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Our Bowling Club Story on Page 16 Photo by Beth Bolduc Contact Information SUN CITY SHADOW HILLS Sun City Shadow Hills Community Association COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 80-814 Sun City Boulevard, Indio, CA 92203 Hours of Operation www.scshca.com 760-345-4349 Association Office Monday – Friday · 9 AM – 12 PM, 1 – 4 PM Homeowner Association (HOA)...... Ext. 2100 First Saturday of the Month · 8 AM – 12 PM Montecito Clubhouse ...... Ext. 2120 Montecito Fitness Center ...... Ext. 2111 Lifestyle Desk Daily · 8 AM – 5 PM Santa Rosa Clubhouse...... Ext. 2201 Shadow Hills Golf Club South ...... Ext. 2305 Montecito Clubhouse Shadow Hills Golf Club North ...... Ext. 2211 Daily · 6 AM – 10 PM Shadows Restaurant ...... Ext. 2311 Montecito Fitness Center Ceasar Larrach, General Manager Daily · 5 AM – 8 PM [email protected] ...... Ext. 2102 Santa Rosa Clubhouse Richard Smetana, Assistant General Manager Daily · 5 AM – 10 PM [email protected] ...... Ext. 2104 Shadows Restaurant David Archer, Community Safety Director [email protected] ...... Ext. 2202 Monday · 2:30 – 8 PM (Monday Night Football) Ozzie Lopez, Facility Maintenance Director Tuesday – Thursday · Closed [email protected] ...... Ext. 2402 Friday · 11 AM – 8 PM Chris Fizer, Lifestyle Director Saturday – Sunday · 10 AM – 8 PM [email protected] ...... Ext. 2124 Happy Hour · Friday – Sunday · 2:30 – 6:30 PM Chet Sheehan, Fitness Director [email protected] ...... Ext. 2112 Montecito Café Liz Gutierrez, Lifestyle Coordinator Closed [email protected] ...... Ext. 2123 Santa Rosa Bistro Veronica Moya, Lifestyle Coordinator Daily · 6 AM – 1 PM [email protected] ...... Ext. 2122 Golf Snack Bar Gus Ramirez, Communications Manager Closed [email protected] ...... Ext. 2204 Rolland Vaughn, General Manager of Shadow Hills Golf Club All hours are subject to change. [email protected]...... Ext. 2301 Visit www.scshca.com for the latest hours. Jefferson Front Gate (Phases 1 & 2) . . . . . 760-345-4458 Avenue 40 Front Gate (Phase 3) ...... 760-342-4725 SCSH Community Association Board of Directors Joan Dzuro, President [email protected] ...... 760-347-6496 Barbara Stocky, Vice President The View is published monthly by the Sun City Shadow Hills [email protected] ...... 760-347-5785 Community Association. This publication is copyrighted and may not be reproduced or reprinted without the written permission of SCSHCA. Carey Thompson, Treasurer Mission Statement [email protected]...... 503-551-3442 To promote the community and recognize the individuals Agi Kessler, Secretary who contribute to the identity of the community, and to impart [email protected]...... 805-469-6050 information relevant to the community as a whole. Erica Hedlund, Member at Large SCSHCA Communications Advisory Committee [email protected] ...... 760-200-1939 Linda Aasen; Beth Bolduc; Arnold Choy; Tom Hutson; Lee Powell; Bill Singer For warranty or customer service needs concerning Staff Editor-in-Chief: Ceasar Larrach, General Manager your home, please email: [email protected] Lifestyle Director All warranty issues and questions must go through this email. Production Manager: Chris Fizer, You will receive an auto-reply stating your email has been received. To inquire about articles, content, and advertising – or to submit stories for publication – please email [email protected] or contact Gus Mailbox Repair ...... Ozzie Lopez, Ext. 2402 Ramirez, Communications Manager, at 760-345-4349, ext. 2204.
2 September 2016 theView President’s Sometimes when things aren’t going as we Report would like, we can let our frustrations manifest themselves in calling people names, yelling, and harassing people. We are a community that is BY JOAN DZURO better than this. Our General Manager and PRESIDENT Board members want to hear all your concerns. Many a time we on the Board hear rumors of As we get ready to start a new season soon, what people may be concerned about, yet neither I want to address how all of you can help your our GM nor any Board member has received Board serve you better. any communication on that issue. No one person has all the answers to any The Board works hard to evaluate all information question or problem. Our community is blessed before making a decision. Will you always get the to have such a wealth of knowledge in all types answer you want? Probably not. We have 6,500 of areas: landscaping, finance, communications, residents; and pleasing them all, all the time, is and beyond. Getting recommendations from just not possible. We do try to do the things we
our great residents on how to improve our believe benefit the community as a whole, and News from the Board community is very helpful. hopefully the majority of you agree. When you see or hear of a concern, please tell We are excited about our new season and either our General Manager, Ceasar Larrach welcoming everyone home from their summer ([email protected]), or a Board member. vacations or their seasonal home. Once back, If you have any ideas about how to address the please help the Board serve you by attending or concern, please let us know that as well. All watching videos of Board meetings (they are ideas are evaluated by the appropriate advisory available on the SCSHCA website), reading the committee, and then recommended actions are View magazine and the website, signing up for presented to the Board. our Monday morning email blasts, and letting Your Board works hard, for free, to keep our the Board know what you like and what you may community financially sound and beautiful. We have concerns about. Together we can continue want everyone, including those of us who serve to make our great community even better. on the Board, to enjoy our community for decades to come. Joan HAPPY LABOR DAY Next Board Meeting: In this issue: Date: Monday, Sept. 26, 2015 News from the Board ...... 3 Time: 2:00 pm Association News ...... 6 Feature Stories ...... 10 Location: Ballroom Lifestyle Update ...... 26 Please join us! Food & Beverage ...... 39 Golf & Fitness Update ...... 42 Club News ...... 46 Advertising ...... 62
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BY CAREY THOMPSON TREASURER
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News from the Board 5 September 2016 September Log www.scshca.com to on People Who Make Our From the Lives Better General Manager
BY CEASAR LARRACH GENERAL MANAGER
Summer is in full swing. The HOA project is complete and the road slurry-sealing program is beginning throughout the community. Check the weekly e-blast for the list of roads to be paved. Our facilities crews are busy sprucing up your little piece of paradise getting ready for the season to arrive. Many thanks to those residents for their patience while the slurry seal renovation is completed. Several loads of slurry will be brought to the site and the work will be finished shortly. In other news, our Lifestyle department plans many Photo by Beth Bolduc great day trips and events; I would encourage you to review the events calendar and purchase your tickets soon, before they sell out. Sarah Amaya I would like to ask for your help. Please remind your contractors that all trailer/truck loads carrying debris Employee of the Month should be covered to prevent the debris from blowing. August 2016 We hope this will have a positive impact on the amount It’s with great honor that we announce this of loose trash blowing out of vehicles on Sun City Blvd. month’s employee of the month, Sarah Amaya. Sarah is the administrative assistant for the Facilities Maintenance department and has been Ceasar with us since February 2015. Her responsibilities include: overseeing payroll for 27 employees, inputting and coding invoices, assuring all utility bills are paid, and administering all the office tasks for the Maintenance department. Sarah also manages IMPORTANT BILLING NOTICE the daily fuel usage for Security and Maintenance In order to assure timely posting of your vehicles. In the last two months, Sarah has assessment payment, all assessment payments done a fantastic job with the changes to the should be mailed to: Strongroom account system. It was very PCM of California challenging at first since we were new to P.O. Box 51412 Strongroom, but Sarah managed to implement Los Angeles, CA 90051-5712 the system successfully. These are just a few tasks that Sarah performs The Association office CANNOT accept on a daily basis for the Facilities Maintenance assessment payments. Please do not mail or department. We want to thank her for her hard deliver payments to the HOA office. work, efforts, patience, and willingness to go above and beyond.
6 September 2016 theView COMMITTEE REPORTS · COMMITTEE REPORTS
Design Review Committee (DRC) BY JIM WIEBORG
Staking Trees Most newly planted trees need to be supported by stakes when the top of the tree is too heavy From The Library for the trunk to hold it up straight. This means BY CINDY DEGRAF that most new trees do not require staking; however, here in the desert, new trees are staked Believe it or not, fall begins this month! That because of the strong winds. means our snowbird volunteers are on the way
If the wind blows a tree over or breaks the top back, and we can start to accept your generous Association News off a new tree, the homeowner will expect the book donations again as of September 1. company that installed the tree to replant it or Please review the list below to determine which replace it. Since this gets expensive, it is easier to books we can use. Kindly do not leave books that stake the trees when they are planted and avoid are not on the “acceptable” list like cookbooks, this problem. self-help, etc. We have no place to shelve them, Now that your trees are staked, what do you and must store and dispose of them. Your need to do? First, check that the support wires cooperation is very much appreciated. have rubber or hose-type material covering the We are always looking for new library wire where it comes in contact with the tree’s volunteers. Please contact Barbara Perler at bark. Check that the support material is not too 760-772-4484 or [email protected] if you’re tight around the tree’s bark – the tree trunk should interested in helping out or if you have any be able to move two inches in any direction when questions or comments about the library. the wind blows. The tree trunk must be able to We Accept as Donations: move, as this is how the trunk will • Hardcover and paperback fiction, historical/ become stronger and be able to political, biographies/autobiographies support the top of the tree. • DVDs and CDs (movies/audio books) Remove bracing when the tree • Puzzles (no missing pieces, please) trunk diameter is double that • Recent magazines of the stake. We Do Not Accept: Periodically, the bracing • Cooking, sports, self-help, or “how to” material must be loosened as books the trunk’s diameter increases. • Coffee table or picture books If not, the bracing will cut into the • Religious or travel books bark and inhibit the flow of water • VCR tapes or music CDs and nutrients to the top of the tree. Please be sure all donations are in excellent (Refer to Design Review condition; and no more than 10 per month, per Guidelines Section 6.11.) household. Thank you for supporting our library.
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Emergency Preparedness Sub-Committee (EPSC)
BY JEFF KIRKPATRICK we got into street clothes and grabbed bedside flashlights. Did You Feel It? Fortunately, the quake did not affect the electricity, and Were you one of the approximately 361,1241 we turned our house lights on to light our way outside. Coachella Valley residents who were awakened on June 10, We opened the garage door and backed both cars out of 2016, at 1:04 am by the 5.2 magnitude Borrego Springs the garage to the driveway, leaving it open for the next earthquake? This earthquake shook the CV violently for half-hour (just like Fire and Police folks do). We remained 15 seconds and, according to news reports, few people outdoors for ten minutes or so in the event of a large slept through it, including my wife and me! Like you, we aftershock. The water in our pool rocked back and forth experienced the hundreds of lesser aftershocks, several in while I sniffed the house perimeter for natural gas, the 3.0 – 3.5 magnitude class that followed. Both of us prepared to turn it off at the main valve with the shutoff hate earthquakes and their unpredictability! So what did wrench I keep chained to the valve if I smelled any. you do when the 15 seconds of shaking stopped? The While waiting, I opened my United States Geographical experts tell us that, when the “really Big One” strikes, it Survey app on my smartphone and started receiving could last as long as 60 – 90 seconds. Hold your breath information: how close it was to us, and how strong. Just for that long and see how slowly the time passes. Let me knowing made us feel better! After we felt comfortable share with you what we did. the worst was over (a hunch for sure!), we re-entered We were confident our home and we were as well the house. No damage and no messes, thanks to the prepared as possible. Our refrigerators and tall furniture childproof latches on our kitchen and bathroom are anchored to the walls as well as all of our wall art and cupboards; nothing had fallen to the floor. We turned on bric-a-brac. Our home has an electrical generator if the TV and watched as the local news stations powered needed, food and water adequate to support us for 7 – 14 up and started reporting on the event. Back to bed for us! days, as well as first aid and CPR training and trauma So, let me ask you this: do you and your loved ones first-aid kits if needed (not little Band-Aid kits!). I have an earthquake plan for how to react to an have CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) earthquake? If so, have you rehearsed it? Have you training and other skill sets associated with disasters. So cached those materials necessary to ensure your we felt reasonably comfortable after the initial fear and continued health and safety? shaking quieted while we waited for the possible larger No, you say? You had better start now! The Big One aftershock that might follow (and did not). Most is coming! important, we had both trained and rehearsed how we Please join us and become prepared! would react during and when the shaking stopped. It really is quite easy! As soon as the shaking stopped, we left the bed and dropped to the floor, hugging the very heavy bedposts 1 Data Source: California DOF web site, E1 report, Jan 1, 2013, tightly (stay out of doorways!). After a few moments, we released May 2013 * does not include unincorporated areas. Data was dragged our “earthquake” shoes out from under the bed derived from the 2010 census. Current demographers believe the and put them on. With no more shaking presenting itself, population is now closer to 500,000.
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door and stole some items. The vehicle was also stolen and subsequently recovered the next day by Indio PD. These two incidents underscore the importance of securing and locking our vehicles and homes. We live in a great gated community, but we are not immune to crimes of opportunity. A key phrase in crime prevention strategies is to “harden the target.” Make it difficult for thieves to get into your vehicle or home. During June there were 210 garage doors that were left open and unattended for extended periods of time Safety Advisory Committee during day and nighttime hours. This is an open BY ED CHAVEZ invitation for a crime to be committed. We have During the summer months, it is important for excellent security patrolling our community. those of us who are here year round to keep As effective as they are, they need our help in an eye out for our neighbors who are gone. preventing crime.
Please report any unusual or suspicious activity The Safety Advisory Committee is looking at Association News to our security personnel. They can respond resurrecting a Neighborhood Watch program for or get Indio PD involved, depending on the our community. The basic concept is to have circumstances. neighbors watching out for neighbors. We, as As many of you have heard, there were two residents, know who belongs in our community reported burglaries in our community in June. and who may be suspicious. Residents who are In one incident a side garage door had been left interested in being involved in Neighborhood unlocked, and the resident found tools stacked Watch are encouraged to contact the HOA office outside the door. The only items taken were or the Safety Advisory Committee. some soft drinks. In the second incident a vehicle The Safety Committee is also looking at was left unlocked in the driveway with a garage combining a Crime Prevention fair with a vendor door opener inside. The suspects entered the program presentation, possibly in November. garage and then the house through an unlocked More information will be forthcoming.
