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66 FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | AUGUST 2021 Fishing Club Well, I did it again. I forgot to put in the fishing article for July. That is what happens when you get old and can't remember things. As I promised, I am going to start writing fishing stories that happened a long time ago. The stories you are about to read are true. The names of people involved have not been changed, because no one is innocent. The first story happened back in the 1980s. I was fishing at the Salton Sea with my neighbor Mike and my two sons. We were at a place called Red Hill where the Alamo and New River empty into the Salton Sea. I might add that these two rivers are the most polluted in the US. We were having a great time catching Covina and telling fish stories. All of a sudden, my youngest son David said he caught a funny looking fish. I looked over to where he was and saw he had caught a Tilapia. There was nothing strange about that, however the fish he caught had three eyes. I unhooked the fish and threw it back into the water. My son wanted to know why we didn't keep it. I told him that was a very special fish and needed to grow up and produce more fish like him. At that time, I knew the Salton Sea was doomed and we would not be eating anymore fish caught there. Thirty years later the Salton Sea died. Tight lines to all my friends and remember not to eat fish with three eyes. ~ Richard Carrasco, ricarrasco52@gmail.com Here we are well into the heat of summer and playing at our earlier time schedule to help avoid the heat of the day. The above photos were taken at the beginning of July, and as anyone who has been following my articles can see, nothing has been done on the construction of the four new shuffleboard courts in the last month. Why? That's a good question that I don't have an answer to. However, Perry Goldstein and I are working on trying to get an answer. Again, as I have mentioned numerous times before, we are anxiously looking forward to the completion of the new courts so that we can start playing on them. In the meantime, we continue to play on the existing shuffleboard courts at The Lodge. We have been getting some new members and look forward to more new players joining our group play. All are welcome! So come out and join our fun group of people and get a little fresh air and exercise, while enjoying socializing with fellow residents of our community. We play every Monday and Saturday morning at 8 am. We choose up different teams each time we play to keep the competition interesting. This gives everyone a chance to get to know their partners a little better. If you have any questions, please let me know. ~ Marty Rotman, mrtmj@aol.com, (310) 948-1693 Shuffleboard Dennis Boozer with a Tilapia caught at the Salton Sea in 2015 Again, still in the midst of construction

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