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THE TOWN CROWER THE TOWN CROWER SONS IN RETIREMENT North Peninsula Branch 91 Men Enjoying Active Retirement May, 2018 1 Volume 37, Issue 5 sir91.org BIG SIR SECRETARY TREASURER Editor LITTLE SIR Scott Coe John Cooney Dennis Shreve Steve LaRosa Dick Young (650)796-5917 (650)692-3460 (650)991-3052 (650)873-1938 (650)588-2218 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Our luncheon meetings are held the 2nd Monday of each month at the Sharp Park Golf Course Restaurant, 2600 Francisco Blvd., Pacifica. The cost is $20. Branch Executive Committee meets 10:00am; Social hour 11:00am; Lunch: 12:00- noon. May 14 Entertainment: Marilyn Cooney, singer, song- writer and pianist, has prepared a special pro- gram of patriotic songs in honor of Memorial Day. (See article, lower left) Menu: House Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette Chicken Enchiladas with Rice and Beans Vanilla Flan *Alternate: Chef’s Salad June 11 Speaker: To be determined Menu: Caesar Salad Pot Roast with Noodles and Mushroom Sauce Vanilla Ice Cream *Alternate: Grilled Shrimp Sandwich July 9 Speaker: Don Mattei, retired Chief of Police, Bel- mont; Supervisor with the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, Homeland Security and Office of Emergency Services. Menu: House Salad with Thousand Island Dressing Baby Back Ribs with Coleslaw and Fries Apple Pie *Alternate: Fish and Chips *Alternate meals must be reserved while at the previous month’s meeting. I just returned from our April luncheon at the Sharp Park Golf Course restaurant and I was so elated to see the great turnout we experienced that I decided to write my col- umn right away. There were a total of 47 diners including 3 visitors, which meant that 44 Branch 91 members braved the treacherous weather and the hairpin turns of Sharp Park Road to attend the first lunch- eon at our new location. The food was excellent, the restau- rant staff was gracious and wel- coming, the weather was spec- tacular and there was a million dollar view of the golf course and the beautiful Pacific Ocean from our dining room window. Our guest speaker, attorney John O’Connor, gave us an Scott’s Thoughts continues on page 3 May, 2018 Volume 37, Issue 5 May Meeting Entertainment Marilyn Cooney, Singer, Songwriter & Pianist At our lunch this month, caba- ret singer and musician Marilyn Cooney will return for her sixth yearly performance. She has prepared a special program of patriotic songs in honor of Me- morial Day. Through her prior appear- ances, Marilyn is known to our membership. She is a retired schoolteacher who now spends full-time on her music. Marilyn currently performs regularly at the Villa D’Este and the Bistro SF Grill , both in S.F., Molloy’s Tavern, Colma, and the Sausa- lito Cruising Club . She also per- forms at local senior centers, such as The Magnolia in Millbrae, the Palo Alto Vi , and The Abigail in Redwood City. Marilyn has a great website you can visit: www.marilyncooney.com There, you can check her schedule, listen to her music and watch her videos. But most importantly, you can see her live at this month’s meeting! REMINDER: Our meeting location is now Sharp Park Golf Course Restaurant, Pacifica Scott’s Thoughts Big Sir Scott Coe
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THE TOWN CROWERTHE TOWN CROWER SONS IN RETIREMENT North Peninsula Branch 91
Men Enjoying Active Retirement
May, 2018 1 Volume 37, Issue 5
sir91.org
BIG SIR SECRETARY TREASURER Editor LITTLE SIR
Scott Coe John Cooney Dennis Shreve Steve LaRosa Dick Young
(650)796-5917 (650)692-3460 (650)991-3052 (650)873-1938 (650)588-2218
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Our luncheon meetings are held the 2nd Monday of each month at the Sharp Park Golf Course Restaurant, 2600 Francisco Blvd., Pacifica. The
cost is $20. Branch Executive Committee meets
10:00am; Social hour 11:00am; Lunch: 12:00-noon.
May 14 Entertainment: Marilyn Cooney, singer, song-writer and pianist, has prepared a special pro-gram of patriotic songs in honor of Memorial Day. (See article, lower left) Menu: House Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette Chicken Enchiladas with Rice and Beans Vanilla Flan *Alternate: Chef’s Salad
June 11 Speaker: To be determined Menu: Caesar Salad Pot Roast with Noodles and Mushroom Sauce Vanilla Ice Cream *Alternate: Grilled Shrimp Sandwich
July 9 Speaker: Don Mattei, retired Chief of Police, Bel-mont; Supervisor with the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, Homeland Security and Office of Emergency Services. Menu: House Salad with Thousand Island Dressing Baby Back Ribs with Coleslaw and Fries Apple Pie *Alternate: Fish and Chips *Alternate meals must be reserved while at the previous month’s meeting.
