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APRIL 2024 FENCEPOST
APTOS, CAPITOLA & RIO DEL MAR SIR BRANCH 104 – Website https://sirinc2.org/branch104/
‘A monument to deported children near the metro station in the Berlin Germany city center’
LUNCH DATE: 3rd TUESDAY, APRIL 16th AT 11:30 AM
SEASCAPE GOLF COURSE MONARCH ROOM
BIG SIR MESSAGE: BIG SIR RICK POWERS – “THE ROSTER’S CACA-DOODLE-DOO”
We’re off to a great start in 2024!
Our speaker team is continuing to arrange for excellent speakers to provide enlightening presentations for our luncheons. This month we will be hearing from a lady who will share her immediate family’s survival of the Holocaust.
Kudos go to Taylor Scaletti, the Events Coordinator at Seascape, for her flexibility, and generosity shown to our group. Although we have not attained our break-even attendance level, yet. She has done her best to make the Monarch Room available to us.
Kudos to you, our members of Branch 104, for continuing to extend invitations to friends and acquaintances to come investigate our meeting and become members. It is only through on-going recruitment and your efforts that we will continue to enjoy the spaciousness of the Monarch room. We need to continue to march towards gaining more members, new members to date: Chris Karzag, Frank Nigro and Tad Sterling . . . keep up the good work!
As a special side note wives and significant others are welcome to come hear our speaker after we are done with lunch at no charge. They should plan to arrive at 12:50 to be seated.
LUNCHEON PROGRAM:
Gitta Ryle will be the guest speaker for this month’s meeting. Gitta is 91 years old and was born to a Jewish family in 1932, a year before the Nazis seized power in Germany. Gitta and her sister, Renee, were placed on a train bound for France in 1939 after being separated from her parents in Austria. They were moved to many different households throughout the six years that followed the occupation of France. They reunited with their mother in 1946. They later learned that her father and grandparents were murdered in the camps. Gitta married and relocated to Southern California where she and her husband raised their three children. She moved to Santa Cruz in 1984.
She did not share her experiences for many years, but then decided to turn her experiences into teaching moments. She feels that it is very important to teach younger generations that this was all real and not fabricated, as some have claimed. The Holocaust was a real global atrocity and must never happen again.
Her story is powerful, with many pictures on screen. You will be moved by it.
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LUNCH ARRANGEMENTS – Meal Selections. Cost $27
We have the following three menu choices for our lunch. Please be sure to let your monthly caller know your choice for lunch to ensure you and your guest receive your request. The cost will be $27 per person.
Option 1: Fried Chicken Breast: served with garlic mashed and gravy and fresh sauteed vegetables
Option 2: Grilled Salmon Salad: mixed greens, tomatoes, red onions, and cucumbers with grilled salmon and topped with raspberry vinaigrette.
Option 3: Southwest Veggie Salad: Mixed Greens, Corn, Black Beans, Tomatoes, Red Onions. Topped with Avocado, Tortilla Strips and Ranch Dressing.
MARCH BIRTHDAY BOYS: SIR Mike Grant, SIR Richard Green, SIR Daniel Oliver, SIR Tom Pipitone, SIR Yoshi Senzaki, SIR Eric Thompson
Remember, you must be present at the drawing to win the free lunch.
NEW BRANCH #104 MEMBERS: SIR Rick Hornbeck.
We now have 103 members
WE CARE – If you know of any member who is experiencing any difficulty with health or personal issues and you feel it can be shared with the all the members, please let your caller know when they call about the next meeting or let the BIG SIR Rick Powers know while attending the monthly meeting.
BRANCH 104 ACTIVITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
SIRS OUTING WITH SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS AT ORACLE PARK JUNE 12th AT 12:45 PM
More details about the group outing to see the SF Giants will be presented at the meeting. Please contact Joe Rudnicki at (831) 662-3534 or (831) 251-0726 or Pilotrudnicki@gmail.com if you are interested in attending the game against the Houston Astro. Feel free to bring guest(s).
BOCCE—SIR Brent Paine Email: brentp1955@gmail.com PH: (408) 355-4623
We will be playing pick-up games. So, just come, have a good time and everyone will play!
Bocce play is scheduled from 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon on the 1st Tuesday of the month at the Felt Street County Park. Following Bocce, optional Dutch Treat lunch with the guys at a local restaurant.
GOLF – SIR Doug Deaver Email: ddeaver@yahoo.com PH: (831) 234-1210 :
There is an afternoon 9-hole golf group on Mondays and Thursdays at Aptos Seascape that is organized by Doug Deaver.
GOLF – SIR Jim Stott Email : JimPams@sbcglobal.net PH: (831) 212-3393
The eighteen-hole (multi-branch) SIR golf group plays on Monday mornings at various courses and is coordinated by SIR Jim Stott.
