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Featured Class
Conversational French
Date: August 22, 2017
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Length: 8 weeks
Cost: $8 members
$10 non-members
Instructor: CiCi Tenney
Location: Game Room
Description: Parlez-vous francais? Would you like to ? We're not talking about speaking with a Charles Boyer 'Come with me to the Casbah' accent. We're talking true French. If so you're in luck, our Conversational French class will enable you to chat like a Parisian. Your instructeur, Cynthia 'CiCi' Tenny will help you to learn to understand, speak, and read French in an enjoyable way usable in 'everyday' situations. The class is a mixture of beginners and intermediate students alike. For those who already have learned a little French, this will be a fun refresher experience.
Featured Activity
Single Deck Pinochle
Time: Tuesdays 12:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Cost: Free members
Free non-members
Location: Parlor
Description: The Pinochle group is looking for people who like to have fun. Card games used to be the way most families would play together, or adults would spend time other adults. Now, families spend time on individual events, and adults get together and do things requiring no interaction. However, if you fit the bill, and like good ole fashion fun, that's all you need to come play Pinochle. Originally brought over by German immigrants, it is now mainly played here in the states. The game is played with four people - two acting as partners and an 48 card deck consisting of twelve cards in each of four suits - two in each of the ranks Ace, Ten, King, Queen, Jack, and Nine with the winners accumulating 250 points a game. The first team reaching 1,500 points wins. A version of the game can also be played with just two people. Varieties include two-hand, partnership, and most popular, auction pinochle, which is a bidding game, like bridge. Points are scored for card combinations declared by the winner of a trick. The rules are easy to learn and there are players who are more than happy to help you along. If you know how to play you are more than welcome. If you would like to learn, they are more than happy to help you get started. Just stop by the Parlor on Tuesdays from 12:30 to 3:00 p.m. or better yet, call their activity leader, Nancy Brown at 882-8070. They are always looking for someone new to share the fun with. If you can't join them full-time you can always be placed on their substitute list.
Health Fair 2012
By: Mike Sylva
Maybe it was the prior rain, and gloomy skies. Or maybe it was the lack of a flu shot shortage, or concerns of a flu epidemic. Or maybe, just maybe, it was because of the seemingly year round availability of shots. Whatever the reason was the crowd was a bit thinner this year at the center’s annual Health Fair. That made it a bit nicer for those who did show up at they weren’t standing in line for a hour, getting impatient and simply wanting to get their flu shot and go. Still, for free flu shots this year, when other places are charging $25 a shot, we thought more people would brave the cold weather.
This year people came in at a more leisurely pace and were able to stop at each table, talk to the various vendors, and pick up lots of useful information before getting their shot. It may have been a trickle, but at least it was a steady trickle with new people arriving all morning. The sad part is the inevitable amount of phone calls we will receive after the event wanting to know if they can still come in for a shot.
Thanks to the volunteers who came to set up and work the fair, all of our wonderful vendors who came out to make this a success. Additional thanks go our to the Highland Police Department’s Citizen’s Patrol for their excellent traffic control. Mostly we would like to thank our event sponsors, the Physicians of Beaver Medical Group and the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians.
