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| OHCC LIVING | JULY 2024 | 39 Mahjongg Club We will be playing MahJongg at the next social! We are pretty excited about it! Jacqueline Ettinger, Janeen Sheelen and Christi Abshier have been busy organizing the event. Currently planned to be held in our new Lanai, we will be one of the first clubs to experience what this great addition to our community has to offer. MahJongg Club members may reserve a seat now. Please plan to come. Reservations and checks are currently being received at the front desk for the July 18, MahJongg Social. There will be games to play, food to eat, and you get to tour our new facility. The OHCC Social Clubs Board of Directors reminded club presidents that all clubs are required to have at least one in-person meeting to elect officers. This should be a fourth quarter meeting. To that end, our MahJongg Club must establish a nominations committee. With our third quarter beginning next month, this is the time to appoint members to the committee. A few volunteers are needed to step forward to serve on the nominations committee. You can make their job easier by opting to serve the club as an officer in 2025. Please consider a one-year officer term which will begin in January. All interested in putting together the slate of officer candidates, please contact me. MahJ On. Written by Dawn Edwards On May 30, we held our famous "Not-A-Cue" Tournament, in which you may not use a pool cue. It was standard 8-Ball, but you had to shoot with something other than a pool cue. Leo Beeloo brought a walking stick with a rubber tip and handle, whereas David Key's walking stick had a cork handle. Cal Roe made his cue from PVC pipe with a foam rubber tip on one end for soft shots and a felt tip on the other end for break shots. Peter Fiore brought a #5 iron golf club but soon found it unplayable. So, he went to the maintenance closet and found a straw broom. Charlie Payne had his infamous broomstick handle with chalk and the loud 'clank' when a ball was struck. Joan Beauvais adorned a wood dowel with blue masking tape and a felt tip. Dan Wilkerson found an old PVC pipe from our last Not-a-Cue tournament. Lastly, we talked Janice Pelcher into joining the fun to make 8 players. She had to get a three- foot plastic broom handle from the maintenance crew. David, Leo, Charlie, and Joan won their first matches. Charlie won by luck. He badly missed his final shot on the 8-Ball, but the 8 hit another ball and caromed into the correct pocket. David's cork handle seemed to work better than Leo's rubber handle as David made it to the final. Meanwhile, Joan's handicap and her skill meant that she and Charlie were both shooting at the 8-Ball. But Joan could not pot that last 8-ball, and Charlie won. The final featured Charlie's 'clanky' broom handle versus David's cork-handled walking stick. It was an entertaining match, with David snookering Charlie three shots in a row to take the lead, but both players were eventually shooting for the 8-ball. David had a long shot on the 8-Ball but was short. Charlie missed his corner shot but was lucky to leave David snookered. David missed the 8, giving Charlie ball in hand. He hit the 8 into the jaws of the pocket, but it stopped right on the lip. Charlie made a diving motion with his hand, and after a few seconds, the ball did fall into the hole! It was the longest hang-time for a successful shot that the group could remember. Written by Charlie Payne Billiards

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