On September 4, Steve Morris, Al Glatt, Bob Baker and members of the Clark Team provided a great breakfast. Our program chair CDub arranged for all eight Dana Point City Council candidates to appear. At the last minute former two-term councilman Scott Schoeffel announced his unavailability, so we heard from seven candidates. As three of the … [Read more...]
Really Serious Oreo Book Club: The Truth About Animals
October 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The Really Serious Book Club met at the home of Norton Schwartz to discuss The Truth About Animals—Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos and other Tales of the Wild Side of Wild life by Lucy Cooke. Beavers, sloths, bats, eels, vultures and frogs were a few of the animals whose innermost secrets and hidden lives the author revealed. She sang the praises of … [Read more...]
Page Turner’s Book Club: Quartet in Autum by Barbara Pym
October 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The Monday afternoon and Thursday afternoon groups of Page Turners will meet October 22 and 25 respectively to discuss Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym (1913-1980). Written in 1977 and short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 1980, Quartet in Autumn follows the lonely lives of four single people in their sixties who work together in London as they … [Read more...]
Women’s Golf: October 2018 News
October 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The Niguel Shores lady golfers met on September 10 at The Ranch for a 9-hole round. Vice President Irene McDonald chaired the meeting. We welcomed Linda Ross and hope to see her at future meetings as a Social member. Other Social members attending were Joanie Beyer and Chris Beaver with her daughter Linda. Lee Sweeney gave a Treasurer’s report and … [Read more...]
Men’s Golf: October 2018 News
October 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment
September brought us some great weather and great golf. We played Talega, Arroyo Trabuco, San Juan Hills, and Tijeras Creek. Previously, on August 28, we had our monthly tournament at Oak Creek. The format was team completion using three best net scores. Congrats to John Torok for a gross score of 78. 1st Place: Mike Link, Gary Beneke, Par Zahner, … [Read more...]
Women’s Club Luncheon: October 11, 2018 at 12:00 noon in the Clubhouse
September 25, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The Niguel Shores Women’s Club is in its 45th year and still going strong. Our purpose is to promote friendship, fun and service in the Niguel Shores Community. Our first meeting of the season got off to a great start on September 13. We began by introducing our new slate of officers: Terry Link, President; Jennifer Hochstadter and Christy … [Read more...]
Women’s Golf: September 2018 Update
August 30, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The Niguel Shores lady golfers met on August 13 at The Ranch for a 9-hole round. After several days of warm weather, the temperature cooled a few degrees and we had a little breeze on some of the holes, so it was a pleasant morning for our five golfers. Judy Boitano, Val Mitchell, Irene McDonald, Catriona Sigsby and Cindy Carmichael played a … [Read more...]
Really Serious Book Club: State of Resistance by Manuel Pastor
August 30, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The Really Serious Book Club gathered for their August meeting at the home of Mary Crowl who led the discussion on State of Resistance by Manuel Pastor. The book revealed California as a muddled and financially troubled state for many governors and administrations, until many small movement groups coalesced to give strength to Governor Brown’s … [Read more...]
Page Turners: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
August 30, 2018 by Leave a Comment
September finds Page Turners returning to their monthly meetings for significant, in-depth discussions of the books they voted to read in the upcoming months from September through June. The September selection is Harvard-educated Celeste Ng’s second award-winning novel, Little Fires Everywhere. To paraphrase the Princeton Book Review, this is a … [Read more...]
Garden Club: September 2018 News
August 30, 2018 by Leave a Comment
While the officers of our unique Niguel Shores Garden Club have been diligently preparing an exciting year of club events and presentations, they also expressed hope that all of you have had a wonderful summer pulling weeds out of your gardens—oops!—I mean, had a wonderful summer enjoying your gardens. So, here we go with our first meeting of the … [Read more...]
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