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| THE COLONY NEWS | JULY 2025 | 13 Colony Veterans Connection Bring your favorite mug for a FREE cup 'o Joe to the Colony Clubhouse patio every Monday through Friday from 8 am to 10 am. Hang out, relax and enjoy your choice of (regular/decaf ) steaming hot coee! Bring your spouse or a buddy … or just kick- back and chill. It's your morning happy hour! So come on down! It's on the house! PULL-TABS COLLECTION FOR THE INLAND EMPIRE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE By Kimberly Evans e Ronald McDonald House of the Inland Empire gives families a "home away from home" while their children receive medical treatment at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital and other nearby hospitals, no matter what their ability is to pay. April 2025 Family Stays: 107 Family Members Served: 382 Total Nights Stayed: 1,213 Nights Average Length of Stay: 11 Nights e pull-tabs are aluminum tops from cans of soda and other beverages, which are recycled to pay for the day-to- day operations of the Ronald McDonald House. Your donations make a dierence! Please bring your pull-tab contributions to Kimberly Evans in the HOA oce, M-F from 8:30 am to 5 pm. Special thanks to John and Marty Tighe, who collect for St. Martha's Catholic Church, and to the Founders of the Ronald McDonald House Pull-Tabs Collection here at e Colony, Marge and Dick Miller. is is an ongoing collection. Tell your family and friends about this charitable opportunity, as your support keeps families together! On the le, as you enter the Clubhouse, is that wonderful space open to all residents — the Colony library. What does the library oer our residents? Did you know that in addition to having works by bestselling authors on our shelves, we have movies, magazines and puzzles — of which one or two is usually ready to complete on the table. Come on in, sit a spell to cool o and meet some other puzzle friends. e library operates on the honor system, and the rules are posted on the window wall. All items carried by the library are available for you to take home. When returning an item, please place it on the shelf below the windows. Members of the library committee will re-le it. We are always interested in new donations to our library. We are currently taking books dated 2017 to present. Any older book will be donated to the Friends of the Library at the Murrieta Library. If you have any large-print books, those are always in high demand and appreciated. We love to see books by new authors, and we count on contributions from residents to help in keeping the library's selection wide and interesting. Applications are being accepted for open positions for library volunteers. For more information, please contact me, Diane Smith, at bodywave@sbcglobal. net. ™e Colony Library By Diane Smith