Log on to www.scshca.com September 2016 9 Bob Firring, Our SCSH Podcaster STORY AND PHOTOS BY BILL SINGER
“I have always been a curious guy,” says Bob Firring, SCSH’s own head podcaster. Bob’s inquisitiveness has led to his creating a large and growing library of podcasts for our residents and the world at large. What is podcasting? Simply defined, podcasting is a form of audio broadcasting on the internet. It’s basically a digital file you can listen to immediately or download to your computer or any device that will play audio such as an iPhone or an Android device. By downloading the audio file, or podcast, you can listen to it whenever you want to, for example while lounging around the pool or exercising at the fitness center. Bob interviews HOA Board Member Agi Kessler while Gus records. When he was still working, Bob would listen to Bob develops the interview questions based on his own podcasts while he was driving back and forth to SCSH, curiosity and what he thinks you, the audience, would be where he owned a home. When he officially retired, interested in knowing. The interviews last about 15 to about a year ago, it occurred to him that podcasts could 20 minutes after which Gus makes some simple edits and be used to promote the SCSH lifestyle for both residents adds original music. The podcast is then put up on the and prospective buyers. SCSH website. Bob also started a Facebook page, Sun He approached the HOA Board and eventually found City Shadow Hills Podcast Fans, to interact with his himself on the Information Advisory Committee. When audience. he told them about his podcast idea, they told him to go The podcasts are short, interesting, and will provide for it. you with a wealth of information about Sun City Shadow Gus Ramirez, Communications Manager, already knew Hills and the local community. The number of podcasts how to use Apple GarageBand to edit audio recordings. will grow as Bob continues to record. If you have any The only new equipment needed was a high-quality ideas about the kind of podcast you’d like to hear, microphone. contact Bob through his email [email protected]. Bob began recording podcasts in January of 2016. He started with SCSH Club Presidents and began branching How Can I Listen to a Podcast? out from there. “I started paying more attention to the To listen to a podcast, go to the SCSH website, where local newspaper and what was going on around us,” he you will see RECENT PODCAST EPISODES at the recalls. “If I saw something that I thought would be of top. Click on those words and you will be taken to a list interest to my audience, I would call the person up and of all the available podcasts. schedule an interview.” There are now over 50 podcasts available covering a variety of topics. (See the box for a list of the variety of podcasts available.) Because he’s using audio, Bob can record people both in person and by phone. To date, there have been about 2,000 downloads. Podcast listening choices on our website
10 September 2016 theView Feature Stories 11 September 2016 September Episode 27: Joan Dzuro, current Homeowners Association President David ArcherEpisode 33: Security Update with Episode 39: Dave Bakshy (Golf Advisory Committee) All Dance Episode 25: Shall We Episode 19: Computer Club Episode 05: Holistic Health Club Episode 46: Cheryl Crow (Owning an Amazon Echo) Episode 41: Mitch Albert (Owning a Tesla) Episode 45: Dan Martinez, Indio City Manager Episode 44: Richard Indio Chief of Police Twiss, in Medicine Volunteers Episode 22: Coachella Valley Episode 29: Avenue 40 Fire Station History Museum & Heritage Festival Episode 13: Coachella Valley Episode 14: Cabazon Cultural Museum SCSH Clubs SCSH Residents Interesting Local Community Local Services Local Culture HOA-Related
The following is just a sampling of the various podcasts you can listen to: podcasts you is just a sampling of the various The following Contact Bill Singer at [email protected].
You You can listen right then or Log www.scshca.com to on download a specific podcast to podcast specific a download your computer to later. Or listenyou can subscribe to to the podcasts, meaning eachnew one will be automatically downloaded to your chosen device. (If you don’t already have a podcast app on iPhone your or Android you’ll need to device,download one from the Apple Store or the Play Store to do this.) HEALTH ISSUES FOR SCSH RESIDENTS
What’s Your Plan if You Need Health Care? BY JEFFREY B. STOLL, CPA
At the risk of boring you with statistics, I have to tell the results of a recent survey of Americans 18 and over you that there is a very high probability that you will get by the respected Lincoln Financial Group revealed that older than your present age, which is typically more approximately 73 percent of respondents significantly desirable than the alternative. A major problem with underestimated the costs associated with long-term care. aging, though, is that we usually get feeble and then tend Genworth Financial, a Fortune 500 insurance company, to get sick. A lot of the time, elderly people end up with estimates that the current annual cost of care in a dementia or Alzheimer’s (which has no known cure). semi-private room at a Riverside area nursing home is At some point, many will need assistance with their daily $85,775. activities. The point is that all of us should be planning for the Studies have reported that a high percentage of people eventual need for long-term care. Hold on, I know what nearing or at retirement age have not saved sufficient you are thinking. I’m not talking about long-term care funds for retirement. Even political candidates have insurance. I’m talking about the need to make a series of discovered that the middle class is hurting. Setting decisions about how you will deal with being unable to aside for the moment the amount needed for food, care for yourself. transportation, and shelter in retirement, the risk that Do you have a spouse, and is he/she capable of taking someone who is now 65 will need long-term care at some care of you for an extended period? Have you discussed point in the future is close to 70 percent. Additionally, with your children or other relatives whether they could
12 September 2016 theView required level of minimum net worth. Another downside of Medicaid is that you and your family often give up control of your care. That could mean no longer selecting where or how you will receive care. Imagine your life with fluorescent lights, linoleum floors, and living in a room with someone you don’t like. All your personal possessions and clothing may have to fit in a space the size of a gym locker. Please consider this a wake-up call. Start your planning with a serious and informed discussion about the risks, especially if there is a family history of make the sacrifices necessary to provide care or extended care needs. Start discussions and financial assistance for you? Have you determined planning with family members who might whether you would like to stay in your home provide funding or caregiving assistance. Make as long as possible or go directly to a facility? sure they are willing and able to come to your aid Do you know where, or in which facility, you would like to get care? If you are single and want to stay at home as long as possible, what’s the plan if you need
24-hour supervision? Can you Stories Feature organize three eight-hour daily shifts for caregivers in your area? What if one gets sick and can’t show up? The potential cost of extended care presents another set of problems. Can you afford outside assistance? Have you set aside funds from your retirement savings to cover the potential of extended health care costs? If you don’t have some insurance coverage, you basically are self-in- suring for 100 percent of the risk. Unfortunately, if you need assistance. Take the time to have a many elderly people have conditions that plan in place in advance to reduce the stress on preclude them from even purchasing coverage. family members who may be unprepared for such Some people may think the way out is with situations. With a plan in place, families will be Medicare. Sorry folks, look it up. Medicare prepared for a more financially secure retirement. doesn’t provide for most long-term care medical needs. Trying to utilize Medicaid (Medi-Cal) also has some serious disadvantages. Not only do you Contact Jeffrey Stoll at have to be impoverished, but getting there may [email protected]. involve large income tax issues to reach the
Log on to www.scshca.com September 2016 13 River Runs BY BARA ROSENHECK PHOTOS PROVIDED BY BARA ROSENHECK Some rivers run north to south, others east to west, while many run from calm and tranquil to churning and turbulent. Some riverbanks are lush and green, providing wildlife shelter and sustenance, while others bustle with houseboats that appear to be floating villages where there is a frenzy of activity. Watery highways take my breath away, and I’m lost in imagination and fantasy while drinking in the beauty they display.
Sailing downstream on the Nile, traveling from is the surest way to go Aswan northward to the southern part of Luxor any great distance, in Upper Egypt continuing north to Cairo in and it is the most Lower Egypt, was the journey of my dreams. The beautiful and majestic luxurious yacht on which we sailed, The Sun Boat route. Villagers and II, accommodated just 24 passengers and a crew boatmen wave of almost 100. Our cabin was gracious, neat, and greetings as you pass. clean. The four-poster bed, draped with a canopy Riverbanks are lined of rich fabric, gave the room the appearance of a with rows of sugar Turkish or Egyptian royal tent; and I did indeed cane, cotton, and feel regal. I saw the same scenes and wildlife that green fields growing greeted ancient royal travelers who had taken the vegetables. Children identical route centuries earlier. The villages we play and call out to passed, almost unchanged by the intervening you as you sail past. millennium, were populated by people still using Beyond the shoreline, the bounty of the river just as their ancestors had. large protective Even today the Nile is the quickest and easiest mountains that still way to travel from village to village. Roadways are sparse, hide undiscovered ancient tombs border the calm waters. hot, and dusty. Travel is slow, especially if you are delayed Here the river is tranquil and mesmerizing. Sailing is due to a donkey-drawn cart blocking the road. The river restful and peaceful.
14 September 2016 theView Feature Stories 15 September 2016 September [email protected]. Contact Bara Rosenheck at adventures. Other riverways call out to me, and I look Paddling Paddling the canoe was hard work. Often my opening to a primitive Indian village inhabited by inhabited village Indian primitive a to opening only a few dozen indigenous people. The river provides fish and the surrounding vegetation is rich with vegetables and fruits. forward to new and challenging watery arms were tired and my muscles ached, but the joy of being in this environment exciting and challenging diminishedOccasionally the current clearing. mysmall a in beachhead a to swiftly moved took over discomfort. and We visited we several of these small clearings, each
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By contrast, the Amazon River really gets your gets really River Amazon the contrast, By maneuvered we Iquitos, of city port the Leaving This river is full of surprises. Wide channels Log www.scshca.com to on spongy jungle, sometimes knee deep in water, was both exhilarating and frightening.concentrate to had we Alwaysquicksand, for alert the on blood circulating blood heart your and The pounding. mouth of the Amazon located River, in western Peru, flows eastward across the South American pampering the Unlike Brazil. into continent through a massive primitive floating houseboats, city floating filled selling all kinds with market stalls of food supplies, and what seemed and to be a ending line of neversmall boats. fishing chaotic The commotion noise and soon port the of was left behind and we entered a wide channel in the huge So river. wide was this channel that what we initially thought to be the far bank of the waterway was actually a uninhabited large island. Here the current was river the into hand my dipped I cool. and swift and felt the swiftly moving water run between my fingers. My guide quickly movement corrected warning me my of the possibility of a school of piranha fish below the surface. narrow quickly into small rivulets and at times they are so shallow or choked with debris that you must the through Walking disembarkwater. deeper to it portage from the canoe and Boat II, my vessel on the Amazon was a simple occupants: four just for room with canoe dugout myself, my husband, Arnie, and our two river guides. on where we were The and distractions. amazing are what there Nevertheless, we were doing. calls of the parrots and toucans are remindersof the wonders of the South American jungle. Exotic plants and magnificent flowers grab your attention and draw you to look moreI Simultaneously, look carefully closely. to avoid snakes and poisonous insects. Walking crush throughof wildlife is as exciting as paddling down this the river. So You Think You Want to Bowl? BY BETH BOLDUC
OK, you’re finally retired. Now what do you do? SCSH looks like a great place to live, but how are you going to meet people? Maybe it’s time to try something new…something you’ve never done before. Skydiving is probably a little too radical, and mountain climbing might be a bit of a stretch. You’re new to the SCSH community. Maybe join one of the clubs listed in the View? Wow, there are a lot of clubs! You want to try something you don’t have to be an expert to do. Reading through the list, one club catches your eye. What about bowling? When was the last time you bowled? Maybe it was 30 years ago.
Right: Mark Galletta helps Marie Lewis with her technique. Below : Art Fooosaner gets lined up.
16 September 2016 theView Feature Stories 17 September 2016 September Contact Beth Bolduc at [email protected]. Below: Pass the dollar is a fun way to record strikes. to record the dollar is a fun way Below: Pass Left: The men share bowling tips. share Left: The men Since March I have made a new set of friends. lots fun, of lots have we practice we when Seriously, As you can see, it turns out the Bowlers Club Many of them have helped me, and I getting better…OK…go ahead, laugh! think I’m of laughs, lots of encouragement and, even though in reality it is bowlers the a Joining support! great competition get always players among the teams, experience for me!” has been a great motto is quite Shadow the true: in activity “to friendliest funniest, make biggest, this league the Hills community.” Above: Are you ready to play? you ready Above: Are
But let’s hear firsthand from Marie Lewis, a new a Lewis, Marie from firsthand hear let’s But bowlers the give to decided I March early in “Back Before you realize what you’re doing, you call Yep, there were…you’ve never seen someone throw someone seen never were…you’ve there Yep, member since spring: Rose Borses, President of the Bowlers Club. Her Club. PresidentBowlers Borses, the Rose of makes She infectious. are enthusiasm and warmth it sound like fun. Even non-threatening. Log www.scshca.com to on group a try. I had actually never bowled except for I but 20s, late my in was I when times four or three figured I had nothing to lose might be a few embarrassingeven moments. though there so many gutter balls! It was funny (although not you that out found I but time), the at me for really can have such fun with this group. So I decided to stick with it. Artists in Residence This is the third in a series of articles highlighting the artists in our community. Lestlie Prokosch – Photographer BY LINDA AASEN PHOTOS BY LESTLIE PROKOSCH
After years of casually taking pictures, Lestlie joined the the thrill of the hunt and the joy of getting a decent Sun City Camera Club and a whole new world opened image. For Lestlie, it’s both challenging and stimulating. to her. Even though photography is the kind of hobby She always takes her camera when she travels, and keeping that can be done alone, Lestlie finds the camaraderie to her “eye” ready adds to the experience. be a wonderful aspect of the club, which she says is full Lestlie’s favorite club activity is projecting members’ of interesting and friendly people. photos from the “monthly assignment” onto a large When you get more involved in the whole screen. Seeing each member’s interpretation of the photographic process, Lestlie says, it is then that you assignment as well as an individual’s unique perspective truly appreciate a good image, both its artistic and are fascinating to her. She is truly inspired by the many technical aspects. The best part is: if you didn’t get it talented people in the Camera Club. right in the camera, there’s still hope! Post-processing is a world unto itself. You never know what will result in a good image, Lestlie observes. Sometimes a good photo arises from being in the right place at the right time. Other times it’s a matter of doing research on your subject and/or location, having the correct gear, etc. But most often it’s a combination of the two, preparation and serendipity. Either way it’s
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Leaf on Water Branch & Sky Log www.scshca.com to on I also heard from friends in Tunisia and Switzerland echoing the same comments. “Now there is no more safety from terror, even in the U.S.”