I just returned from our April luncheon at the Sharp Park Golf Course restaurant and I was so elated to see the
great turnout we experienced that I decided to write my col-umn right away. There were a total of 47 diners including 3 visitors, which meant that 44 Branch 91 members braved the treacherous weather and the
hairpin turns of Sharp Park Road to attend the first lunch-eon at our new location. The food was excellent, the restau-rant staff was gracious and wel-coming, the weather was spec-tacular and there was a million dollar view of the golf course and the beautiful Pacific Ocean from our dining room window. Our guest speaker, attorney John O’Connor, gave us an
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May, 2018 Volume 37, Issue 5
May Meeting Entertainment Marilyn Cooney, Singer, Songwriter & Pianist
At our lunch this month, caba-ret singer and musician Marilyn Cooney will return for her sixth yearly performance. She has prepared a special program of patriotic songs in honor of Me-morial Day. Through her prior appear-ances, Marilyn is known to our membership. She is a retired schoolteacher who now spends full-time on her music. Marilyn currently performs regularly at the Villa D’Este and the Bistro SF Grill, both in S.F., Molloy’s Tavern, Colma, and the Sausa-lito Cruising Club. She also per-
forms at local senior centers, such as The Magnolia in Millbrae, the Palo Alto Vi, and The Abigail in Redwood City. Marilyn has a great website you can visit: www.marilyncooney.com There, you can check her schedule, listen to her music and watch her videos. But most importantly, you can see her live at this month’s meeting!
REMINDER: Our meeting location is now
Sharp Park Golf Course Restaurant, Pacifica
Scott’s Thoughts Big Sir Scott Coe
ACTIVITIES
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Golf
Golf Chairman: John Rittweger (650) 738-2323; [email protected] Sign-Up Book: Marty Mintz (650) 345-1466; [email protected] If you’re not signed-up but want to play, contact Marty in advance so that he can add you to the list.
Highlights from recent tournaments. (Due to space considerations, only the top
three low net players are shown. Complete results are available on the Golf page of our website.)
Date Course-Par/Slope Player, Gross/Net Closest to Pin Mar. 6 Sunnyvale-70/110 Rittweger 81/67 Fenech; Moore Birdie Club: Moore; Rittweger Mar. 13 Santa Clara-72/113 Mar. 20 Metropolitan-72/121
Mar. 27 Alameda-71/116 Hyndman 92/70 Fenech; Hyndman Mintz 93/70 Birdie Club: McAfee April 3 San Jose Muni-72/112 Shreve 88/66 Rittweger; Shreve Wehner 96/67 Rittweger 83/69 Birdie Club: Shreve; Young April 10 Poplar Creek-70/112 Rittweger 79/65 Mintz; Romero Young 86/68 Mintz 90/68 Birdie Club: Rittweger(2); Romero; Young Upcoming tournaments: Date Course Time May 1 Moffett Field 9:00am May 8 Skywest 9:00am May 15 Shoreline 9:00am May 22 Santa Clara 9:00am May 29 Los Lagos 9:00am June 5 Metropolitan 9:00am
Bocce
Free play every afternoon at Orange Ave. Memorial Park, So. S.F. Lessons are available in April and September. Contact Marty Mintz (650) 345-1466; [email protected].
Chairman: Lee Severe (650) 595-1973 [email protected]
Attention Pedro Players
The Pedro Players Club meets each month at 11:00am in the restaurant, prior to our monthly meetings. The format will be shortened to accom-modate for time restraints. Cards, scoring sheets and rule sheets will be provided. For more information, contact Bill Brown (650)312-9460; [email protected].
April Meeting Winners:
~Raffle: $80 to Dale McAfee ~Birthday Free Lunch Winner: Frank McCarthy
SIR Happenings
The latest edition of State SIR Hap-penings is now available online, here:
SIR Happenings
There, you’ll find highlights from vari-ous branches as well as activities available to all members. Travel trips are included.
SIR Day at the Ball Park Oakland Coliseum
Sunday, July 22, 2018 at 1:00pm $55 per person - Section 104-105
Please see the enclosed flyer. If you are interested, contact Lee Severe asap at-
(650) 595-1973 [email protected]
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MAY MEMBERSHIP
REPORT
Steve LaRosa
(650) 873-1938
Active Members: 55 Inactive Members: 4
April Meeting Attendance: 47
Active Members Attendance: 44 (80%) Visitors: 3
Guests: 0
May Membership Anniversaries:
-Dan Quigg 17 years
-Nick Itsines 13
-Steve Barnes 5
-Dick Young 5
IF YOU CAN'T MAKE IT
TO AN UPCOMING MEETING:
PLEASE contact Jack Cardon at (650)274-0860 or at
[email protected] as soon as you know you won't be
attending, but at least by the Thursday before the meeting date.
