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W oodbridge LIFE Volume 9 • Issue 2 • Number 89

February Happy Valentine’s Day

Your Life. Your Community. Your News.

February • 2019

The

Way We

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David and Shirley Lopes

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

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Lorraine and John Sommerhalder

By Carol Jo Hargreaves. WBL photos by Jennie Cusdodio

Woodbridge LIFE traditionally celebrates long-married couples in its February edition. This year, Marie Evans shares the stories of three resident couples, all married more than 60 years. For more about David and Shirley Lopes, Earl and Dolly Reedy and John and Lorraine Sommerhalder and what makes their marriages successful, see pages 18-19.

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What’s Going On at Woodbridge?

By WBL Editor Carol Jo Hargreaves

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n the forefront of our minds this month are Valentine’s Day, love, romance (and chocolates) so, of course, the February edition of Woodbridge LIFE celebrates matters of the heart. In our traditional front-page feature, “The Way We Were,” Marie Evans interviews three long-married Woodbridge couples and shares their stories. Our thanks to the Lopes, Reedys and Sommerhalders, all married more than 60 years, for allowing us to take a peek into their enduring relationships.

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By Activities & Events Coordinator Jennie Custodio

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On the physical side of heart-related matters are two other important February observances. Most familiar to me is American Heart Month (see article, page 33) but another health-related observance is “National Self-Check Month.” Take charge of your health and increase your odds of avoiding chronic disease and other often preventable conditions by getting a check-up from your healthcare professional. In an associated health topic, Susie Blair, RN, BSN, shares the history of cardio pulmonary resuscitation in her “Health Tips” column on page 32. Susie will conduct two one-hour sessions of compressions-only CPR training in the Clubhouse, February 20. Consider attending this beneficial class. Jana Kattenhorn writes about a plant rather than an animal this month and decided her column needed a different title. See “Wild Things in Woodbridge,” page 29, for information about the Shaggy Mane mushrooms you might find growing in your yard at this time of year. In her regular monthly column, Master Gardener Cate White provides helpful tips for making gardening safer and easier on page 25. Although I installed raised garden beds in my yard, I could have been more astute in designing them so they would be more easily accessible and provide a comfortable place to sit when tending them. With heavy hearts, we bade farewell to Andrew Price last month. Our deepest sympathy to his wife Charleen and the Price family. Andrew gave a great deal to this community during the five years he lived in Woodbridge. He brought fresh ideas to the WOA board as it transformed from developer-run to all-member directors. I found Andrew to be a gentle man with a love for baseball and singing and a penchant for teasing. See Norm Hauser’s eulogy to Andrew on page 4. Appointed to fill the remainder of Andrew’s term on the board, Rick Van De Boom is introduced on page 5. Welcome, Rick! Thank you for your willingness to take on this new responsibility. It was exactly a year ago in this column that I lamented John Baber’s leaving Woodbridge. At the time, I did not know what a jewel we would get in his successor, Activities & Events Coordinator Jennie Custodio. Jennie is gracious, thoughtful, tireless and eager to accommodate residents’ requests for activities and entertainment. Happy one-year anniversary, Jennie! We’re glad you’re here!

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t’s my anniversary! Believe it or not, it’s been one year since I started at Woodbridge. Time sure flies when you’re having fun! I really can’t express enough how much I LOVE my job, how much I enjoy what I do, and I really do thank all of you from the bottom of my heart for making work such a great place to come to everyday.

Jennie Custodio, Activities/Events Coordinator

It is February and LOVE is in the air. I hope you will join us for our Valentine’s Dinner and Dance on February 14. We are bringing back Season Daddy, the caterer with the amazing soup, to cater a beautiful dinner along with music from resident favorite Jerry Lopes and band. And we’re topping off the night with a chocolate fountain for dessert. Skip the restaurants and bring your sweetheart down to the Clubhouse for a pretty sweet night. Looking for a sweet treat for your Valentine? Lori Rosman is back to teach a Valentine Cookie Bouquet class. Students will leave with a beautiful bouquet of treats to keep or gift to someone special. Our very own Strummin’ Wonders will perform a LOVE Concert Sing-along and resident Susie Blair, RN, BSN, will teach a Hands–Only CPR training to keep your ticker ticking. If your heart desires more information, February is your month. This month we’ll welcome Thorson Financial, Doctors Hospital and P.L. Fry & Son to Woodbridge with lots of great presentations. Whatever suits your fancy, February is sure to bring an event that you will LOVE.