Remembering September 11th on the 15th anniversary of the attack. Reflection pool at the 9-11 Memorial. Inside Foundation Hall. Pillar with remembrances of those lost. Photo by Bill Singer. looking for all the world like My friends were not the only ones 9/11 BY VICKI PRINCE animated statues covered with the to show their feelings. The U.S They said it couldn’t be done and fine dust. I watched as the received an outpouring of good will everyone agreed. But then nearly 15 announcer spoke of the Pentagon from most of the world. Russia gave years ago, the impossible happened. attack and of Flight 93 crashing in a 9/11 Memorial monument, which On September 11, 2001, the World Pennsylvania. All these terrible was erected in Bayonne, NJ, on a site Trade Center’s Twin Towers were events and all right here, right now. in alignment with where the Twin reduced to rubble by Al Qaeda Towers once stood across the river. terrorists. This attack caused the Israel constructed a memorial from largest loss of life on American soil steel from the remains of the WTC. from a foreign attack. Nearly 3,000 But my favorite gift after 9/11 came people died, including 400 police from the Maasai Tribe of Kenya, and firefighters. Only 18 were Africa. They sent 14 of their most rescued alive after the towers fell. cherished cattle to America as aid. The United States, and in fact the So we can never again say it can’t world, would never be the same. be done. It was done. Most of the As we all sat huddled around our When the dust and debris settled, sane world was wrong. We were we saw all that was left of the Twin Towers. TVs watching in horror at the wrong. I was wrong. plane ramming the second tower, As the days in the aftermath passed, and then as the towers themselves I became aware that it wasn’t only came down, we were in shock that people in the U.S. that were badly this was actually happening in our shaken and needing reassurance. country. Grief and fear filled our The world was shocked and grieving hearts, then anger. with us. An acquaintance in Istanbul, I remember my friend calling me Turkey, sent the most beautiful early in the morning to turn on the letter, hoping that I had not lost a TV. I remember waking my son to loved one at the World Trade watch with me. I remember how Center. He went on to say that the thankful I was that my children were people of Turkey were so sad View from the Russian Memorial across the Hudson River in New Jersey close and not near New York City. because they always thought of the I remember thinking, were we truly United States as the safest place in at war? I watched as the towers the world from terrorists. They, dropped, as the people ran from the themselves, had been faced with Contact Vicki Prince cloud of debris as it blew forward many terrorist attacks both large and at vprince514 engulfing them. I watched as these small, but in their minds there had @gmail.com. same people wandered aimlessly been one safe haven in the world.
20 September 2016 theView Feature Stories 21 September 2016 September Red Platoon Red Platoon By Clinton Romesha 2016 [email protected]. Contact Dennis Sheehan at defines for today’s reader what reader today’s for defines If the US military has ever suffered a worse a suffered ever military has US the If If the spirit of the U.S. Army infantryman Platoon Red disaster than the Outpost Keating retakingin Nuristan Afghanistan in of Command 2009 – even “Custer’s Last Stand” – I am totally unaware of it. awarded Clinton Romesha,leadership and the actions his for year this Honor Congressional at Medal “COP Keating” on that of day, depicts inexacting detail how consigned for an abandonment is outpost outgunned alreadyand nearly totally outfoxed and overrun by the Taliban, who have ground the and military the high advantage in encirclement. a complete did not manifest itself for readers of Battle of the Bulge histories, account will this get the modernjob done. day Romesha’s quick thinking and support – and histhe collective effort of all the platoon leader’s men left standing plus all the resources of the U.S. arsenal in northeast that Afghanistan they can muster retake COP Keating. – Junger’s thesis about are requiredmilitary the in another one responsibilityfor to tribe is clearly evident, and if necessary, staff sergeant Romesha’s plan of action is to be successful. it truly means to stand “in harm’s way.” Tribe Tribe By Sebastian Junger 2016 . Sebastian Junger defines a “tribe” Tribe HEEHAN S is very much about why belonging to a group a to belonging why about much very is
ENNIS How does one become a man or a woman in a How does one become an adult in a society that world that does not require courage? does not ask for sacrifice? D
Junger suggests that the men and women of our Tribe I was struck by these two questions that Junger Although Junger is not qualified as a cultural • • All at once the reader knows the author’s purpose Y especially after so many insertions into the chaos of at society a see they stateside, return they When war. tryingbadly stumble often too all and itself with war of devoid life a it’s many For home. at life reenter to meaning. weddings and tropical family vacations. posed in the introduction of the book: as a group of people who have taken responsibility for each individual within that group. There exists a collective effort to band together for the purpose of survival. Human beings can thrive on hardship. But what withstanda human being cannot and even tolerate well is the sense of feeling unnecessary,within others oftowards purpose or meaning no having the group. U.S. military survive in this informal tribal society, member each of wellbeing the for responsible is that is a rare and precious thing in modern society – and how the lack of it affects us all. anthropologist, he has observed and been embedded been and observed has he anthropologist, dangerous most its of militarysome U.S. in the with and believes, distantJunger Perhaps East. Middle outposts the in elsewhere in Afghanistan,better feels war that also, may Iraq, professionals military as and loyalty, sharedcreateshardshipintense a peace: than a sense of belonging, which can be a great blessing. Shared disasters are remembered more fondly than in writing
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Book Reviews Book B Were We Nuts…Or What? BY GEORGE EARHART
Totally deaf and with cataracts in both eyes, our 15- year-old Yorkshire Terrier, Dixie Belle, was showing her age. My wife, Betty, and I often talked about what kind of dog we would replace her with when she was gone. We agreed we didn’t want to go through “housebreaking” a puppy, so a mature dog would be our choice.
Banana Joe
I told Betty I thought the dog’s cute face with black nose and eyes didn’t show up very well surrounded with all that black fur. So at that point it looked like there would be no “monkey dog” for us. Of course this didn’t stop Betty from seeking out the affenpinscher breeders when we attended the Indio Dog Show at the polo grounds last year. There, she hit it off with a breeder, Linda, from San Antonio, Texas, and learned a lot about the breed including the fact that not all of these dogs are black. Fast forward to this year’s Indio Dog Show, and we are back talking to Linda, who informed us that she had a 7-year-old “brindle-colored” affenpinscher named Splash that she had bred and shown and who now needed a good, loving home where she could retire and be spoiled by her new owners. Do you see where this is going?
Dixie Belle Splash But these were just random thoughts reserved for the future because, as long as we had Dixie Belle, we sure didn’t need two dogs. Watching the Westminster Dog You guessed it: three weeks later, we were on our way show on TV when an affenpinscher named Banana Joe to San Antonio to pick up Splash. On our drive to won best in show, Betty became enamored with the Ontario Airport, the morning commuter traffic delayed breed. For the uninformed, the affenpinscher is a small us so we didn’t have time to eat. Hurrying down the breed, almost always black, with a face that looks like a concourse to our departure gate, we picked up two monkey. It is often called “the monkey-faced dog.” breakfast sandwiches and one large Coke.
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‘ave-ta-pinch-her” just to assure her it’s real! Splash and Dixie Belle Splash and
We got to the gate just in time in just gate the to got We Of course there are no direct flights to San Were we nuts to do this trip all in one day? I But it was all worth it. Splash has settled in Log www.scshca.com to on to board and, of course, there were no seats left could where sit together. we the We behind one foundseats, center two other. Betty took the forward seat, and I got the one behind breakfast our out broke We her. wanted I when and, sandwiches a swallow of Coke, I reached over the seat in front tapped of Betty on me,the head, and said “Drink” and she raised it up high over her head reached and forward above I the top of the seat to grab it. When she hand her raised she sip, a wanted up high (in the old days would this get a flight attendant’s attention and she would come running – but not these days), and thus the Coke was passed back and forth. Antonio, so we went to planes, Lasand made it Vegas, to Texas changedin time to have a get then and Splash, meet Linda, with lunch late back on a plane. This time we flew to Denver where we again changed planes for the flight to Ontario. We arrived home at 1 am. If how about readingthink tired, you makes trip this about exhausted we were! another do never we’ll me, believe And so! think trip like this again. with Dixie Belle and has adopted us, just as we have made room in our heartslittle affenpinscher for thisdog. Betty great says having two the dogs is just like a dream. Sometimes “I Human-Pet Bonding: You May Be Under a Spell BY ANNA KELLY Do you melt when you look into your dog’s eyes? Does levels of neurotransmitters including dopamine and your cat have you wrapped around her little fuzzy paws? serotonin. Science has been studying the mysteries of human-animal • less pain and improved quality of life for people bonding and has found that both benefit from this suffering from fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, relationship. cancer, and other conditions. Dogs have been living alongside humans for at least • fewer allergies, better immune function, and 14,000 years. Remains found in archeological digs in improved longevity. Germany and Israel confirm this fact. Today, our • more social support and reduced isolation. Strangers animal companions are as beloved as ever, and our pet will more readily talk to someone who is out with population has expanded from about 40 million cats a pet. and dogs in 1967 to more • early warnings of seizures, than 114 million in 2012. cancer, and low blood Many people report sugar. Animals have experiencing greater sensory abilities reaching distress from the loss of a far beyond those of pet than from a breakup humans. with their partner. What’s Recent discoveries are going on here? beginning to answer the In addition to offering question, “Why do cats and companionship, animals dogs hold this almost have almost magical magical power over curative powers. Dog humans?” The answer is saliva has been found to hormones. When your dog heal wounds because it looks into your eyes, he contains a protein called activates the same hormonal Nerve Growth Factor. response as an infant. The Human wounds treated gaze between dogs and with NGF heal twice as their owners triggers the fast as untreated wounds. release of oxytocin, the And the frequency range “love hormone,” like the of a purring cat has been gaze between a mother and found to help mend newborn child. Dogs broken bones and soft tissue injuries. experienced a 130 percent rise in oxytocin levels, and In fact, science is showing that pet owners are reaping humans showed a 300 percent increase. This hormonal an amazing number of health benefits including: response is probably the reason humans domesticated • reduced risk for heart attack and cardiovascular dogs, thus benefitting both man and animal. disease plus better odds of surviving and recovering Another study found that cats attach to humans as from a heart attack regardless of severity. One year social partners, not just to obtain food. Petting a cat after a heart attack, scientists found that dog owners produces an immediate oxytocin release in both cat and were significantly more likely to be alive than those human. who did not own a dog. If that human is a woman, the effects may be far • better physical fitness and a higher level of activity. more pronounced. So that crazy cat lady may not be so • improved stress management, less depression and irrational after all! Female owners have a more intense anxiety, plus lower levels of cortisol and higher relationship with their cats than male owners. Cats are
24 September 2016 theView Feature Stories 25 September 2016 September that “the Made for Each Contact Anna Kelly at [email protected].
