It was a year of speakers, parties and trips

SUNSHINE CLUB

The Sunshine Club had 49 meetings this year and will be on a holiday break till Jan. 4.

Of the 49 in-person meetings, 46 featured a speaker from the GRF or a professional from the LW community.

The three meetings without speakers were a social hour for the first meeting of the year, a summer picnic and the year-end party in December.

An average of 57 people attended the meetings, and there were a few occasions when attendance reach 70 people or more, causing the club to move to a bigger room to accommodate the large crowd.

The total number of attendants for the year was 2,617.

The meetings that drew the largest audiences featured speaker GRF Executive Director Jessica Sedgwick; Heidi Cortese, daughter of the LW developer Ross Cortese; Dr. Roger Moon, interventional anesthesiologist and pain management specialist; and Alice West from Transform Your Space.

The Sunshine Club frequently invited GRF supervisors as well as leaders from other clubs to speak on specific topics. The club invited guest speakers from outside Leisure World to help residents learn more about the community around them.

Besides its weekly Friday meetings, the club also took several day trips.

Since 2017, day trips have helped the club raise funds to help defray membership and yearly registration fees.

Club excursions included the Los Angeles Farmers Market, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, Lancaster Poppy Fields, Old Town San Diego, the Getty Museums in Los Angeles and Malibu, the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, the Huntington Library in Pasadena and The Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.

From these trips, the club was able to donate $2,000 to the Golden Age Foundation to help LW community members who use Meals on Wheels, Long Beach.

The club will not meet on Dec. 29. The club will have a social meeting on Jan. 5.

The Sunshine Club meets every Friday in Clubhouse 3, Room 2, from 10 a.m.-noon. There are no membership fees, and all residents are welcome to join.

The Sunshine Club started in January 2012 with the mission to “build bridges for a brighter Leisure World.”

The club looks forward to its 12th year as a club and hopes its members feel proud of their contributions.

For more information, text 562-301-5339.