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| SUN LAKES LIFESTYLES | JANUARY 2021 | 49 We would like to wish all our tennis club members a Happy and Healthy New Year. Hopefully everyone had a safe holiday season. Our present Board will remain in their current positions and David Nethercott will be our new secretary. Thank you to all the current Board members for their continuing support for our tennis club. Thank you David for volunteering to be secretary. We are hoping to start with more activities as the year goes on. We will continue with the monthly mixers at 9 am on the first Saturday of the month. We would like to thank Nick and Debbie Caputo and David Nethercott for organizing our monthly mixers this past year. You did an awesome job. We are hoping to have our men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles tournament this year. We will keep you updated on future events. Our next Tennis Mixer is Jan. 2 at 9 am. Dues are still only $10 per person made payable to SL Tennis Club. Cut off for membership to get your name in the directory is Jan. 29. "Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there." ~ Venus Williams The Tennis Club wishes everyone a safe, happy and healthy New Year! See you on the courts, be safe and have fun! Tennis Just in case: Check with your club contact to confirm meeting place, date, and time. As we bid a not-so-fond adieu to our annus horribilis, we can look back on some of the admonishments heard around: "If I'd only known in March it would be my last time in a restaurant, I would have ordered dessert." "I'm going to stay up on New Year's Eve this year. Not to see the New Year in, but to make sure the old one leaves." You get the idea. There was one chagrined comment, though, that pickleball can do something about: "The buttons on my jeans started social-distancing from each other." Pickleball has been an oasis of wholesome activity this difficult year. An oasis of calm amid the turmoil as players gather (respectfully distanced) and share good fellowship, devoid of political wrangling and gloom-and-doom prognostications. An oasis of respite from the maddening inactivity that still plagues too many as we get in some healthy exercise outdoors where the Banning Pass zephyrs waft the virus away. And an oasis of refreshment as we encourage new players to enjoy this lovely game with its funny name and bewildering rules. The rules become second-nature soon. Trust us. So, yes, we in the Pickleball Club are as anxious as everyone to turn the page (slam the door?) on 2020. But we can look back on a season of positives, too. Our club grew. Our Master Board demonstrated their commitment to the sport as they work diligently to navigate competing agendas in our new location on the north side. Our players stayed almost universally healthy, despite a brief period when a few members contracted COVID away from the courts. Thankfully all recovered quickly and there was no spread to the wider group of players. We know our community, our region and nation are far from past the threat of the pandemic, exacerbated by the onslaught of the annual flu season. So we resolve to continue to be extra careful in how we interact in the winter ahead. And we pray for early relief from the highly-touted vaccines on the horizon. There are many reasons for hope in the New Year and our club members are a great group to make that journey together. And one last blessing to come out of the year's end: we won't have to worry (ever again) about some wiseacre remarking about how hindsight is always 20/20. Can we all agree to retire 2020? At last? See you on the courts! Pickleball Club