Meg Daley Olmert writes in her book If you own a pet, you already know this. Pets keep you The bottom line is this: pet ownership is wonderfulso is in ownership pet this: is line bottom The
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BY CHRIS FIZER LIFESTYLE DIRECTOR
Happy Lifestyle to you, Shadow Hills! We have some new and exciting news in the Lifestyle department. We are in the process of making a new addition to our team. We are adding a concierge to take ownership of our Lifestyle desk. This resident- focused hospitality professional will be the smiling and welcoming face to all things Lifestyle. In addition to our concierge, we have more new friendly faces you may have already seen at the Lifestyle desk. We are happy to add two new volunteers to the team: Donna and Sam. In addition, we are pleased to welcome back Charmaine after a brief hiatus. Thank you very much for your time and effort ladies! Calling all sports fans! Based on the weather outside it may be hard to believe, but football season is here and we have one of the biggest rivalry games in college scheduled for you November 19. We are Rose Bowl-bound for the UCLA vs USC clash of PAC-10 powerhouses. Tickets are currently on sale at the Lifestyle desk for $147. Hockey season is just around the corner. Stay tuned for ticket announcements as we venture to Anaheim, home of the Ducks. Of course, you may cheer against the Ducks if you prefer. I hear we have some Oilers, Flames, and Canucks fans in the community! NFL fans, we are always open to suggestions. Anyone up for welcoming back the LA Rams to Southern California? For those of you who prefer music and dancing, we have Hot Sumer Nights and A Musical Tribute to Diane Schuur featuring Janis Mann, Patricia Welch and Chris Bennett. Also, Music to My Ears is back by popular demand this fall and we have a fantastic Motown Review October 30 for Concert on the Green. Feel like escaping the heat, seeing some beautiful art and nature or perhaps play the ponies? Then join us as we travel to the Getty Center, Mission San Juan Capistrano, and Santa Anita Park. We hope to see you at our Lifestyle events. Have fun! Chris
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Lifestyle Update 37 September 2016 September Log www.scshca.com to on 38 September 2016 theView Food & Beverage 39 September 2016 September Rolland p.m. Starting September 12, Shadows will be From September 26 – 29, Troon Corporate look forwardWe you all soon! to hosting are Augusta-Country be Club will Chef SC. Aiken, in Club Reserve The and in Augusta, team the of GA, rest the with along diligently working to create an entirely November. in newintroduced be will that Restaurant menu for Shadows welcoming back our football fans Monday as we Night host Football. The open restaurant at 2:30 will pm for Happy dinner during the games. Hour and serve Food and Beverage Trainer, Williams Alejo will be conducting an in-depth service training for the entire team. CLOSED CLOSED LUB Golf Snack Bar Montecito Café C Santa Rosa Bistro , Shadows Restaurant Friday: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. OLF Daily: 6:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. G AUGHN Tuesday – Thursday: CLOSED – Thursday: Tuesday Hours of Operation V ANAGER Saturday – Sunday: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. ILLS M H OLLAND Happy Hour: Friday – Sunday: 2:30 – 6:30 R Monday: 2:30 – 8 p.m. (Monday Night Football) Monday: 2:30 – 8 p.m. (Monday ENERAL Y HADOW S B G Food & Beverage Update & Beverage Food
The summer months are passing quickly, entice to is menu Hour Happy the of goal The Our Executive Chef, Jeff Jacobson, started
and there have been throughout the Food some and Beverage operations. exciting changes These include the introduction of a new Happy Chef. Executive an of hiring the and menu Hour our guests to enjoy small plates that are diverse choice. their of beverage a with along unique and We hope that you have had the opportunity to experience the new menu and improved service levels in Shadows Restaurant. with us on August 12 and is looking forward to will You SCSH. at has he opportunities many the highly and resourceful, dynamic, is Chef that find in many experience, of years 39 over with skilled the club environment. A couple of these clubs Log www.scshca.com to on Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday • = Montecito Clubhouse FH – Front Half Ballroom PC – Putting Course • = Santa Rosa Clubhouse GC – Golf Clubhouse PIS – Pismo • = HOA Office GR – Green Room PRK – Parking Lot AMP – Amphitheater KSK – Kiosk SC – Sports Court AS – Aerobic Studio LJ – La Jolla SEL – Santa Rosa Events Lawn BC – Bocce Courts MAR – Marisol SHA – Shadows Restaurant BH – Back Half Ballroom MC – Montecito Clubhouse SRC – Santa Rosa Clubhouse BR – Ballroom MIR – Mirada SRP – Santa Rosa Patio BW – Breezeway MON – Monterey SY – Santa Ynez CAM – Cambria NEW – Newport SY1 – Santa Ynez I CAP – Capistrano OS – Offsite SY2 – Santa Ynez II CL – Clubhouse Lobby OUT – Outdoor Event TBD – To Be Decided September COA – Coachella PAC – Pacifica TC – Tennis Court FC – Fitness Center PAT – Patio by Capistrano WSP – West Side Patio 4 567LABOR DAY 9:00 AM MVC Bible Study (PAT) 9:00 AM Creative Arts (CAM/MIR) 8:00 AM Ceramics (CAM/MIR) 9:00 AM Needles & Pins (CAM/MIR) 9:00 AM Needles & Pins (CAM/MIR) 11:30 PM Pan (CAP) 9:30 AM DRC Meeting (LJ) 9:30 AM Bridge Lessons (CAP) 10:00 AM Mountain View Church (CAP) 12:30 PM Needles & Pins (CAM/MIR) 11:45 AM Pan (PIS/NEW) 9:30 AM Mah Jongg (BH) 2:00 PM Table Tennis (PIS/NEW) 1:00 PM Games Plus (SY2) 12:00 PM Duplicate Bridge (BH) 10:30 AM Safety Meeting (LJ) 5:00 PM Let’s Meet & Eat (BR) 1:00 PM Gin Rummy (NEW) 12:30 PM Ukulele Beginners (GR) 11:00 AM Table Tennis (PIS/NEW) 5:00 PM King & Queens Club (NEW) 12:45 PM Paper Crafters (CAM/MIR) 1:00 PM Jewelry Club (MIR) 6:00 PM Pan (CAP) 2:00 PM GAC Meeting (CAP) 6:30 PM Bridge (BH) 7:00 PM Billiards Club (PAC) 5:00 PM King & Queens Club (NEW) 6:30 PM Performing Arts (FH) 6:30 PM Performing Arts (FH) 7:00 PM Billiards Club (PAC)
PATRIOT DAY 11 12 13 149:00 AM Needles & Pins (CAM/MIR) 9:00 AM MVC Bible Study (PAT) 7:00 AM Lady Putters (CAP) 8:00 AM Ceramics (CAM/MIR) 9:30 AM Bridge Lessons (CAP) 9:30 AM Mah Jongg (BH) 9:00 AM Needles & Pins (CAM/MIR) 9:00 AM Creative Arts (CAM/MIR) 10:00 AM Desert Life Board (LJ) 10:00 AM Lively Liners (GR) 10:00 AM Mountain View Church (CAP) 11:30 PM Pan (CAP) 11:45 AM Pan (PIS/NEW) 11:00 AM Table Tennis (PIS/NEW) 2:00 PM Table Tennis (PIS/NEW) 12:30 PM Needles & Pins (CAM/MIR) 12:00 PM Duplicate Bridge (FH) 1:00 PM Jewelry Club (MIR) 4:00 PM Private Event (CAP) 1:00 PM Games Plus (SY2) 12:30 PM Ukulele Beginners (GR) 2:00 PM Men’s Golf (LJ) 1:00 PM Gin Rummy (NEW) 12:45 PM Paper Crafters (CAM/MIR) 6:00 PM Gin Rummy (NEW) 5:00 PM King & Queens Club (NEW) 2:00 PM View Subcommittee (CAP) 6:00 PM Rainbow Friends (SY2) 6:00 PM Pan (CAP) 5:00 PM King & Queens Club (NEW) 6:30 PM Bridge (CAP) 6:30 PM Performing Arts (FH) 6:00 PM Hot Summer Nights (BR) 6:30 PM Performing Arts (FH) 7:00 PM Billiards Club (PAC) 6:30 PM Pet Club (CAM/MIR) 7:00 PM Billiards Club (PAC) 7:00 PM Performing Arts (CAM/MIR) 18 19 20 21 9:00 AM MVC Bible Study (PAT) 7:00 AM Lady Putters (CAP) 8:00 AM Ceramics (CAM/MIR) 8:00 AM Management Meeting (LJ) 9:00 AM Creative Arts (CAM/MIR) 9:00 AM Needles & Pins (CAM/MIR) 9:30 AM DRC Meeting (LJ) 9:00 AM Needles & Pins (CAM/MIR) 11:30 PM Pan (CAP) 10:00 AM Mountain View Church (CAP) 11:45 AM Pan (PIS/NEW) 9:30 AM Bridge Lessons (CAP) 12:30 PM Needles & Pins (CAM/MIR) 2:00 PM Table Tennis (PIS/NEW) 1:00 PM Games Plus (SY2) 12:00 PM Duplicate Bridge (FH) 9:30 AM Mah Jongg (BH) 5:00 PM Let’s Meet & Eat (PIS/NEW) 1:00 PM Gin Rummy (NEW) 12:30 PM Ukulele Beginners (GR) 11:00 AM Table Tennis (PIS/NEW) 5:00 PM Solos Club (CAP) 2:00 PM Finance Committee (LJ) 12:45 PM Paper Crafters (CAM/MIR) 1:00 PM Jewelry Club (MIR) 5:00 PM Community Singers (CAP) 5:00 PM King & Queens Club (NEW) 6:30 PM Bridge (CAP) 5:00 PM King & Queens Club (NEW) 6:30 PM Performing Arts (FH) 7:00 PM Billiards Club (PAC) 6:00 PM Pan (CAP) 6:30 PM RV Club (CAP) 7:00 PM Comedy Night (BR) 6:30 PM Performing Arts (FH) 7:00 PM Veterans Club (CAM) 7:00 PM Billiards Club (PAC)
25 267:00 AM Lady Putters (CAP) 27 28 9:00 AM MVC Bible Study (PAT) 9:00 AM Creative Arts (CAM/MIR) 8:00 AM Ceramics (CAM/MIR) 6:00 AM Board Meeting (LJ) 9:00 AM Executive Session (COA) 9:00 AM Needles & Pins (CAM/MIR) 11:45 AM Pan (PIS/NEW) 9:00 AM Needles & Pins (CAM/MIR) 11:30 PM Pan (CAP) 10:00 AM Mountain View Church (CAP) 12:00 PM Duplicate Bridge (FH) 9:30 AM Bridge Lessons (CAP) 12:30 PM Needles & Pins (CAM/MIR) 2:00 PM Table Tennis (PIS/NEW) 1:00 PM Games Plus (SY2) 12:30 PM Ukulele Beginners (GR) 9:30 AM Mah Jongg (BH) 5:00 PM Lively Liners (BR) 1:00 PM Gin Rummy (NEW) 12:45 PM Paper Crafters (CAM/MIR) 11:00 AM Table Tennis (PIS/NEW) 2:00 PM Board Meeting (BR) 2:00 PM Readers Ink (CAP) 1:00 PM Jewelry Club (MIR) 3:15 PM Community Singers (CAP) 5:00 PM King & Queens Club (NEW) 6:00 PM Movie Group (CAM) 5:00 PM King & Queens Club (NEW) 6:30 PM Performing Arts (FH) 6:30 PM Bridge FH) 6:00 PM Pan (CAP) 7:00 PM Billiards Club (PAC) 7:00 PM Billiards Club (PAC) 7:00 PM Bunco (MAR/SY1) 6:30 PM Performing Arts (FH) 40 September 2016 theView Thursday Friday Saturday 123 9:00 AM Budget Session (BH) 8:00 AM Ceramics (CAM/MIR) 9:00 AM Creative Arts (CAM/MIR) 9:30 AM Performing Arts Board (SY2) 10:00 AM Writer’s Club (LJ) 10:00 AM Communication Mtg. (COA) 11:45 PM Pan (CAP) 10:00 AM Golf Meeting (LJ) 12:30 PM Ukulele Strummers (CAM) 1:00 PM Canasta (MIR) 2:00 PM Information Advisory (LJ) 2:00 PM Table Tennis (PIS/NEW) 5:00 PM King & Queens Card Club (NEW) 5:30 PM Bingo (BR) 6:00 PM Bridge (CAP) 7:00 PM Movie Night: 6:00 PM Holistic Health Club (MON) Bridge of Spies (CAM/MIR)
8 9 10 Lifestyle Calendar of Events 9:00 AM Creative Arts (CAM/MIR) 8:00 AM Ceramics (CAM/MIR) 8:30 AM Ceramics (CAM/MIR) 11:45 PM Pan (CAP) 10:00 AM Flag Sale (CL) 12:30 PM Ukulele Strummers (CAM) 10:00 AM Golf Meeting (LJ) 5:00 PM King & Queens Card Club (NEW) 1:00 PM Canasta (MIR) 6:00 PM Bridge (CAP) 2:00 PM Table Tennis (PIS/NEW) 6:30 PM Performing Arts (FH) 6:30 PM Performing Arts (FH) 7:00 PM Movie Night: Criminal (CAM/MIR)
15 16 17 9:00 AM Creative Arts (CAM/MIR) 8:00 AM Ceramics (CAM/MIR) 7:00 PM Tutta Bella Vino (BR) 10:00 AM Writer’s Club (LJ) 10:00 AM Golf Meeting (LJ) 11:45 PM Pan (CAP) 1:00 PM Canasta (MIR) 12:30 PM Ukulele Strummers (CAM) 2:00 PM Landscape Advisory (LJ) 2:00 PM Food & Beverage Comm. (LJ) 2:00 PM Table Tennis Club (PIS/NEW) 5:00 PM King & Queens Card Club (NEW) 5:30 PM Jewish Outreach (CAP) 6:00 PM Bridge (CAP) 6:30 PM Performing Arts (FH) 6:00 PM Democrats (MON) 7:00 PM Movie Night: The Aviator (CAM/MIR) 22 23 24 9:00 AM Creative Arts (CAM/MIR) 8:00 AM Ceramics (CAM/MIR) 1:00 PM Private Event (CAP) 11:45 PM Pan (CAP) 10:00 AM Golf Meeting (LJ) 6:00 PM Concerned Homeowners 12:30 PM Ukulele Strummers (CAM) 1:00 PM Canasta (MIR) of Shadow Hills (BR) 5:00 PM King & Queens Card Club (NEW) 2:00 PM Table Tennis Club (PIS/NEW) 6:00 PM Bridge (CAP) 7:00 PM Movie Night: 6:30 PM Performing Arts (FH) Spectre (CAM/MIR)
29 30 Sign up or purchase tickets 9:00 AM Creative Arts (CAM/MIR) 8:00 AM Ceramics (CAM/MIR) to Lifestyle events at the 10:00 AM Writer’s Club (LJ) 8:00 AM Covenants Committee (LJ) 11:45 PM Pan (CAP) 10:00 AM Golf Meeting (MON) Lifestyle Desk in the 12:30 PM Ukulele Strummers (CAM) 1:00 PM Canasta (MIR) Montecito Clubhouse. 5:00 PM King & Queens Card Club (NEW) 2:00 PM Table Tennis Club (PIS/NEW) 760.772.9617 6:00 PM Bridge (CAP) 7:00 PM Mind, Body & Soul (SEL) 6:30 PM Performing Arts (FH) 7:00 PM Movie Night: Cash, checks, and The Boss (CAM/MIR) credit cards accepted.
