Club Information - Sun City Anthem

Club InformationThe Porcelain Club is pleased to announce that we arefortunate to have Carole Beck join our club. She isavailable each Wednesday morning from 9:30 a.m. - 12:00p.m. to teach our members to paint porcelain items usingChina paints. She works with members together as agroup and individually to teach painting techniques to ourmembers. To keep costs to a minimum for members, theclub provides the China paints, as well as some of theother required painting supplies.If you would like more information or have questionsabout Carole's class, please call Diana Borja at 837-7444.For additional information about the Porcelain Club,please call Carol Montambeau at 896-0095 or stop by thePorcelain and Ceramics Room during workshop day,every Wednesday - 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. The club's yearlymembership is $5.00. We look forward to introducing youto the wonderful world of porcelain.REPUBLICANThe newly chartered Republican Club of Sun CityAnthem held its organization meeting on August 6.The Bylaws were ratified and meeting dates werescheduled. Officers and dues to January 2012 weredetermined.All residents of Sun City Anthem are invited to attend ourmeetings. We urge all interested residents to join us as weapproach an exciting and important election season. Weanticipate that many candidates will be our guests toinform us of their positions on issues of importance tous in our community.Please watch for announcements of our meetings and planto join us. You may call: 733-0401 or email: kaycd@cox.netor daryllann@cox.net for further information.RVWillie Platts is President, Doc Miller is Vice President,Marilyn Brown is Secretary, Carol Pontillo is Treasurer,Tom Smith is Rally Master and Jack Wiseman isMembership Chairman of the SCARV Club.Our meetings are short, dynamic Power Pointpresentations of past and future rally’s complete withsometimes unusual sound effects. Club members usuallygo to dinner right after the meeting.Rally’s for this year include include: San Diego, PasoRobles wine country, Pismo Beach, Pahrump, Mesquite,Baseball Spring Training, Rocky Point, Mexico, SantaMaria, Presidential Libraries, Branson, MO, KentuckyDerby/Indianapolis 500, Oregon, National Parks andHot Springs.Our meetings are held at 4:00 p.m., on the last Tuesday ofthe month, (except December, June and July) in the PennRoom in the Independence Center. Members’ rigs range insize from tent trailers to large Class A’s and everything inbetween. If you are interested in joining our club, pleasecome as a guest to any of our meetings or contact ourMembership Chairman, Jack Wiseman at 407-4042. Youmay also reach him by email at jackwiseman@msn.com.For additional information please visit our website atwww.scarvclub.com. By club rules, non-members mayparticipate in a Rally before joining the club.Members may attend none, some or all of the Rally’s astheir schedules allow.Now that summer is behind us, and most people havereturned from their travels, our group is once again larger.We can be found on Friday afternoons from 1:00 p.m. - 5:00p.m. in the Emerson/Franklin Room. As always, newmembers are welcome. Stop in one Friday, introduceyourself and play a few games. You’ll find people friendlyand helpful and, before you know it, you’ll be asaddicted to playing as we are.To improve your Scrabble skills, learn the 96 two-letterwords. There are also the three-letter words that can beformed by adding a letter at the front or back of atwo-letter word. Ya can become pya, rya, or yah, yak, yam,yap and so it goes.The Scrabble “Word of the Day” is QUINOA. A quinoa isa weedy plant.Now for some Scrabble trivia: The combined total facepoint value of all 100 tiles combined is 187 points. Bytaking advantage of the “hot spots” or bonus squares onthe Scrabble board, players can increase their scoresexponentially. One can readily see why the placement oftiles is so important to enhance one’s score as gamescan reach over 500 points.Scrabble is a real word meaning “to scratch frantically.”The game of Scrabble, not scratching frantically, is a greatway to keep your mind active and healthy and have fundoing it. New members are welcome and membership isopen to all SCA residents for only $10 a year.46 Sun City Anthem • September 2011