San Ramon Valley Newcomers Club
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August 29, 2007 at 6:48 am · Filed under General
San Ramon Valley Newcomers Club requests the pleasure of your company at the Autumn Welcome Coffee
Friday September 14,2007
At 10:00 – 1200 noon
At the home of Pat Shockley
419 Summer Creek Lane
San Ramon, CA
RSVP: Pat Shockley 925-867-1533
It is the perfect time of year to start the day with some friendly conversation over coffee and some homemade treats. Learn all about what this fun social club has to offer, while making some new friendships. There are many upcoming social events planned for us, including Arts &Crafts, Books, Bridge, Bunco, Cooking, Gad-Abouts, Golf, Beginning Golf, Lunch Bunch, Mah-Jongg, Needlework,and Hiking.
Whether you are new to the area, or a long time resident, we welcome you and look forward to meeting you.
Please join us!
(Interested friends and neighbors are also most welcome!)
Directions to Pat’s :
Exit 680, at Bollinger Canyon Rd. and go EAST on Bollinger Canyon Rd.; RIGHT on Alcosta Blvd., RIGHT at second traffic light called North Summerwood Loop ; RIGHT on the “fifth street” called Summer Creek Lane
July 16, 2007 at 6:49 pm · Filed under General, Hiking Club
Hi Friday Newcomers,
Marlene Taber and I hiked two hours this morning at the Shell Ridge Open Space in Walnut Creek. Beginning at 8:30 and ending at 10:30. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky and we were blessed with cool breezes and clear vistas. We could see as far as Concord, the Delta and beyond.
We did the Briones to Mt. Diablo Trail picking up a new trail for me, the Ridge Trail which was beautiful and circled around and took us back to Briones.
We didn’t see any wildflowers or many critters other than squirrels and hawks. We saw lots and lots of poison oak and many young oaks that had been planted by volunteers. LIFE IS GOOD!
Happy Trails,
Barbara
July 5, 2007 at 2:20 pm · Filed under General
For those of us who don’t get the “Times” and don’t know Joan Morris, here is an excerpt from her column. – Myrna
Excerpt from article (San Ramon Valley Times, July 2, page C3):
A lifetime deal for ‘temp’ diet
There comes a time in every dieter’s life when she or he must ask: “When does it end?”
The dieting, I mean. When do we stop counting calories? When do we say we’ve reached a perfect weight and no longer need to monitor the fat grams?
And the answer, of course is never. Feel free to curse and kick something now.
Even though I’ve been doing this for a while, it’s still hard to shake the secret dream I harbor that one day, I can be “normal” again.
(…) That’s a tough concept for dieters to accept, and one of the reasons I get complaints from people that I shouldn’t call this the Times “Diet” Club. Diet implies short term. It shouldn’t, but it does. We shouldn’t even consider the short term. We should be talking about eating this way – eating the healthful way – for life.
(…) “Diet” should be just another word for life. This is our diet; this is our life. We make healthful choices. We work to cut the fat. We exercise. We eat to live, not the other way around.
(…) We have to be aware of what we eat and what damage or benefit we may do to our bodies. We may not like it, but we can’t go back. This is now our normal.
(…) We may never be able to leave the house without making sure we have low-fat snacks in our pockets and there’s plenty of salad in the fridge for tonight, we also don’t have to live with the consequences of eating all the wrong things just because we can.
May 19, 2007 at 1:27 pm · Filed under General
The May 16 San Ramon Newcomers Club Luncheon was held at the San Ramon Marriott. It was a festive day for the Marriott as SRVNC members arrived decked out in colorful hats.
Myrna installed new officers and gave a moving speech thanking all members for their support during her operation and recuperation.
Tracey Harper along with her husband, Craig, gave a presentation on the new website.
And Mickey made off with all of the prizes as you can see in the photo below (actually she was handing the loot to the winners).
May 15, 2007 at 9:57 am · Filed under General
For the security and privacy of our members, details concerning a specific event location and event chairperson’s phone number requires a login. To obtain a login, please contact our membership chairperson, Carolyn Baumann @ 925-485-9803 or email: lcbcjb {at} comcast(.)net.
May 11, 2007 at 12:58 pm · Filed under General
Bunco 2 winners for April were: Mickey Fisher, Paula Williams, Dee Bradshaw, Susan Brown, Marian Greewood, and Donna Szabados.
Next Meeting:
May 16, 7 p.m. Arlene DePietro521 Alta Loma Place
San Ramon
828-8064
June 20, 7 p.m.Mary Ann Klos671 Dunhill DriveDanville
648-2314
May 11, 2007 at 12:49 pm · Filed under General
Daytime Bunco – Mary, Myrna, Mickey, Jan, Bobbie, Harriett, Joyce, Gloria, Wanda, & Gini
May 11, 2007 at 11:17 am · Filed under General
Our June luncheon at the Blackhawk Grille in Danville will be Thursday, June 17 with a special guest speaker, Gary Bogue. Gary has been a daily newspaper columnist on pets, wildlife and environmental issues for Contra Costa Times for 36 years. Gary Bogue was Museum Curator for the Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Walnut Creek (1967-1979), and also Executive Director for Tony LaRussa’s Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF) (1992-1993). He has published four books to date: Its a Wild Life, Iris, Raptor Rehabilitation, The Raccoon Next Door, Getting Along With Urban Wildlife. I personally look forward to reading his animal column every day, as I know a lot of you do too. I can hardly wait to meet him and hear some of his fascinating critter stories. (Barbara Jackson, Vice President) For more on Gary click here! http://contracostatimes.com/garybogue
May 11, 2007 at 8:48 am · Filed under General
May 4, 2007 at 1:15 pm · Filed under General
Bunco 2 – Mickey, Mary Ann, Dee, Donna, Marty, Terry, Linda, Sandy, Arlene, Paula
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