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28 | OHCC LIVING | NOVEMBER 2025 | The Photo Club will meet on Nov. 20 at 1 pm in the Lamia Room. We'll have some light refreshments, probably not including pumpkin spices, anything. Our purpose will be to review our results from the October photo shoot in Old Town San Diego. Participants should send in seven to ten photos from that effort to ohccphotoclub@ gmail.com or if you can't manage that put them on a thumb drive or SD card and drop them off in Mike Thornton's tube at 4750 Collinos, preferably by Nov. 14. Large size is good enough, please no maximum size. We'll have a slide show and discussion. At the November meeting we will also elect officers for 2026. A list of candidates will be published to the membership by email blast prior to the meeting, and at the meeting we will accept nominations from the f loor. For our December meeting we will ask for the room to be set up in a café style, with round tables, and we'll have a social event. We'll ask recently joined members to tell us about themselves, and brainstorm ideas for 2026. We'll even sneak in some bubbly. Annual dues are $10. If you sign up and pay during the fourth quarter 2025, we'll count you as paid for 2026. Write a check to Ocean Hills Photography Club and drop it off at the front desk. Make sure to write your email address on the check. Written by Jim McDonough, jamespmcdonough@gmail.com, (760) 593-9994 Photography Summer is over, but how can you tell when you live in Southern California? I think I know summer is over when the Choral Society starts rehearsing for the Holiday Concert. Rehearsals started on Thursday, the 11th of September with a group of enthusiastic singers and a few empty chairs. We always can use a few more folks to join us, so if you love to sing, come out to the Abravanel Hall some Thursday and take a listen and see if it is for you. We rehearse from 10:15 until 12 pm. There is great joy in singing and it is even more fun in a group. I hope all who attended our guest concert on Sept. 29 enjoyed the performance by The Rolf Olsen Jazz Quartet. The Rolf Olsen Quartet played a wide range of jazz and Latin music. Their repertoire included everything from well-known standards to more obscure jazz compositions, as well as modern jazz styles, swing music, the bebop music of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and the post-bop music of John Coltrane and Miles Davis. It promised to be a great night of music. One caveat, I had to write this article prior to the actual performance, but I have researched the group, so I anticipate that the concert was a great success. The recording of the concert will be available on channel 1960. We are a very dynamic group of singers and can always use more members. But, if you think you can't sing or would feel uncomfortable trying to sing in public, we do need other folks in addition to our singers. We really do appreciate the backstage helpers whose efforts are so valuable to the success of the Chorale and can't put on a concert without them. There are a lot of things to do that don't involve singing but are still a lot of fun. The website for the Choral Society is http:// ohchorale.wixsite.com/ohchorale. It is also available on the Ocean Hills Country Club website. Scan the QR code and it will also take you to the website. Written by Jack Shabel Choral Society A few photos from a recent trip to New York.

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