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March 8, 2012

Sports & Leisure

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickleballs

Pickleball. What is it? Why is it called that? Does it have anything to do with pickles we eat?

Shooting for success

The local Free Throw Championship Competition sponsored by the St. Mary of Huntley Knights of Columbus Council #11666 will be held at 9-11:45 a.m. with awards at noon, Saturday, January 14, at the Centegra Health Bridge Fitness Center, 10450 Algonquin Road, Huntley, Il.

It’s pure elementary

To provide a safer environment for Sun City’s swimming pools, Stingrays’ Head Swim Coach, Chris Hinde, recently invited swim club members to participate with him and Assistant Coach, Len Lencioni, to become certified in Elementary Forms of Survival, Water Rescue, and Pool Entries.

Whole lot of swimming going on

If you have caught a view of Prairie’s indoor pool on recent Saturday mornings, you have heard and seen a lot of excitement and swimming going on! It seems that our new coach, Chris Hinde, is intent on strengthening Stingrays’ membership as a club, as well as helping us all to swim much more efficiently.

Cardboard Connection Radio

When Huntley Area Public Library Communications Assistant and Webmaster Doug Cataldo isn’t laying out Library Links, updating and designing huntleylibrary.org, or doing any number of other media-related library tasks that give the library its “good looks,” he’s talking about cardboard.

Put me on the train!

On Saturday, October 22, almost 5,500 first-nighters and I were present for the Inaugural Season Home Opener of the Chicago Express Hockey Club at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates.

Quick & Casual

Chicago’s resurgence of interest in professional hockey was created mainly by the recent success of the Black Hawks. This being your team’s first year in competition for sports and specifically hockey fans in the Chicagoland area, what do you see as your niche when developing a fan base here with the Black Hawks and Chicago Wolves already established?

Comfortable golf in January, Sun City style

Some golfers pack themselves full of the sport up to six or seven days a week in the summer to tide them over through the winter “homesick” days. Others take the year-round concept literally and play in the dead of winter, so long as there’s no snow and it’s above zero. Fanatics and fun-lovers take it to the extreme and play with orange or blue balls on snow-covered fairways and greens in winter, mostly just for laughs or on a dare. When they finish doing that, they usually head to a Lake Michigan beach to jump into 40-degree water to get on TV.

Teacher, mentor, coach

In the entire high school culture in the State of Illinois, there is only one man who can arguably be called “The Coach.” He has come to dwell among us in Sun City. At age 82, he is still doing it.

We supply the water. Jump in!

The Springfield, Illinois Park District recently held its 35th annual Illinois Senior Olympics. Competition is held for seniors age 50 years and up in events ranging from Archery to Track. The State Games are used to qualify athletes wishing to participate in the National Games. The Sun City Stingray Swim Club was represented by Len …

The running man

If you are among the many lucky Sun Citians who have seen Otto Volkmann jogging around the bike paths, be advised that you are not just watching any ordinary fitness buff.

Bad weather doesn’t stop Stings from medaling

The Stingrays’ second swim meet of the summer took place on Tuesday, August 23, at Homewood-Flossmoor’s Park District’s “Senior Fun Day,” located at their Lion’s Park.

Lefties Don and Sandy Ferrari 2011 Bocce Champions

You’re standing on an artificial turf court, about 50 feet long. You roll a little red target ball, called a pallino, in the same way you roll a bowling roll down the alley, only much slower. Then you take a bocce ball, about the size of a softball, but much heavier, and try to roll it as close to the pallino as you can.

Fond farewell

On Saturday, August 13, thirty members of the Sun City Stingray Swim club said “Good Bye” to their coach of two years, Jack Bolger.

Stingrays successful at Senior Olympics

Highly successful swim performances were given by the eight Stingray tankers who attended this year’s Six County Senior Olympics Swim Meet.

Bocce’s Tournament, A Big One

Sun City’s Bocce Club is one of, if not, the biggest Charter Club of all. The 700-member Bocce Ball group is planning its post-league tournament on August 30, and it should be one of the biggest competitive events of the year. Get there early if you want a good parking space. If it rains, the event will be held on August 31.

Free fallin’ at 70

Mary Lou Dorgan, a very youthful-looking resident of N. 30, celebrated her 70th birthday on July 31 by jumping out of an airplane at 14,000 feet over the Mississippi Valley in western Illinois. It wasn’t a dare or a bet or a “something-to-prove,” daredevil act. This was simply a fun way to celebrate a birthday, like you or I might decide to invite a few friends over for cake and ice cream on birthday number whatever.

Rules of the water

PH-check! Total Alkalinity-check! Chlorine Level-check! Filter pressure-check! Temperature-well, almost check! Looks like Sun City’s computer- and manually-assisted swimming pools are doing just fine on these hot days of summer. When “water relief” is an oft discussed subject, a sultry, warm Sunday might bring as many as 160 people to cool off in Meadowview’s pool alone. That, of course, does not include Prairie Lodge’s indoor and outdoor pools or Sun City’s two spas.

Triple Play

The winners of the Triple Play Canasta Tournament that was held on July 23 and 24 in the multi-purpose room at the Sun City lodge.

Sun City Huntley Teams Medal in 2011 Senior Olympics

This year’s Six County Senior Olympics has concluded with all three Sun City, Huntley, teams being awarded medals in their respective sports. Teams were entered in both the age 60+ and age 70+ divisions of the Softball Tournament and one team in the recreational division of the Volleyball Tournament.

Triple Play

It was New Year’s Eve, 2005, and a foursome in Sun City was celebrating by “dealing” in its favorite card game, Canasta. The conversation reportedly went something like this.

Sun City’s best step up to the plate

SUN CITY – Gloves can get broken in, jerseys made and rosters chosen, but little preparation can be made for the sensation sure to be found at this year’s Sun City Senior Softball All Star Game at Eakin Field on August 6 at 6 p.m. The All Star game is played between the National and …

There are pool sharks and then there are pool Sharkettes

There are ladies in the pool hall!! Back in the day, this shout would often spark protests and pandemonium in pool halls (ahem, billiard parlors). Proper ladies wouldn’t want to be seen in one. Even if they did, the guys probably wouldn’t let them in.

Like ducks out of water

What do ducks do when they’re out of the water? They play and eat, of course. What do Stingray Swim Club members do when they’re out of the water? They play and eat, of course.

Hot to fox trot

Nick Koplos, Neighborhood 32B, won second place in the 10 Mile Fox Trot Race held in Elgin on Memorial Day. Nick, 74 years old, competed with other male runners in the 70-74 year age category. Mr. Koplos currently runs an average of 20 miles weekly as training for long distance races.

Golf Club promotes friendships

Golf probably has attracted the largest number of people to move to Sun City, Huntley. And Whisper Creek Golf Course that winds through the community continues to be a big reason for the success of the Sun City Golf Club, and for the visibility and positive reputation of the development.