Jay and Connie Young celebrated 69 years together Jay and Connie Young were married on July 25, 1953. Jay was born in Hollywood, California, to a preacher and his wife, and Connie was born in South Dakota to a mother who lived on a farm and father who was a basketball coach. A preacher’s kid and a farmer’s daughter They met at the University of Redlands in 1951. Jay was a star basketball

by Brian Harmon LW contributor Future speakers for the GOP club include State Senate candidate Assemblywoman Janet Nguyen, Congressional candidate Scott Baugh, and State Assembly candidate Diane Dixon. Nguyen was elected to represent the 72nd Assembly District in 2020. She is a small-business owner, a former State Senator, former Orange County Supervisor and former Garden Grove City Council

Seven new members were announced at the July 13 meeting of the Shuffleboard Club after an active month of open houses and open play events in the shuffleboard courts building throughout June. The new members include Esther Cummings, Sandy Derouin, Dennis and Eileen Kotecki, Annette and Mick O’Connell, and Zoe Pickell. Even with the end of 2021-2022 shuffleboard season, the club players have

Everyone is welcome to attend the monthly Dancers & Mixers Club dance on Tuesday, Aug. 2, from 7-9 p.m. in Clubhouse 4. A variety of live dance music, including some line dances, will be provided by Linda Herman. Bring favorite beverages and snacks, and enjoy a relaxing evening out. Dancers & Mixers Club meets first Tuesday of the month from 7-9 p.m. in Clubhouse 4.

At the July 14 Photo Arts meeting, students took a photo of flowers in the outside rose garden with their cell phones, under the direction of the instructor Roger Bennett. After returning to the room, Bennett did a guided presentation, showing several techniques for enhancing and saving the photo, and discussed the homework photos. Following the presentation, members discussed photos they brought to

The Leisure World Library invites everyone to its third AuthorSpeak literary gathering of the season at 11 a.m., Friday, Aug. 12, at Veterans Plaza adjacent to the library. New York Times best-selling author Debra Holland will discuss her “Montana Sky” book series. The historical western romance series is set in the late 1800s in the small town of Sweetwater Springs, where uplifting tales

by Fred Fenton, LW contributor Why did we spend two weeks in southern Illinois during a heat wave? We traveled there at the end of June because two of Linda’s grandchildren and their father were moving from Chicago to the small town of Carbondale. The children’s mother, Linda’s daughter, had died in 2014. We had not seen the kids since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. Flying from