The Favorites won the Spring 2022 Pool League duirng the final regular-season match on May 23. Since the team was six games ahead of Jokers Wild, a combination of eight wins (or eight losses by the second-place team) was needed to take first place. The Favorites won against the Ball Breakers 9-4. Gary Snow and Dave Silva each won six of their seven games, including both of their singles matches. Gary

LONG BEACH SYMPHONY The final concert of the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra’s 2021-2022 season will be held on Saturday, June 4, at 8 p.m. at the Terrace Theater in Long Beach. The main piece of music will be Rimsky-Korsakoff ’s beautiful and enchanting “Scheherazade,” which requires an orchestra that can be not only powerful but also delicate. Conducted by Maestro Eckart Preu, the LBSO

OPERA CLUB Everyone is invited to watch Gioachino Rossini’s “L’italiana In Algeri,” or “The Italian Girl in Algiers,” at 1:30 p.m. on June 6 and 7 in Clubhouse 3. Opera Club member Janice Berliner will introduce this comic opera that portrays a young woman in a clash of cultures that has delighted audiences for 200 years. The production opens with Rossini’s magnificent overture,

The music can magically change a person’s mood. The karaoke audience on May 25 would agree, as everyone enjoyed listening to Erika Greenwood sing “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” April Scott sang the beautiful Bette Midler hit “The Rose,” and everyone stood in respect for the suffering Texas families during “God Bless America.” Shannon Harrison and Nina Tordorov stepped up the tempo

Barry Chittem, 78, won first place in the round-robin pickleball tournament at the 2022 Pasadena Senior Games on May 21. As he did two years ago, he won first place in the 65-plus age group, plus he received a medal for being the oldest player. Chittem plays pickleball daily on the courts behind Clubhouse 2. The LW Pickleball Players Club will offer a free beginner lesson with instructor Jim Thomason