Resident Reporter – 9/26/13

Editor’s note: Due to the high volume of submissions we received for the Sept. 26 edition, especially those regarding the upcoming SCCAH board elections, we were not able to fit resident reporter entries into the paper as we typically do. Therefore, we are publishing these on mysundaynews.com in an effort to “clear up” our backlog of submissions. Most of these submissions will ONLY appear online and WILL NOT appear in the Oct. 10 edition of the paper. We will start over on a first-received, first-run basis for that edition. We will continue to post entries printed in the paper online for future editions.

Tall Oaks Tennis Club

Ladies pictured: Kay Winkelhake, Vicki Osness, Maggie Bedgood, Arleen Terdina, Diane Flanagan, Jean Christie, Mary Holm and Bonnie Murphy. (Photo Provided)

A group of ladies from Sun City Tall Oaks Tennis Club took a car trip to Cincinnati to attend the Western/Southern Tennis Open last month! It was an experience of a lifetime!
The ladies got up close to famous players such as Serena Williams. Diane Flanagan was able to obtain Andy Murray’s autograph! Kay got the Bryan brothers’ signatures.

Diane Flanagan
Sun City resident
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Sun City Bocce Club

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The season concluded on August 27 with the 18 first place winners competing in a single elimination tournament. A large crowd watched as Tom and Roseann Gaston defeated Pat Leyden and Pat Rossman to win the 2013 tournament championship. The champions and second place finishers were awarded trophies at the Annual awards dinner and general meeting at Bolder Ridge Country Club on Sept. 8. The dinner was attended by 234 members. The club plaque hanging in Jameson’s Pub will be inscribed with the name of the 2013 champions.
Ralph Chiappetta
Sun City resident
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Breast Cancer Support Hour

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The Breast Cancer Support Hour of Sun City in Huntley is hard at work preparing for their big annual fundraiser, “You’re Not Alone” 5K Cancer Walk on Saturday, Sept. 28, at 9:30 a.m. We will start the walk from the Pavilion in Sun City. Friends and neighbors from all surrounding areas are welcome and encouraged to join in this endeavor. As in the past, all of the profits from this walk support three Sun City charities, and to local area cancer patients and projects that are in need of financial assistance.
To date, over $8,000 has been donated to nine individuals, Gaver’s Centegra Foundation in support of Breast Cancer patients, NCH for Mammograms, Lurie Children’s Hospital, and Ronald McDonald House, as well as our three Sun City Charities: Head Huggers, Project Linus and Baby Caps.
This year, Walkers will be entertained by the sounds of our very own Sun City Mavericks playing such tunes as “Ain’t She Sweet,” “Five Foot Two,” and “Sweet Georgia Brown.” After the walk, cider and donuts will be provided by Goebbert’s Pumpkin Patch, located in Hampshire, IL.
For more information on the event, please call Audrey Munger at 847-669-3598 or call Andrea Berebitsky at 847-669-7076.
Andrea Berebitsky
Sun City resident
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Symposium Club
Fifty residents attended the Energy discussion presented by University of Chicago professor Robert Rosner. All comments were enthusiastic.
On Monday, Oct. 7, we will discuss “American Culture vis a’ vis the rest of the world.” Please join us at 2 p.m. in the Fountain View area for a lively meeting.
Bill Landon
Sun City resident
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Dive! Dive! Dive!

Stingray Ginny McCann (Photo Provided)

Pictured in the first solo shallow-dive picture is Senior Stingray member ,Ginny McCann. Our (last pic) group picture includes: Back Row (from left to right): Mary Forward, Joanie Koplos, and Nancy Moore; Front Row (from left to right):  Rosemary Meyer, Ginny McCann, Margarete Liedtke, Coach Len Lencioni. Missing are Joe Loughlin and Susan Koprowski.
The trickiest part of a successful competitive swim event can often be the beginning dive off one of the meet pool’s diving blocks. For the purpose of learning and perfecting these difficult dives, the Sun City Stingray Swim Club members, Joe Loughlin and Margarete Liedtke, organized a dual diving session with the Huntley Park District’s Stingray Bay Management.
Subsequently on August 19 and 20, a total of eight senior Stingray members and their swim coach traveled to the aquatics park for repeated dives off of the facility’s diving blocks. Taking place before the park opened its pool to the general public, the senior divers were under the tutelage of their coach, Len Lencioni. Teaching the proper diving technique, Mr. Lencioni emphasized the advantage of surface-skimming dives to gain a competitive edge at the onset of each aquatic race as he taught the Stings present the proper diving technique.
A novice to diving off the “block,” Rosemary Meyer had these comments to make about her experience: “I thought it was phenomenal! People [other swim club members] who heard about it, wanted to do it. We should do it more often. It was one thing off my bucket list.”

Back Row (from left to right): Mary Forward, Joanie Koplos, and Nancy Moore; Front Row (from left to right): Rosemary Meyer, Ginny McCann, Margarete Liedtke, Coach Len Lencioni. Missing are Joe Loughlin and Susan Koprowski. (Photo Provided)

Margarete Liedtke added “Diving practice was so exhilarating that, briefly, I forgot how old I am. I was happy to encourage my teammates to dive…so they also could feel young, daring and have a feeling of conquering something new.”
Attending one or both of the two day sessions were the following senior tankers: Coach Len joined by Joe Loughlin, Margarete Liedtke, Ginny McCann, Mary Forward, Nancy Moore, Rosemary Meyer, Susan Koprowski, and Joanie Koplos. The Sun City swimmers would like to thank the Huntley Park District hosts for the sharing of their diving facilities with us.
Joanie Koplos
Stingray

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