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| SUN LAKES LIFESTYLES | NOVEMBER 2018 | 7 By Joe Formino, Chairman, District Delegate Assembly All right everybody — I want you to stand up, raise your right hand and repeat after me, "I will seriously consider attending a holiday event presented by my district." That didn't hurt at all, did it? Please, take it seriously, join in with your neighbors and friends and celebrate the holidays together. Your District Delegate works very hard with his or her staff to stage the holiday events. Getting the dates, ordering food and table decorations, arranging entertainment, designing a flyer and all of the other details it takes to put an event together for everyone to enjoy, and then what happens, 50 residents show up! Out of a hundred or two homes, some two to three hundred residents in any given district received the notice, and 50 or so find time to have fun and enjoy a holiday dinner or brunch with their neighbors. It is even worse when two or three districts come together to set up an event, and they have the same results. Some Districts are having a luncheon or brunch during the holidays so residents do not have to travel at night. Check channel 97 or the Lifestyles magazine for dates and times. At the Delegate meeting there is a lottery whereby each district selects the location of their Christmas tree in the center medium of Country Club Drive. Districts 16 and 17 place their Christmas Trees at the North Clubhouse. Volunteers from each district decorate the colorful trees. Not long after Thanksgiving we have a Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony at 5 pm. For most of us, we feel like kids again and begin to get into the Christmas spirit. Hopefully the Christmas spirit is extended to the "Holiday Wish Program." This is a program fostered by the District Delegate Assembly. Each district accepts two or three families and purchases gifts for the children and the parents. The families write a "wish list" of what they would like for Christmas. The families most of the time ask for clothes and household items since they are quite needy. Each district collects money from its residents and shop for the gifts. Please watch for your district's collection of funds and help out as much as you can. We have always believed that the holidays are for the kids. As our kids grew up the grandkids took their places, and we started all over again. However, from the comments of some of our residents, we are beginning to believe we have a complex full of kids living here who enjoy the holidays as much as they did as a youngster. That is good thinking, it will keep us young! District Delegate Update: Get out there and enjoy yourself this holiday season!