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Swim Club members share joy of fitness – and competing
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By Katherine Mace CONTRIBUTOR
Pam Mallette has been swimming only since 2019. But swimming has become an important part of her life. “I love it,” she said, “and when I come out of the pool, I feel like a million bucks.” Of the Sun City Swim Club, of which she is a newer member, she said, “The coaches believe in me. Some of us have more natural abilities. For me, I don’t know enough about it to mess it up.” Mallette said the Swim Club’s coaches are “very high level, easy to learn from. They are excellent teachers.” The Sun City Swim Club was established in 2014. Ed Hazlett, its revered founder, is retired but remains very interested. He described the club’s inception. He saw a notice in
SunSations about local recreation departments from two counties preparing to hold senior games. A woman in Sun City offered to help residents get ready, and Hazlett contacted her to help with the organization. A later gathering of some of those participants led to the start of the Sun City Swim Club. “I was always a teacher,” Hazlett said, who started swimming at age 8. “We moved here in 2013. I’ve coached swimming on four levels … including collegiate.” He still swims one mile, five days a week, mostly back stroke. Members across the spectrum describe Hazlett as a primary reason the club has flourished. He stepped down from the club just before the COVID pandemic, handing things over to coaches he had prepared well.
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SWIM from page 6SC The club was originally organized to prepare swimmers to compete, but now, of the 70 club members, 75% never compete, according to Chet Richards, the outgoing president. “Lots of people just want to improve their endurance by working with a coach so they swim better, are less apt to get hurt and enjoy it more,” Richards said. “Although there was a pause during the pandemic, we’ve worked hard to keep the club together.” Richards said he met his wife Ginger while they both attended the University of Mississippi at Oxford, where Chet took swimming lessons. They both love to swim and compete. Ginger Richards was the first person ever to compete for the Sun City team. “In 2014, I went to a meet alone. It was a bucket list thing,” she said. “I always wanted to compete. I was a nervous wreck, but I learned a lot.”
Currently, the club’s three coaches are Deb Walsh, Cynthia Smith and Sheila Jemelia, who are all USMS certified. There are also two assistant coaches. The incoming president is Ruth Dvorsczak. Three Swim Club groups swim regularly at the Lake House. Those who come for fitness reasons come Monday, Wednesday and Fridays from 12:30 to 2 p.m.; the Easy Start group is for people who want to get back into swimming and meets from 2 to 2:30 p.m.; and the advanced swimmers gather from 2:30 to 4 p.m. “The majority come for fitness reasons. We all take it seriously, but we don’t drive people hard. It’s like any other club,” said Coach Smith, who is also a certified trainer. “There is time to chat and people come to have fun. Swimming requires a fair amount of repetitive motion, so there is a formal period of warm-up. We
do all kinds of drills to maintain strength and cardio wellness.” There are always coaches on deck. For swim meets, members are seeded in a race depending on their times established at practice. When they enter, they are assigned to heats based on that time. Since the meets are for all ages over 18 (although most are over 40), a Sun City participant might swim in a lane next to someone who is 45 or 80 years old. The time is recorded, and then batched with entrants in the same age group (five year segments, i.e. 60-64, 65-69) to determine the winning times. “We (the competitors) go to three or four meets a year,” said member Rick McFadden. “I swim to keep my body in shape. I enjoy the quietness of it. My biggest thrill was a Greenville meet in 2019 where I swam as part of the 800 Meter Mixed Freestyle Relay. We were locked in and got first place.”
Current club swimmers Cynthia Smith and Jo Stewart were part of that team. “We were competing against people our own age,” Smith said. “At the end of each year, they post the fastest times. We had the third fastest time in the world. First place went to an Australian team and second went to a team from Sun City, Arizona. We got third!” Members who choose to compete are really good swimmers. Every single Sun City Swim Club member who participated in a recent meet in Charleston won a ribbon, and many won several! “It’s a group of people who want to be fit,” Walsh said. “It’s nice to be around people who love to swim.” For more information about joining the Swim Club, call 616-4604732 or email debrakwalsh@att.net. Katherine Mace is a writer who lives in Sun City.
