone became a local resident in 1967 as a stockholder in the Ocean Shores Estates Incorporated and promotion of the development was speeded along by the famous Celebrity Golf tournaments hosted by Boone.

By 1969 Ocean Shores was declared the "Richest Little City" with an assessed evaluation of $35 million and 900 permanent residents. The following year the city was incorporated with a planning commission formed to zone the city and codify streets. The city's first school opened in 1971 and road paving on streets began in earnest.