MY SUN DAY NEWS
It’s the end of the day, and you’re sitting topside listening to the gentle lapping of waves off the side of the ship, a glass of local wine in your hand to toast the end of the day, maybe some local cheese also. The setting sun is casting cloud-filtered shadows across the beauty of the river valley around you. You’re quickly surrounded by neighbors, old and new friends.
It’s not hard to find Christmas. It’s right there on the calendar—that big 25 near the end of December. But though Christmas is easy to find, finding the Christmas spirit is another thing altogether. There’s no telling when it will arrive.
On December 9, Kathy Sapko, from the Royal Atwoods section of N-3 in Sun City Del Webb, hosted a Ladies Christmas Luncheon. Approximately 30 women attended, and instead of exchanging gifts, it was decided that the ladies would make a donation to the Grafton Food Pantry of women’s personal items that the Pantry had suggested.
With the holidays here, I am feeling burned out. I care for my parents and I have my own health issues to worry about. How do I find relief?
The next monthly meeting of the Huntley-Elgin area Ostomy Support Group will be Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015, from 2-3 p.m. Helpful tips from its free newsletter will be discussed for urostomy, ileostomy, or colostomy care.
Jim discovered that an old high school buddy recently moved into Del Webb (it seems we all end up here eventually). What better way to get together with Tom and Linda than to check out the new Marsala’s Italian Kitchen. The timing was perfect, since we like to give a new restaurant a couple of weeks to get the kinks out before we review them.
As a very young child, I remember listening to beautiful classical piano music such as Frederic Chopin’s Polonaise in G Minor. For many years of her own youth, my mother, Marcella, had been trained in the classic form of ballet known as “pointe.”
Sounds impossible, doesn’t it? But it’s true, and I’ll tell you how to do it.
Feb. 22 is Hollywood’s big night. The Oscars will be handed out to the best and brightest in all categories. Pundits everywhere are speculating and commiserating on who will or who should win in the various categories.
This column is for the “Netflix/On Demand” devotees among you. If any of these slipped under your radar the first time around, you might consider renting any or all of them for an enjoyable evening’s entertainment.
These light switches must be reaching the end of their useful life as we have received several queries about where to get replacement switches.
When my husband and I bought our home in Sun City over 15 years ago, we knew it was a community for the ACTIVE ADULT as it said it in it’s name. That has not changed.
A Genealogical Workshop was held with leaders of the Daughters of the American Revolution to discuss the work of the DAR with a group of prospective members who plan to organize a new chapter in our area.
Christmas season is party time. Parties and gatherings are everywhere. Sun City’s 40 neighborhoods “do” holiday parties, starting right after Thanksgiving and many do more than just one. There is one Sun City neighborhood, however, that has taken the concept of a Christmas celebration to an entirely new level.
This year has been a roller coaster, to say the least. New jobs, new friends, loved ones lost and gained. The list goes on and on and on and on. Since this column represents my last piece in 2014, and given that Thanksgiving has just come and gone, what a better way to encompass this year and thank those who helped me get here.
Martin Elementary School in Lake in the Hills has been on the receiving end of generous donations from a “Grandma” over the past two years.
Well, lions and tigers definitely, but not bears were spotted on Walter and Carol Roth’s recent African safari that included 3 countries: Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Zambia. Replace bears with elephants, throw in an animal cracker box menagerie of other species, and you get a better picture of their adventure.
Letters for the week of December 4.
Nancy P. Shadle of Huntley passed away peacefully on November 12, at Journeycare Hospice in Woodstock. Nancy was born in Des Moines, Iowa.
As a homeowner, you know that house and property maintenance is one of your biggest challenges. The Sun City community association has the same problem, except on a much larger scale.
With winter’s shortened days of daylight and lengthened days of nightlight comes Seasonal Affective Disorder, a form of depression. Then what better occasion to overcome the “winter blahs” and begin or continue a lifetime of optimistic behavior than during the holiday season!
Last year, the Sun City Concert Band brought in over 500 people with their concert featuring their greatest hits from their last 10 years of practicing. However, much has changed since last year’s performance, according to the group president, Jerry McClellan.
Now that the holiday season is upon us, let the shopping begin. Woodfield Mall is considered by many to be the place to check off items from your naughty and nice list. To peruse the mall’s great expanse thoroughly you must keep up your strength, and we have just the place for you, P. F. Chang’s Bistro.
I left the theatre slightly confused. I had just seen a terrific ensemble deliver a number of Oscar worthy performances, a highly innovative story line with one surprise after another, and everyone around me was grumbling about how terrible the show was. It was the profanity, so prevalent it was like a nasty virus slowly killing its’ host, and by the end, despite the brilliance, you were glad it was over.
The past two years have been so exciting, and now that we’ve achieved our goal of becoming a Low-Power FM station, we look forward to a great future of continuing to serve our community. But with this additional service comes some additional expenses.
Can dementia be prevented? Have there been any new developments?
One of our five beautiful daughters once said to me, “Dad, the last check you write should bounce.” Needless to say that would be the epitome of perfect planning and, while I pride myself on being prepared, that would be stretching it a bit. However, it does serve as the perfect metaphor for the idea of organizing ahead for the expected, not the unexpected. Insurance is for the latter, personal planning for the former.
I miss seeing dogs. I don’t mean all those odd jumbles of animal parts that people generously call “dogs” these days—those canine collisions with cute labels like poopadoops or shitzadumps, animals that would never have been bred if the mash-up of their parents’ names didn’t sound so doggone cute.
I miss seeing dogs.
I don’t mean all those odd jumbles of animal parts that people generously call “dogs” these days—those canine collisions with cute labels like poopadoops or shitzadumps, animals that would never have been bred if the mash-up of their parents’ names didn’t sound so doggone cute.
I have a dresser that needs the top refinished. It is 76″ X 20″. Do we have someone here in our community that I could hire to do this work or could you refer a company that does this kind of work? I would truly appreciate it because there are few companies that do this kind of work today.
The Lions of Sun City – Huntley will hold their eleventh annual tradition of lighting up Del Webb neighborhoods with luminaries on Christmas Eve.