Happy Valentine’s Day! Take good care of your heart!

~ Carol Jo Hargreaves and the Woodbridge LIFE team

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From the Bridge

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By Ramon Rivera

he WOA has focused immensely on improvements for the long-term success of the corporation. Through the board’s direction, support from board-appointed committees and execution by operations, the WOA will succeed. There is also one %\ 5DPRQ 5LYHUD important item that, above all successes, is what makes Woodbridge a community. That is the focus the community has on each other. Whether it’s through activities, a Widow and Widowers club or programs such as Neighbors Helping Neighbors, the community comes together for others.

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questions of his own mortality, Andrew was focused on his duty to serve his community. I found myself in awe of his level of commitment %\ 5DPRQ 5LYHUD to Woodbridge. A memory I will always have of Andrew is how he summoned the strength to perform one last time during the Woodbridge WOA Communication Singers Christmas Concert. As I saw Andrew coming into the Clubhouse for the performance, I wasn’t surprised, because he told me in our last conversation that quitting was not in his vocabulary. He fought to the very end. I ask for all of you to come together as you read this article to remember Andrew Price and also keep in your thoughts our members who are battling all forms of illness. My hope is if we all come together, we can provide hope, strength and a miracle where it is needed.

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This year is off to a fast start. I don’t think anyone anticipated how much work is ahead. I heard a saying recently that makes more sense to me now than ever. It’s simple but has so much meaning. “How you do eat an elephant?� The answer is, “One bite at a time.� Step by step or, in this case, bite after bite, we all work together to reach a common goal, the betterment of the WOA. The new Property, Plant and Equipment Committee (PP&E) is off to the fastest start of a committee I have witnessed during my time here. I also know they have the leadership and volunteers to tackle the tasks they have been assigned. I attended their first meeting and I came across some math I hadn’t calculated or truly realized before. In some cases, committee members have more years of work experience than I do in age. More importantly, PP&E was the vision of Andrew Price, who recently passed. The PP&E Committee and I will do all in our power to fulfill Andrew’s vision. I owe Andrew my utmost efforts for all he did for me when I needed him the most. During my last visit with Andrew, I had the opportunity to see why he was a man of much success. As he faced

ANDREW PRICE, COMMUNITY CHAMPION By WOA Board President Norm Hauser

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n January 12, the Woodbridge family was saddened to learn that our dear friend and community champion, Andrew Price, had passed away. His loss will be felt in so many ways. Andrew led a life of service to his family, to his friends, to his country as a submariner and intelligence officer, to his church, and to the Woodbridge community. Andrew fully involved himself in this community. He could, variously, be found at a Men of Woodbridge meeting, a Woodbridge Singers choir presentation, a Wine 101 event, the Veterans group, working various fundraising meal events or the oh-so-many other activities that he supported.

WOODBRIDGE OWNERS ASSOCIATION MISSION STATEMENT MISSION: Safeguard the common interests and physical assets of the association that afford members an enhanced and rewarding quality of life in a fiscally responsible manner.

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VISION: A proud, welcoming, and most desirable 55+ Active Adult Community with a friendly and enjoyable lifestyle for its members, family, friends, and community.

Values: Honesty, Integrity, Diversity, Respect, Fairness, Friendliness, Compassion, Cooperation, Consistency, Education, and Common Sense.

