Continuing Education

day of each month at 4 PM. Call Bill Norton at 480-980-5493 for further instructions. For questions or more information, please visit the website or call an officer. Club dues are $30 per year.

Astronomy Pres. Allan Mashburn 435-219-0042 scovastronomy@gmail.com Wed., 7 PM, Catalina Vista, Oct.-Apr. www.scovastronomy.weebly.com

The Astronomy Club’s next meeting is Wednesday, October 19, 7 - 9 PM, Catalina Vista, and we’ll remain there through April 2023. The enrollment in the club has recovered from the Covid shutdown with the membership exceeding 100 individual and family members. It is wonderful to have such good attendance for our knowledgeable guest speakers. Next year’s speakers list is developing and will be posted once finalized.

During the October Did you miss the lunar eclipse in May? Club 19 meeting an officer’s member, Jim Pastore, took this picture of the slate needs to be final- eclipse with a spotting telescope and his iPhone. ized. Club Bylaws require the entire current slate to be replaced. Officer terms were extended due to Covid; please consider strongly supporting the club’s future by volunteering for one of the open positions. Please contact Allan Mashburn to volunteer.

Bible Studies

Men’s Bible Study

Jerry Anderson 520-638-6586 Oct.-May, Tue., 7:15 AM, Catalina Vista/Mt. Kimball

The Men’s Bible Study group is currently on summer vacation; weekly sessions will resume the second Tuesday in October, 7:15 AM, Catalina Vista. Over the summer, the group meets for breakfast every Tuesday at The Views Restaurant, 8 AM. If you have an interest, please join us.

Precept Women’s Bible Study

Pres. Elaine Farmer 253-318-0018 elaineruth@gmail.com Sec. Faith Heitmann 208-750-5886 quincie51@gmail.com Oct.-May, Wed., 8:50 AM, WC3

Genealogy Pres. Holly Gibson 303-548-1299 ghgibson@live.com General meetings Oct.-May, Third Mon., 1 PM, Catalina Vista www.scvgs.org

A huge thank you to the Sun City Vistoso Community Foundation for a grant to purchase a new Mac computer for the genealogy lab. The society president, along with four other members of the club, made a presentation to the Foundation in May, and they have gone above our expectations with this investment of grant funds in our lab. Come use the new Mac in the lab.

Are you taking a road trip this summer and planning to stop at family grave sites? Are the tombstones in your family plots starting to deteriorate? Consider volunteering and help to record a cemetery. FindAGrave at www.findagrave. com and Billion Graves at www.billiongraves.com are websites dedicated to preserving the important information inscribed on tombstones in the United States and around the world. You can photograph your family’s graves or a whole cemetery.

Great Books Pres. Barbara Gates 302-354-6615 VP Maryfaith Fox 612-414-7789 maryfaith.fox@gmail.com Oct.-Apr., First and Third Wed., 2 PM, Catalina Vista/Mt. Lemmon

Our club provides an opportunity for discussions of challenging ideas using the anthologies published by the Great Books Foundation. The topics and genres vary widely, but the conversation is always thoughtful and lively. We meet twice a month, October through April, and will start a new volume, Great Conversations 3, in the fall.

Newcomers are welcome. For more information, please contact Barbara or Maryfaith.

ILR - Institute of Learning in Retirement Pres. Mary Lee Fitzgerald fitzgerald.marylee@gmail.com www.suncityilr.com

ILR is launching a new initiative this fall called “Learning on the Road.” Under the direction of vice-president Alice Hutchison, local trips will be identified for unique learning opportunities which are best experienced onsite with a guided professional. Registration will be announced on the ILR website at the end of the summer, limited to ILR members only. The first scheduled trip in October is to the Tucson Crime Lab for a behind-the-scenes tour. The second trip in November will visit the Los Morteros Hohokam site and nearby petroglyphs, led by archaeologist Alan Dart.

Poets Corner Sharyn Rafieyan 520-331-1092 srafieyan@comcast.net Mon., 10 AM-Noon, WC1, Zoom meetings first Mon. of the month

It’s no secret that we change as we age, but it’s best to savor the good times and put the past in perspective. Poets Corner member Esther Berlot shares happy memories, regrets and a message of acceptance. This Temporary Life

“Forgetting and remembering / the calendar of time / hiding old wounds / under a blanket of fear.

Forgetting and remembering / best friends forever licking dreamsicles / Hearing whispered names of / crushes—now long gone.

Forgetting and remembering / waning eyesight that now sees / past frivolous screwups / dating married boss.

Forgetting and remembering / battles with anger now softened / Optimism reins in sadness / Bouts with grandiosity descend into reality.

Forgetting and remembering / a life of lust swapped for a life of mind / though the battle to understand / unknowable computer leaves me in darkness.

Forgetting and remembering / the last exit ramp that awaits me / as I blunder through this temporary life.”

SCOV poets are welcome to join our weekly Zoom meetings.