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Annual ‘Best Photo of the Year’ winners picked in December By Sophia Schade CONTRIBUTOR
The Sun City Photography Club has a rich tradition of offering eight photo competitions each year for participants in four categories: Novice, Intermediate, Advanced and Expert. Many years ago, the club added a ninth competition, The People’s Choice Awards, which brings back the Blue Ribbon (first place winners) winners from each category awarded during the year. The club members then vote for their choices for the best of the best in each category, as well as the overall best photo of the year as Best of Show. These 2021 winners were selected and honored: In the Novice category, Doug Scott won PHOTOS COURTESY SUN CITY PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB for his “SP & S 700,” which also won Best of Show. In the Advance category, Kevin Schon- Winners of the December People’s Choice competition for Best Photos of the Year are, from left: Sophia Schade, Expert category; Kevin Schonhaut, Advanced category; Doug Scott, Novice catehaut won for his depiction of “Hmong Girl.” gory; and Steve Tate, Intermediate category. Steve Tate won in the Intermediate category for his “Net Result.” Sophia Schade, in the Expert category, won with her “You Look Like As a late bloomer in photography, during my and an intricately patterned “paj ntaub” or college years, I purchased my first single lens flower cloth pleated skirt. She glanced in my Someone I Know.” reflex camera. Soon, I began developing my direction for a moment and I captured the The winning photographers provided own color slides. image. insights into their work. Most of my photos are taken during travel. Sophia Schade, Expert Steve Tate, Intermediate Born in Athens Greece, I spent my teenage Those activities have been severely curtailed during the COVID pandemic, but hopefully My wife and I moved to Sun City in 2019 years in Maryland and traveled the U.S. and soon to be continued. from Raleigh, N.C., after living in Boca Raton, abroad with my job. We retired and moved I am very grateful today for the advent Fla., for 30-plus years. to Sun City seven years ago. and Five years of digital photography. It is a blessing to be I bought my first digital camera, other than ago, I joined the Photography Club. I started able to capture and view an image instantly an iPhone, last Christmas and joined the as a novice and worked hard to learn my new and make any necessary adjustments in the Photography Club shortly after. hobby. moment. I have invested a great deal to time The Club photography classes, class My goal is to capture nature and create learning and refining my techniques of digital instructors and mentors, SIGs, monthly memories to last a lifetime. I’m on a constant photo capture, editing and printing. competitions, reviews of photos, and travel journey of discovering a world flooded with The rewards come from those few images opportunities have been amazing. beauty. Someone once said “Beauty demands out of many that touch or move the photogI am loving being part of the photography replication,” and I am grateful every day to club and continue to learn and make new rapher and viewer alike. have such a fulfilling hobby. friends. Story behind the photo: “Hmong Girl” Story behind the photo: “You Look Like Story behind the photo: “Net Result” The photo of a young girl was taken while Someone I Know” I took this photo at sunrise at River Bend. touring Asia in December 2019. As part of The photo of this beautiful Tricolored our tour, we were visiting a Hmong village in Two men were shrimping with cast nets on Heron was taken in January of 2021 at Black the dock. They were experts at casting the the city of Luang Prabang, Laos. The Hmong Point Drive in Titusville, Fla., during a phonets. I should have gotten their names. I’m are an ethnic minority group from isolated tography trip. sure they would love a copy of the photos. mountain villages in Southeast Asia. It was a very calm morning, so it was the After we were welcomed by the village’ s perfect condition to photograph a mirror Doug Scott, Novice Shaman, their spiritual and political leadimage as the tricolor was stalking his prey. Following 48 years of living and working er, we were given a demonstration of the on Cape Cod, Doug and his wife Ellen moved group’s musical and dance traditions. During Kevin Schonhaut, Advanced to Sun City Hilton Head in March 2021. I first developed an interest in photography the dance, my eye was drawn to this girl as Doug is an avid railroad photographer and she curiously watched the visitors. She was as a teenager, capturing images mostly of has ridden and photographed trains in all 50 dressed in a traditional embroidered jacket family and friends with a Polaroid camera.
Doug Scott was honored as Best of Show in addition to his win in the novice category for his “SP & S 700.”
states, plus a good part of Canada, and is on the board of directors of the National Railway Historical Society. Although railroad and related images are his main subjects, Doug also enjoys maritime photography with emphasis on lighthouses, schooners and freight, passenger and fishing vessels. While on Cape Cod, mostly living in Eastham, Doug worked for a bank for a number of years and when that job went away, Doug changed careers and ran a one-hour film processing lab in a full service photo and art supply store in Orleans, Mass. Doug also belonged to the Cape Cod Art Association and the Cape Cod Viewfinders Camera Clubs prior to joining the Sun City Hilton Head Photography Club. Doug is also a model railroader and is a member of the Sun City Model Railroaders SIG. Story behind the photo: “SP&S #700” #700 was built for the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1938. It is a Northern type steam engine with a 4-8-4 wheel arrangement and is the only surviving SP&S steam locomotive. SP&S #700 is in the top 10 of the largest operating steam locomotives in the United States and is owned by the City of Portland. She is housed at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, where she is completing a mandated FRA inspection prior to going back into service in 2022. My image was taken during an afternoon/ evening photo session at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center. I hope to see her here again next October for more photography as she is my favorite locomotive.
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Retired Army Warrant Officer Larry Hyatt delivers a box of Christmas cards from Sun City residents to veterans living in veterans’ homes. The cards were addressed to “Honored Veteran,” with a warm holiday greeting inside. Hyatt is handing off the cards to Heather Nichol, activities director of the Georgia War Veterans’ Home in Augusta, Ga. SCVA membership coordinator George Simpson oversaw the initiative and Sun City residents dropped off 3,296 Cards that were distributed to veterans’ homes in South Carolina, Georgia and other states.
