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Districts 11, 13, 15, and 21 Holiday Dinner Dance Welcome to All Residents Mark your calendars for Mon., Dec. 8, and sign-up to join the Host Districts for a fun-filled evening. All residents of Sun Lakes and their guests are invited. Districts 11, 13, 15, and 21 will host this event in the Main Clubhouse Ballroom beginning with a no-host social hour from 5 to 6 pm. Dinner will be served starting at 6 pm. For your dancing and listening pleasure, you will be entertained by the well- known dance band "Skyline Xpress" from 6 to 9 pm. Dinner will begin with a mixed green salad with mandarin organs, julienned jicama, and toasted pecans with ranch or Dijon honey mustard dressing. Entrée choices are Alaskan grilled salmon with lemon butter or chicken breast stuffed with spinach and Swiss cheese and topped with mushroom cream sauce. Both entrées will be served with potatoes au gratin and asparagus. The vegetarian entrée will be vegetarian Nicholas with artichoke hearts, green onions, black olives, tomatoes, and feta cheese served on wild rice. A specialty bread "Poolish" sourdough served with all entrées and for dessert mini-holiday cakes baked by our own Bob Golchert. Price is $35 pp. Tickets will go on sale Nov. 14 from 10 am to 2 pm (individually or as a group) at the home of Doree Meinhold, 1834 Masters Drive. Bring completed reservation forms and checks made payable to PSI. No cash, please. If you need a reservation form, they will be available in the Main Clubhouse Lobby or from the host district delegates. Tickets will be available until Nov. 30 by calling Doree Meinhold, 845- 4947. Come and join in the fun for a wonderful holiday evening! District 22 Holiday Party for All Jingle, sparkle, and celebrate with us on Thurs., Dec. 17 at 5 pm. Dinner and dance in the Main Clubhouse Ballroom. Listen and dance to the music of Bad Influence and enjoy fun, fellowship, and prizes. All are welcome! Cost is $27 pp. RSVP by Dec. 10 to Sara at 769-7491. All right everybody — I want you to stand up, raise your right hand and repeat after me, "I will seriously consider attending a holiday event presented by my district." That didn't hurt at all, did it? Please, take it seriously, join with your neighbors and friends and celebrate the holidays together. Your District Delegate works very hard with his or her staff to stage the holiday events. Getting the dates, ordering food and table decorations, arranging entertainment, designing a flyer and all of the other details it takes to put an event together for everyone to enjoy, and then what happens, 50 residents show up! Out of a hundred or two homes, some two to three hundred residents in any given district received the notice, and 50 or so find time to have fun and enjoy a holiday dinner or brunch with their neighbors. It is even worse when two or three districts come together to set up an event, and they have the same results. The Recreation Department and Advisory Committee have a number of holiday events. Please check the Lifestyles Magazine for their schedule of parties. At the October delegate meeting there is a lottery whereby each district selects the location of their Christmas tree in the center median of Country Club Drive. Districts 16 and 17 place their Christmas Trees at the North Clubhouse. Volunteers from each district decorate the colorful trees. Not long after Thanksgiving we have a Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony at 5 pm. For most of us, we feel like kids again and begin to get into the Christmas spirit. Hopefully the Christmas spirit is extended to the "Holiday Wish Program." This is a program fostered by the District Delegate Assembly. Each district accepts two or three families and purchases gifts for the children and the parents. The families write a "wish list" of what they would like for Christmas. The families most of the time ask for clothes and household items since they are quite needy. Each district collects money from its residents and shop for the gifts. Please watch for your district's collection of funds and help out as much as you can. We have always believed that the holidays are for the kids. As our kids grew up, the grandkids took their places, and we started all over again. However, from the comments of some of our residents, we are beginning to believe we have a complex full of kids living here who enjoy the holidays as much as they did as a youngster. That is good thinking — it will keep us young! DeLeGATe ASSeMBLy RePORT Joe Formino, Chairman, District Delegate Assembly 4 | sun lakes lIfestyles | nOVeMBeR 2014 | COMMunIty news dIstrIct bu Z Z Thank you everyone for your support of our sale of Buddy Biscuits. This was our first year at the Doggie Parade. Thank you Jason, head of the Recreation Dept. for inviting us. We enjoyed meeting all of you with your furry children and great costumes. We are on our way to getting the misters for the kennels, thanks to all of you. Our next meeting will be Nov. 17. Linda Dixon will be speaking on lessons to teach our pets for unwanted behaviors. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks. I give thanks for being able to live here and do my dream job, working with dogs. Have a very blessed Thanksgiving ! epap aniMal rescue