Garden Club: July 2021

The good news, as our county emerges from lockdown, is that our club was able to have our annual year-end Beach BBQ on June 21. This year's event was extra special because we were celebrating the club’s 20th Anniversary. Like all anniversaries, we enjoyed a beautiful Anniversary Cake. Yum, Yum. Want more good news? The Niguel Shores Garden Club … [Read more...]

Women’s Club: July 2021

Teatime—We achieved our goal to assemble in the Clubhouse for our traditional June Tea and how grateful we all were to be there! Fifty members attended the festive occasion. Tables were set with exquisite teapot floral centerpieces created by Suzanne Enis. Each lady received a delicious tea box containing tea sandwiches, fresh fruit, scones, and a … [Read more...]

Women’s Club: May & June 2021 News-Photos

Perseverance—We have certainly faced the roadblocks of this COVID year with faith and perseverance! In our determination to meet and socialize as a club, we continued gathering on a monthly basis. We did not give up or grow weary. We made creative accommodations for COVID safety precautions, continued to grow in membership, and maintained our … [Read more...]

Men’s Club: June 2021

Gentlemen of the Niguel Shores Men’s Club, it will be good to be meeting together again. Genuine friendships are formed in our club, and this may be a very good time to bring a friend for a complimentary breakfast to see if the club is right for him. A hot breakfast is served at 8:00 a.m, followed by the meeting. You are invited to come as early as … [Read more...]

Page Turners Book Club: June 2021

The Page Turners Book Club June selection is Anne Tyler’s Redhead by the Side of the Road. Anne Tyler is one of America’s most prolific authors, having written more than 20 novels including Breathing Lessons which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. “Her subject in all her novels has been the American family and marriage: the boredomand … [Read more...]

Garden Club: June 2021

If you toured our four Shores gardens on May 17, you probably came away with the thought, “Wow, those owners are true gardeners with special creative talent.” An unexpected morning rain did not deter over thirty Garden Club members from experiencing four unique owner-Garden Club members on tour of four Niguel Shores gardens designed gardens. Kathy … [Read more...]

Men’s Club: May 2021 News

We’re Back! Everyone will be glad to hear that our Men’s Club will return to meetings in the clubhouse beginning on June 1. Mark your calendars. We will open that meeting by honoring club members who passed during the time we were closed down, including Bob Gutknecht, Kent Wellbrock, and Michael Link. All three were good club members and … [Read more...]

Page Turners: Educated by Tara Westover

This month Page Turners will be reading the only non-fiction entry in this year’s selection of books – Educated by Tara Westover. I “devoured” this book when it first came out in 2018, and am so looking forward to the discussion in our book club. “Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom.” Perhaps it would not hurt to … [Read more...]

Garden Club: May 2021

April RecapWhile you are reading this, you might take a look out to your garden to see if a Western Bluebird is there. If you were at the April 19 club meeting, Chris Daley, Al Glatt, and I gave advice on how to attract these beauties to our yards. No bluebird yet? Well, keep hoping.In April, club members also took a trip to the New- port Beach … [Read more...]

Women’s Club: May 2021

Happy Springtime!In Niguel Shores, springtime is glorious! Go out and observe the fresh burst of spring colors around the community with sunny blue skies and billowing white clouds, beautiful pink blooms of the Indian Hawthorne, white and magenta daisies, orange and fuchsia blooming succulents, and the prolific Iceberg roses. Cannot forget to … [Read more...]