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BY ROLLAND VAUGHN Overseeding Dates GENERAL MANAGER, SHADOW HILLS GOLF CLUB North Course CLOSED September 19 – October 9 (Opens October 10) September marks the beginning of my third month at South Course Shadow Hills Golf Club along with the third month of CLOSED October 10 – November 6 operation for Troon Golf. The summer months are when (Opens November 7) we that work in the desert climates within the golf industry are busy completing tasks to ensure the best South Course Practice Tee experience for our clients in season. These tasks include CLOSED October 3 – November 6 everything from exchanging our rental club fleet to the (Opens November 7) creation of our 2017 budget. As difficult as some of these tasks may be, I am extremely confident in saying that there is not a Hours of Operation department that works harder in Golf Operations during North Course the summer than our Golf Course Maintenance team. 6 am – 1 pm Through the extreme heat, they have been busy (Last Shadow Hills Cart to Return at 3 pm) completing a long list of projects. These projects include, and are not limited to, a complete irrigation audit; South Course multiple aerifications of tees, fairways, greens, and green 6 am – 3 pm surrounds; laying sod on green surrounds and #6 South (Last Shadow Hills Cart to Return at 5 pm) Course green and #14 North Course green; consistent Driving Range fertilization of ammonium sulfate; and the verti-cutting 6 am – 4 pm (Closed Thursday 7:30 am – 10 am) and top-dressing of greens. This list is just for the North (Last Bucket Sold at 3 pm) and South Course and does not include all the additional work they perform on the desert landscapes and ponds. If you happen to come across one of these team members, please take the time to offer a “thank you” for their efforts. Finally, the overseeding process will begin shortly. Be sure to make yourself aware of those dates and hours of operation so that you can plan your golf accordingly. As always, feel free to contact me with any questions. Best regards, Rolland
42 September 2016 theView Fitness Corrective Exercise Specialist. She also received her Mat Pilates certification through Body Arts Update and Science International (BASI). Desiree worked at 24 Hour Fitness for nearly three years BY CHET SHEEHAN building and developing personal and group FITNESS DIRECTOR training programs. Her clients commonly sought Desiree’s assistance with corrective exercise and Happy September, Sun City Shadow Hills! For helping primarily seniors improve and restore those of you who have not yet had the pleasure their balance, core strength, joint mobility, and of meeting our new Fitness Lead, I want to let flexibility. you know we have added Desiree Porras to our Desiree enjoys educating others about the fitness team. benefits of quality and personalized exercise Desiree attended California State University programs. She is very well versed in helping San Bernardino where she obtained her Bachelor others recognize and capitalize on their unique of Arts Degree in Communications- abilities, weaknesses and strengths. Public Relations. After graduating she She enjoys teaching dynamic forms of became a health and wellness educator. exercise from strength training to
For five years, she developed and Pilates and core circuits. She is dedicated Golf & Fitness Update implemented nutrition and exercise and compassionate in continuing to help programs alongside public health others not only improve their physical foundations and non-profits, such health, but also their self-confidence as the Humana Foundation, FIND and inner passion to develop and Food Bank, UC Riverside School of sustain a healthy active lifestyle. Medicine, and Boys and Girls Clubs. I am very happy to have her here and look While working, Desiree decided to pursue forward to combining our knowledge and her passion in physical training and became a experience together to help make health and successful Certified Personal Trainer and fitness here at SCSH the best it can possibly be. Health Tip of the Month: Nutrition What to Eat Before and after Your Workouts 1 hour before your workout: It’s very important to fuel your body before a workout. You need an hour to properly digest the food, so make sure you eat an hour before vs. only 20 minutes before. I recommend you follow what I call the “20 20 10 rule:” 20 grams of protein/20 grams of carbohydrates/10 grams of fat. You can create whatever meal you like incorporating those numbers. Here’s an example: 3 scrambled eggs with a half slice of cheddar cheese (20 grams of protein/10grams of fat), 1/2 cup blueberries (10 grams of carbs), half a banana (10 grams of carbs). An easier option is a protein bar. The “Kind” bars are a great brand to try. It may not get you exactly “20/20/10” but close enough. If you only have 10 minutes to eat before your exercise, I recommend eating a simple easy-to-digest carbohydrate like an apple or banana. Always eat something rather than nothing! 1 hour or less after your workout: Eating within an hour or less after working out is almost as important as the workout itself. The tissues of your body are the most absorbent directly after a workout. The tissue at this point is like a sponge wanting to absorb protein, and it’s essential you get it in because you can’t develop muscles without protein. I usually don’t have time to actually have a meal after my workouts, so I use protein powder mixed with about 16 oz. of water. Whole (real) food is always the best option (containing 20-30 grams of protein), but if you don’t have time protein shakes are a great option. Always consult your doctor before you begin any supplementation. Have a great month, everyone! Chet
Log on to www.scshca.com September 2016 43 2016 Fitness Guest Sunday Monday Tuesday Punch Cards Tennis Tennis Tennis The 2016 Fitness 7:00 AM (TC) 7:00 AM (TC) 7:00 AM (TC) Guest Punch Cards will be Pickleball Club Yoga Pickleball Club available for pick up at the for Stength & Balance 8:00 AM (SR) 8:00 AM (SR) Montecito Fitness Center 8:00 AM (SR) $5 AFTER 12 PM. Please make sure to pick up your Table Tennis Club Pickleball Club Total Body Circuit 2:30 PM (SR) 8:00 AM (AS) $ punch card. It is required for 8:00 AM (SR) any guests that will be using the Interval Training Yoga Fitness Center. This card must 8:00 AM (AS) $ 9:00 AM (AS) $ be presented at the desk prior to using the Fitness Centers. One Bocce Buddies Exploring Yoga of the 50 squares will be signed 8:00 AM (MC) 9:15 AM (SR) $6 off for each guest for every day Stretch Cardio & Strength of use. If a guest does not have 9:00 AM (SR) $1 the punch card, a fee of $5 per 10:00 AM (AS) $ person per visit will be charged. Zumba 9:00 AM (AS)$ Reformer Pilates 11:00 AM (AS) $12 Mat Pilates Guest Policies For Fitness 10:00 AM (AS) $ Lively Liners Beginner Review Centers And Pools Aqua Fitness 1:00 PM (AS) Guests, for admittance to Legend 11:00 AM (IP) $3 Fitness Center and Pool Beginning Reformer Pilates Happy Tappers please register each day at the AS – Aerobic Studio 11:00 AM (AS) $12 2:00 PM (AS) desk to receive your wristband. FC – Fitness Center GC – Golf Club Lively Liners • All guests must present the Intermediate IP – Indoor Pool Beginner I guest card if not accompanied Happy Tappers MC – Montecito CH 12:30 PM (AS) by the resident. No exceptions. 3:00 PM (AS) SR – Santa Rosa CH Lively Liners • All forms must be completed OS – Offsite Beginner II Beginner Yoga prior to using the facilities TC – Tennis Courts 1:30 PM (AS) 4:00 PM (AS) $ including the pool areas. $ – $3 charge • All rules including personal Listings in BLUE Lively Liners Bocce Buddies Advanced Instruction conduct must be adhered to indicate Charter Club 7:00 PM (SR) membership required. 4:00 PM (AS) by all users. • Guests may be asked to relinquish the use of any equipment when residents are waiting to use said equipment. • May 1 – October 31, 2016 Children’s Pool Hours (age 4 –16) September Santa Rosa 2 pm – 5 pm Montecito 9 am – 12 pm
44 September 2016 theView Fitness Calendar 45 ) ) ) ) SR ) $5 ) $12 ) $12 AS SR TC ( ( ( ( AS SR AS ( ( ( PM AM AM AM September 2016 September PM AM AM Tennis Tennis www.scshca.com Open Play 9:00 8:00 Table Tennis Tennis Table 7:00 12:00 760-772-0430, This schedule is Pickleball Club Pickleball 9:00 Reformer Pilates Reformer Pilates subject to change. Open Line Dance 12:00 on calendar listings, 11:00 to ensure your spot. Warm Water Magic Water Warm For more information for class cancellations. call the Fitness Center page on or log on to the web site Studio classes are limited Check the Fitness Center page for class descriptions. to 30 participants for safety purposes. Please arrive early and check the Fitness Center ) ) ) ) ) ) ) $3 ) $3 ) $3 AS ) $6 ) $3 ) $3 SR AS SR TC ( MC IP ( ( ( AS AS ( ( AS AS SR ( ( ( ( ( ( PM PM PM AM AM AM AM AM AM Yoga Yoga AM AM AM Tennis Tennis Circuit Zumba & Stretch Transition Chair Yoga Chair Yoga Total Body Total 1:00 2:30 8:00 Aqua Fitness Lively Liners Lively Liners 7:00 8:00 12:00 Bocce Buddies Pickleball Club Pickleball 9:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 10:00 11:00 Table Tennis Club Tennis Table Cardio & Strength Advanced Instruction Intermediate/Advanced ) ) ) ) ) ) ) $ ) $ ) $ ) $12 AS SR SR AS AS TC AS ( ( ( ( ( AS AS ( ( AS CLASS ( ( ( PM PM AM AM AM AM AM PM AM 40/ Yoga Yoga AM Tennis Stretch Stretch Thera-Band 5:00 1:00 8:00 9:00 8:00 Lively Liners 7:00 MAX 4:00 Beginner Yoga 9:00 Pickleball Club Pickleball Zumba Toning 10:00 Reformer Pilates . www.scshtennis.com 11:00 Intermediate Review for specific program times Check Tennis Club website Check Tennis ) ) ) ) ) $ ) $ ) $3 SR ) $5 ) $5 ) $12 ) $3 SR AS TC ( AS IP ( ( AS ( ( AS AS SR SR ( ( ( ( ( ( AM PM AM AM AM AM AM AM AM AM AM
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Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Log www.scshca.com to on Intermediate Instruction Club Contact Information Pairs 9-Hole Golf Club Tuesday Night Putters Jewish Outreach Group Billiards Discussion Forum Frank Bradish Kathy Lindstrom Arnie Gillman Don Salvatore John Crawford 760-469-2622 760-863-1938 760-347-8873 760-775-8394 760-565-1311 [email protected] kathylindstrom01 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Pan @gmail.com Mind, Body, and Soul Karen Bernert Bocce Buddies Games Plus Susan Regier Tutta Bella Vino 818-355-1188 Rick Halla Pat Rosandich 559-361-4552 Julie Harris [email protected] 760-347-9676 760-343-0783 [email protected] 760-217-6062 [email protected] [email protected] Paper Crafters [email protected] Republicans Ukulele Strummers Al Miller Bowlers Club Gin Rummy Margo Pagnini Mel Borses 760-863-1115 Rose Borses Marie Devito 760-565-1930 760-636-4788 [email protected] 760-636-4788 760-636-5593 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Performing Arts The Voice Veterans Club Darlene Turner Bridge Happy Tappers Earl Warner Tom Hutson 760-200-5022 Marty Martin Caroline Konczey 847-727-4049 760-347-6317 [email protected] 760-262-8104 619-890-2916 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Pet Club Women’s Golf Club Bunco Hiking Club Bob Schuster Clubs in Formation Susan Moss Marcia Guntman John Ramsey 818-437-3699 Backgammon 760-834-9638 760-347-1534 760-342-0076 lightingprofessionals@ Bud Krause [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] yahoo.com 760-321-5545 Writers Club Camera Club Holistic Health Club Pickleball Car Club Tony Davis Glenn Jones Claudine Ray Ray Colletti John Ziegler 760-775-9521 403-998-1306 760-610-5662 805-558-0692 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] History Book Club Canasta Jewelry Club Rainbow Friends Rachel Rose Mary O’Hara Sharon Degenhart Frances Panster [email protected] 619-777-3457 Resident Groups 760-863-2108 760-393-8493 Baptist Church Group [email protected] Motorcycle Rides [email protected] [email protected] George Vivlamore Robert Mastrangelo King & Queens Ceramics Club Readers Ink 760-775-7271 760-636-0093 Card Club Wes Warner Connie Brennan [email protected] [email protected] Mike Strittmatter 760-775-7501 760-360-7182 Concerned Homeowners 760-698-2790 Off-Road Jeeps [email protected] [email protected] of Shadow Hills [email protected] Lou Padilla Classy Niners RV Club Bruce Marley 951-265-7222 Lady Putters Charlotte Emert [email protected] [email protected] Cynthia Bakshy Dana Walker 714-914-5480 760-485-2990 Democrats Off-Road Motorcycles 760-347-8499 [email protected] [email protected] mariannastephens11 Dom Summa Rich Scales Community Singers @gmail.com Shall We All Dance 760-972-4640 562-714-7404 Linda Delaney [email protected] [email protected] Ken Hailpern Let’s Meet and Eat Club 760-772-1765 760-342-1497 Karen Dallmann Hadassah Road Bicycle Riders [email protected] [email protected] 206-795-6996 Cindy Hailpern Dario Fadiga Computer Club [email protected] Solos 760-360-4902 760-345-7398 [email protected] [email protected] Bill Singer Lively Liners Kathe Tuggey 760-636-5055 Katy Linkjendal 760-775-2905 infoscshcomputerclub 760-610-5710 [email protected] @gmail.com [email protected] Table Tennis Couples Golf Mah Jongg Ron Case Arnold Choy Joan Schwarz 714-883-4509 Interested in starting 760-501-0345 760-610-1561 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Tennis Club a new club? Creative Arts Men’s Golf Club Patty Prunty Geoff Toner Dennis Hooper 760-219-0288 Are you interested in 760-345-8785 760-636-1048 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] That’s Entertainment another hobby? Drop by the Desert Gardeners Needles & Pins Julie Johnston Linda Delaney Cheryl Taylor 760-772-0317 Lifestyle Desk to pick up an 714-732-1225 410-507-5591 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Travel Club informational packet. Desert Life Oke Dokey Karaoke Mitch Albert Geri Butler Carolyn Little 760-565-0064 760-345-4349 ext. 2120 760-775-7846 760-600-0727 albertfamilyindio@ [email protected] [email protected] gmail.com
46 September 2016 theView Club News 47 September 2016 September , Continued on page 44… View Bridge is the greatest card game card greatest the is Bridge long a after returning game, the to new are you If Cost: $20 for Audrey Grant’s “Bridge at a The Club offers three duplicate bridge games Thanks so much to the Needless to say we’ve had a wonderful summer. So please come down, join your friends or just For information contact Rose Borses at of all, offering new challenges with challenges new offering all, of every hand. It’s also a great way to sharp. mentally stay and friends new make fun, have “Bridge for up sign refresher, a need just or absence Boot Camp.” This 10-week course, which begins October 5, is held on Wednesdays, from 9:30 11:30– am, in the Capistrano Room Clubhouse). It includes (Montecitoboth class instruction and coached Instructorplay. Carole Morgan will have you teaching while one day from cards playing you the fundamentals of modern bidding, play of the hand and some basic conventions. (Nonmembers welcome.) (If handouts. class weekly the and booklet Glance” you have the booklet, the cost is $10.) Put your check payable to “SH Bridge Club,” along with your name, phone number and e-mail address, in an envelope marked the (outside mailbox “Bridge Club’s Bridge the in it Boot deposit Camp” and Billiard Room). For more information,Carole or 760-262-8408. at [email protected] contact each week: 1) an ACBL-sanctioned game on especially Beth Bolduc, forwonderful the article this issue. appearing Beth photographer. isShe really in made us a look good. So wonderful I guess this article can be really short. reporter and beginners year’s Last us. join to continue folks New are now intermediates, moving up and to advanced. intermediates One of aremembersour wonderful came up to us bowled a 180 excitedlythe other You day.” cannot believe bragging “I how wonderful it makes us feel to hear that. It is a pleasure to watch this league mature. We’re like parentsbirthedhave who it watch now and baby a we that advanced that never we’re However, grow. us. join to newcomers encourage to continue can’t am 10 at everyFriday meet We on. us cheer watch, at Fantasy Bowl. [email protected]. Bridge Bowlers Club
The club plays year round in foursomes and For more information, please call Rick at We play bocce at the Montecito the at bocce play We Come along and meet a nice group of residents We have five bocce courts at the Montecito On Wednesday, July 27 we held we 27 July Wednesday, On Our club continues to meet every Wednesday Women and men of all levels of experience are courts recently constructed. We events will at the play Montecito club throughout months the until winter the snowbirds leave, when we probablywill return to the Santa Rosa. We will keep you posted. time any at bocce play to want you If six. of groups other than when the club meets, bocce balls are available for your use at the fitness desk. 760-347-9676. Clubhouse every Monday Friday and at 8 am and at the Santa Rosa Clubhouse join and play areto All welcome pm. 7 at evenings on our club. There are no membership dues. Tuesday have you if matter not does It game. the enjoy who never played before, we can teach you the game. clubhouse and only two courts now at the Santa Rosa clubhouse due to the additional Pickle Ball
