Around the Neighborhoods
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Published on Sunday, 07 November 2010 23:37
Around the Neighborhoods is a new feature where you can read about -- and submit -- social and personal news. It's where you can find out what's going on with your neighborhood and your neighbors. News items about anniversaries, trips, grandchildren - even pets ! -- are welcome.
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Nancy Freeman's Trip to the Holy Land
Boars Make a Mess of Warren Mass's Property
June McCann's Del Webb Neighborhood Report
Nancy Freeman's Trip to the Holy Land
Bellera Walk resident Nancy Freeman recently returned from her third trip to the Holy Land.
"We go to the Holy Land to support the Christians, who are only 1.5% of the population and dwindling," she wrote.
"Now that I am home, I know from past experience that I will continue to be 'weepy' at the simplest of acts: the reading of a Scripture passage, praying the rosary, receiving the Eucharist."
Some of the scenes from her most recent trip:
Left, the Sea of Galilee
Right, Mass at the mouth of the cave where the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary at The Annunciation. The two priests are Fr. Stephen Parkes of Most Precvious Blod Church in Oviedo, FL, and Fr. Mark Bauer of Holy Family Church in Caledonia, MI.
The "sheer delight" of a young boy from Miami who celebrated his bar mitzvah in Jerusalem. On either side, men play the shofar, an instrument made from a hollow ramn's hornthat is bent and curved upward. "It is preferred because it was a ram that was offered as a sacrifice in place of Isaac."
Right, the Jordan River.
Nancy invites anyone who would like a holy card laid on all the more than one dozen holy sites she visited, to get in touch with her. "I carried a backpack weighing 10 pounts filled with religous articles, and I am most happy to share," she wrote. She can be reached at
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Boars Make a Mess of Warren Mass's Property
Warren Mass awoke Saturday, Nov. 20, to find the front yard of his Steinbeck Way property in Emerson Park a mess. "My first thought was vandals," he said, "but Sheriff's Deputies who came by told me it was damage from wild boars in the area."
Boars are often sighted around Ave Maria. Warren says the deputy advised him that sprinkling cayenne pepper on lawns and flower beds will discourage the boars from dig
ging.
Around the Neighborhoods kicks off with a report from June McCann, with news from her neighborhood, Del Webb.
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Around Del Webb
By June McCann
JAZZ and BRUNCH...The newly refurbished Tidewater Club at Del Webb was the scene October 16 as Members enjoyed made- to- order omelets along with traditional breakfast breads, meats and fruits. Soft jazz accompanied the delight of old friends renewing ties and welcoming the newest Del Webb neighbors from Bellera Walk, now part of the Del Webb community. It was also an opportunity to meet and welcome Tina Raymond, Del Webb Life Style Director (right) -who arranged and produced this very pleasant morning.
Down the Aisle and Down the Years...Del Webb residents John and Suzanne Calce have the unusual opportunity of having two daughters married within seven months. Christina's nuptials November 6 in Washington, D.C., will be followed by Amy's on June 25. When last reporting, Suzanne was deep in making 100 pew bows, flower girl headpieces, Christina's wedding veil and 30 crochet baskets for shower favors. A comment from Suzanne in October: "John just doesn't seem to understand why I don't have time for a quick trip to Florida...what is it with guys????"
Celebrating 40 years of marriage were Ame and Carlos Figueroa on Sunday, September 5 with a renewal of their vows at the 7P.M. Mass, Father Garrity presiding.
Babies , Babies, Babies!! Jane and Nick Healy's big news was the birth of John Francis Healy on Sunday September 5th in Silver Springs, Maryland. John Francis is the fourth child of Nick, Jr. and Maruska Healy. Jane and Nick's grandchildren now number 9.
Pat and Ken Kleinrichert doubled their grandparenting joy with the birth of twins-Tug Michael and Augy Kenneth on October 5th. The twins are identical and also have identical twin sisters, age 7.
Joe and JoEllen Monahan happily announced that granddaughter Sophia Marie Therese Wurtz (left) was born on October 1. Sophia is the daughter of Joe and Megan Monahan Wurtz and joins siblings Mary Therese, 6, Anthony, 4, and Boniface, 2. Joe Wurtz is Dean of Students at Benedictine College in Atchison, KS.
Ready to get rid of golf clubs?? Jo Makley offers a suggestion on how to dispose of used golf clubs (other than heaving them into the nearest pond in frustration!!). Jim Simpson at Panther Run Golf Course suggested that the First Tee Program, working with the children of Immokalee, would be happy to accept Jo's two ladies sets and one men's set of clubs. Jim graciously expedited the handling and removal of the clubs for Jo.
Also in golf news: Dee Justus, Del Webb's Panther Run Golf Club's 2009 Ladies 18 Hole Champion, has won the President's Cup at Burning Tree Country Club in Greenwich, CT. This is the fourth time Dee has won the award and as Dee reports she's "the oldest competitor ever to win-there's hope for us all!"
Del Webb Ladies Current Fiction Book Club-The first meeting of the season will be held at the Tidewater Club on Plymouth Place on Thursday, November 18, at 1 P.M. The book for discussion is Sarah's Key by Tatiana DeRosnay. Guests and friends are welcome to attend. A light lunch will be served. Please RSVP to June McCann at 659-4559 or
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by Nov. 15.
The next meeting will be January 20th for a discussion of The Help by Kathryn Stockett.
The next presentation of the Ave Maria University Film Society is the 1996 film Michael Collins, starring Liam Neeson as the Irish revolutionary and political leader. The screening is at 6:30 p.m. in the lecture hall of the academic building, with a discussion following at the Queen Mary Pub led by AMU history professor Colin Barr. All are welcome. Dr. Barr says on the film society's blog that the film, among other things, examines the questions of who is truly heroic.