IF BINGO IS YOUR GAME THEN YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THE APRIL LUNCHEON. YOU WILL ENJOY A GREAT LUNCH AT THE BRASS DOOR. DOOR PRIZES AND A CHANCE TO WIN SOME CASH WILL BE THE MAIN EVENT. SEE THE NEWSLETTER FOR ALL THE DETAILS.
SHARYN
SAN RAMON VALLEY NEWCOMERS LUNCHEON
MARCH 20, 2008 AT 12:00 P.M., STIXS AND STEAK RESTAURANT, MARIOTT HOTEL, SAN RAMON. CALL 735-3508 FOR RESERVATIONS. JOIN US TO HEAR STEPHEN RONAN, MD FROM BLACKHAWK PLASTIC SURGERY AND PAM LINNEY FROM RADIANCE SPA. THEY WILL DISCUSS SURGICAL PROCEDURES AND SKIN CARE.
San Ramon Valley Newcomers Club Requests
The pleasure of your company at the Winter Welcome Coffee
Friday February 8, 2008
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
For February: We have Dora Sorell, a renowned bay area Holocaust survivor and author of Tell the Children, Letters to Miriam
Amazon.com review: An absorbing personal history by a survivor, December 7, 1998
By A Customer: Tell the Children is a vivid story so well told that it is hard to believe its author is not a professional writer. Dora Sorell was taken by the Nazis from her home in a Romanian village to some of the worst concentration camps, where she managed not only to survive but also to be reunited with her childhood sweetheart, to become a physician, to experience years of almost unimaginable horror under Communist rule, and to escape successively to Italy, Brazil, and finally the United States. Her chronicle, presented as letters to her granddaughter, benefits from sharp perception, a powerful memory, an extraordinary interest in the people around her (including a large and interesting family), and a genuine ability at storytelling. Unpretentious as she is, Dora Sorell is a heroic woman. Her book is unpreachy and unsentimental but deeply felt, and for me it made a lot of modern history seem real for as if the first time.
For March: Stephen Ronan M.D. F. A. C. S. of Blackhawk Plastic Surgery and Pam Linney Of Radiance Day Spa will be our speakers. They will speaking on skin care including Non-Surgical Skin Tightening and Dr. Ronan will speak on plastic Surgery including Abdominoplasty (tummy tuck), short scar face lift, eyelid brow lift, Botox & Restylane, Laser rejuvenation, etc. Click here for more info: www.blackhawkplasticsurgery.com
For May: We are going to Alden Lane Nursery in Livermore in which they will have a planting demonstration and we will have our installation of the new board.
Alden Lane Nursery is a full service garden center with a wonderful selection of plant materials and garden accessories serving the community since 1955, but the real beauty of Alden Lane is its setting. Situated amongst centuries-old valley oak trees on the south side of the Livermore Valley, Alden Lane Nursery is a destination for peaceful inspiration. Click here for more info: www.aldenlane.com
The October SRVNC luncheon was a smorgasbord of foot long club sandwiches, mile high Cobb salads and piles of corned beef reubens. Our guest speaker was Lori Ferreyra, a local girl (all 5”3” and about 110 lbs. of her) who told exciting stories of her 19 years of being on the Hayward police force.
She then went on to give invaluable advice on personal safety, home security and identity theft prevention. She stated that everyone in the room falls into one of two categories, either you have already been a victim of identity theft or you fall into the group that will be a victim at sometime in the future (it is that prevalent and growing). Lori recommended that everyone get a locking mailbox and she handed out an Identity Theft Prevention document (following are a few excerpts):
- Stop Pre-approved Credit Offers and Phone Solicitation – www.donotcall.gov.
- Remove Your Name From Credit Bureau Marketing Lists – 1-888-567-8688.
- Do not provide your Social Security # over the phone or Internet.
Thank you Lori Ferreyra for a fun and informative afternoon.
See Ya!
Tracey Harper
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).
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
