Orange Acres History
March 2005

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March 1 - Tuesday

There were 158 at coffee this morning. It was State T-Shirt Day and everyone stood to show off their shirts. We took a count by home state or country with the following results: Ohio - 23, Massachusetts - 19, Michigan - 19, New York - 17, Maine - 13, Canada - 10, Pennsylvania - 9, Indiana - 8, and New Hampshire - 6.
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This chorus entertained the crowd with a song entitled "The Orange Acres Song" to the tune of "Yellow Rose Of Texas". This was found in our archives from long ago. They did a great job. At the end of the meeting Gene Mathes showed the pictures taken of the 50th anniversary party on the big screen.
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March 3 - Thursday

There were about 120 at the pot luck tonight. As usual the food was great and so was the company.
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The entertainment for the evening was "The sound of the Andrew Sisters". It was a great program and everyone loved it.
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The girls got Charlie Parkes and Pat Reily to get up front and compete in a hula contest. They both did a great job and it was declared a tie.
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March 7 - Monday

About 20 Orange Acres residents took a bus to the Strawberry Festival in Plant City today.
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Everyone enjoyed the festival and got to see the main show featuring country singer, Vince Gill.
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March 8 - Tuesday

There were 121 at coffee this morning.
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March 9 - Wednesday

There were about 77 showed up for the Ladies Tea today at the clubhouse. The rain probably kept some from coming.
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This is the grand tea table.
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Dressed in period costumes were Mary Lessard, Liz Bond and Joan Kapp.
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Chairperson for the tea was Gladys Bowman.
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There were jokes by Mary Ryman and Rhoda Kestenbaum.
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Here are the treasures that were give away as door prizes.
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The featured entertainment for the afternoon was Patti Highland, from Venice, who performed many Patsy Kline songs.
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March 13 - Sunday

There were 60 at vespers tonight. Bill Corristan from St. Johns United Methodist Church brought the message. Bill is shown here with two of his Orange Acres parishioners Edie Hohler and Liz bond.
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March 15 - Tuesday

There were 126 at the coffee hour this morning.
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Mary Ryman filled in for Liz Bond as the Sunshine Lady this morning. Liz will be gone for three weeks. Thank you Mary.
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Mary introduced Leo Sharpe this morning as a new resident.
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Joan Russell was recognized this morning for her outstanding accomplishment of making a Hole-In-One golfing.
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The general meeting was held after the coffee hour and Ila Meehan was re-elected as secretary and Joan Kapp re-elected as treasurer.
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March 17 - Thursday

There were 52 players at the Wist Party tonight. It was a great mixer and everyone had a great time with lots of coffee and cookies at the end.
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Hugh Spinney and Ralph Bush did a great job as organizers.
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The winners were, from left to right, Bud Loomis & Harold Ryman in 5th place, Nancy Bush & Thelma Bloesing in 4th place, Ralph Haas in 3rd place, Florence Cote in 2nd place and Lee Turner & Bob Hanes in first place.

March 19 - Saturday

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A fine memorial was held at St. Johns United Methodist Church by pastor Bill Corristan. She was chairman/co‑founder of Scarlet Macaws Red Hat Society. The sea of red hats show their respect for Fran Walton.

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After the service, most people came to the clubhouse for lunch.

March 22 - Tuesday

There were 162 at coffee this morning.
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Jeff Warrington presented information about the upcoming hurricane season and what we should do now to be prepared.
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Dave Burrows presented Joan Russell with an award for her recent hole-in-one at Gulf Gate Golf Course.
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This baby alligator was seen along Jeffrey Drive while making a journey between the ponds today.
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March 25 - Friday

A great dance was held at the clubhouse tonight. Everyone loved "Silver Sounds".
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Those that attended danced up a storm. Ken and Joan Russell and Lorraine Labonte doing the "twist".
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These were the door prize winners. Left to right: Larry Mason, Bev Ferritto, Moon Rimes and Alice Vierus. The two guys are from Windward Isles. Joyce Mansfield supplied the prizes.
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Here is the great dance committee.
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Thanks to Ward Young for the pictures.

March 26 - Saturday

Lots of people turned out for the sports day today. The weather was perfect and the games were fun.
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Inside we waited for the wieners and the awards.
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Chairman Dave Burrows did a great job of organizing everything.
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Here he is shown announcing the game winners, door prizes and raffle winners.
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The raffle winners were Lyle Moore, winner of the lamp donated by Joe Stump and Wally Shearer, winner of the grill donated by First State Bank.
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The came the wiener roast with great food.
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All the fixins' were there to go with it.
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March 29 - Tuesday

There were 134 at coffee this morning. A lot of them will be heading up north this week.
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March 30 - Wednesday

We had a great 'Snowbird Picnic' at Twin Lakes Park today. There were about 53 present. The 4 pictures below show the great eating time we had at noon. What a great place to have a picnic.
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