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Shared Interest Group Announcements

Line Dancing Ping Pong (Table Tennis) Group
"Motion begets emotion, have fun in life, Dance" The Ping Pong Group is a great way to get in a little exercise
Line dancing meets every Friday at 12:00 noon in the Wellness Room. and have fun while doing it. We have two tables and play
This is a choreographed form of dance performed in one or more lines. singles and doubles. All levels of players are welcome.
We dance to many rhythms such as Latin, Swing, Polka, Waltz, Country Days and Times:
and even an Irish Step Dance. Join us for the "health" of it. Friday 2-4pm
Questions? Contact Tricia at (408) 656- 0487 Saturday 2-4pm
Sunday 2-4pm
Mah Jongg
Tuesday 2-4pm (if Wellness room is available).
Mah Jongg is a great activity for socialization and we have a great time Just drop in, or email Dan Ketchum at djketchum@gmail.com to be
playing. So please join the FUN!!! We play on Tuesday afternoons from added to our email list.
1:00 to 4:00. If you want to learn to play e-mail Phyllis Frank
pdfrank@me.com or call me at 916-749-7641. Everyone is welcome to Poker Club
come and observe how the game is played. All residents are welcome! We start at 6:00 pm every Wed ( except
holidays ) ends at 9:00pm. It's dealers choice ( no wild cards ) with 25
Mexican Train (Dominos)
cent bet limit. We start a bank with each player so there's no money on
Please join us for Mexican Train (dominos) on Friday the tables. The first Wed. of every month we also have a Texas Hold-em
nights at 6:30pm! If you don’t know how to play, we’d tournament at 5:30 pm ( 6 player min --$20 buy-in ) that ends no later
be happy to teach you. Everyone is welcome to play - than 9:00 pm. For those of you who have never played tournament style
singles and couples. Contact Stan Kasperik at poker, come on by and visit. Of course if you lose your buy-in ie, get
(916) 872-4141 if you have any questions. knocked out, you are done for the night. Texas Hold-em is strictly a high
card game, no wild cards Very simple, huh? Well thats why we play it.

Orchid Group You can drop in as a spectator whenever we play, but to join in you must
be there no later than 5:30 pm. Good Luck, Bob and Steve
For the January meeting, the orchid group will be showing everyone how
to mount orchids on a piece of wood. This is a much more natural way to Shutter Bugs
grow your orchids since it is the way they grow in nature. It does require
that you water your orchid more often because it dries out quickly but HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR SHUTTERBUGS FROM YOUR
seeing your orchid bloom mounted to a piece of bark or other type of STEERING COMMITTEE.
wood is very rewarding. All you have to do is to bring in an orchid that Our next Shutterbugs meeting will be held on January 2, 2020. We will
you would like to mount. The orchid group leader will supply the wood meet at 2pm in The Library at The Retreat.
(bark, boards, branches, or whatever) and will even have some orchids Our next regular meeting will be January 2nd 2020, 2pm in the Library
available to be mounted if you don't have one that you would like to of the Retreat. At this meeting several of your steering committee
mount. members will discuss Digital Darkrooms. Terry will review the many
The meeting will be on January 4th at 3:00pm in The library at The choices available for software and tools. Debbie will discuss the Mac
Retreat. We will do a show and tell so feel free to bring in any orchids Photos App. We will also have another club member briefly review
that you have in bloom to share with the rest of the group. And we'll have Photoshop basics.
a raffle at the end of the meeting where we'll raffle off one of the newly We will also review members photos from the November Theme of
mounted orchids. So come one, come all and enjoy an afternoon learning “Faces” and our December Theme “Holiday” photos. Each member is
a valuable new technique for growing your orchids. encouraged to bring around 10 images.
All club members are encouraged to make sure they become a member of

Pinochle our Facebook Group at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/436603713658143
COME PLAY PINOCHLE EVERY SATURDAY @ This is a great place to easily share your photos. Give it a try.
10AM TO NOON AT THE CLUB For questions please contact Lou Frank at lmfrank@me.com or any of
Every Saturday 15 to 20 players are at the Club to play your steering committee members.
lively games of PINOCHLE. We play Three handed and Singles
Partner single deck Pinochle 10am to noon. If you are
rusty and have not played in a while the group will help you come back We'll kick of the new year by dinning at McCormick
up to speed. Win or lose we are here to have a good time. If you are and Schmick's on Sunday, January 26 at 5 pm. Please
interested in learning to play Pinochle drop in or call Alan Uman. Any RSVP to Arlene Donaher at
questions e-mail Alan at adu65@aol.com or call (916)872-8984. arlene.donaher@sbcglobal.net or 408-735-0555.

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