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38 FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | JULY 2014 | SPORTS & OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SPORTS & OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES | FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | JULY 2014 39 Racquet Club Word has it that since the Brian William's pickleball piece on NBC Nightly News there has been a noticeable increase in local news coverage and interest. 55 and over communities are catching the bug world wide. What is it about this game we love so much? • It is easy to learn. • It is fun and social. • You dress in comfortable clothes. • The only needed equipment is a ball and a paddle. • Your eye hand co-ordination improves. • You build and tone muscles without long and hard endurance. • You become faster and lighter on your feet. • It improves your tennis game. • Your memory is improved as you try to remember the score and what number server you are (we all laugh at that one- getting old can be a challenge). Come see what the fun is all about. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings at 8 am. Thanks. Marty Key, keeksmail@yahoo. com, (562) 331-0817. ~ Marty Key Ping Pong Club Pickleball A nice thing about playing ping pong is that you get to meet other ping pong players in our surrounding community. No one has been a better friend to our Four Seasons' Ping Pong Club than Bill and Barbara Black. They live in Hemet. Although Bill has a wonderful pong pong facility that he constructed in his backyard, he will often come to Beaumont and play with us. Recently Bill had his ping pong facility enlarged and improved. Upon completion of this project, Bill and Barbara celebrated by inviting all our ping pong players over to their beautiful home. The day started with Barbara's scrumptious homemade breakfast that included eggs, potatoes, bacon, sausage, pastries, fruit, juices and much more. After a great time of gorging on the most delicious stuff you ever put in your mouth, we moved into Bill's Ping Pong Man Cave and had a marvelous morning of ping pong, ping pong, and more ping pong. We are very fortunate to have Bill and Barbara Black as friends of our Four Season's Ping Pong Club. We should also mention that Barbara Black attended the Fashion Show/Tea that was held in our Ballroom on May 31. She gave a little talk to the ladies about the very special and unique tea parties she hosts at her beautiful home. These tea parties are available to anyone who would like to book one. You can check out some pictures of her amazing tea parties on her facebook page at www.facebook.com/nanasteaparties?fref=ts And of course you can call her at (951) 852-2744. Good fun is what our club is all about and we would love to have you join us in that good fun. You can find us in the Aerobics Room Monday through Friday at 10:30 am and Saturday at 11 am. Please contact Niles Sundstrom at (951) 572-5119 or Alan Chan at (951) 769-4202 if you have any questions or need more information about your Four Seasons' Ping Pong Group. ~ Niles Sundstrom The Mixed Doubles Competition Ladder remains a work-in-progress. Primarily because our most dependable player is someone named Dee Fault, the ladder has morphed into a double-elimination bracket for the initial Mixed Doubles Championship. While Warren Buffett is unlikely to put up a billion dollars for a perfect prediction as he did for the NCAA Basketball championship, we do have a fair chance of knowing who the final pairs will be. Already set to play in the championship match are Larry and Bernadette Martin, partially because they were able to best Richard Carrasco and Barbara Miller in a close match, and then they prevailed over Dee Fault. Waiting to see if they get to play the Martins in the finals are Bob Rose and Cheryl Burke, who also beat up on Dee Fault, and will have to play the winner of the match between Larry Zimmerman/Padoo Peralta and Den Stevens/Jocelyn Green. The excitement is mounting. Meanwhile, social mixed doubles continues on the second Thursday of each month, and fortunately Dee Fault doesn't play then, but her pesky partner Double Fault often makes an appearance. The Racquet Club planned to wrap up June by combining the regular last-Saturday-of the-month Play Day with a luncheon and Wimbledon watching in the Lodge. The catered BBQ lunch from Dickie's was to be complementary for club members and guests were welcome with a small fee. July will start off with a bang with the third annual Fourth of July Red-Blue competition. It's not political, but the competition between the two sides was fun and fierce in the first two battles, and promises to be equally intense this year as well. And after that friendly competition, we can all join in the Red, White, and Blue celebration in the Lodge. The new scorekeeping tubes are a welcomed improvement over the flipping kind, which often changed scores on their own when it was windy. So, now if the players can decide who is Home and Who is visitor and remember it for a whole set, there will be less confusion. Please visit the FSBRC website www.fsbrc.org. ~ Steven Hovey Interest in bocce ball continues to grow. The courts are being used several times a week. They can be reserved at the front desk of the Lodge if you have a group that would like to play. As of this writing, we are in the midst of our second tournament. There are nine four-man teams competing. We will have the results in next month's Breeze. The club is continuing to work with the Board regarding renovating the existing two courts and eliminating the proposed courts at Rec. Center 2. For those of you that have never played, please join us. Skill is not a prerequisite, and it is a lot of fun. We play Tuesdays at 9:30 am and Wednesdays at 3 pm, but as the weather continues to get hotter, we may change these times. If you have questions please contact Bob Cooper at (951) 769-6352 or Mike Saperstein at (951) 769-7909. ~ Bob Cooper Bocce Ball Enjoying our breakfast before playing ping pong are: (left to right) Don Fant, Dennis S., Jack & Lian Lee, Bill Black, Niles Sundstrom, Rony Tordesillas, Ben Wang, Chuck Barretto, and Paco Paez. Jerry Farmer, Bill Olds, Barbara Harwell & Bob Harwell enjoy a well-deserved rest in the shade