John Burkholder, Poker Club Tournament Director The Inside Straight Poker Club’s upcoming 2017 tournament schedule promises challenging poker, player excitement and winner awards. Bi-monthly tournaments alternate between Texas Hold’em and Nebraska Omaha as follows: March 14, Omaha; May 9, Hold’em; July 11, Omaha; September 12, Hold’em; November 14, Omaha. Each tournament winner is awarded an…
Jan Marx We use slabs of clay to build pieces. We use lumps of clay to “throw” pots on the wheel, and some of us form objects with our fingers. For many years Happy Potters avoided making pinch pots. They thought it would hurt the clay, but through research we found that “pinching” balls of…
Darlene Lamb Tuesday, February 20, brought good friends together at the home of Rick and Darlene Lamb. Wines from the Pacific Northwest region were the featured wines of the evening. Several good wines were tasted along with some tasty appetizers. The wine tasting results were as follows. Third place winner was a 2014 Cali’s Cuvée…
Althea Parent The first 2017 HOA Trivia Night was the start of the fifth year. Once again it was a big hit. There were 19 playing teams and three spectator teams. However, a couple of team were short players due to illness, and some first time spectators jumped in and played. All those who attended…
Vicki Baker Chances of winning the lottery: one in 175,000,00. Chances of a child getting cancer: one in 285. Each year the parents of approximately 16,000 children hear the devastating words, “Your child has cancer.” Every day 43 children are diagnosed with cancer and 12% of those do not survive. While survival rates for many…
Vicki Baker The Rockin’ Red Ranchers kicked off February with an afternoon of dining, fashion, silent auction and fellowship, all for a good cause at the Go Red for Women Luncheon, Denton. Heart disease and stroke cause one in three deaths among women each year, more than all cancers combined. But this can be changed…