Page 14 - February 2020.pub

Shared Interest Group Announcements

Helping Hands 2.0 Pinochle
speaker is Dr James Abshire, MD. He will present his program “Live, COME PLAY PINOCHLE EVERY SATURDAY @ 10AM TO NOON AT
Love, and Let Go”. How to live and move on when faced with illness and THE CLUB
loss. It is a very engaging program with great advice and a dash of humor. Every Saturday 15 to 20 players are at the Club to play lively games of
We will be serving wine(!) and other refreshments. And you will get to hear PINOCHLE. We play Three handed and Partner single deck Pinochle 10am
about the Helping Hands events planned for 2020, meet the Helping Hands to noon. If you are rusty and have not played in a while the group will help
Team, find out how you can become an active Helping Hands volunteer, and you come back up to speed. Win or lose we are here to have a good time. If
enjoy social time with our Team and other club residents. Please watch for you are interested in learning to play Pinochle drop in or call Alan Uman.
our email invitation. We hope you will all be at this annual event. Any questions e-mail Alan at adu65@aol.com or call (916)872-8984.
We are gearing up for our annual Fashion Show and Luncheon to be held on Ping Pong (Table Tennis) Group
Wed, April 22 at the Timbers. We will be sending out email announcements
about ticket sales and the menu in late Feb and March. We will also be The Ping Pong Group is a great way to get in a little exercise and have fun
asking for donations for our raffle which is the cornerstone to this event. So, while doing it. We have two tables and play singles and doubles. All levels
keep and eye out for all the information you will need to attend this gala of players are welcome.
event you won’t want to miss! Days and Times:
Friday 2-4pm
Line Dancing
Saturday 2-4pm
"Motion begets emotion, have fun in life, Dance" Sunday 2-4pm
Line dancing meets every Friday at 12:00 noon in the Wellness Room. This Tuesday 2-4pm (if Wellness room is available).
is a choreographed form of dance performed in one or more lines. We dance Just drop in, or email Dan Ketchum at djketchum@gmail.com to be added
to many rhythms such as Latin, Swing, Polka, Waltz, Country and even an to our email list.
Irish Step Dance. Join us for the "health" of it. Poker Club
Questions? Contact Tricia at (408) 656- 0487
All residents are welcome! We start at 6:00 pm every Wed ( except
Mah Jongg
holidays ) ends at 9:00pm. It's dealers choice ( no wild cards ) with 25 cent
Our Mah Jongg group welcomes you to 2020 with a new and exciting bet limit. We start a bank with each player so there's no money on the
program. We will be using a point system which allows us to have prizes at tables. The first Wed. of every month we also have a Texas Hold-em
the end of the month. This will make the game more Fun and Challenging. tournament at 5:30 pm ( 6 player min --$20 buy-in ) that ends no later than
We play on Tuesday afternoon from 1:00 to 4:00. Please come and join the 9:00 pm. For those of you who have never played tournament style poker,
FUN!! For more information contactPhyllis Frank pdfrank@me.com or call come on by and visit. Of course if you lose your buy-in, i.e., get knocked
916-749-7641. out, you are done for the night. Texas Hold-em is strictly a high card game,
no wild cards Very simple, huh? Well that’s why we play it. You can drop
Mexican Train (Dominos)
in as a spectator whenever we play, but to join in you must be there no later
Please join us for Mexican Train (dominos) on Friday nights at 6:30pm! If than 5:30 pm. Good Luck, Bob and Steve
you don’t know how to play, we’d be happy to teach you. Everyone is Shutter Bugs
welcome to play - singles and couples. Contact Stan Kasperik at (916) 872-
4141 if you have any questions. Our next Shutterbugs meeting will be held on February 6, 2020. We will
meet at 2pm in the Library at The Retreat. Member Mike Wilson will
Orchid Group
provide an introduction to Infrared Photography. A basic how’d they do
Orchids. We all love them and we see them everywhere. In fact, they are so that overview. Mike will compare photos of the same subject one normal
prevalent that if you watch closely, you will see them on every TV show. and one infrared. Mike will also discuss the changes made to a typical
But we all know how hard it is to take care of them and they are impossible camera to support infrared photography.
to get to rebloom even if we can keep them alive. Well, I'm here to tell you We will also review members photos from the January Theme of “Faces and
that nothing could be farther from the truth. New” Each member is encouraged to bring around 10 images. Our photo
The orchid group here at The Club meets every 2 months. At our meetings fun theme for your February photo outings will be to have members guess
we discuss all things related to orchids. Many times we'll talk about a “What and Where”. Let’s see how creative we can get to stump our fellow
specific family of orchids like Dendrobium, Paphiopedilum, Oncidium or photo buffs.
even Phalaenopsis (that's the one that you see everywhere). Or we might talk We also have planned a field trip to the Viewpoint Gallery in Sacramento.
about how to repot an orchid or how to mount it to a piece of bark so that it https://www.viewpointgallery.org/. So, mark your calendars for Wednesday
looks more natural. Sometimes, we even do a repotting session where you February 19th. We will leave the Retreat at 10:30 am. We will make
can bring in your orchid and we'll show you how to repot it (don't worry, if reservations for a late lunch at 1pm somewhere close by the Gallery. Please
you don't have one we'll give you one to repot). And once or twice a year we RSVP if you will be joining the group for this fun field trip.
take a field trip to a local orchid grower or attend the annual orchid show in All club members are encouraged to make sure they become a member of
Sacramento. our Facebook Group at: https://www.facebook.com/
groups/436603713658143. For questions please contact Lou Frank at
lmfrank@me.com or any of your steering committee members.
February 2020 Page 14