The LW Pickleball Players Club meeting on Sept. 4 featured an Indian food themed potluck with 75 pickleballers in attendance. The winners of the summer dinking tournament were awarded prizes. President Linda Evenson announced that the next pickleball tournament will be held in December. Barry Chittem (l) and Lori Probert (r) pose with their prizes from the dinking tournament.

As of Sept. 8, with 147 games played and 49 games remaining, there are only four teams that are undefeated and they each come from separate leagues. After five weeks of play: • Saturday League Undefeated—Team 10: Valerie Strong and Rod Osgood • Sunday League Undefeated—Team 11: Kristi Martin and Juan Melendez • Thursday League Undefeated—Team 9: Marilyn Hewitt and Marv Jones

HISTORIC EVENT The daughter of Leisure World Seal Beach’s founders highlighted the historic signing of a new management agreement binding the community’s mutual corporations and the Golden Rain Foundation. Heidi Cortese, whose parents Ross and Alona Cortese in 1961 started constructing in Seal Beach what would become the first of the Rossmoor Corporation’s seven Leisure Worlds throughout

GRF PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE by Marsha Gerber GRF President As your GRF president, I’ll tell you the straight news first. Come Jan. 1, get ready for higher assessments from both your Mutual and GRF. If you’ve listened to the past year’s news, you probably knew it was coming. Think about shopping at businesses that can immediately charge you a price reflecting their cost. Food costs

The Long Run— Experience the Eagles Sept. 8 | 7:30 p.m. Amphitheater Stage Sponsors: MemorialCare Optum and United Healthcare The Long Run—Experience The Eagles will be featured at the Amphitheater tonight at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. Guests must be accompanied by a LW resident. Minibus service is available before and after the show. The Long Run (TLR) has earned its place

The Long Beach Symphony Orchestra Classical Series opens Oct. 1 with Beethoven’s Fifth. Round-trip bus transportation is available to and from the classic concerts. Page 16

WELCOME ABOARD In a carefully orchestrated transfer of leadership, Finance Director Carolyn Miller has handed over the reins of the department to corporate accounting executive Mallorie Hall, whose first day with the GRF was Sept. 5. Hall brings to Leisure World a decade of experience in corporate accounting and operations. Miller, who will retire from the GRF on Sept. 26, will spend her final