Dave Parker No matter what level a pickleball player is, there is always some skill to work on. The person at Robson Ranch Pickleball Club that oversees all skill development is Donna Henry. Donna is charged with organizing and developing skills development programs tailored to the needs of each level within the club. Clinics focus…
Marguerite Rose and Sandi Price The Material Girls Club whizzed past their goal of 5,000 masks with a final total of 8,373 masks made in 54 days. In the beginning, Marguerite Rose, founder of the club, commented, “I doubt you’ll get 100 masks made.” After all the masks were completed, she joked, “If you had…
Lynne Moore Due to the pandemic, so many of the things we have grown used to have changed. Our Support Our Troops organization, which supports individual military relatives of Robson Ranch residents as well as a number of charities, also has to adapt to the new normal. We had to cancel our annual golf tournament…
Bonnie Fickey Active Aging Group Fitness by Bonnie returns to normal action with phase one workouts in the parking lot of the Creative Arts Technical Center while practicing social distancing using flex cones as markers and workout props. Bonnie Fickey, instructor, offers fun, creative, and effective workouts for active agers with benefits over risks to…
Sam Karr I am 18 years old, wearing rain-soaked clothes for seven straight days, suffering from jungle rot and hunger and fatigue, fighting off ticks and leeches in a country I never knew, trying not to get killed. I am a Marine in Vietnam, and I am in constant fear. Can you imagine the feelings…
Jane Scholz Friends of the Library (FOL) is starting a monthly New Yorker Magazine Reading Club open to all Robson residents. For now, the group will meet via the online meeting application Zoom. You don’t need to be a member of FOL to participate—our activities are for the enjoyment of all Robson Ranch (RR) residents! Of…
Don Pooley By the time you read this article, we all hope that activities will have returned to Robson Ranch. Of course, our favorite activity is table tennis. Our normal play sessions are in the gym on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from noon to 2:30 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. to noon, and in the multipurpose room on…
Vicki Baker The practice of blowing glass seems hip and modern if you’ve recently visited an exhibition by Dale Chihuly, but the technique has been all the rage since the Roman Empire. While new technologies introduced more modern equipment, the fundamentals of glassblowing have evolved little since then. Setting out to tackle this ancient art…
Scott Baker The Amazon rainforest is a fisherman’s paradise. Over 2,000 different species of fish inhabit these waters. This is more than double the number of species found in all of the Atlantic Ocean. Can you imagine casting lures or flies into these remote waters searching for that prized peacock bass or going after the legendary…
Frances Hackley The Robson Ranch Choir was scheduled to perform “That ’70s Show” on April 18 and 19. The show, like all other events, was postponed. The new dates for the show are Aug. 8 at 7 p.m. and Aug. 9 at 4 p.m. So, just as before, patrons are asked and encouraged to come…