Andrew was a man of compassion. He sought sympathy and understanding for those who may have been guilty of some transgression or other. He preferred to prescribe a program of redemption instead of retribution. He saw the good in people and believed that should be cultivated whenever possible. Charleen, thank you so much for loaning Andrew to us these past couple of years. Until he recently found it necessary to step down as a member of the board of directors, Andrew’s $ 9(5< 9(5< %,* 7+$1. <28 72 5(6,'(17 :$<1( :$5' :+2 contributions to the governance of this community will live on and provide us with a constant reminder of Andrew and %5,1*6 86 7+( 0267 '(&$'(17 9$5,(7< 2) &+2&2/$7(6 the manner in which he chose to live his life while enriching :( 62222 $335(&,$7( <28 :$<1( ours. Certainly, he will be missed but just as certainly, his a :22'%5,'*( 67$)) contributions will remain as a part of our lives far into the future.

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From the Boardroom 2019 Reserve Fund Budget By Steve Brazen, WOA treasurer

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ast December, for the first time, the board mailed you the Annual Reserve Budget. This budget was approved at the October 2018 board meeting and is different from the Reserve Fund Analysis which you received earlier in your Annual Budget packet. This budget describes the dollar amounts in the Reserve Fund at the beginning of 2019 and lists the specific expenses that may occur during the year, the Reserve Contributions that will be made during the year and the earnings from the investment of WOA funds. This is the first time the board has provided members with this specific layout and their intent is to include it as a part of the Annual Budget packet in the future. The board wants you to know the condition of the Reserve Fund and how it has been used from year to year. The following comments summarize the Reserve Fund budget and how the fund works: 2019 will be another strong financial year for the WOA Reserve Fund. At the beginning of the fiscal year, we started out with $2,996,313. Over the course of the coming year, we will contribute $644,168 into the fund. Monthly assessments will contribute $519,168 and an additional $125,000 will be deposited from a surplus from the 2018 operating budget. We have made major changes in the investment of the funds. We will get a better rate of return on CDs and now all of WOA’s funds will be covered by FDIC insurance against any losses. We are projecting about $75,000 in earnings in the 2019 budget. On the expense side, we will spend $416,316. You can review the list of items on the budget sheet you received with the mailing. In addition, we expect the state and federal tax bill on the fund earnings to be approximately $25,000. So, when you do the math, the fund balance at the end of the year is projected to be $3,274,165. This is an increase in the Reserve Fund balance of $277,852. This means the current level of funding is projected to be at 105 percent of what we will need to cover future Reserve capital and deferred maintenance expenses. Now you might wonder, why do we need to have over $3,000,000 in WOA reserves when we’re spending $416,000 next year? The $3,000,000 now in the fund, plus the Reserve Contribution we make every month from assessments, will pay for the replacement and major repairs of commonly held assets in and around the Clubhouse. We hire a company to estimate how much it will cost us to do these replacement and repair projects. Every three years,

every asset the WOA owns is reviewed for its useful life, when it will need to be replaced or repaired and how much that will cost. So, for example, a dollar amount is projected for the Clubhouse roof, air-conditioning, major exterior painting, etc., and each item is put on a timeline. This schedule is projected out over 30 years. Then, the company tells us how much we need to contribute each year into the Reserve Fund so that we will always have enough money to pay for future replacement and repairs. Every year, we put money into the Reserve Fund and every year we spend money from the fund. Some years, like 2019, we will put more money in than we take out. In future years, we will spend much more than we put in. The expenses get higher as WOA-owned buildings and other assets get older. The Reserve Fund, and the review process we do, protects the WOA from getting hit with special assessments for unforeseen big-ticket items. You’ve probably heard horror stories about HOAs that didn’t bother to put money away for the future and found themselves paying large amounts of money into special assessments to cover projects that should not have been surprises. This should not happen at Woodbridge because of the process we use. Again, the financial condition of the WOA is very strong and we are in good shape both from an operating and a reserve perspective. We hope that this budget and its review will give you confidence in the strength of WOA finances.

