LAPIDARY & JEWELRY CLUB The Lapidary & Jewelry Club received a Peter Hayes Grant through the Golden Age Foundation (GAF). The club used the grant to purchase two new Cabking machines, which are used to shape and polish stones. The club now has five of these machines. These Cabking machines had become so popular that club members frequently experienced wait times to use them. The

GRF RECREATION LW will host open auditions for Amphitheater emcee on Aug. 22 The GRF Recreation Department will hold open auditions to select a master of ceremonies (emcee) for the final Amphitheater performance of the 2025 season on Thursday, Sept. 11. The emcee will be responsible for welcoming guests, introducing the featured entertainment and keeping the evening flowing with energy

All are invited to watch Bedrich Smetana’s “The Bartered Bride” on Tuesday, Aug. 19, at 1:30 p.m. in the Learning Center of Clubhouse 3. This comic opera of typical Czech music will be introduced by knowledgeable club member Robert Kastanek, who has studied arranged marriages, still prevalent in many cultures. Act 1 opens showing Czech villagers celebrating a national holiday with music

In Library Leads, library staff highlight exciting new additions to the LW Library collection. “The Diary of Mattie Spenser,” by Sandra Dallas Genre: Historical Fiction Unexpectedly married to the man considered the catch of her hometown, a young woman finds herself traveling via covered wagon to Colorado in search of a new start, with only her reticent husband and her personal journal to

The Leisure World Orchestra will be giving prospective recruits a preview of its 2025/26 season with informal run-through rehearsals Tuesdays in August. Orchestra director Linda DeRungs invites musicians, both inside and outside Leisure World, to bring their instruments and their interest in performing to experience the orchestra’s musicality and camaraderie. DeRungs will lead the group’s