ADRC COMMITTEE The fate of a donated statue depicting an older couple sharing quiet time on a park bench remains in limbo. The GRF Architectural Design Review Committee (ADRC) met March 15 to consider relocating the statue, which has sparked an outpouring of negative feedback from LW residents since it was installed last month. A motion to move it to the LW Library failed. The issue will

HUMOR I was out on a good morning walk when I heard a screeching sound—like nails on a chalkboard. I cringed, and then looked around to find it was a common alloy cat sitting on a neighbor’s porch rail. She was carefully cleaning her stainlesssteel paws with her raspy tongue. With a body of pure metal, her every move creaked like an old garden gate. Stacked at her feet were the beak, bones

The Chess Club publishes weekly puzzles to keep the love of the game alive, since members cannot currentlymeettoplayinperson. This week’s puzzle is checkmate in three moves. White moves first. Any answer by black, and the white’s third move is checkmate. The solution to this week’s puzzle’s first move is Rg8; the white Rook moves from G7 to G8.

The Leisure World Library is sponsoring a Literature Art Contest, for which LWers are asked to re-create a scene or pay tribute to a suggested famous work of fiction. Any artistic medium—paint, ceramic, sculpture, wood, paper, needlecraft or other handcraft— will be accepted, but artists should be mindful that submitted works will be on display outside for several hours. Participants will