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WOA BOARD WELCOMES VAN DE BOOM By WOA Board President Norm Hauser

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t the regularly scheduled WOA Board of Directors meeting in January, the board appointed Rick Van De Boom to fill a vacancy created when Andrew Price felt it necessary to resign. Van De Boom was the first runner-up in the 2018 election and will serve out the remainder of Price’s term. Rick moved to Woodbridge in 2015 from Dublin, California. He had recently retired from a major energy company where he served as an executive who managed multiple teams around the world. In his business career, Rick was responsible for a variety of capital projects that involved meeting business and cost objectives and deadlines. He also has broad experience with cyber security issues. Rick already has extensive experience in HOA business affairs. He volunteered for his Dublin community and served for eight years as the president of its HOA.

Since moving to Woodbridge, Rick has volunteered for numerous operations work groups and committees. In addition, he currently serves as president of the Veterans of Woodbridge group. With his diverse background and years of hands-on HOA board experience, Rick is prepared to make an immediate contribution to the WOA board. His knowledge and experience will complement the backgrounds and contributions of other board members to help maintain a productive balance of skills. Seated on the board only at the end of its January meeting, Rick has already begun to increase his knowledge by immediately joining the Community Associations Institute and attending a briefing on new 2019 laws that may impact the way the WOA does business. He will hit the ground running when he attends his first scheduled board meeting, February 6. Welcome to the Woodbridge board of directors, Rick. We look forward to working with you in the months to come.

Meets every other Monday Woodbridge Singers Elizabeth Cunning 647-4380 @ 6:30 p.m. Page 6 • February 2019

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ææ ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW COMMITTEE By Tony Delgado, chair

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t seems like just a couple of weeks ago we were putting away the last of the holiday decorations and wondering why there were so many.

Here’s a little hint: The holidays are fun and festive and we can hardly wait to do it all over again in 10 months and 15 days! Life just takes on a different perspective when there are colored lights, Christmas trees and inflatable Santas everywhere. This year, I saw my first Santa Claus coming out of an outhouse… Hmmmm, I will be curious to see if that generates a non-compliance landscape/decoration issue. The outhouse appeared to be within the Design Guideline requirements (no higher than the fence) but the roll of toilet paper on the outside was a little bit “too much information.” I digress. February starts getting us ready for the onset of spring as well as getting us thinking about flower issues. No, not the ones in the yard, the ones that come from the florist, are placed in vases and given to the special people in our lives. There is no Design Guideline section dedicated to these types of flowers. I can tell you, however, the consequences for failing to comply with this type of floral responsibility will be a lot more severe than any non-compliance issue. You have officially been warned. We jest about our landscape issues. It’s all in good fun but I would like to take this time to bring light to some ongoing issues members of the Architectural Review Committee (ARC) are seeing all too often. Landscape plans need to include a drawing that resembles the shape of your yard, which includes measurements (so committee members are able to determine square footage, plant coverage, tree setbacks, etc.) Please include the materials you plan to use, (i.e., plants, lawn, concrete, bark and rock) as well as the type/color/style of the material you plan to use. Photos or samples of these materials should also be provided. The Architectural Review Committee has reviewed plans that list vague descriptions of landscape items such as: “Cement - whatever pattern or color allowable” “Rock - whatever is allowed; probably like my neighbors” “Bark.” (No type, color or size listed) “Plants - to be determined” Committee members want to remind you that these plans are for you. Yes, we may be checking for compliance issues and adherence to standards but we want your yards to be a reflection of you and of our community. They are something you should adequately plan for and be proud of upon completion. Some due diligence and review of the current Design Guidelines can go a long way. Happy February!

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Artists & Crafters Ballroom Dance Bocce Ball Bridge Bunco Canasta Chair Volleyball Chess Club Cooking 401

Contact Penny Dauler Patti Barnhart Rick Hyden Kathy Comden Cherie Ford Mary Braun Susan Holt Judy Simpson Dave Steffy Jack Dauler Jan Spence

Craft Beer Group Bill Holst Crochet/Knitting Cribbage Drama

Debbie Vierra Dave Steffy Michelle Paradis Rick Hyden Game Night Charlotte Sparks Hand & Foot Sue Cameron Ladies Billiards Mary Braun Line Dancing (Beginning) Sue Lough Line Dancing Patti Barnhart Line Dancing (Evening) Mary Salvador Men of Woodbridge Chuck Harvey National (American) Mah Jongg Neighborhood Watch Group

