ATHENS SERVICES Athens Services is partnering with LW to implement a food scrap collection program, per Senate Bill 1383. This new mandate requires residents in LW and across California to place all food scraps and food-soiled paper (100% fiber-based) into a special container. The new organics carts will be delivered Oct. 27-28 to all Mutual trash collection areas. The weekly service is

OC REGISTRAR For residents who prefer to vote in person, the Golden Rain Foundation, in conjunction with the Orange County Registrar of Voters, has arranged a one-day on-site Pop-Up Vote Center on Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Clubhouse 6 parking lot. The center will be open between 8 a.m.-5 p.m. This option offers the following services without having to leave the community: • Voter registration.

PIANO CONCERT The LW Book, Lapidary and the Bicycle clubs will jointly sponsor world-class Ukrainian pianist Yuri Lotakova in concert at 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 29 in Clubhouse 4. The Los Angeles Times hailed him for having “fingers like steel, but with a velvet and nimble touch. He could be playing Carnegie Hall, where, in fact, he should be playing.” But LW residents can see him perform in

CERT Catherine O’Brien is the new president of the LW Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). Her predecessor Philip Mandeville, who founded CERT, died Sept. 6. Mandeville was 100% dedicated to the safety and well-being of all residents and was passionate about CERT. At the CERT meeting Sept. 23, members acknowledge that the club will not be the same without him. They shared favorite

Every Leisure World shareholder is encouraged to participate in this year’s ShakeOut by practicing the Drop, Cover and Holdon exercises today, Oct. 20, at 10:20 a.m. GRF staff will also participate in the drill, which will include practice evacuations of office buildings. The ShakeOut began in Southern California in 2008 as a drill designed to educate the public about how to protect themselves