our end of the month tournament. month the of end our We had 12 tournament, players ball eight insingles robin round competition a playing with the one and fifteen ball playedpockets. Firstin place the was won side by ScottEveryone Robinson. Wheelock. Bettylou to went place Second a greatplayed well and had time. at 7 pm in the Tournaments are Billiardsheld the last Room Wednesday of the for openmonth at a cost of $3 per player each tournament. play. monthly the in play to member club a be must You tournaments. welcome and encouraged to join. It’s a great way to make new friends and meet Come your neighbors! to the Wednesday nights for open Montecito play. Free lessons are Billiards available at 10 Room am every Monday in on the Billiards Room by Bryan Murray (760-342-9028). Need any further information, please call Don Salvatore (760-775-8394). See you on Wednesday at Billiards Room. the Log www.scshca.com to on
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Tuesday afternoons and more relaxed play on Wednesday our website. Club is open to all photographers of any level. and Thursday evenings. For more information about games The next formal meeting will be held at 3 pm, October 19 or membership, go to www.shbridgeclub.com or contact at the Santa Rosa Clubhouse. Questions, please email Glenn President Marty Martin at [email protected] or Jones or Annie Blackburn at [email protected]. 760-262-8104. Canasta Bunco The Canasta Club is keeping cool Please join us the last Wednesday night during this hot summer. We meet every of each month at 6:45 pm at the Fridays from 1 – 4 pm in the Mirada Room. Montecito Clubhouse for a very wonderful New players welcome. If you haven’t played canasta, please evening of laughing, yelling, and screaming at the dice. It come, observe and learn. For more information, please call is a very pleasant cool evening. If you have any questions, Mary at 442-227-6567. please call Marcia AKA the Bunco Queen at 760-347-1534. Ceramics Club Camera Club As summer wanes, we welcome back Although the club is on hiatus from its many of our vacationing members. The regularly scheduled meetings, the board rest of us have been busily working all has been busy working on plans for next summer long on new and exciting creations. We also have season. Our theme for the upcoming season will be “Basics several new members who joined us this summer, and they and Beyond.” are successfully completing some of their first ceramic Our education portion will be tied to our workshop bisque projects. The results are fabulous. This is a really and field trip assignment for each month. We will provide good time to join the Ceramics Club and create special gifts education on a topic during the main meeting then provide for your own family and friends – or to keep for yourself. mentorship and hands on experience during our workshop meeting. You’ll have an opportunity to use what you have learned during our monthly field trip and display your results in the following month’s slide show presentation. Educational themes will range from camera basics, composition, properties of light, post processing, aperture/ shutter priority and creativity. The third Wednesday of each month (except October) will be “Bring Your Camera Day.” You’ll have the opportunity to ask more experienced members questions relating to your camera or photography. Throughout the season we’ll have guest speakers, judging and the opportunity to participate in local exhibitions Creative Ceramic Club Projects and competitions. Stop by and see our display case across from the In the meantime, visit our Cambria/Mirada room where we meet. Every month our www.scshcameraclub.com website case changes as members show new items they have been to enjoy and participate in working on. Augusts’ display featured club members’ this summer’s photo theme “personal favorites.” We invite you to join us and create “Playtime and Action.” your own unique masterpieces. Our members are always Starting in September, welcoming and available to get you started on making your members may renew your own creations. It is great fun and easier than you think. We membership online and meet Tuesday and Friday morning from 8 am – 12 pm in deposit checks in our club the Montecito Clubhouse. For more information, contact By Jerry Solomon mailbox. To join, please visit our club president, Wes Warner, at 760-775-7501.
48 September 2016 theView Club News 49 for events, for September 2016 September Continued on page 46… www.shcouples.com Membership: Joyce Johnson Secretary: Shirley Bergman Directors: Goldie and Don Kane Tournament Merlina Tate Webmaster: President: Susan Toder Vice President: David Moss LarryTreasurer: Kunstler Handicap: Jacqui Chin Friday, October 7 Friday, from 10 am to 11:30 am in the Montecito Clubhouse For information, contact club president, Ken Check the website at at website the Check Please email [email protected] Computer Club Membership is only $10 for • • • • We We hope you are all enjoying and completed has season 2015/2016 our Sadly, Your 2016/2017 Couples Golf Club Board of • • • • As many of our mentors are At the Computer Club Season Kick-off Meeting • the Montecito clubhouse and sectional rehearsals in members’ you homes will periodically, have the tools necessary to help make our tenth season the best yet. [email protected]. or 760-342-1497 at Hailpern, schedules, membership info, green fees, pairings, for questions. July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017. Make your check out to SCSH Computer Club and leave it in our to it bring or Clubhouse Montecito the in mailbox an Open Workshop. your summer whether you are at SCSH or elsewhere in much cooler temps. we hope everyone in the club enjoyed the varied golf formats, after event meals, robust prizes, camaraderie and amongst members the that is an essential part of our club DNA. Directors is as follows: away, we will NOT be conducting be NOT will we away, month the during Workshops Open of September. Open and classes for schedule the introduce will we November, October, of months the for Workshops and December. Couples Golf Couples Computer Club Computer (www.shclassy9ers.com)
Community Singers represents many levels of opportunity great a What welcome! members New With Valley temperatures still in still temperatures Valley With newcomers and members veteran all calling are We An active group of Classy The new season will kick off with the 10th Enjoy the rest of the summer. We look forward to meet new people, learn new skills, and have fun, have and skills, new learn people, new meet to cords! vocal and body mind, your challenging while at afternoon everyMonday rehearsals full our With from musical director, Karen Adamik. from musical director, expertise and experienceprofessionals. – No from requirements: love of choral music, desire to make novices audition to new friends, necessary!and willingness to dedicate time preparation and rehearsals. in Our
receive fall performances, and music rehearsals of packets, season fall and our about learn the details Log www.scshca.com to on triple digits, it’s hard to believe that the fall season is around corner. the As summer turns intoMontecito the in heard be will fall Singers Community the voices of clubhouse every Monday afternoon. at 19, September Monday, session: opening our to 5:00 PM with a social hour, club registration and new season orientation. Come and meet our club refreshments, delicious enjoy officers, and members Niners has continued to play golf Along months. summer the through a enjoyed golfers the days, play weekly regular with round of golf and lunch at Heritage Palms GolfClub on August 12. Another opportunity to play at a different September local 16 at Indian course Springs website Niners Golf isClassy the to Club. Go coming up on for sign-ups and more information about what’s calendar. coming up on our Anniversary Welcome Back Event Meeting on and October 20, General2016 in the Montecito Ballroom. We invite about thinking are who you of those and members seasoned opportunities members, be also will there time this At newjoining. to sign up to help out at different events planned during the season. to seeing you in October 2016/2017 Classy Niners season. and the start of the
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games formats, etc. For website changes, contact Merlina Tate, [email protected] Desert Life Questions concerning overall golf activities at SCSH Fall is just around the corner and our can be directed to our Golf Advisory Committee (GAC) delightful “shoulder season” weather is members, Joyce Johnson, [email protected], almost upon us. Come and join us beginning 760-619-2758 or Don Hauser, [email protected], on September 20 for lunch, friendship and interesting 760-345-6223. programs. Questions regarding membership can be directed to Joyce If you would like to join Desert Life, pick up a Johnson, [email protected], 760-619-2758. membership application at the front desk (or with handouts General inquiries about the club can be directed to Susan at Santa Rosa). Fill out the application, and attach a check Toder, [email protected], 760-619-3165 home or for the $15 membership fee made out to SCSH Desert Life. 406-531-7056 cell. Write “new” or “returning member” on your check and “Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how drop it into the Desert Life mailbox at the Montecito childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent Clubhouse. inability to count past five.” ~ JOHN UPDIKE September’s Luncheon Date: September 20, 2016 Time: 11:30 am – 2 pm (Note well: please do not come before 11:30 am) Creative Arts Location: Heritage Palms Clubhouse (Jefferson to Fred We are artists of varied skill levels and Waring, Left on Fred Waring and right into Heritage use different mediums who meet on Mon- Palms) day and Thursday mornings from 9 am – 12 Program: Ruth Moir will be our speaker. She represents pm at the Montecito Clubhouse. Barbara Hoffman will be The Steinway Society of Riverside County. the Artist of the Month for September. Welcome back to Charity for the Month (Optional): Street Life Project: our members who visited Utah over the summer for inspi- Items such as tarps, trash bags, items for hygiene, ration and to cool off. We are all looking forward to the like toothbrushes and toothpaste, soap, combs, toilet new painting projects inspired by our travels. Signup sheets paper, shavers, etc. We wish to help the homeless feel for art classes are available for viewing during our normal good about themselves so they can look toward meeting hours. If you have any questions or concerns con- taking the next step. tact our President, Geoff Toner: 760-347-8785 or geof- Menu: Papaya half stuffed with Curried Chicken Salad [email protected]. with Sliced Fresh Seasonal Fruit on a Bed of Baby Mixed Greens tossed with honey mustard vinaigrette and garnished with Date Nut Bread. Dessert is Desert Gardeners Cheesecake. Vegetarian option is Kale salad. (Please indicate a vegetarian preference on your check.) The Desert Gardeners Club focuses on Price: $23 Checks must be in by September 13 – in mail learning more about gardening in the slot at Montecito. desert, and sharing experiences among its We are looking forward to an exciting new season at members. Desert Life! Hope to see you there. The club has no activities planned this summer. We will restart in late October. Please watch the View for announcements later in the summer. The club usually meets on the second Wednesday of each Discussion Forum Club month at 4 pm in the Montecito, although the date, time, The 2016/2017 season, mark your and location may change depending on the event. calendar: If you would like to be added to our email list and • November 10 receive notices of our meetings, please send an email to • December 8 [email protected]. • January 12 For more information, please contact the club at the • February 9 above email address. • March 9 • April 13 • May 11
50 September 2016 theView Next year’s topics include: Art Theft/Fraud, Room. The game usually lasts until 4:30 pm. We also Technology Future, Hummingbirds, Cahuilla Indian meet the second Wednesday of the month at 6 pm. History, Seniors and Sex, KESQ Studio Life. If you play gin rummy or would like to learn, 2016/2017 Season Pass: Please take $10pp to please contact Marie DeVito at 760-636-5593. We our Montecito mailbox. Include your name and are a fun group and all are welcome. email address for our meeting announcements. Or mail to: Discussion Forum Club Hiking Club (Over the Hill Hikers) Sun City Shadow Hills SCSH’s Over the Hill Hiking Club 80814 Sun City Blvd offers hikes from October through Indio CA 92203 April. Most of the hikes are on the If you want to help us plan, schedule and second and fourth Thursdays of promote our presentations, you will enjoy this club each month. Exceptions can occur even more. You will meet interesting speakers in November and December. and neighbors, and use your organizational or To be placed on the Club email list please contact computer skills. For information, contact President John Ramsey at [email protected]. Members John Crawford at [email protected]. will receive additional hike information by email. When: Second Thursday, November – May There are no dues! Time: 7 – 8:30 pm The 2015/16 hiking season has ended. It was Where: Montecito Ballroom, Front Half extremely successful allowing many of the hiking club members to enjoy the beauty of the living desert. Have a great summer and we will see you next Games Plus season as we all go down the many trails of life. Bingo is back October 2, 2015! Games Plus was formed to play various games. Currently we play Bingo the first Friday of each month, unless otherwise notified. Doors open at 5:30 pm with games starting at 6:30 pm. Paper sells for $5 for 12 games, each game sheet has three cards. You can add an additional set of paper for $4. There are two Club News special games throughout the evening. You can purchase double actions for $1 each and the final game is 3 for $2. You may purchase as many of these as you would like. These two special games pay the biggest pots. We also have a free door prize raffle right after intermission. It’s a fun evening with lots of fellowship. Bring your friends or family members. Outside guests are always welcome. On Mondays of each week there is a room available from 12:30 – 4 pm for Scrabble and other Kings and Queens Card Club games. There is no charge or dues to play on The name of the game is poker! Monday. If you have questions, please contact Pat Kings and Queens Card Club is at 760-343-0783. open for play throughout the year giving you the chance to join in. Who: Shadow Hills residents Gin Rummy looking for a good night out The gin rummy club meets with friends and neighbors every Monday at the Santa Rosa When: Monday and Thursday nights at 5:30 pm Clubhouse at 1 pm in the Newport and Tuesday at 6 pm starting times
