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New Year's Eve District Holiday Tree Lighting Mon., Dec. 2, 5 pm at the Main Clubhouse. Come out and watch as we light up the festively decorated trees from each of the districts! After we turn on the lights for the holidays, stop in the Ballroom and enjoy hot cider, coffee, and cookies as we begin our entertainment featuring jolly old St. Nick, the Sun Lake Makua Hula Hawaiian Dancers, Precision Stardust Dancers, Tap Dancers, our Barbershop Chorus, and a special performance from Spectrum Dance Studio in Beaumont! So mark your calendars and come enjoy a fun, casual, and FREE evening with the Recreation Department as we begin to ring in the holidays. UPCOMING EVENTS Tues., Dec. 31, 7:30 pm - 12:30 am, Main Clubhouse Ballroom. Sign up for the greatest celebration of the year and spend New Year's Eve with friends and neighbors in the Main Clubhouse Ballroom. Our New Year's celebration will start when the doors open at 6:30 pm for a cocktail hour. A plated dinner will be served at 7:30 pm. Then everyone can dance the night away with "Sophisticats" until 12:30 am. The Times Square countdown will take place on the big screen at 12 midnight and everyone will receive party favors to remember the special night. A cash bar will be open until 12:30 am for all participants. The cost is $36 pp (checks only). Limit of four people per check. Menu includes assorted rolls, salad, surf and turf (top sirloin with shrimp), garlic mashed potatoes, asparagus with red onions, and coffee/tea/water. *Vegetarian options available upon request. Please call the Recreation Department at 8452191 to see if there are tickets still available. group or learn to play bocce? Want to try your go on-sale starting Dec. 6! This show will be hand at acting, or learn to make pottery? Well, theater seating and the cost is $8 pp. William Florian "Those Were The this event is for you! Mark your calendars and Days:" Sat., Jan. 11, 7:30 – 9 pm, Main bring neighbors and friends. Drop by anytime Seminar from Susan Straight, Author Clubhouse Ballroom. Join us as we have from 3 - 5:30pm, this event is FREE of charge! & Professor: Calling all residents and the former lead singer, William Florian, of the Clubs, groups, and classes that would like to anyone who likes to read! We have invited famous 60s band "The New Christy Minstrels" participate, please call the Reception Desk at Susan Straight, a local author, to Sun Lakes back at Sun Lakes Country Club. He will be 845-2191 to sign up for a table. Please notify in March of 2014 (exact date and time TBA). hosting the show "Those Were the Days," us if you will need an easel, lattice, or electricity Ms. Straight will be visiting Sun Lakes to give a lecture, a question and answer session, and which is an upbeat, energetic, musical journey for your setup. will be also available to sign books. Susan of America's greatest songs of the 60's. This "The Illusion of Elvis Show:" Sun., Jan. has written 8 novels and has been published includes songs he performed with the famous New Christy Minstrels plus the music of Peter 26, 3 - 4:30 pm, * Doors open at 2 pm. in many magazines and journals. She was Paul & Mary, John Denver, Pete Seeger, The Join us in the Main Clubhouse Ballroom born in Riverside, California in 1960, and still Mamas & The Papas, and uplifting originals for a fabulous "Rockabilly to Rhinestones" lives there with her three daughters. She is presented with amusing stories in an intimate show featuring Elvis and Ann-Margret Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at show. This show will be theater seating. Tickets impersonators. Danny Vernon's "Illusion of the University of California, Riverside, where will go on sale starting Dec. 6 and they are $10 Elvis" show is very popular in Canada and she has taught since 1988. She received each. Sign up with the front desk receptionist all down the west coast, as he travels to do the university's Distinguished Teaching shows in Washington, Oregon, California, and Award in 2008. Currently she is Director of in the Main Clubhouse. Arizona! For our event, he will bring his wife, the Master of Fine Arts Program, and serves Activities Night: Thurs., Jan. 23, 3 - 5 Marcia, for a special Ann-Margret and Elvis on the Academy of Distinguished Teachers pm, Main Clubhouse Ballroom. Each year duo. With the voice, look, and passion of the at the university. Please watch out for more all of the clubs, groups and recreation classes twentieth century icon, Danny Vernon strives upcoming information on this event… we get together in one room to show you what to re-capture Elvis Presley's appeal to an ever- would love to have a great Sun Lakes crowd to Sun Lakes has to offer. Are you thinking about growing audience. Don't miss out; tickets greet Ms. Straight! joining a new club? Want to play with a card recreation department | sun lakes lifestyles | december 2013 | 9