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| OHCC LIVING | SEPTEMBER 2020 | 27 Just in case: Check with your club contact to confirm meeting place, date, and time. Since there is no NEW NEWS, we have dug up OLD NEWS. The most ancient September issue of OHCC Living in the subterranean archive is from 2013. Its Billiards Club article was full of news worth re-visiting. Do you remember when? Billiards Club September 2013 We hope you were able to come see the new tables in the Billiards Room during our Open House on Aug. 22. During the demonstrations and refreshments, one common question was "How much did these tables cost anyway?" Well, it was a lot - $32,541.13! On the other hand, they are expected to last at least as long as the old ones, namely 30 years. That would be $1,084.71 per year, or about 42 cents per person per year. Forty-two cents? Well, maybe they're not so expensive after all. The billiards tables are one of many projects that our community has undertaken to keep Ocean Hills beautiful and enjoyable. Within just the past couple years we have built and equipped new Fitness Rooms and a new Computer Room. We have refurbished the Bocce courts, the Library and the Sewing Room. We have refinished all the wood floors in the Clubhouse and will soon be fixing up the pool decks and patios. So many 55 plus communities sink slowly into disrepair and become rather depressing places because short- sighted residents refuse to pay to maintain and improve their facilities. Residents of Ocean Hills have remained far-sighted and have continually invested to keep our home a wonderful place to live. Well done, all of you! Meanwhile, back in the Billiards Room, members attended the advanced lesson on Banking. We are revealing here the one thing all pool sharks agree on about Banking – don't do it! Unless you've been practicing, you're going to miss because it's just too hard. Nonetheless, eager students were shown how to practice, and will soon be able to miss most of the time instead of all the time. Then we had the lesson on how to play One Pocket, a very cerebral sort of pool game. Well, as cerebral as a pool game can be. It is in fact a game to which many older players gravitate after time spent playing 8-Ball, 9-Ball and Straight Pool. It is one of those games in which Age and Treachery will beat Youth and Skill. The lesson was followed a couple days later by our One Pocket Tournament. Don Farmer took third place. The final match between Jerry Brunkala and Charlie Payne was an extended, hard-fought, and (yes, you guessed it) cerebral contest, finally won by Charlie – who is well known to be both Aged and Treacherous. He gets his name on the Champions plaque and one of the new Club hats. These hats cannot be purchased – they can only be won in a tournament or awarded for service to the Club. Do stop in and try the new tables. Get your 42 cents worth this year. Billiards After seven years we take those new-in-2013 tables for granted, but do you remember how much better they played? And looked? Well, you don't have to remember that. Here's one of the old tables on the left and a new table on the right.

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