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FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | SEPTEMBER 2021 63 Pool volleyball is in full force Mondays and now Fridays from 2 to 3 pm. Players gather around 1:55 pm, net goes up and we are ready for play at 2 pm. We have been averaging 10 to 12 players and all residents are welcome to join in. Sunscreen/sunglasses are recommended. Many men wear a baseball cap and a tee shirt will protect your upper torso from the sun. A point is earned only when serving and we play to 15 (in case of a tie, team must win by two points). Come and join the fun! ~ Barbara Miller babsmiller80@gmail.com Pool Volleyball If you grew up in Southern California, you, like most of us, are of an age where we remember the Laguna Beach Greeter, Eiler Larsen. He stood on Pacific Coast Highway waving and shouting hellos to visitors to the beach side community. Here we have been fortunate to have had someone who has functioned as the ambassador to Four Seasons in the same way but who is leaving us and moving on to a new life in Rancho Cucamonga. We wish to honor him, Ray Windhorn, in our article this month. On any ordinary Saturday in June, one can find at least six pickleball courts in full play at Four Seasons. On one particular Saturday, people had been secretly briefed to attend a special going- away party for everyone's friend, Ray, one of the first people to take to the sport and champion its growth here. Over 50 people were present at 10 am when Ray was celebrated with a cake and presented with a signed paddle and pickleball, with best wishes from the entire Pickleball family as he begins his new life closer to family in Rancho Cucamonga. Ray and his wife Mary moved to Four Seasons 12 years ago after retiring from a life that led him around the world and to every continent. A man who loves his friends and his family, Ray has been an active participant and a figurehead for life in so many areas at Four Seasons. He was instrumental in starting both the pickleball and tennis clubs. For many people Ray was the first person they met when they walked into The Lodge where he could be found each day chatting with his many friends. Until recently, Ray played a competitive level of both tennis and pickleball and swam laps in the pool each day, relaxing in the jacuzzi after finishing his laps. A voracious walker, Ray would log miles around Four Seasons, so you might have recognized him from seeing him there. Ray loves Four Seasons and when he felt the former landscape company wasn't doing it's job well enough, Ray brought a weed to a community meeting to illustrate his point that there was no weeding being done and that he had just done more than the landscape company by bringing his evidence to the Board meeting. Ray will be missed by so many here at Four Seasons, but will remain forever in our hearts as he moves on to his new adventures. Thank you Ray for making Four Seasons a better place for all of us, and for enriching our lives with your presence. Your pickleball family wishes you God speed. You will be missed! As summer temperatures are soaring into the 100s, tournaments have been more infrequent. Watch next month for more information on upcoming fall tournaments and reports of participants from Four Seasons who have played competitively this past summer. ~ Julie Stayner, (307) 413-1237 Pickleball