What do you do on a rainy Saturday afternoon? If you are Don and Ann Liddy, you organize a dance. Thanks to them both for providing the music and inspiration for an enjoyable afternoon.
(Photos courtesy of Mabel Budzinski)
Gem Estates residents Jim and Jan Toth are avid hockey fans. They are season ticket holders to the Tampa Bay Lightning games. Recently, Jim was randomly chosen to participate in a promotion to win team jerseys. Each participant had to shoot a puck from center ice through a 2-foot-6-inch slot into the net.
The first competition took place between the first and second periods of the last home game for the regular 2016 season. Jim and one other participant made the shot. They then came back between the second and third periods for another shootout. Both missed their first shot. Jim made his second try, and the other competitor missed. Jim was the winner of the event and won a Lightning jersey each year for the next 30 years! Congratulations to Jim, who was expected to receive his first jersey in time for the upcoming playoffs.
The Monday evening top euchre players were Cesema Wiggins and Ron Raymond. Mae Slipp was a three-game winner at Wednesday morning shuffleboard.
Our Thursday morning coffee hour hosts were Tom and Fran Galvani, Sharon Krenz, and Walter and Rita Kissel. Linda Files gave the invocation, led the “Pledge of Allegiance” and moderated the conversation. Everyone was glad to have Richard Burgess back and enjoyed his bit of light humor.
Betty Dow and Opal Armstrong are in sickbay. Our thoughts and prayers are with them.
George Lynch and Bob Riggs are celebrating birthdays.
Safe travels to those who will be traveling this week.
By Mabel Budzinski
Gem Estates
Published April 20, 2016
