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WHO ARE THESE HANDSOME GUYS AND GORGEOUS GALS??? Your spirited and caring Board of Directors - of course! They, along with Resident Manager Gerald Zeigler, are a committed team of hard-working individuals whose primary goal is to promote a harmonious living community and to maintain and enhance the property values and assets of the Casa de Emdeko ohana.
Read on to learn more about each one of your Directors and the Resident Manager.
Back row left to right: Ben Nunes, Dick Peterson, Tom Vortmann, Robert Menacho
Front row left to right: LaVonne Harrison, Ed Chung, Molly Bovee
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Ben Nunes
President
Phone: (714) 637-9237
Email: bennunes2000@yahoo.com
I have had the pleasure of serving on the Board of Casa de Emdeko since 2001. I live in Orange, California and am employed by the County of Los Angeles Fire Department as an Engineer. I have owned a unit in Casa beginning in 1999.
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Tom Vortmann
Director
Phone: (713) 355-1242 x12
Email: tom@thackergroup.com
A property owner since 1991, Tom was elected to the Board in 2003. A San Francisco native, Tom and his wife Ann own a public relations firm and currently reside in Texas. They have two married daughters and two grandsons in college.
Family members first resided on Oahu and Kauai in the 1920s, but it was the Navy that brought Tom to Hawaii for the first time in the late '60s on his way to Vietnam.
He's had a love affair with the Islands ever since.
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Molly Bovee
Secretary
Email: mjbovee@earthlink.net
I first visited the Casa in the summer of 1980; I have been back each year since then. We purchased our condo in 1986. I have seen many changes one thing has not changed; many visitors who stay at the Casa tell me that they are planning their next trip to come back. It is a very special place. It is an honor to serve as an owner's representative on the board. We work so well together for the good of our complex. I spend four or five months in Kona. When I am not in Hawaii, I am in Idaho where I enjoy golfing, gardening and volunteering.
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Ed Chung
Vice President
Email: chungp008@hawaii.rr.com
My name is Ed Chung. I just recently retired from the Department of Education after 33 years. My other profession has been as a professional entertainer for the past 35 years. I have had the privilege to entertain throughout the world as well as the islands. I'm currently performing at the Kahala Madarin on the weekends. My wife Pat and I are proud owners of Unit #109 since 1984. Pat is the principal broker and owner of Manoa Realty on the Island of Oahu for 25 years. I have three grown kids and we all love the Casa and have a passion for canoe paddling. My mother grew up just 200 yards down the road. As a child, I had many happy summers in Kona. There were no traffic jams, condos, Walmart or even street lights! Imagine Kona in the fifties. Ocean View Restaurant was probably the only place beside the hotel where you could get a hot meal. Residents had catchment tanks and outhouses along Alii Drive. Those were the good old days. My mission is pure and simple and that is to nurture the Aloha way of life which is unique to these islands and also I will do my best to protect that special ambiance that we all enjoy about the Casa.
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Lavonne Harrison
Director
I'm a retired California attorney and Real Estate Broker. I've owned Units C&D (the commercial building) at the Casa since 1980. I still live in California but two of my three daughters live in Hawaii and one owns half interest in the store, and the other one works in the store and they both rent an office upstairs and call themselves The Busy Bees. I have three Grandchildren, one of them lives in Hawaii and I have 5 Great-Grandchildren and I live in Sunset Beach California.
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Dee Ann Wunschel
Director
Email: deewunschel@yahoo.com
I am a graduate of the University of Iowa and the University of Oregon
School of Law. I have been practicing law with my father in my hometown of
Carroll, Iowa for over 20 years. My emphasis is trial work primarily in the
family/personal injury/juvenile law areas. I am the mother of 2 children -
Sarah who is 21 and will be attending Arizona State in the fall and Austin
will be a freshman.
I first visited Hawaii after 9/11 and fell in love placing a bid on #126
before I left the island. I took possession in February of 2002 and have
visited 3 or 4 times per year since then. I love it and hope to spend more
time there after my son graduates.
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Robert Menacho
Director
Email: menacho@directcon.net
I would like to introduce myself, Robert Menacho. I live in Northern California, am 53 years old & my wife & I purchased our condo at Casa in 2000. We are able to come to our home at Casa about 4 times a year. I have greatly enjoyed owning my condo & feel it is a very special place & plan on owning it for a long time.
I have been on the Casa de Emdeko Board of Directors for two years. I have experience in managing, maintaining & remodeling real estate which has helped me on the Casa association board. I enjoy being on the board & my goal is that the Casa de Emdeko complex continues to be the place I fell in love with when looking at all the other complexes in the area.
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Dick Peterson
Treasurer
Email: DicPeterson@aol.com
A Brief Bio for a Brief person. Retired business owner in Whitefish, Montana, Age 67, Widower, (Available), Lives 7 months in Hawaii and 5 months in Whitefish, Montana. Spend my free time, which is all the time, fishing.
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Robert "Bob" Sutter
Phone: (808) 329-2160
Email: casa@turquoise.net |
"I'm Robert "Bob" Sutter. I am proud to be the Resident Manager of the Casa. Dianna and I enjoy every minute of the beautiful surroundings, the singing birds and meeting people from all over the globe that vacation here. I was born in Detroit Michigan, raised in Southern California and spent 27 years in Yreka, in Northern California. Dianna, my wife, enjoys the islands and really loves hearing about the 100 degree plus weather or the snow storms in the Northwest and delights in not having to get that snow shovel out to get to her car in the winter. We at the Casa are very much like an ohana (family) and invite you to come from where ever you are to visit Kailua-Kona. If you plan to visit the island of Hawaii come and see us at the Casa De Emdeko, we are south of downtown Kailua, on Alii Drive, right on the Pacific Ocean."
Mahalo (thank you) Bob |
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