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October 21, 2010

News & Features

The Bird Lady

Jess Chipkin (N.22) is known in her neighborhood as “the bird lady.” When her neighborhood had its own newspaper, she contributed a Q & A on birds. Her corner-lot home is replete with an array of sparrows, doves, finches, blue jays, robins, cardinals, and woodpeckers that come to snack at her birdfeeders.

The ‘Ides’ march into Sun City for a smash-hit performance

Sun Day music columnist Moonlight Mojo Man sits down with band members for a little Q&A.

Writer’s Corner: Heart Trouble

Margo Coeur was shopping at the supermarket one morning when she experienced a small but significant incident.

Geezer Moments: October 21, 2010

I’m starting today’s column with one from my travel senior softball days, when we would hold fundraisers to pay for our tournament entry fees.

Do you volunteer?

Do you volunteer? Or have you thought about starting to volunteer? If so, the benefits of volunteering may be bigger and better then you thought!

SunCPAC Q’s & A’s: October 21, 2010

Where does Sun City Property Assessment Council get all of its information?

Little sticks

When most people see a toothpick, its obvious uses come to mind. But when Cesar Vega of Neighborhood 31 looks at a toothpick, he sees the Eifel Tower, a Model T Ford, a stagecoach, or perhaps a working trolley car, among many other wonders of mechanics and structure.

Tooth and nail

There are no colorful props—no appropriate storefronts, houses, staircases, ships, merry-go-rounds, city streets, parks—nothing to lend visual authenticity to the production. In the Sound of Music, where’s the abbey? Or a staircase with seven charming children singing goodnight to party guests? In Some Like it Hot, where is the mysterious cabaret? Or a train car? In Brigadoon, where are the landscapes symbolizing Scottish moors? In Fiddler on the Roof, where are the rooftops?

Where memories live

Everyone has a story to tell, and April Jeffers of Stories, Inc. is in business to help you document yours.

Tis the season…to stay HEALTHY!

As the 2010-2011 flu season approaches, it’s once again time to think about getting a flu vaccination. Because the Center for Disease Control recommends that just about everyone over age 6 months gets the flu vaccine this year, it lends to people asking some of the following questions:

In Memoriam: James L. (Jim) Roberts

Jim Roberts, born March 12, 1941, passed peacefully at home on September 29, 2010, in Huntley, IL. Husband 47 years to Pamela; father to Suzanne (Steve) Cox and Kathleen Anne Roberts; Brother to William (Debbie) Roberts and Thomas (Jeannette) Roberts; Grandfather to Arthur, Brandon and Robin Cox; and Brother-in-law to James (Kay) Pung.

Geezer Moments: Oct. 7, 2010

My buddy Bill and I are fraternity brothers of sorts, as we both marched in the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps as drummers. Bill likes to play golf and sent me this “moment” about himself:

Turnouts

Sun City’s Pickleball Club completed its 2010 outdoor season in September with a three-part tournament involving doubles teams. A double-elimination playoff was held in three categories: men’s, women’s, and mixed doubles.

Demand for Library’s Museum Adventure Passes

As has been the case at other participating libraries, the Huntley Area Public Library has seen brisk use of its free Museum Adventure Passes.

Furry and fashionable

In two days, Sun City will go to the dogs, literally. Pampered pooches and coddled kitties will be dressed up in their best, or maybe funniest, costumes, depending on the creative talents of their owners. They will be the center of attention at an expo, and they will be ogled, petted, admired, and not yelled at for four hours.

Labor of love

With the approaching production of Rogers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, it’s business as usual for the Theatre Company of Sun City. And when each show’s production consists of thousands of man hours and managing fiscal responsibilities, the Theatre Company of Sun City operates very much like a business, a not so small one at that.

Do you Yoga?

Alternative fitness programs are more popular and are becoming more a regular part of a balanced health and wellness regiment these days. One of the longest running and most popular of these alternative programs is the practice of Yoga. The word Yoga comes from the Sanskrit word yuj, meaning to yoke or bind, and is often interpreted as “union” or a method of discipline.

Sometimes it’s good to be Out of the Loop

If you grew up on the northwest side of Chicago in the forties, and street names such as Deming, George, Altgelt, Montana, Palmer and Diversey, Belmont, Belden or Cicero Avenues bring back memories, this is the book you will surely relate to.

Bumpers, felt, and fun

Every sport has its heroes – Babe Ruth for baseball, Joe Montana in football, Michael Jordan in basketball, Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson in boxing, Wayne Gretzky and Bobby Hull in hockey.

Geezer Moments: September 23, 2010

Let’s start this week’s column off with this anonymous one about an 83-year-old woman who was stopped for speeding. When asked by the patrol officer, “Did you know you were speeding?” she talked herself out of a ticket by stating: “Yes, Officer … I was trying to get there before I forgot where I was going!” Makes perfect sense to me.

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Prior to July 29th 2009, our Grandaughter, Hope Fuller, was a normal, beautiful, active, 12-year-old little girl. This was the day she was diagnosed with Difuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), a tumor located in the brainstem and inoperable.

SunCPAC Q&As: September 23, 2010

Q: Would SunCPAC be willing to represent me in an appeal?

WGN interviews Stingrays

Lights, camera, action! When six Sun City Stingrays arrived at their second summer swim meet held in Homewood, Il on Tuesday, August 24, they were greeted by a WGN television reporter, microphone held in his hand, and by his accompanying WGN camera lady.

In plein air

Whoever said art needs to hang on walls? Why not in a garden? This is just what you’ll find 3 to 8 p.m. Saturday, September 18, at the Art Show in My Secret Garden, where the Sun City Pencil & Pallet Club will display their original fine art at the Gardens of Woodstock.

Playing by heart

In 2007, after nearly a 30-year hiatus from his tenor sax, Frank Ardito of N. 30 picked up his instrument to get back into the swing of things. He bought a new case and had his sax reconditioned and started performing again and loved every minute of it. Then doctors diagnosed Ardito with an aggressive form of stomach cancer, and once again, he had to put down his music.

Honor flight

Henry Fransen got a strange phone call a couple of weeks ago, and the person that called was about to give him an opportunity that he would remember forever. Henry and his friend, Fritz Mazuer, both WWII Marianne Corp. Veterans, and members of the Sun City Marine Corp. Group, wrote over a year ago to a company called The Honor Flight Chicago Group, letting them know that they would be interested in finding out more information about what the group was about. They never got any response until a few weeks ago.