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Wednesdays 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Fridays 1 - 3 p.m. Block Captains will be Bob Hall 239-5712 notified of meetings 916Night Riders Nancie Ross 297-3271 Call for currrent times. Oil Painters Patti Barnhart 629-8838 Tuesdays @ 9 a.m. Mondays @ 4 - 5 p.m. Paddle Tennis Stan Sutfin 815-9735 at Liberty Park Paper Crafters Betty Grandt 815-9827 Wednesdays 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. 650Pickleball Barbara Shapiro 438-3085 M-F. Time varies Ping Pong John Goodman 629-8200 M & TH @ 1 - 3 p.m. 510Mondays @ 2:15 p.m. Pinochle Robert Philis 909-8997 Thursdays @ 1 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. Al Sanchez 239-8235 Wednesdays @ 1 p.m. & Poker Joe Victoria 815-9343 Fridays @ 5 p.m. Radio Controlled Flyers Bob Umberger 239-2983 Days and times vary 408Robotics Larry Wiertel 439-5828 Tuesdays @ 6:30 p.m. Westport Room, Scrapbookers Elaine DeSouza 603-9796 3rd Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 818429-1221 Shang-hai Rummy Cindy Carlsen 647-2695 Tuesdays @ 12 - 3 p.m. Strummin’ Wonders Carla Marquardt 624-3754 Mondays @ 2 p.m. Tennis Jim Corey 665-7687 TU-TH-SU, 9-11 a.m. 559Trivia Eileen Hill 301-3262 3rd Tuesday @ 7 p.m. Veterans of Woodbridge Rick Van De Boom 923-4709 2nd Monday @ 11 a.m. Walking Indoors Jacque Reynolds 629-8508 M-W-F @ 8:30 a.m. 510Wheels of Woodbridge Steve Ray 876-2962 1st Tuesday @ 10:30 a.m. Widows & Widowers Group Francesca Jeglum 305-8448 3rd Saturday Wine 101 Jon Ford 815-9803 Days vary Wii Bowling Tom Heckl 275-9537 Tuesdays @ 1 p.m. Women of Woodbridge Polly Smith 665-7236 3rd Wednesday @ 11 a.m. Woodbridge Thursdays 1-3 p.m. Women’s Calvary Church Bible Study Carolyn Johnson 239-0936 815 W. Lathrop Rd., Manteca Woodbridge Monday through Friday Pool Hustlers Ron Plummer 609-4350 @ 12 - 3 p.m. Woodbridge Book Group Patty DeRoos 239-2833 1st Wednesday @ 10:30 a.m. Woodbridge Senior 408Softball Club John Ochoa 981-3499 Seasonal Woodbridge 4083rd Wednesday @ 4:30 p.m. Seniors Golf Club Mike Patterson 640-9768 in the Oxford Room Meets every other Monday Woodbridge Singers Elizabeth Cunning 647-4380 @ 6:30 p.m.

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• Tony Delgago, ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW chair FINANCE COMMITTEE IDENTITY THEFT PRESENTATION BY THORSON FINANCIAL bmradct@yahoo.com • Jacob Lewis, • Tony Delgado, Chair Chair Tuesday, February 5 @ 6:30 p.m. – Presentation will include 647-2593 lijalewis@comcast.net bmradct@yahoo.com how to protect your retirement and identity with a local 647-2995 647-2593 Manteca Police detective as our special guest. He will provide LIFESTYLE COMMUNICATION tips, tools and tricks to always remain one step ahead of FINANCE COMMITTEE John Baber, Chair • • Carol Jo Hargreaves, chair jbaber@ourwoodbridge.net hackers, scammers and thieves. Dessert and refreshments will • JacobWoodbridge Lewis, Chair LIFE824-7927 Editor be provided. Sign up at the front desk. In the Multipurpose lijalewis@comcast.net WBLIFE2017@gmail.com Room. FREE. 647-2995 COMMUNICATION 823-3538 •

