The South Coast Orchid Society will present a program by Douglas Overstreet, wellknown orchid guru and judge, on “My Ten Favorite Cattleyas” at Whaley Park Community Center, 5260 E. Atherton St., Long Beach, at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 24. Overstreet has been growing orchids in Southern California for decades, first as a hobby, and then as a career. He is currently the orchid specialist in

Entertaining a karaoke crowd Carmen Edwards delivered a beautiful “For Sentimental Reasons.” The club enjoyed some country tunes by Erika Greenwood, Barbie May, David Noble and Wayne Urban. A mellow tune, “Against the Wind” was sung by Richard Yokomi. Essie Hicks effectively uses hand gestures to emphasize her song of “Love Has No Pride.” Engaging the audience to sing along

The Garden Club will meet on Monday, Oct 17, in Clubhouse 2 at 1:30 p.m. for a handson program on the art of making beautiful autumn-inspired centerpieces out of pumpkins and succulents. Tickets for the Christmas luncheon will also be on sale. Those who want to make a centerpiece will need to bring their own palm-sized pumpkin. The club will provide glue, moss and some succulents; however, people

This week’s puzzle is checkmate in three moves. White moves first and in response to any answer by black, white’s third move is checkmate. Solution to this week’s puzzle is: first move Ba5. The white Bishop moves from b6 to a5, black King to a5, white Pawn to c3 and black Queen to h1. The next move by white is checkmate. The Chess Club meets in Clubhouse 3, Room 7, from 1:30-6