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| SUN LAKES LIFESTYLES | JUNE 2025 | 45 Arlene's Breakfast Club is a group of wonderful Sun Lakes ladies who enjoy a morning of fellowship and breakfast. We meet at 9 am in the Main Clubhouse Restaurant the second Thursday of each month. We have a variety of speakers on various topics and support our local veterans with donations. Our breakfast is a buffet for $20 including tax and tip. No dues, just pay for your meal. We must provide an accurate count to the Restaurant, so enough food is prepared. Please call Patti Donitini at (951) 769-3271 for more information and to RSVP. Arlene's Breakfast Club If you have a classic car, love to ride or sit in one, talk about, or just look at one, you need to join our club! We have no membership fees or dues, and our meetings are once a month and very short. We begin at 9 am on the first Saturday of every month in the Main Clubhouse parking lot. We display our cars and talk shop, and at 9:30 am we meet in the Multipurpose Room for a very short meeting. We announce car shows, discuss upcoming activities and events, and then go out together for breakfast. Men and women, husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends, we welcome you all. We're all about fun and good fellowship, and we're looking for new members to share our good vibe. You don't even need to own a classic car. Come join us and expand your social life! For more information, contact Rell Snyder at (949) 235-4314 or rell1953@hotmail.com. Cruzin' Cronies Happy Cookers What a great fiesta we had at our May meeting with Primo's Tacos serving street tacos with all the fixin's. Food delish and table settings festive – good fun, too! We're all ready for summer with gardens started, right? June is National Cucumber month celebrating this healthy, easy to grow pickling staple. This vine was domesticated in India and has been cultivated for at least 3,000 years. With success at indoor gardening, Roman Emperor Tiberius ate a cucumber every day. Growing these was popular in France in the 1200s and was included in English gardening in the 1300s. Columbus brought cucumber seeds to start gardens in the new world. Weirdly, there was a movement in the 1600s against uncooked vegetables so humans ate less but cows ate more. We now know that these are very healthy vegetables, not only with 96 percent water for hydration but multiple vitamins and minerals, too. Vitamin K contributes to bone health, polyphenols and f lavonoids to heart health. Fresh is always best but pickling helps to preserve the harvest past summer. So, salads or relish trays are yummy and healthy ways to enjoy cucumbers. This is personal because I had a Canadian pen pal and we exchanged recipes as part of our letters. June 1 is National Pen Pal day. With national postal services so standard, the making of pen pals took off in the 1930s. The Student Letter Exchange Society was formed in 1936 to facilitate this pastime. In the 1950s, newspapers and magazines dedicated sections to pen friends. A beautiful book is 1997's Foreign Correspondence by American-Australian author Geraldine Brooks, a memoir of her journeys to various countries to meet her pen pals. Writing activates neural activity, just as meditation does. Nurturing connections with friends, old or new, including writing, helps our mental health. Come join us on the fourth Friday of the month at 11 am in the South Clubhouse for our monthly meeting. second Thursday of each month. We have a variety of speakers on various topics and support our local veterans with donations. Our breakfast is a buffet for $20 including tax and tip. No dues, just pay for your meal. We must provide an accurate count to the Restaurant, so enough food is prepared. Please call Patti Donitini at (951) 769-3271 for more information and to RSVP. Arlene's Breakfast Club