The Leisure World Weekly office is closed to the public in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. Editors can be reached by phone and email. See page 4 of any edition for editors’ addresses or send emails to rutho_news@lwsb.com. People may drop articles and classified ads into the letter slot at the front of the News Building. The editorial deadline is Thursday for the following Thursday’s

These programs are televised during the month of November on SBTV 3, community Seal Beach television. The station can be seen on Spectrum Cable channel 3 and Frontier Cable channel 37, as well as on the internet at www.sbtv3.org (click on the logo to see it in high definition). The programming is contributed by certified Video Producers community volunteers who are not employees of SBTV 3. Classical

The Video Producers Club offers free, weekly Zoom classes, as well as a Zoom Party Social on Saturdays. Classes are as follows: • Monday, 10 a.m.: Intermediate Zoom class for Windows and Android users with host Joe Osuna. For an invite to his class, email joosuna29a@gmail.com. • Monday, 2 p.m.: Zoom class for iPad and Mac users hosted by Fred Carpenter. For an invite to his class,

Despite the limitations imposed by the fight against COVID-19, LW Library staff continues its innovative curbside pick-up program. To schedule your pick-up, call the library at (562) 598-2431, Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., or email LWLibrary@lwsb. com. Include your name, library card number, phone number, and what kinds of materials you like to read and/or watch. Staff members will

The Friends of the Library has a Bag of Books program for people who love to read. Call (714) 350-7682 and request a specific genre or author, and volunteers will do their best to fill a bag for $5. The bookstore is still closed, and there is no more storage space. Residents are asked to hold onto their donations until the bookstore reopens.

This feature showcases original poems by members of the Creative Writers Club of Leisure World and other GRF members. That Old Feeling Children, job, friends, lovers, I have a good life now But I ache for the missing pieces I would disavow I bear always within me my 16-year-old self Ever painful memories of being left on the shelf All subsequent acceptance through the long years Does nothing