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| Vol. XXII, No. 12 | King's Gate Club - a 55+ community, Nokomis, Florida | March 28, 2009 |
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The calendar for next week appeared in the printed newsletter. To see the calendar online, go to www.kgc.cc and click on KGC.cc in the upper left corner of the screen. What's New will appear and the What's New list will open. At the top of the list there is a link to the latest Newsletter and the online Calendar for the April 2009 and past calendars also. What's New provides easy access to additions to the web site. Scroll down the list to see if you've missed photos from an event.
HEALTHLINE: Jean Davis, 291 Ave. of Kings, had back surgery at Venice Regional Medical Center on Friday, March 20th. She is now recovering at Manor Care Health Services, 1450 E. Venice Ave., Venice FL 34292. Prayers and cards would be appreciated.
THANK YOU to all those who sent cards and well wishes during my recent shoulder surgery and complications following. The visits, food and prayers were all factors, I am sure, in speeding my recovery. I will be starting rehab therapy soon, and knowing that we have such wonderful KGC friends means a lot. God bless you all. -- Marilyn Phillips
DUCHESS AVE. BLOCK PARTY: Please note time change. 4:00 PM to ??, Saturday, March 28th. Food served at 5 PM. Games & entertainment. Please bring a dish to pass, place setting, BYOB and chairs. Remember your name tags! ???? - Call Dot at 480-1544 or Joan at 484-2027.
NOTICE: Duchess Ave. will be closed, from Princess Ave. to Camelot Dr., starting at 4 PM, Saturday, March 28th, due to a block party. Mail will be delivered to Duchess Ave. today. ?? - Call Dot Grams at 480-1544.
MUSIC APPRECIATION: Saturday, March 28th in the Clubhouse, 7 to 9 PM. Join us for an evening of recorded music by Tchaikovsky , Brahms, Elgar, Haydn, Byrd and Mendelssohn. The first half of the evening will include Brahms' Hungarian Dances and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto # 1. Following a break, in the second half we shall show a DVD musical tour of London and Oxford. As you listen to the music the scenes include Westminster Cathedral, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Christ Church Oxford, Blenheim Palace, Hampton Court and a tour along the river Thames. (No passports required). Please feel free to bring and share snacks during the break. Lemonade will be provided. Alan & Rosemary 412-3872
PATIO PARTY: Sunday, March 29, at 2 PM. Entertainment by "Harmony" and ice cream sundaes.
BOOK CLUB will meet on Monday, March 30th at 1 PM, in the Gazebo (or library, in case of rain). Please bring your choices for next year's readings. -- Betty Dowling
NEW DVD MOVIES added this week: Rachel Getting Married, MILK, Quantum of Solace and Twilight. - Jean Ickes
APRIL BIRTHDAYS: Wish these residents a Happy Birthday! Wayne Crippin, 4/3; Anita Kast, 4/3; George Agricola, 4/5; Irene Bette, 4/6; Kae Hardesty, 4/8; Blanche Madden, 4/9; Dick Madden, 4/10; Sue Simmons, 4/16; Joan Potts, 4/17; Janet Squier, 4/19; Curt MacMillan, 4/20; Robert Adams, 4/22; Louis Herbert, 4/23; Sharon Stout, 4/23; Pat Cavalier, 4/24; Art Grams, 4/25; Janet Lewis, 4/26; Dot Inman, 4/28; Bob VanDeSteene, 4/29; Helen Westbrook, 4/29; Shirley Bethke, 4/30. If you didn't sign up and would like your birthday published, call Rose Jones at 412-1988
SHUFFLEBOARD: Still playing on Mondays and Thursdays. Join us at 9:15 - 9:30 AM, just for fun, or to learn the game. -- Ralph and Sandy Garver
BOWLING: 2009 Champions Cardinals - Angie Richards, Linda Varty, Charlie Fote, John Vella. 2nd Place: Gophers - Pearl Gardner, Judy Skowron, Bob Goff, Dick Lyford. Most improved bowlers - Mary Porzio +10; Bob Goff +14. League bowling starts Oct. 3, 2009. - Don Fisher
