This week’s puzzle is checkmate in three moves. White moves first; any answer by Black, and White’s third move is checkmate. The solution to this week’s puzzle: The first move is knight to g7. The White knight moves from f5 to g7, then Black bishop to g7, followed by White rook to e6 and Black pawn to e6. The next move by White is checkmate. The Chess Club meets every Friday from

February is the month for love songs, and Pat Kogok kicked off karaoke night on Feb. 2 with “Someone Like You” from the musical “Jekyll & Hyde.” Erika Greenwood sang Patsy Cline’s 1963 hit “Sweet Dreams of You,” while Eileen Merritt covered “Always on My Mind,” Karen Morris did “All My Loving,” Pat Paternoster performed “Save the Last Dance for Me,” and Vilma Lina sang

Among the fun-loving leaders of the Joyful Line Dance club is Caryn Lynn Stel, who has lived in LW since November 2012. She especially enjoys teaching the group the “Watermelon Crawl.” Stel moved to LW from West Covina, where she had been taking care of her mother. After her mom passed away, she decided to move closer to her daughter and her family, so she could be a more active participant

A member of the Genealogy Club rescued a collection of old photographs from the recycling area near her residence. The oldest photo was of a man named Eli Cook (pictured), who born in 1795, but there were also more modern images, many of them with names written on the back. During the club’s workshop on Jan. 27, the members spread out the photos and wrote down names, then went to the computers

The Lapidary Club invites anyone who requested an angel for their loved ones lost be placed on its award- winning Christmas tree to come pick it up in the Club - house 4 Lapidary Room any Monday or Tuesday morning.

they were under siege. For Barbara, the day had been full. Feeling euphoric, she and her Freedom Rider friend made it back to the bus without incident. The driver knew everyone was hungry and stopped at a hamburger stand at a place called Royal Oaks in Virginia, Barbara remembers. “We were very hungry,” she said. “A man came out and said, ‘We don’t serve coloreds here,’ and he