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Majestic live oaks along Argent Way provide more than shade for humans. They also help protect our environment.
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The presentation of the city of Bluffton’s proposed new fire station made no mention of its environmental impact. Locating it between the Sports Complex and Okatie Farms on the east side of Sun City Boulevard will necessitate the removal of many mature trees. Mature trees protect our environment in many ways. The day-to-day existence of a tree is critical to all living things. Trees take up carbon dioxide and water from the air and using energy from the sun, convert them into sugars to sustain themselves. The primary byproducts of this internal chemical reaction (photosynthesis) are oxygen, which is given back into the air, and carbon, which is stored primarily in the trunk and roots. It’s believed that one large tree can provide a day’s supply of oxygen for up to four people. No living thing survives without it. The storing of carbon in a tree’s trunk and roots helps fight against climate change and its harmful effects. Trees help manage storm water. A significant portion of rainwater is held by the leaves until absorbed or evaporated back into the air. The rain that bypasses the leaves is slowed and gentled by them, allowing for greater absorption by the soil beneath the
canopy, thus reducing runoff and erosion. Trees capture harmful pollutants from the air before they reach lawns and pavement to then be washed into storm drains. Trees are essential for wildlife. Most birds cannot survive without trees on which they rely for food, shelter and procreation. Fruits and berries produced by trees are eaten by adult birds. Trees host insects and caterpillars, without which baby birds cannot survive. Most birds use trees for protection from predators and weather. Many birds nest in trees to produce and rear their babies. Trees slow strong winds, thereby offering protection against storms. Trees absorb noise, leading to a quieter community. Trees cool the community. Trees have a calming effect on people. Since trees must be displaced to accommodate the proposed fire station, shouldn’t the plan include replacement of these lost trees? Replacement trees should be native to South Carolina to further benefit the environment. There are numerous places throughout our community that could be enhanced with more trees. The board of directors recently approved the Bluffton proposal, which will take several years to bring to fruition. There is still time to include replacement of lost trees in the project. David W. Smith is a member of the Environmental Action Group of Sun City Hilton Head.
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Natural Southern environment creates in-home pet cemetery By Chris Roosa CONTRIBUTOR
Years ago, when we moved to Houston from up north, I was immediately introduced to the roach population upon our arrival. We were staying at a motel, awaiting the closing of our newly built home. During the night, a huge Palmetto bug was crawling across my husbands face while he slept. I smashed it dead! That was my first introduction to this new Southern critter, “Ronnie Roach.” My second encounter occurred while staying at the second motel, with my three children in tow. Ronnie and his gang of friends came to visit us that evening. We were outnumbered, three to one. The kids and I armed ourselves with shoes and spent the evening smashing a multitude of roaches chasing up and down the walls of that suite. Hubby was sleeping peacefully, on
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the floor, at the new fumigated house. The moving van was to arrive early in the morning. He missed out on being inundated with roaches for the fight of his life. We have been in South Carolina for 16 years, and I have never had a problem with the community creatures. I don’t feed the gators nor do I get close to the waters edge, so I haven’t been attacked. I use a flea repellent pill for my little canine friends so that problem is under control. However, this summer, my glassed-in sun porch turned into a Pet Cemetery. Any given morning I can walk out to have my morning brew, only to find up to three roach carcasses upside down on the floor. I’ve also seen them scurrying around in the garage and occasionally inside my home. Add to that, the daddy-long-leg spiders weaving their cobwebs throughout my house. My domain was being invaded by critters this summer. Raid
became my weapon of choice. As summer raged on, I found some new “best friends.” For weeks, we were being invaded by the anole community. Picture this: My 83-year-old husband, permanently attached to a cane like a growth from his fist, trying to catch the slippery little buggers. Impossible! I personally wait them out for a couple of days, until the lizard is somewhat dehydrated. They slow down considerably when they have no nourishment for days. I then can easily pick them up and return them to the wild – perhaps a little lethargic but still alive. It’s the little frogs that are harder to corner. They might take up to four days of hiding before they limply allow me to return them to the nature of my yard. I have to be careful when I open that back door. According to what
I read on Nextdoor, I now have to watch out for copperheads. The written report is that my retirement community is being over-run by reptiles. If I understand these postings, I should be able to look out my sun porch windows and see thousands of alert slithering snakeheads peering up at me through the pine straw. They’re probably waiting their turn to invade my sanctuary. Little do they know what awaits them on my porch. Anymore, Houston’s not looking so bad. Along with the intense 100-degree temperatures, and 99% humidity, the weather pretty much suffocates any living being. Bluffton, and the surrounding areas, maintain too nice of a climate, affording all these critters a path to find their way to my Pet Cemetery all year long. Chris Roosa is a resident of Sun City Hilton Head.
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