MOVIE for Wednesday, April 1st at 7 PM, will be BOLT, a funny, animated film, about a dog who thinks he has superpowers, as well as about friendship and perseverance. Bolt (voiced by John Travolta) is the star of the biggest show in Hollywood. Problem is, he thinks the whole thing is real. When the super dog is accidentally shipped to New York City and separated from Penny (voiced by Miley Cyrus), his beloved co-star and owner, Bolt springs into action to find his way home. Together with his hilarious new sidekicks, Rhino (voiced by Mark Walton), Bolt's #1 Fan, and a street-smart cat named Mittens (voiced by Susie Essman), Bolt sets off on an amazing journey where he discovers he doesn't need super powers to be a hero. Rated PG. Dean Martin before movie. -- Arlene
CHANNEL 33 is now known as "CCN" Club's Cable News. If you have a Comcast digital box attached to your TV, you will get CCN on #795. Comcast is slowly programming all the boxes from their office, and it may take a little longer for all to be done. If you don't have this box, you should get CCN on #117. -- Barb Amatrudo
SUMMER NON-LEAGUE BOWLING began on March 24. Join us on Tuesdays at 1 PM. No sign up --- just show up. ?? Call Bud Porzio at 485-1245.
N.Y.- N.J. PATIO PARTY will be held on Saturday, April 4th, at 3:00 PM. Please bring appetizers to pass and your own drinks. Hopefully it will be a warm, sunny day, and you all will come. Guests and renters are invited. Please wear name tags. Sign up in the clubhouse. ?? Call Eleanor at 485-9714.
STAINED GLASS GROUP: Before leaving for the summer, please return any stained glass pattern books that you may have borrowed. Thanks, Jessica
SPRING DANCE: "Hearts and Flowers" will be held on Saturday April 4th with a social at 6:30, dancing at 7:00 P.M. Tickets are available today, Saturday March 28th. Music by Fred and Jean Valasek. There is no charge, but you must have a ticket to attend. BYOB and an hors d'oeuvre to share, plus we will be collecting canned goods for the needy. Questions, call Cranes or McMains.
PRESIDENTS CUP - KGC GOLF OUTING: April 5, 2009 at 2 PM. Nine holes of golf at Calusa Lakes. Happy Hour at 5:30 PM. Dinner at 7 PM. Tickets on sale at RTC meeting, on March 28th.
MAGAZINES: Please do not bring magazines dated before January 2009 to the library. When you are cleaning out for the season, bring magazines that are more than 3 months old to the recycle container along with your brochures, catalogs, and newspapers. We do like all Smithsonian and National Geographic magazines. Thank you for your help. Eleanor Barth
OHIO SUMMER GATHERING: Final call. Plans are set for Wed., June 17. Information and sign-up sheet will be removed on Saturday, April 11. Please have check made out to Robert Winchester, prior to April 11, or mail to 2345 Bristol Rd., Columbus, Ohio 43221. Phone: 614-451-9801 -- Bob W.
TRAVEL: This just about completes our year of travel, but we still continue on making plans. We will have our document party for the people traveling to Bermuda on April 1st, 2009, in the clubhouse at 3:00 PM. Please bring any questions with you. You must have a valid passport good for 6 months after date of travel. We have 68 guests traveling with us on April 25th - May 2, 2009, on the new MSC Orchestra.
May 24th, 2009, Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre, The Wedding Singer. In 1985 Robbie Hart is a New Jersey, favorite wedding singer, until his fiancee dumps him at the alter. Broken-hearted Robbie becomes a disaster at every wedding he plays until he meets Julia, a waitress. Julia is about to get married, unless Robbie can pull off the performance of a lifetime. This musical comedy takes us back to a time when neon was in, collars were up and the guy with the mullet hairdo may have been the coolest guy in the room. Please sign up today so I can make reservations, $62.00 per person.