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2 to 4 p.m.) Tickets may also be purchased by calling Terri Heath at (925) 890-2578. $25 STRUMMIN’ WONDERS LOVE CONCERT SING - ALONG Monday, February 18 @ 6:30 p.m. – Come sing along to your favorite love songs as the Strummin’ Wonders ukulele group presents Love Song Sing - along. You are invited to bring a goodie to share. Sign up at the front desk. In the Multipurpose Room. FREE. COOKING 401 – Tuesday, February 19 @ 2 p.m. – Inspired by her latest trip to Malaysia, resident cook Heather Fuchslin will make Malaysian chicken satay with peanut sauce. In the Quincy Room. Sign up at the front desk. $5. CASINO TRIP TO BLACK OAK – Wednesday, February 20 @ 8:30 a.m. – Board the bus to Black Oak Casino for a five-hour stay and win big. Each player receives $10 in slot play, $5 match play and a $5 food voucher. Please arrange to be at the Clubhouse by 8:15 a.m. The emergency contact form at the front desk must be completed each time. Pay at the front desk. $13 CASH ONLY (does not include tip for the driver). HANDS-ONLY CPR TRAINING WITH SUSIE BLAIR – Wednesday, February 20. Two class times available: 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. This class will show how compressions-only CPR can keep your loved one alive until more experienced rescuers arrive. This is not for certification. For more information, please contact Susie Blair at 401-1266. In the Westport Room. Sign up at the front desk. FREE.

COOKIE BOUQUET CLASS WITH LORI ROSMAN – Friday, P.L. FRY & SON FUNERAL HOME SEMINAR – Wednesday, February 8 @ 1 p.m. – This class will create a Valentine February 20 @ 5:30 p.m. – You’re invited to a peace of cookie basket to take to your favorite Valentine. The basket mind seminar. We invite you to learn how planning for will include five to seven sugar cookies beautifully arranged, your final wishes may shield your family from unnecessary covered in glaze icing and fondant. Impression mats and emotional and financial burdens. Join us and learn more stencils will also be used. Bring an apron, notepad and a about pre-arrangements, veteran benefits, cremation, burials pencil. All other supplies will be provided. In the Quincy and more. A light dinner will be served. Sign up at the front Room. Sign up at the front desk. Limited:KHQ \RX KDYH VLJQHG XS IRU DQ HYHQW DFWLYLW\ RU WRXU DQG \RX Ă€QG \RX DUH to the first 25 desk. In the Multipurpose Room. FREE. Notice unable to attend, please, as a courtesy to others, call the Clubhouse front desk residents.Important $10. About Cancellations WR FDQFHO ,I WKH HYHQW KDV D ZDLWLQJ OLVW WKH IURQW GHVN FDQ Ă€OO WKH OLLI@PACIFIC SPEAKER SERIES | JOHN MUIR’S vacancy from the list. Thank you. LISTENING POST – Tuesday, February 12 @ 6 p.m. – Listening COMMUNIONS WITH DEATH & LIFE, MIKE WURTZ – Thursday, Post is an informative forum with an open invitation for all February 21 @ 3:30 p.m. – Mike Wurtz will share some of residents to attend. Hosted by Ramon Rivera, operations John Muir’s adventures as illustrated with Muir’s drawings, manager, updates and discussions will be provided on WOA letters and journals from UOP and examine how Muir used his operations, projects, special events and hot topic issues. We masterful observational skills to study, promote and protect “anywhere that is wild.â€? In the Multipurpose Room. Become encourage all residents to come and participate. Most of our ideas for improvements begin with the feedback we receive at an Associate Member of OLLI to attend this interesting series of nine different presentations. The fee for an Associate Listening Post. Come and join us. We look forward to seeing Membership is $25 and attendance is limited to the series you there! In the Multipurpose Room. FREE. of classes to be held at Woodbridge. Registration forms are available from the Clubhouse front desk. (If you would prefer VALENTINE’S DINNER AND DANCE – Thursday, February 14 to purchase a Regular Membership and attend all OLLI classes @ 5 p.m. – Celebrate Valentine’s Day at the Clubhouse with at Woodbridge and on the UOP campus, the fee is $65.) dinner catered by Season Daddy as resident favorite Jerry Lopes provides the music. A chocolate fountain will be WINE 101 – Thursday, February 21 @ 6 p.m. – “Super Shiraz provided for dessert. In the Multipurpose Room. Purchase and Syrah.â€? The focus for the class will be looking at the tickets at the front desk. $20. wonderful wine, indigenous to the Rhone Valley in France, known as Syrah. Where did the word Shiraz come from for WOMEN OF WOODBRIDGE SPRING LUNCH AND FASHION this wine? We will be looking at makers from all over the SHOW – Saturday, February 16 and Sunday, February 17 world as well as blends featuring Syrah. Participants bring @ 12 p.m. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. Women of Woodbridge their own glasses, an appetizer to share with the class and a presents “Friendships in Bloom,â€? the spring luncheon and Syrah or Shiraz to share with their table and neighbors. The :KHQ \RX KDYH VLJQHG XS IRU DQ HYHQW DFWLYLW\ RU WRXU DQG \RX Ă€QG \RX DUH fashion show. Proceeds will benefit Manteca Unified School community tablecall willthe have 12 fabulous Syrah, unable to attend, to others, Clubhouse front deskShiraz or Syrah District’s homeless children’s program. Tickets willplease, be soldas a courtesy blends to sample. All utensils, plates, napkins and water will WR FDQFHO ,I WKH HYHQW KDV D ZDLWLQJ OLVW WKH IURQW GHVN FDQ Ă€OO WKH by WOW members beginning January 16 in the Clubhouse be provided. In the Multipurpose Room. Sign up at the front (Mondays and Fridays, 9 to 11 a.m. and Wednesdays, vacancy from the list. Thank you.desk. $3 non-refundable.