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Where: Santa Rosa Clubhouse this! Bring your favorite wine or beer and food to share. It’s What: Dealers choice (Omaha, Stud, Hi Low etc.) only $10 for members or $12 if you’re not a member. Don’t hesitate...many seats available during the summer! Always pay by check, put into LM&EC mailbox. Snowbirds Everyone is welcome to participate and just have some are coming back, so first come, first served. Join our club fun. We’re always looking for new players from our Shadow for $10. We have forms at every event. Questions? Call Hills community. Karen 206-795-6996 or [email protected]. So let’s all shuffle up and deal! For more information call Mike (760-698-2790) or Bobby (310-977-1896) at number listed above. Lively Liners September is here and the Lively Liners Dance Club is back in full swing. If you Lady Putters haven’t tried line dancing or it’s been a while Throughout September, one early since you have danced, we would like to invite you to come putting session will continue. Sign-in is to our Beginner class, Mondays at 1 pm (please arrive at between 6:30 – 6:45 am on Monday 12:45 pm to register). Try line dancing one time for free mornings in the Capistrano Room of the Montecito before you join our Club. It is so much fun we don’t know Clubhouse. Putting begins at 7 am on the practice green how you could dance just once! To join, yearly dues are behind the clubhouse. $15. Monthly classes are $15 per month, for the months We invite all ladies to visit us to try your hand at putting. you attend class. We offer Beginner, Intermediate and No experience is necessary. Come as a guest at no cost for Advanced classes as well as member led review classes. For the first time! You will meet many club members who will information about classes or membership, as well as dance make you feel welcome. Annual membership dues are $15, steps, check out our website: www.scshlivelyliners.com or plus the cost of a logo shirt. A putter, a ball and $2 is all contact Katy Linkjendal at [email protected] or that is needed. No putter? We do have a few loaners to share 760-610-5710. You may also contact our president, Arnold with prospective members. If you have the desire to make Choy, at [email protected] for more information. new friends and have a good time, this is the club for you! Our September dance date is scheduled for Sunday, Please note that we do adhere to standard golf dress codes September 25, in the Montecito Ballroom from 6 – 8:45 pm. (no jeans). No golf spikes, please. The theme is “Sports Mania.” Club members are $5 and Golf course reseeding is scheduled to begin in October guests are $10. Please wear your favorite team jersey/outfit and therefore, Lady Putters’ last day of summer play will be and bring your favorite sports munchies to share! Monday, September 26. We will restart with our regular Looking forward to seeing you at class! Keep On Dancing! play of two sessions of putting on Monday, November 7. In early October, look for an announcement about the Welcome Back/Informational meeting scheduled for Mah Jongg Monday, October 31. All potential new members are Hi fellow Mah Jongg players. We’re invited to join returning members to kick off our next year halfway through the summer and, hopefully, of putting fun! moving toward cooler weather! In the Visit the Lady Putters website at www.shputters.com for meantime, you can keep cool playing Mah Jongg in the more information and updates about the club. If you have comfortable Montecito Clubhouse on Wednesdays, 12:15 any questions, please contact Marianna Stephens at – 3 pm. Snacks will be provided by our club elves! Jokers 253-631-9609, Dana Walker at 760-347-8499, or send an are waiting for you, along with all the other tiles, so enjoy! email message to [email protected]. Mah Jongg lessons will be given, starting in September, by our Mah Jongg guru, Babs Bloomgarden. If you have Let’s Meet and Eat Club questions, please call Babs at: 760-393-2056. Let’s Meet and Eat! Country music lovers, Larry Capeloto has put together a Men’s Golf Club Country and a little of Rock and Roll group: The Shadow Hills Men’s Golf Club Larry Capeloto’s Country Sidewinder. Come, eat, visit, and continues its activities during the hot dance with your neighbors. It doesn’t get much better than summer months with the normal Thursday
52 September 2016 theView events, plus “away” events organized by member sewing supplies…a program that is installing a Jim “JT” Townsend. Courses including PGA West, love of knitting, sewing and quilting in this young The Classic club, and Escena are included in the generation. rotation. Turnout for these away events averages Join us Sundays, Mondays and/or Wednesdays close to 60 players, including many of the wives. in the Mirada and Cambria Rooms to share your These events allow for the ongoing comradeship love of these and other fiber crafts. Sundays: that is a constant for the Club, plus the normal 9 am – 5 pm; Mondays: 12:30 – 5 pm; Wednesdays: challenges of playing at other local courses. 9 am – 12:30 pm. Contact Cheryl Taylor, President, As for our Shadow Hills course, our Thursday for more information at [email protected]. events consistently pull in 30 to 40 members for the competition. The Men’s Club Golf Calendar events will run through the end of September, at which time the course will be closed for the annual over- seeding. Along those lines, the golf course staff has been working quite hard this summer, especially on the back-nine. The results are two-fold: playing conditions have been a challenge for the summer players; and hopefully, all their work will result make for a better course when it reopens in early Above left: Students at Las Palmitas School preparing fabric November. scraps for pet beds. Above right: Janice Blackwill displaying Lastly, for this article, the Men’s golf Club her first baby quilt for charity. welcomes Troon Golf to Shadow Hills, and we look forward to working with Troon and the Golf shop staff this next golf season. Needles & Pins It has certainly been the “dog days of summer” this year in the valley. But despite the HOT weather, Club News Needles & Pins’ members have been hard at work. Above left: Rosemarie Lombardo displaying her most recently Speaking of “dogs” and cats of course, over 30 pet knitted blanket. Above right: Marilyn Hendrickson showing beds were donated to various “no-kill” pet shelters her on-point nine-patch quilt with matching carrying bag. over the past couple months. Thanks to all who have sewn the beds, provided “stuffing” for them and delivered them to the shelters! Pairs’ 9-Hole Golf Club Our knitters and quilters have been hard at work Enjoy your summer. No play too! To date, over 140 knitted blankets and quilts, dates until mid-November. Our along with burp cloths and caps, have been created club’s mission is to share the love and donated to various charitable groups in the of golf in a social, friendly way. We valley. Members are working on blankets and quilts play at the par-3 North Course. We have a fun for military expectant mothers at the Twenty-Nine lineup of games and events each month. Our club Palms Marine Base, the Galilee Center in Mecca, does not require handicaps and is designed to California CareForce, a program that provides free provide golf for those of us who wish to have a dental services for those in need in the Valley and relaxed fun game. JFK Hospital’s Maternity Center. Needles & Pins We encourage all resident golfers in SCSH to has an ambitious goal of making and delivering at join, be it singles or a couple. Each month we begin least 150 blankets and quilts during the next year. play at 1 pm with sign-in at 12:30 pm. We play on Members also support the after-school sewing the first and third Thursday each month unless program at Las Palmitas Elementary School with otherwise posted. We use a shot-gun start format.
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We are able to play all 18 holes even though our name is gorgeous napkins that you probably have in your kitchen Pairs 9-Hole Golf Club. drawers! Add a plant to the pot and you’ve created a To register to play any of our play dates, sign-up must be stunning gift for family and friends. If you are interested in completed by using our website listed below. The website learning paper crafting techniques and making projects such closes at noon on the Wednesday prior to the posted play as the one below, come and join our club. Beginners are date. We gather on the patio at the Shadows Restaurant for absolutely welcome – we will teach you the techniques we a fun social hour following each play date. utilize to make all sorts of cards, gift bags, memory books, Annual membership dues are $10 per person and sign-up boxes, party favors, and even decorated pots! must be initiated by contacting the person listed below. For more information about our fun Sun City Shadows Hills golf club, please contact Frank Bradish by phone at 760-469-2622 or by email at [email protected]. Our web site is: www.mysignup.com/scshpairsgolf. Pan Welcome new members! This summer we have had some new residents to Shadow Hills who have joined the Pan Club. With so many players gone for the summer, the new members have been playing in many games. We are happy that the new residents have joined the Pan Club and are forming new friendships. Our fall Pan Tournament date is set for October 21. We “Mod Podge” Pots, Taught by Margo Pagnini will be sending out an email the beginning of September, Three small bird pots made by Diane O’Rourke with details. You must be a member of the Pan Club to Christmas tree pot made by Janet Hofacre attend, so make sure that you are current with your dues. Butterfly pot made by Margo Pagnini Space is limited so sign up early to guarantee a spot. We will Our Paper Crafters Club meets every Tuesday in the be offering lunch, prizes and a day filled with Pan and fun! Mirada Room at the Montecito Clubhouse at 12:45 pm to Pan is played at the Montecito Clubhouse in the “set up” and “catch up” with each other. Card classes begin Capistrano Room, Monday’s at noon and 6 pm. Tuesday’s at 1:15 pm and generally end at 3:15 pm. “Do It Yourself you can find games at the Santa Rosa Clubhouse at noon. Time,” learning a new technique, or how to use our On Thursday’s Pan is played at Montecito at noon. For equipment begins after class from 3:15 pm until 5:15 p.m. those of you who are new to Shadow Hills, feel free to You are invited to attend a class, make the project, and then stop by, meet the players, and get into a game or get on a decide if you would like to join our group. Membership cost sub list. per year is $10. Weekly projects range between $1 – $3. If you are interested in Pan, or finding out about lessons, Please visit our showcase in the clubhouse (opposite the please contact Shelley Brown at 760-775-4130. If you are Mirada Room) to view some of our current projects (or looking to sub in a game, contact Adrienne Helfand at peek into our classroom on a Tuesday and see first-hand 818-322-7087. what we’re all about). Questions? Call Margo Pagnini at 760-565-1930 or email her at [email protected]. Paper Crafters Club Our featured project this month is a “Mod Podge” pot. We purchased Performing Arts inexpensive clay pots and decorated them Our club is for anyone interested in all with napkins (yes, napkins…one of our clubs aspects of stage performance; acting, favorite “mediums”), using “Mod Podge” water based producing, directing, set design, set sealer to glue the napkins on the pot. You can just imagine construction, costumes, lights/sound, or the what various themes you could create using all those many other areas involved with a stage production.
54 September 2016 theView Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of the September 14 at 6:30 pm, please contact Bob month at 7 pm in the Montecito Clubhouse. We Schuster at 818-437-3699 or [email protected]. are dark for the summer and will resume monthly meetings on September 12. Our fall show is the comedy, Aprons, which will Pickleball be performed November 17 – 20. We are in need I’ve heard the misconception of a producer. All staff is in place; we just need a that many people feel Pickleball person to monitor follow-through. Cast members and tennis are in direct conflict are already coming together when summer with each other. In reality nothing schedules allow, to block and rehearse. Mark your could be farther from the truth. Yes, it’s a fact that calendar and tell your friends; this play is hilarious! in recent times Pickleball has absolutely exploded And you get to see your kind and friendly neighbor off the charts due to the aging demographic that transform into a “push-the-envelope” character have become addicted to the sport. The latest involved in homicide! statistics show that almost 70% of players are over We are also in search of a director for our the age of 55 and more players are joining the ranks upcoming March, 2017 comedy production. If every day. It’s here to stay, poised for more growth you have directing experience and are interested, and is sneaking up on the tennis market. But let we’d like to hear from you. You may contact there be no mistake. any PAC board member; Gene Gambale Tennis has a long and cherished tradition in the ([email protected], 760-772-7555); Eileen Heckel world of sports and is an awesome game that has ([email protected], 562-652-5396); its rightful place in the community. The two sports Arnie Kleban ([email protected], 760-200-0897); can actually complement each other because you Kim Page ([email protected]); Earl Warner can play both. In fact, Pickleball can actually help ([email protected] , 847-727-4049). extend your time on the tennis courts. Let’s face it the tennis court seems to grow a foot longer for every year we age and no one wants to hear that a Pet Club tennis player who now has shoulder, knee or hip Attention all pet lovers! It’s problems should stop playing tennis and go sit time for the Pet Club to resume down. We all want to stay active, healthy and regular meetings. Our first meeting remain competitive. It’s all a part of staying fit and of the year on September 14 will be flexible which is the key to promoting longevity. Club News a pizza party to welcome all new and returning For tennis players who find themselves limited due members. The club will provide pizza and soda for to agility, balance and reaction time Pickleball can everyone attending. This will give everyone a give you back a court game. And one great benefit chance to meet and greet new and returning is when you make the transition to Pickleball, you members and have input into the types of programs can beat the younger people again, which gets you would like to see. You will also get a chance to harder to do in tennis. Yes, Pickleball is growing hear about the programs that have already been fast, and we welcome all tennis players to join us in scheduled. the game of their future. Questions? Please email The Pet Club meets on the second Tuesday of George Paul at [email protected] or go each month at 6:30 pm, and each meeting will to www.scshpickleball.com. include a program designed to interest, inform, and excite our members. You will not only get the opportunity to learn, you will get to interact with Rainbow Friends other pet lovers just like yourself. It’s already September, so It is time again to collect the membership fee for perhaps the hottest summer the year, so bring your check to the meeting or put temperatures will soon be over, it in the Pet Club box behind the Library. and we will all be enjoying our We hope you will be able to join us at our wonderful valley with its spectacular Autumn meetings. If you plan to attend the pizza party on weather before we know it. Hope everyone enjoys
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the upcoming Labor Day Weekend! View in the late summer. If you are available we look forward to seeing you at our We have another full season of dances planned beginning next regular meeting, which will be held on the second October 2016. We will be offering free beginner dance Wednesday of the month, September 14 at 6 pm at the classes again in January, February, and March. And we are Montecito Clubhouse. currently working on providing intermediate lessons also. We are a social club for gay, lesbian, family and friends. Check our club website www.shdancers.com for planned For further information, contact Frances at 760-393-8493. dance events and dance lessons. These will be announced during the summer. If you have any questions concerning the Shall We All Readers Ink Dance club or our events, please contact Linda Delaney at Readers Ink meets on the fourth 714-732-2115. Tuesday of every month in the Montecito Clubhouse at 2 pm. We read and discuss a variety of books, chosen by popular vote. Solos Different members lead each discussion and all our meetings Solos is the social club for single residents are amiable and lively. Everyone has the opportunity to be of SCSH. In September we resume our part of the conversation and give each book a numerical monthly general meetings on the third rating. Dues are $10. Sunday of each month. Meetings are held in For the September 27 meeting, we’ll be reading The the Capistrano Room at the Montecito Clubhouse and All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg, a begin at 5 pm. For our September meeting we are planning fun-filled romp that spans decades and generations, and a short “get acquainted” activity, a light buffet dinner and honors a little-known aspect of America’s 20th century a bit of club business. If you are thinking about becoming story: The Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) who a member, we invite you to come meet us on Sunday, ferried airplanes across the U.S. and the sea to free up male September 18! pilots for combat roles. It’s described as the kind of story Other activities for the month of September include “that keeps readers turning pages in a fever…with plot attending the live music/dance event hosted by the Let’s twists, adventure, heartbreak, and familial love in spades.” Meet and Eat club, where we sit together at tables reserved For information, please contact Connie Brennan at for Solos. We are planning another of our popular Mystery [email protected]. Happy Hours as well as a Billiards Night and other fun activities. We also gather at Shadows Restaurant for Happy Hour every Friday at 4:30 pm. RV Club Solos members enjoy meeting new people and we welcome Many of our members have returned new ideas and energy! You can pick up a membership form from their travels and are looking forward at the Lifestyles Desk and return it to the Solo’s mailbox to our first meeting of the new season. We with $10 dues. You will then receive our newsletters, will be meeting in the Montecito Clubhouse announcements, reminders etc. on Tuesday, September 20th at 6:30 pm. Please plan to stay If you have questions, please feel free to contact Kathe after the meeting for dessert and conversation. Tuggey at 760-775-2905 or [email protected], or Shirley Our travel and social calendar for this season will be Bunce at 760-345-8121. presented. There is still room for additional members to participate in these events, so mark your calendars. We’ll be looking forward to seeing our “old” members and welcoming Table Tennis new ones. For further information, email President, Sally Wow! Us diehards made it through Bozzo at [email protected]. August and it’s downhill into some cool weather now that September has arrived. Seventy-two degrees can be your reward if Shall We All Dance the Santa Rosa Clubhouse is your hangout for Table Tennis, Shall We All Dance is taking a break for perhaps one of the fastest growing indoor sports in Sun City the summer. We plan to restart in October Shadow Hills. 2016, so watch for announcements in the The Club plays three times a week and if you check the