The best for last, we have been in all the Caribbean ports so I found a ship that you will not want to get off of, it offers so much, it is a brand new ship the "Oasis of the Sea", by Royal Caribbean. This ship has a water theatre, the Boardwalk, and Central Park. Please watch our 6 min. video, even if your not interested in cruising. Royal Caribbean does not work well with groups. I have 9 cabins reserved and additional ones priced higher on request; the port charges and gov't. taxes must be added on. This will be a trip you will remember for years to come. The dates are Feb.20th-27th, 2010, a 7 night Eastern Caribbean Cruise.
Just want to thank everyone, including all my renters, that have traveled with us this past year. You have made our travel season very successful. If you have email and want to know what is coming up, you can check our web page, or leave me your email address, and I will see you get the information. If you don't have email, leave me a stamped addressed envelope, and I will be glad to mail the upcoming shows and events. Have a great summer. -- Don and Mary Lou Richmond, Travel Coordinators, John and Sandy Eade, Travel partners.
RESIDENT PICTURES: I apologize for the poor lighting caused by a combination of the low ceiling and failure of my light meter. Light meter is now working; we'll try again, when I can schedule the clubhouse. -- Wren
MISSING DVDS: Owners and renters, please check your homes and DVD players for the following movies - some missing since 2008. If not returned, I must delete them from our list. -- Jean Ickes
A LARGE THANKS to all that worked at The Fair. The community participation by the members, renters and visitors was truly an inter-weaving of support that makes KGC a special place. -- Rex
FAIR THANK YOU: Enormous thanks to ALL THE GREAT PEOPLE that helped with food this year at The Fair.Things went along smoothly because everyone stepped up and went the extra mile to make it happen. Thanks again............Jim Purkey and Linda Varty
LIBRARY: I would like to thank all the people who helped at the book fair to unpack, sort, refine, and pack up at the end. Many hands made short work with the help of: Doreen and Gary Exner, Jean and Lee Ickes, Chuck Tompkins, Jackie Barker, Liz Boorsma, Sandy Crawford, Ruth Boyle, Lois Crane, Vicki Miller, Sue Simmons, Mary Ann Diebold, Debbie Hatch, and Pat Gilbert. We made about $500.
If you are taking books out for the summer, please put the letter of the month you will be returning, ex: S, O, or N - this will help the people who are tending the library this summer. Many thanks to Sandy and Jackie who have agreed to keep things running smoothly this summer, until someone can fill the position of library chair. I will be vacating the chair as of April 1st. I thank those who have supported the library and our efforts. -- Barb Tompkins
FAIR LOTTO RAFFLE: The winner of the KGC Fair's Florida Lotto Millionaire raffle was Dan Alves of Parry Sound, Ontario, CA. Congratulations to Dan, and thanks to all the booth's workers as well as to all who purchased chance tickets. ---Betty and George Agricola
FAIR CRAFT BOOTH: Many thanks for all the donations and to the workers who made the KGC Craft Booth a success. Gratitude especially to co-chair Elsie Reh and her husband, Mike, Loretta Brian, Virginia Collins, Lois Crane, Dot Grams, Linda and Dan Lauzun, Jane McLaughlin, Vicki Miller, Jean Oakley, Terry and Jan Roberts, Mary Jane Rodecki, Barb Shields, Claire Smith, Barb Tompkins and all the men who hefted the tables in and out of the clubhouse. -- Rose Jones
FAIR 50/50: Many thanks to all that helped on the 50/50 raffle - Paul Roux, Chuck Leight, Dan and Linda Lauzun, Bob Winchester, Judy Morris, Mike Downey, Val Mackus, Fred and Shirley Bethke, Jeanne Winget, Marti Conklin, Larry Dannemiller, Leo Caron, Chris Townsend, Sandy Garver, Barb Shields, Kae Hardesty, Helen Tebbets, Arlene Hyde, Eric Hazeldine, Ruth Fleck, Mary Colliet, Jean Oakley, Ruth Zabielski, Deanna Myers and Duane Myers. A special thanks to my husband for all his hard work. - Carol Myers
