17 March 2021

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Alloy cat looks for new delight

Alloy cat looks for new delight


HUMOR I was out on a good morning walk when I heard a screeching sound—like nails on a chalkboard. I cringed, and then looked around to find it was a common alloy cat sitting on a neighbor’s porch rail. She was carefully cleaning her stainlesssteel paws with her raspy tongue. With a body of pure metal, her every move creaked like an old garden gate. Stacked at her feet were the beak, bones

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Chess Club

Chess Club


The Chess Club publishes weekly puzzles to keep the love of the game alive, since members cannot currentlymeettoplayinperson. This week’s puzzle is checkmate in three moves. White moves first. Any answer by black, and the white’s third move is checkmate. The solution to this week’s puzzle’s first move is Rg8; the white Rook moves from G7 to G8.

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Literature Art Contest

Literature Art Contest


The Leisure World Library is sponsoring a Literature Art Contest, for which LWers are asked to re-create a scene or pay tribute to a suggested famous work of fiction. Any artistic medium—paint, ceramic, sculpture, wood, paper, needlecraft or other handcraft— will be accepted, but artists should be mindful that submitted works will be on display outside for several hours. Participants will

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Candy Petersen offers new ideas on researching

Candy Petersen offers new ideas on researching


GENEALOGY CLUB All are invited to the monthly meeting of the Leisure World Genealogy Club on Wednesday, March 24, at 10 a.m. The presentation is an excellent program for new members and a refresher for others. Speaker Candy Petersen will present “Getting Started in Genealogy— A Refresher Course,” in which she will go over the basics as well as some new ideas for doing research.

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LW visitor/future resident joins hula practice

LW visitor/future resident joins hula practice


HUI O HULA Oregonian Gayle Kozlowski and her daughter recently visited fellow Long Beach High School alumna Lori Chamberlain of Mutual 11. While apartment hunting in the neighborhood, the trio stopped to watch Hui O Hula dancers as they practiced. Asked if she had a favorite hula/song, Kozlowski recalled dancing to “The Hukilau Song” in Hawai’i. Hukilau is a way of fishing invented by ancient

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