56 September 2016 theView Lifestyle Calendar of Events in your issue of the every month and the show can be “R” rated for View, it will reveal the days and times we play. adult content, so plan accordingly. Please get your Ten dollars a year is a steal for the fun and exercise tickets early as this event sells out quickly during you get for it. You owe it to yourself to come and winter season. Please see our ad in this magazine, check it out. Hope to see you soon. the Community Website (scshca.com) or lobby Questions? Call John Carey at 760-565-1560. flyers for further details. If you would be interested in helping to put on these events from time to time as a member of Tennis Club the That’s Entertainment Club, please call Julie at A big “Thank You” to Don 760-772-0317. Watson for organizing the Pizza That’s Entertainment Club is a proud sponsor of Party last month. With so many of entertainment at Shadow Hills. us vacationing to escape the summer heat, it was a nice way to get back together. We seniors do love our tennis, no matter the Travel Club weather, but playing in our humid desert climate, The Travel Club is dark from especially in the summer months, creates perfect May through September. Our conditions for heat exhaustion. The body cools first meeting for the 2016/2017 itself by sweating and allowing that sweat to season will be October 19, 2016 evaporate. This requires enough fluid in the body More information to follow next month. to make sweat, air circulating across the skin, and Be one of the first to visit Cuba: March 19, 2017 low enough air humidity to allow that sweat to …seven-day cruise from Miami, there are flyers at evaporate. Activity in a hot environment can the Lifestyle desk. overwhelm the body’s ability to cool itself, causing The Travel Club is planning a trip to the “Heart heat-related symptoms, such as, profuse sweating, of the South.” A journey through New Orleans, muscle cramps, muscle weakness, nausea, vomiting, Natchez, and Lafayette April 23 – 30, 2017. headache and lightheadedness. The Travel Club has a trip planned to Tuscany If you feel you have any of these symptoms; stop and the Amalfi coast in 2017. We still have room playing immediately, get into a cooler environment on the trip. and rehydrate! Continuing play may lead to more As always our members suggest our trips. We vote complications and even heat stroke, which could be on them and have speakers come and talk about our Club News life threatening. So, be aware of what your body is top trips. All trips are considered. If you are not a telling you. member and would like to suggest a trip please If you are not currently a Tennis Club member email us. and would like to join, an application can be Our dues are only $5 a year per person. You can downloaded from the website www.scshtennis.com contact us at [email protected]. If you are or obtained at the Montecito and Santa Rosa interested in any of the above-mentioned trips, Clubhouses. Dues are $20 per year. Questions? there are flyers at the Lifestyle desk. Contact Patty Prunty at 760-219-0288 or [email protected]. Tutta Bella Vino Come join us on Saturday, That’s Entertainment September 17, 2016, at 7 pm in On the third Wednesday of the Montecito Clubhouse ballroom every month we present Sir-Laffs to kick off the new season with a A-Lot’s comedy night at the great selection of Northern California wines – not Montecito Clubhouse. If you have from Napa, not from Sonoma, but from Amador never been to comedy night, we arrange for two LA and Mendocino! comedians to drive out to Indio and do an amazing Amador is old vine country and is renowned for show for 90 minutes. The comedians are different its century old zinfandel vines, producing wines
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with rich, complex flavors. Mendocino is one of California’s New Member Orientation. As always it was a fun event that largest and most climatically diverse wine growing regions attracted our new neighbors. which allows for a wide range of grape varieties that create We look forward to your visit and hope you’ll join us in superior wines. We will be tasting three whites and three singing. For information contact Arlene Schilb at reds, which will include one premium red. [email protected]. The cost is $20 per person and $25 per non-resident guest (which includes a small plate of food pairings). This event is only open to SCSH residents and their guests. Veterans Club Residents may attend one event before becoming a Shaun Casey, a longtime member who member. Your $10/person membership fee covers the has served as Secretary and Membership club’s September through June event season. Flyers with Chairman of our club passed away in late registration instructions and membership application are July. Our condolences go out to all of his available on the rounder at the Montecito Lifestyle desk. family and friends. Shaun was an active member and will be Questions? Please call Julie Harris at 760-217-6062. We sorely missed by all of his fellow veteran club members. look forward to seeing you there! For those of you at Sun City Shadow Hills who might need an American Flag and/or replace a tattered one, our next flag sale will be Friday, September 9 at the Montecito Ukulele Strummers Clubhouse just inside the main entry door. This is one of Summer’s almost over. You can feel the a number of services for SCSH that is sponsored and chill in the air (haaaa). It’s time to think provided by the Veterans Club. about what you’ll be filling your days with Don’t forget, our first meeting of our new year is on at beautiful Shadow Hills. Let me give you September 20, 7 pm at the Montecito Clubhouse. Join your a hint. Learn how to play ukulele, bring your stringed fellow veterans and find out what is planned for the coming instrument to the Montecito any Thursday at 12:30 pm and year. Future speakers will include a presentation from the join the strummers for a fun filled time playing the oldies VA on Veterans benefits, not only for the Veteran but what and new songs. might be available for the spouse of a deceased Veteran. We’re so pleased to have some new folks join us who have Our Veterans Club dues are $10 per year. If you have brought with them the desire to update our music. So we’re questions about the club, please call our Membership playing the 70s, the 80s, Chicago, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Chairman Bob Hammell at 760-360-9607 or our President and so many others. The movement has brought new Tom Hutson at 760-347-6317. As always, cookies and energy to the group and we’re so grateful. Thank you so coffee too! much to Jeff Moses and Ed Mogen who have volunteered to review and update our playbook. It is a difficult and tiring job. Every new member is given this book upon joining. Women’s Golf Club Our newcomers “Introduction to ukulele” will resume Labor Day generally signals the end of this month with the return of our wonderful teacher the summer when everyone is looking Darlene Kretchmer. We invite you all to stop by the Green forward to the cooler weather. The Women’s Room at the Montecito any Tuesday at 12:30 pm. If you’d Golf Club is finalizing the seasonal activities like to try it we do have loaners available on a first come, and preparing for the return of members from their summer first served basis. homes and vacations. We are looking forward to sharing all Thanks so much to those who gave time to play at the the events for the 2016/2017 season at the Welcome Back
58 September 2016 theView Party beginning at 2 pm on November 7 at the Montecito Clubhouse. With the new season, members will be able to play from either the gold Resident Groups or silver tees each week. Be sure to attend the Welcome Back Party for further details. Concerned Homeowners Since the South Course will be closed until November 7, the first day of regular play on of Shadow Hills November 2 and the Friday casual play day on Concerned Homeowners of November 4 will take place on the North Course. Shadow Hills is a Board authorized This will be a good time to practice your short resident group dedicated to providing game in preparation of the year’s competitions. You the community with factual information. We can see all the events that are scheduled on our currently have an active membership of over 700 website at schgc.com. homeowners who are committed to ensuring our Those casual or seasoned golfers interested in community stays strong, our financials remain playing 18 holes of golf each Wednesday can check sound and our amenities the best they can be. out the WGC website at shwgc.com to learn more All residents are invited to join us for a about the club and to submit an online application. CHOSH sponsored Public Forum on Saturday, For questions please contact Membership Chair, September 24 in the Montecito Ballroom from Missy Helseth, at [email protected] or Club 6 – 9 pm with Mayor of Indio Glenn Miller President, Susan Moss, at [email protected]. discussing issues of concern to all homeowners. Best wishes to all for a safe and fun-filled Labor We are actively seeking new volunteers to join us. Day. If you are genuinely committed to our principles of a strong and well managed community and are committed to ensuring that Sun City Shadow Hills Writer’s Club remains on its current successful path of financial Try your hand at writing that strength and solid property values, please join us by story you have always wanted emailing to tell. It does not matter if you [email protected]. are writing; fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, or screenplays, write a page a day for a year and you have a book! Democrats Club News It’s easier than you think to write your own story. The Democrats in Sun City Every year millions of great stories disappear forever Shadow Hills gathered at a private as people forget or pass on. home on July 28 to watch the Many of our members have never written before. acceptance speech of our next Some have published their own book. Learn how President, Hillary Clinton. A good time was had by to self-publish for no cost! all. Now our work begins for what promises to be Every member has the opportunity to read one an exciting election at all levels of government. or two pages (double spaced) of their work to the Our next meeting will be Thursday, September group; receive ideas, direction and gentle criticism. 15, 2016. Our meetings will now be held in the Part of being in our club is the encouragement we Monterey Room at the Santa Rosa Clubhouse. get from each other to write on a regular basis. Your officers plan to review the 2016 Ballot and The Writer’s Club meetings this month are provide you with pro and con arguments on the Thursdays September 1st, 15th and 29th at 10 am eighteen initiatives that will appear on the November in the Santa Rosa Clubhouse. Who knows, you may ballot. Many of these initiatives have a direct impact find the hidden writer in you. Free membership! on our economy so you should be aware of their How can you go wrong? consequences. For more information: [email protected] or Our October meeting, scheduled for Thursday, [email protected]. October 20, will feature Glenn Miller, Mayor of Indio. He will discuss some of the development
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taking place in our city. Please make sure to attend this This is a great opportunity for those that never had a Bar meeting. More details in the October View. Mitzvah to have one now. Our annual membership dues are $10 per person. This We are looking forward to new programs and continued covers your membership through December 31, 2016. Friday night services with our wonderful Rabbi, Julian You may drop a check in our mailbox at the Montecito King. Clubhouse! If you have any questions, please contact Dom Summa at [email protected]. Mind, Body, and Soul MBS Yoga offers a variety of wonderful Hadassah workshops each month that touch on the Hello Sabra members and friends! different aspects of yoga. Good for all levels. We are moving along in the heat of the Join us and experience the wonderful summer. Our 2016 Summer Women’s health benefits of yoga! Strengthen your body, improve Series was huge success. We heard how to your balance, calm your mind, and nourish your soul. take charge of our lives at this stage and stay positive. We Workshops will start again September 30. Look for flyers thank Miriam Bent and all the speakers and hostesses for at both clubhouses and info in the View. their help putting this together. For more info, contact Karen Bernert at 818-355-1188 Our monthly meeting will be September 3 at 7 pm. or [email protected]. October brings in the Jewish holidays so we won’t have a monthly meeting. We will have a meeting in the Sukkah of Cindy & Mark Hailpern. This will be on October 20 at Republicans 3:30 pm. Reservations are a must – seating is limited. The Sun City Shadow Hills Republicans November 8 we will have our monthly meeting in the will resume its monthly meetings on Ballroom. 10 am. $13 prepaid or $50 for the season per Tuesday, September 13 with a dinner person. meeting and a rousing presentation by Elise We welcome new people to our events. Don’t know Richmond, Local Talk Radio Host. about Hadassah? We are a Women’s Philanthropy Group – With both conventions concluded, we are looking forward We are National/International; we support Medical to participation in the electoral process. We must support Facilities in Israel as well as youth villages in Israel. We candidates that will help restore our nation and finally get support women’s health initiatives here and abroad. Join us the economy moving again to create good private sector – we are women of different ages coming together for a jobs. common cause – to give back. Keep your eye on the “rounders” for details of our Questions? Please email Cindy Hailpern at monthly meetings and other activities. The September [email protected] or Debby Orgen-Garret at meeting will start with a dinner provided by Shadow Hills [email protected]. Republicans followed by lively discussion of the issues of the campaign. There are many offices open this election, not just the presidency. Our Mission Statement says the one Jewish Outreach Group of our goals is to support Republicans who are running for The Board of Jewish Outreach wanted office at any level. We welcome your views but please stick to thank all of you who attended our to the issues. August service. The service was great as was the turnout. The following are the dates of services for the rest of the The Voice year. Please mark your calendars: September 16, October 21, The Voice is a resident group approved November 18, and December 16. We look forward to by the Board over two years ago as a seeing you at all future services. homeowner-friendly group dedicated to Please get your checks in early and deposit them in the the concept of the Del Webb Lifestyle. We Jewish Outreach box in the lobby. Unfortunately, we have discuss community issues important to all residents. to be on a first come basis, due to room space. As Homeowners, we realize it is our responsibility and The Rabbi would also like to start Bar Mitzvah lessons. If duty to consider all aspects of our governance in our lovely you are interested, please email Arnie at [email protected]. community.
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