FAIR FLEA MARKET: To all who helped with setting up the Flea Market - moving, unpacking, sorting, pricing, selling and packing up, a special THANK YOU! For collecting and packing all year long, our appreciation to Loretta Brian and Dee Hicks, as well as to the guys who helped move the furniture, especially Rex and Mike and their helpers. THANKS! -- Angie & Fran
AEROBICS CLASS: I recently received the following e-mail from Bridget Duffy, daughter of Jack Duffy, who lives at Kings Gate Park. Bridget wrote, "Today I attended an extraordinary class at KGC with my young, athletic and handsome, 74 year old father, Jack Duffy. It was created and led by Rosemary and Alan Holdway. I have attended many exercise programs through my work in wellness and as a clinician. This was one of the best-designed, comprehensive and enjoyable courses I have ever attended. They are incredibly knowledgeable on the cardiovascular and musculoskeletal system and translate that into a very effective program. To call it an 'aerobics' class sells it way short of what it delivers. It is a 'lifestyle' class that empowers you to live better. If you have not attended, you are missing a program that will enhance your well-being and extend the quality of your life. Thank you. I cannot wait for my next visit so that I can attend." Signed, M. Bridget Duffy, M.D., Chief Experience Officer, Cleveland Clinic.
- Just had to share this high praise of the Holdways with all of you. - SJB
CHUCK HAMILTON: Many of our residents work on programs outside the Club, that help to benefit the lives of other people. This is true of Chuck Hamilton. Chuck joined the Masons (along with his son), became a Master Mason in Mishawaka, IN, and then entered the Murah Shrine in Indianapolis (along with his son). He often took patients to the Chicago Shrine Hospital. Now he transports patients from Sarasota Sahib Shrine to the Shrine Hospital in Tampa. The PULL TABS that come off your canned drinks or food cans go to raise money for wheelchair repair in the Shrine Hospitals. The hospitals treat children from birth to 18 years old regardless of color, race, creed or national origin FREE of charge. The surgeons give freely of their time and skill - volunteering at least one day a week. Please turn in names of willing parents to help these children - the children will thank you!!! We're proud of you Chuck - it's great to be helping in this very worthwhile program! - SJB
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS: On March 19th, 31 women from KGC attended the "Deal Me In" for Literacy, card and games party at Aston Gardens at Pelican Pointe. Sandy McIntyre, reported that $1,000 was raised for Literacy Volunteers of South Sarasota County at this event. Many King's Gaters won prizes in the "Teacup Auction" which was like the Super Raffle at the KGC Fair, but using teacups instead of shoe boxes to collect the tickets. Four KGC women volunteer as tutors for adults who want to learn English as a Second Language (ESL): Eleanor Barth, Betty Dowling, Ann Kellum, and Sandy McIntyre. If you can read, write and speak English and you want to help someone, you could become a trained tutor. Literacy Volunteers offers comprehensive training to prepare volunteers to tutor foreign-born adults in ESL. Prior teaching experience or knowledge of another language is not needed. If any men or women in King's Gate would like to know more about becoming a literacy tutor, contact Sandy McIntyre, 412-0107 (president of the organization), or talk to one of the other tutors about their experience. This is another example of how our residents are reaching out to help other people. - SJB
THOUGHTS: The annual KGC Fair is now a happy memory. Again we were blessed with good weather on Friday afternoon, and Saturday was an absolutely gorgeous day. Know that all who worked on the Fair - too many to mention individually - enjoyed it, and I am sure that new friendships were formed. And, there is a good profit, which will benefit Round Table activities and the charities we support! Do have to say a special thanks to Rex Ingerick, who was again Fair Chairman, for a job well done. So many people working together accomplished something that is worthwhile. - SJB
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