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FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | NOVEMBER 2020 55 The Four Seasons Table Tennis Club is extremely excited that the Courts Room has been opened once again to allow us to resume playing this terrific sport. Having been laid up for nearly seven months, no doubt we will be extremely rusty and will need time to regain our strokes and test our endurance. More importantly, our shoulder and knee joints have largely atrophied during this period, and it is vitally important that we start off slowly and try, at least at the outset, to refrain from quick moves and offensive slam shots (yes, I'm talking to you, Lian!) to avoid injuries. To ensure that we diligently practice social distancing, we are only allowed to play singles on two tables, and a maximum of six players are allowed in the Courts room during any given period. And it goes without saying that masks (not face shields!) must be worn while in the room. The FSTTC is gratified not just because we have been afforded the opportunity to resume playing the sport we love, but being given the green light is also symbolic of our community drifting back to normalcy after being largely silent for seven months. Perhaps this is a sign of bigger and better things to come as we continue to fight a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic that refuses to disappear. As we begin to see light at the end of the tunnel, 2021 can't come fast enough! Stay safe. ~ Bob Rubenstein, brube88@gmail.com Lettuce tell you about a competition coming to the community. Are you tired of your doctor telling you to eat less ice cream and eat more vegetables? Have you eaten so many salads that you want to scream? Come join us to put those vegetables to good use in our first annual Salad Throwing Competition. We will have the Iceberg Shot put and the Carrot Javelin. We will have an accuracy contest throwing cucumbers and romaine through hula hoops worth varying points. At the end of this friendly competition we will have a grand finale just like Spain's La Tomatina with a tomato throwing celebration (social distancing enforced somehow)… and then we can argue if a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. Ping Pong Vegetable Toss Check with your club contact to confirm meeting place, date, and time.