Sunshine Club wraps the year with holiday party

The Sunshine Club will not meet for three weeks, resuming on Jan. 10 with Victor Rocha, the GRF security director, as a speaker.

The club had a year-end party on Dec. 20, the last class of the year, to celebrate the progress of the club. The party was held at Clubhouse 3, Room 2, with a catered California Pizza Kitchen box lunch, including chicken club sandwiches, salad with barbecue chicken, smashed peas with barley soup, and brownie for dessert. Over 50 members enjoyed and appreciated the progress of the club’s growth.

There was a brief overview of 2024 by president Anna Derby covering in-person meetings, the summer club picnic, two day trips to the Antelope Valley poppy tour and California Science Center in Los Angeles, a significant club activity that donated $1,500 to the GAF which was used for 120 gift baskets for shut-in neighbors who had no one to share the holidays with.

After lunch was done, the SongBirdz lifted holiday spirits with it’s performance. Those members who attended received surprise coffee mugs to bring to the meetings since the club began the “Save The Earth” campaign years back.

The Sunshine Club began on Jan. 12, 2012, with the mission of “Building Bridges for a Brighter Leisure World,” to help all different ethnic people to get along in the community, for neighbors to have better communication, and to get the best out of living in Leisure World by learning how to use available information.