Also, please use this form to circle the date(s) of meetings you
cannot attend and insert your name and badge number. Clip-
out the form and mail it with your $2 contribution for each meet-
ing you will be missing to: Jack Cardon, 1825 Royal Ave., San
Mateo, CA 94401-3438.
This meeting: May 14
Next meeting: June 11
Meeting after: July 9
Name: ________________________________________
Badge No. _____________ Contribution: $_______
We’re Looking for New Members
We need your help. In order for our Branch to continue to exist, it’s very important that we add new members. Please consider whether anyone you know would be a candi-date and bring them as a guest to our lunch meeting.
excellent presentation about his representation of Mark Felt, aka “Deep Throat” of the Watergate era. May’s menu will be a House Salad with Raspberry Vinai-grette, Chicken Enchiladas with Rice and Beans and Flan for dessert. The alternate lunch will be a Chef Salad. There was a signup sheet available at the April luncheon for those who would like the chef’s salad at the upcoming meeting. But, if you missed it and would like the alternate meal in May, please call Bob Valdez (650-349-6489) right away and let him know so that he can notify the restaurant. The April meeting atten-dance certainly exceeded our
expectations and although we hope this attendance trend continues, we have no way of knowing if we will experience the same attendance in May. So, in order for us keep our promise to the restaurant’s chef of trying to provide him with a head count to help him with his food ordering and meal preparation, we will be implementing slightly different procedures with the monthly email reminder Dave Mattei sends to those of you who re-ceive email luncheon remind-ers, in addition to the Voice-Shot telephone reminders. When Dave sends the email Scott’s Thoughts continues on page 4
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MAY BIRTHDAYS
We have seven members who will be celebrating birthdays this month. Happy Birthday to you!
Jack Cardon Steve LaRosa
Jerry McLaughlin Lou Masini
Hans Merten John Rittweger
Ray Yoschak
Any of the above members present at this luncheon meeting are entitled to a raffle ticket and drawing for a free lunch at a subsequent meeting.
IN MEMORIAM WILLIAM “BILL” BRACHNA
May 22, 1919 - April 6, 2018
~Member of Branch 91 since 1983
NON-RESPONSIBILITY DECLARATION
All travel events and other activities arranged for or by, or sponsored
by, Sons in Retirement, Inc. and its Branches, are for the conven-
ience and pleasure of the members and their guests who desire to
participate. Sons in Retirement, Inc., and its Branches do not as-
sume any responsibility for the well being or safety of the participants
or passengers, or their property or any damages whatsoever, in any
manner pertaining to said activities.
Note to our hard-copy readers: Our newsletters may contain internet links to various documents or
lists. If you have no internet access and would like to have a copy of any of them, please contact the
Editor at (650)873-1938 and we’ll mail copies of any such documents to you.
Newsletter Submissions
We welcome for consideration, your articles or other
contributions for our newsletters. Please provide them
to the Editor by the 18th of the preceding month. We
cannot guarantee that items received after that date will
be included in the subsequent newsletter.
Your Contact Information
Please notify the Membership Chairman of all changes
in your address, email address or telephone number.
SIR Branch 91 - North Peninsula 109 Escanyo Dr., So. San Francisco CA 94080
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reminder, he will be asking you to send him a reply indicating whether you will or will not be attending the May14th luncheon. Likewise, the VoiceShot message will be asking that you call either John Cooney or Bob Valdez at the phone numbers provided, to con-firm your attendance. Please note that you will be receiving these reminders earlier than usual so that there is suffi-
cient lead-time to notify our chef of the number of meals to prepare. I would like to stress the importance of your response, so please respond as re-quested. I don’t anticipate this will be a monthly exercise because I believe that, after May’s luncheon, we will have a much better idea as to what our attendance will be at future lunches. Thank you all for your participation,
cooperation and support. Please tell your buddies that Sharp Park is a pretty nice place after all. And bring a guest next time. We need better num-bers. I look forward to seeing you all on May14th. Lets make it another great day with friends at the golf course. FORE!
Sons in Retirement “SIR Day at the Ball Park”
Oakland A’s vs San Francisco Giants
July 22, 2018—1 P.M.—Sunday
Oakland Coliseum
$55 per person—Section 104-105
Deadline—May 14, 2018
For additional details, please contact
Lee Severe (650) 595-1973
Now, but no later than Monday, May 14