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he Woodbridge Owners Association (WOA) board established a new Property, Plant & Equipment Committee (PP&E) that will serve the Woodbridge community as a standing advisory committee to the board. Property, plant and equipment are the tangible fixed physical assets of Woodbridge including land, buildings, support equipment and machinery and related items that generate long-term benefit for the WOA and its members. The new committee’s mission is to actively assist the WOA board in its role of providing good stewardship, sound policies and cost-effective long-range planning for WOA property and grounds.

Woodbridge residents will be notified of all regular monthly meetings by posting meeting agendas in the Clubhouse and on the Woodbridge portal. Meeting minutes will be recorded and made available on the portal.

Examples of the critical work to be performed include: detailed facility and grounds inspections and reports to the board; audit of preventative maintenance work, schedules, documentation and best practices; review of annual reserve spending recommendations and priorities; review and assistance with updates to the Woodbridge long-range capital reserve study; coordination of PP&E recommended expenditures with the Finance Committee as part of the annual budgeting process; identification of potential projects for board consideration that may involve facility and grounds replacement or improvement and receipt of PP&E related ideas and suggestions from residents and the board for review, analysis and recommendations. All of this work will be done in support of the WOA’s mission strategy to “Preserve the beauty, value, and enjoyment of Woodbridge by maintaining/improving common areas/facilities and enforcing our governing documents.”

All committee members are excited to be a part of this new WOA board governance structure and to work transparently and respectfully with residents, Woodbridge staff and the WOA board to maintain all of the WOA’s assets in a state of good repair and, over time, deliver enhancements to this wonderful community we all call home.

PP&E members are: Chuck Harvey, chair, Mike Spence, vice chair, Bonnie Pater, secretary, Wayne Van Wagner, Steve Foster, Tony Delgado, Lanny Langdon with Bob Teglia as WOA board liaison. Regular scheduled meetings will be held the first Monday of each month at 9 a.m. in the Clubhouse.

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There is a lot of work to be done. The best analogy is “like painting the Golden Gate Bridge,” the effort to maintain and improve the condition of the Woodbridge PP&E assets is a continuous, never-ending responsibility. The new committee will take some time to get fully up to speed. So, like “painting the bridge,” please be patient as we work on our processes and early priorities and until we can circle back to all issues brought to the PP&E. We all look forward to serving you and hearing from you. My contact information is listed in the WOA committee roster in this publication as well as on the portal and in the annual Woodbridge Community Directory.

