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The Resident Association Board of directors are, from left to right, Mary Lessard, Tony Zarrillo, Dick Vierus - board members, Ila Meehan - secretary, Mike Delaney - board member, Pat Myers - vice president and Gene Mathes - president. |
 Mr.
Jeffrey Lee from "My Health Outlet" talked about our need for vitamins.(Click to enlarge) |
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The Red Hat Society Ladies all met at Hooters today. They had a sing
along, "How much is that Red Hat in the window" plus they all sang Happy
Birthday to Mary Lessard (11/3) and Bev Ferritto (11/28) pictured in the center.
Those attending were: Beverly Whiterell, Marilyn Mastrorio, Gerry Strangis, Faye Spinney, Joan Russell, Mary Cowan, Kay Gyenes, Bette Klimek, Linda Burrows, Jean Delaney, Phyllis Haas, Marj Dunn, Marylyn Moss, Virty Schadt, Audrey Young, Beverly Ferritto, Irene Zarrillo, Shirley Gallup, Amo Kimball, Francis Baj, Mary Lessard, Alice Vierus, Joan Kapp, Blanche Sargent and Lorraine Labonte |
Just
before sunset these two ultra-light vehicles flew over Orange Acres. They are
one man vehicles almost like a parachute with a motor.
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Here
are most of the 20 some Orange Acres Residents that went to the barbeque picnic
and jamboree at the Christian retreat east of Bradenton tonight. The food was
good and the outdoor music was fantastic.
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 The
FMO Meeting was held at Venice Isle Estates today. Eleven Orange Acres
Residents attended the meeting. They are shown here enjoying coffee and
cookies prior to the meeting.(Click to enlarge) |
 The
entertainment before the meeting was Patty Highland. She did a great job
with her music.(Click to enlarge) |
 There
were 102 residents at the coffee hour this morning.(Click to enlarge)
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 President
Gene Mathes opened the coffee meeting.(Click to enlarge)
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 Jeff
Warrington talked about the remodeling of the clubhouse and hurricane
issues. He announced that the coffee hour will have to be cancelled next
week.(Click to enlarge)
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 The
members of the new resident board all were present for the first general
meeting.(Click to enlarge)
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 The
new budget was presented to the members and met with acceptance.(Click to enlarge)
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 Tonight
a dozen of Fran Walton's neighbors stopped by to serenade her with songs that
had their lyrics changed to Red Hat lyrics. As you can see they wore red hats
too.(Click to enlarge) |
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are just the Red hat ladies with Fran.(Click to enlarge) |
The
Veteran's Day parade lined up at the clubhouse and got underway at 11 am.
Charlie Parkes was the organizer for all of the festivities and he did a great
job. The parade marshal this year was Buster Whiterell.
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 There
were golf carts, two wheelers, Three wheelers and walkers. This is Liz Bond
on her three wheeler.(Click to enlarge)
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 Here
the parade with the Northport High School Band as it enters the park.(Click to enlarge)
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 There
were about 162 people come out for the parade and program.(Click to enlarge)
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 Phyllis
Johnson was the soloist and sang the Star Spangled Banner accompanied the
band.(Click to enlarge)
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 Opening
and closing prayers were by Dick Vierus.(Click to enlarge)
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 Col.
Ed Brown was the main speaker.(Click to enlarge)
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 Our
own Greg Ferritto was the follow-up speaker.(Click to enlarge) |
 The
lunch following the program was handled by a fantastic kitchen crew.(Click to enlarge) |
There
were about 150 attended the lunch which consisted of sloppy Joes and desert.
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On
November 13, these 18 Orange Acres Residents traveled to Branson Missouri for a
four day stay. They returned on Wednesday evening about 7 pm. Altogether there
were about 50 went on the trip with Ship & Shore Travel Inc. from the Sarasota
area. Click here to see the pictures of the
trip.
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Our
own Joe Stump brought the message at the vespers meeting tonight. There
were about 40 people there to hear this great message.
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There
was a meeting at our clubhouse tonight for people in the community to update
them on the progress in stopping Sunrise Golf Course from being replaced by
condos. About 150 people attended the meeting.
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 About
40 Orange Acres residents boarded the bus at 10 am this morning to go to the
Palms dinner theatre in Ft Myers.(Click to enlarge) |
 The
dinner was great and so was the play, "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers".(Click to enlarge) |
 There
were 131 at coffee this morning. After coffee we had the opportunity to get a
flu shot. Over 100 people showed up for the shots.(Click to enlarge) |
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 I
was invited to Selby Gardens today by Bob and Jo Morrison, some friends of
mine. Here are the pictures I tool of the beautiful flowers.(Click to enlarge)
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 The
orchids there were really beautiful.(Click to enlarge)
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But
this is the real reason they invited me. This exhibit of rain forest masks will
be on display through December 4th. There are dozens of masks such as
these. They are carved from balsa wood and painted with acrylics. Every one is
beautiful
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There
were 64 at the Thanksgiving dinner held at the clubhouse tonight. Thanks to all
those who did the cooking and to the Warringtons for the turkey.
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Gene
Mathes put his HO train layout in his carport today. It will remain there
through Sunday. Come by and see it running on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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There
were 24 residents came out to the beach party today. It was a very beautiful day
for a beach party. There was a good selection of food and desserts.
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 After
the meal everyone enjoyed an ald fashion sing-a-long.(Click to enlarge) |
 Leading
the singing were Dick Vierus, Lew Gorzycki and Gene Mathes.(Click to enlarge) |
There
were 112 at coffee this morning. The hall was decorated for the Christmas season
and looked great.
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