BOOK CLUB — SIR Rick Hornbeck Email: rhornbeck@sbcglobal.net PH (831) 226-4350)
The Book Club will be meeting on Thursday, April 25th at the home of John Dickinson. We plan to meet at 4pm to share light snacks and talk about books, movies, and television shows.
As we had done for the past several meetings, we are continuing the “reader’s choice” option. If there is a book that you have read that you think other folks may be interested in, please let us all know about it at the meeting.
If interested in learning more about the Book Club, please contact SIR Rick Hornbeck. He will be glad to add you to the Book Club email distribution list to get more up-to-date information.
INVESTMENT CLUB
We continue to do a Zoom call on the first or second Tuesday of each month. Our next meeting will be April 9th at 10 a.m. On the call we share ideas and usually drill down on a couple of stocks. We share our mistakes and occasional wins. We can’t promise big gains, but we usually have some laughs.
Until we find a new lead for this group, please contact Doug Deaver at ddeaver@yahoo.com or (831) 234-1210 for further information.
CARDS AND BOARD GAMES!! – Wednesday April 10th, 2024
Come to the Aptos Grange to join other SIRs in card, poker, cribbage, and any other games of your choice. This is a new activity that we are pulling together that will meet from 1:00 – 4:00 on the second Wednesday of every month at the Aptos Grange on 2555 Mar Vista Dr.
Please come by to join us with the poker club and other SIRs to have some fun competitive games and good conversation. So, bring your deck of cards, dominoes, cribbage boards or whatever game you would like to start a group to play every second Wednesday. Also please feel free to bring drinks (non-alcoholic) and food for yourself. Please contact Rich Hamlin at hamlin.rich.w@gmail.com PH (276-732-134) for further information.
OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS TO MARK IN YOUR CALENDARS
SIRS Branch #104 Monthly Luncheon on May 21, 2024
Our speaker for our May meeting will be Bill McBride, who was the jury foreman for the Charles Manson murder trial that occurred in 1970. This was a case that took nine months to complete, including the sentencing phase. Sharon Tate and four other victims were murdered at the Benedict Canyon estate rented by the actress and her husband, film director Roman Polanski. Two others were slain the following day at another location.
State SIRS Golf Outing
The State SIRS golf group has organized a two-day golf event that all SIR members can join. The event is scheduled for April 24th & April 25th. Detailed information about the event can be found in the links below.
2024-Spring-Fling-Napa.pdf (sirinc2.org)
2024-Spring-Fling-Entry-Form.pdf (sirinc2.org)
Branch 104 Website https://sirinc2.org/branch104/ Webmaster: SIR John Ryan (650) 743-3040 or John.E.Ryan@comcast.net. Our Website has been recently been re-organized and updated in order to provide easy access to all the SIR activities within our Branch and SIRs State news and activities.
Branch 104 Fencepost Newsletter Editor: SIR Bob Basel (707)-373-2484 or rbasel@sbcglobal.net
GARY OING’S SHARING GOOD THOUGHTS WEBSITE (SGT):
Springtime & Shared Good Thoughts (SGT)
The official first day of “springtime” in 2024 occurred a few weeks ago. So even though we all may not be experiencing warm weather yet, let’s think about the new season and enjoy some of its sights and sounds.
Many inspiring spring quotes with beautiful pictures are on this website. If you are curious, click here — https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/g3372/spring-quotes
Now I want to share a short, beautiful, and relaxing “nature in spring” video. It highlights how Mother Nature transitions from winter to spring. I hope you enjoy it — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhHCcH7hyqo
Here is a “beauty of spring” video that I liked — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK6EYTFq-hE
Spring is the time to be motivated to “get outside”. Here is a link showing many quotes on “nature’s beauty” by famous people that will help you do that — https://www.countryliving.com/life/entertainment/g18924890/nature-quotes
For me, this short video includes some great pictures of Paris and the voice of Frank Sinatra. This is my favorite song with the word “springtime” — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d8wztHhCrQ
One of my favorite “springtime in April” experiences was getting to walk the course at the Masters golf tournament in 2012. Click here to see a few beautiful pictures of that historic place — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta_National_Golf_Club#/media/File:AugustaNationalMastersLogoFlowers.jpg
And if you want to learn more about the flowers and plants at Augusta National, check out the names and pictures for each hole at — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta_National_Golf_Club#Course
Now you know more about flowers AND a great golf course!
As a reminder, you can find the above links and much more at Gary’s SGT website. I encourage you to save the link to the SGT website and visit it throughout the month to help remember my suggested topic of “Springtime”.
The link to Gary’s “Sharing Good Thoughts” (SGT) website is — https://www.gk.eoing.com/good_thoughts
Let me know if you have found Internet content that you use for your “mental health”. If so, share those links with me and I can add them to my website.
Stay well and mentally happy by thinking good thoughts.