Leisure World residents are urged to sign up for the GRF’s oneway, real-time community notification system via email. LW Live is designed to keep people informed during emergencies and get the word out about safety, recreation and governance issues. It has been used to keep residents apprised of hastily scheduled COVID-19 vaccination clinics, registration procedures, standby vaccine availability

Editor: If I may, I would like to add my opinion to those of Peter Meuter and Joan Rose (both letters ran Jan. 21). A budget was set aside in 2019 for 2020. Unfortunately the coronavirus took us all by surprise. From March 2020 till just this week, Feb. 4, all our amenities were closed. I’m not talking about security, electric, water, street sweeping, etc. Where did all the 2020 budgeted

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Editor: The Cool Cardboard Contest was a success, and the GRF is to be credited for the great idea and promotion during the sheltering-inplace COVID-19 crisis. I was reluctant to enter the contest, but the Holy Spirit instructed me to create my entry, using my talents, skills and abilities in making Snoopy, the Flying Ace; Woodstock, the yellow canary; and myself on a biplane flying around

by Joan Rose LW contributor During this pandemic and lockdown, I’ve had time to think of many things, and one of the things I think about is my memory. The brain is an organ that scientists are still learning about, and the mind is one of the most amazing computers ever designed. However, I don’t think of the mind as a computerized machine, but rather a memory keeper. In my mind, the memory

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MEMBER COLUMN “This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” —Theodore Roosevelt by Beverley Bender LW contributor David Hamilton, Ph.D, author of “The Five Side Effects of Kindness,” says that we’re genetically wired to be kind. When we’re not being kind, it’s unhealthy. We feel separate, disconnected

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