MAY 2017 Your Community News Source — Serving Sun City Lincoln Hills — ONLINE AT: SUNSENIORNEWS.COM BRAT LE IN E G Terry and DiAnn Rooney — Cars, Computers and Clubs C BY LINDA LUCCHETTI DiAnn and Terry Decades ago, DiAnn and Terry Rooney met again at a dance in Dubuque. A 15 Rooney were home room offi cers at their relationship once built on casual dating, Dubuque, Iowa high school. In addition to soon grew more serious, and they were YEARS! being captain of the football team, Terry married in 1967. Their daughter was was home room president. DiAnn was born in Iowa City. secretary and thought he was “pretty cool.” Terry worked at Hewlett Packard IN THIS ISSUE While that may have been the (Agilent) as an Applications Chemist beginning of their “crush”, it could also in chemical instrumentation; the couple Placer County Supervisor ............................................ 4 have been the start of their interests lived in Pennsylvania, and later moved Thoughts From Jack ...............................................4 in leadership, volunteerism, and a to California – residing in San Jose and Community Chorus, Vaudeville, Players .................. 5 philosophy of helping others that has then Santa Rosa. Terry also worked as Memorial Gift ...............................................................6 spanned their lifetimes. a product market manager for Spectra- Favorite Restaurants ...............................................7 DiAnn, the oldest of nine, was born Physics in Santa Clara. Ballroom, Country Couples, Tap Company ..............9 in Iowa where she lived most of her life, DiAnn broadened her surgical Painters’ Club .................................................................9 except for a brief time while very young nursing profession by obtaining a business Needle Arts, Paper Arts, Photography ...................... 10 when her father, seeking wartime work, PHOTO BY JEFF ANDERSEN degree. She has enjoyed a fruitful career Woodcarvers, Antiques Appreciation, Writers ........11 moved the family to Berkeley and then back not only in managing surgery departments, OC Book, Square & Compass ........................................13 to Iowa. Growing up with so many siblings, Terry was the second of four children such as at the South Placer Surgery Center, S.C.H.O.O.L.S., Apple User, Stamp ....................14 she was a natural helper. After high school, whose father worked on the Midwest railroads. but also establishing surgery centers, such as Travel, RV ...........................................................................15 she pursued a nursing credential from a three- Terry received his Ph.D. degree in physical the one at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. Italian, Astronomy, Bosom Buddies .......................17 year diploma program in Rock Island, Illinois. chemistry after studying at the University of When retirement was near, DiAnn Alzheimer/Dementia, Eye Contact ............................18 Later, she would go on to attend St. Mary’s in Iowa. and Terry, then residing in Santa Rosa, did Lavender Friends ..................................................18 Moraga, where she was class valedictorian in It was during their college years that Genealogy, Singles ......................................................19 her nurse management fi eld. the pair’s initial spark was rekindled as they (cont’ on page 37) Veterans, Amateur Radio ..........................................20 RoadRunners, Sports Car, Rods & Relics ..........20 Bird .........................................................................21 Neighborhood Watch ............................................23 “Love, Loss, and What Annual Voices of Lincoln Poetry Contest ...............25 “Mother, May I” May Flowers? Garden, Shooting ..................................................26 Hiking, Cyclists ......................................................27 I Wore” June Stage Water Volleyball, Softball .....................................28 Play Bingo? Time to Check Your Irrigation Play Coming Soon! Ladies Golf 18 Holers, Lincsters .........................29 BY RITA MCPEAKE TIPS FROM NEIGHBORS INDEED Out & About in Lincoln .............................................30 BY LINCOLN HILLS PLAYERS BOARD ARTWORK BY RUDI FRANKE Bulletin Board .......................................................31 Who can forget that schoolyard game Seniors Need to Know................................................ 33 with its admonition, “go back, you forgot to say, ‘may I’?” Get ready to start your crazy days of Yes, we were blessed with a deluge of rain Tennis, Bocce .........................................................34 Lincoln Hills Foundation hereby grants summer with a funny and engaging stage play this last winter, and we’re ever so thankful Pickleball ................................................................35 amnesty from verdicts imposed by schoolyard on June 8, 9, 10, and 11 in the intimate venue for that! But as recent news reports have SCLH Writer ................................................................37 manners games and welcomes everyone, of Kilaga Springs Presentation Hall, performed advocated, we still need to be vigilant in our Bowling, Cribbage, Duplicate Bridge ...................... 38 mannerly or not, to join us at Bingo on Tuesday, by the Lincoln Hills Players. use of this precious natural resource. One way SCLH Writer’s Corner ............................................... 39 May 30 at Sun City Lincoln Hills Orchard Creek to put this ecological mindset into practice is Obserbations Catches Up on Things ....................... 40 Ballroom. As usual, doors open at 12:30 and to make sure all your yard irrigation systems Sun Senior News Classifi eds...........................42 - 43 play begins at 1:00. Meridians Restaurant will are up and running and at optimal settings. offer a special pre-game luncheon to all. (“May That way, your yard can be verdant and fresh And Much More . I” and other mannerly terms encouraged but without overdoing it. not demanded.) To request a table for seven Neighbors InDeed’s Handy Helpers have to ten players, send an email to bingo@ already taken calls from residents asking for a lincolnhillsfoundation.org. Print a coupon for quick check of their timers, valves, sprinklers, free pop-ups and a look at our full 2017calendar at [email protected]. and drippers. Are you next? Give us a call at 223-2763. But in case you would like the PAID “MAY I” add that the most important “Love, Loss, and What I Wore,” by Nora satisfaction of handling all this on your own, PRSRT STD takeaway is that you realize that your continuing U.S. POSTAGE PERMIT NO. 70 PERMIT NO. ROSEVILLE, CA support of Bingo, our #1 fundraiser, enables and Delia Ephron, won critical acclaim in its here are some tips: Lincoln Hills Foundation to maintain and off-Broadway debut, starring Rosie O’Donnell Timers — The heart and soul of your yard expand much-needed services to seniors in and Tyne Daly. In subsequent performances, irrigation is the timer – installed on a wall inside our Lincoln community. none other than Kristen Chenoweth, Kristen your garage – with a number of functions, some Wiig, and Jane Lynch have taken the stage, of which can be a bit baffl ing. Most houses in enchanting their audiences across the country. Lincoln Hills are equipped with either Rain The Players couldn’t book Rosie and her Bird or Hunter sprinkler timers, and each has friends, but second only to them are fi ve of its own little idiosyncrasies. 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