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rrr…it’s so cold outside. Why not come on down to the Westport Room to warm up and get crafty? We crafters have some fun, informative classes lined up this month (and next month, too). Read on to find out about an apron-making class, a watercolor painting class, a Jelly Roll Rug class and the Woodbridge Rocks class. Weekly groups are back to their regular schedules in the Westport Room. These groups are open to anyone who would like to join in the fun. All are welcome! Porcelain Painters meet Mondays, Oil Painters meet Tuesdays, Paper Crafters meet Wednesdays and Knitters/ Crocheters meet Thursdays. In addition to these weekly groups, Scrapbookers meet the third Friday of each month. Here’s what the Artists & Crafters group has happening this month: Friday, February 1 at 10 a.m. – Artists & Crafters GENERAL MEETING. If you’d like to be among the first to hear about events for the month (and beyond) and sign up for upcoming classes, please join us at our General Meeting. We’d love to see you! Thursday, February 7 at 12:30 p.m. – Martha Harman will teach an APRON class. Come learn from the multi-talented Martha about how to make an apron. The supply list will be available February 1. Friday, February 8 at 12:30 p.m. – Molly Cooper will teach a WATERCOLOR PAINTING class. This month’s painting is entitled, “Lavender Hill.” That already sounds like a masterpiece! Why not try your hand at this beautiful art form? Friday, February 15 at 9 a.m., SCRAPBOOKERS get together to work on their scrapbooks. Have a lot of holiday photos? Why not begin a scrapbook and create a place to display your photos and memories.

Monday, February 18 at 10 a.m. – KAISER BREAST CANCER PILLOW WORKSHOP. Martha Harman leads a talented group of ladies who make pillows for breast cancer patients. Please come help put these pillows together and know your talent and energy are going toward helping someone who is facing a health challenge. You don’t need to know how to sew to help. You can cut fabric, stuff the pillows – there’s lots to do to help that doesn’t require sewing! (Kaiser Hospital provides the materials.) Thursday, February 21 and Thursday, February 28 at 12:30 p.m., Lorna Powell will teach how to make a JELLY ROLL RUG. This is an intermediate sewing/quilting project. This class will be taught on two consecutive Thursday afternoons (so you’ll have some “homework” in between the first and second class!). The supply list will be available February 1. Friday, February 22 at 10 a.m. - Kathy Dezotte will lead the WOODBRIDGE ROCKS class. Kathy will teach attendees how to paint the fun rocks people are discovering all over the community and beyond. Rocks, paints and brushes will be provided. Come join in the fun and create these rocks that are sure to bring a smile! We post our Artists & Crafters calendar of activities for the month and class sign-up sheets on the easel outside the Westport Room following our General Meeting. Also, make sure to check out the Westport Room window displays. In addition to upcoming class project samples, we also display samples from groups that meet regularly, as well as samples from our philanthropic groups. Have a great month. Happy Valentine’s Day!

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ave you ever wanted to learn to quilt? Want to learn some basic techniques and the supplies required? The Artists & Crafters can help you with that! Artists & Crafters will be offering a four-part series of demonstration-style classes entitled, SO YOU THINK YOU WANNA QUILT? Instructors Lynn Brazen and Elizabeth Cunning will present these classes on Thursday afternoons in March at 1 p.m. The first class will provide attendees with information about the basic tools and skills required. The remaining three classes will go into more depth about quilt-making and will provide help with

choosing fabrics, cutting tips, piecing and pressing fabric, batting and backing supplies/techniques, and quilting and binding techniques. These classes will also provide demonstrations of techniques and tips, so attendees can go home and practice what they’ve seen and learned. A lot of the techniques and tips might be great for those of you who already quilt, so experienced quilters might want to check out these classes, too! The sign-up sheet and more details about this series of classes will be provided at the February 1 Artists & Crafters General Meeting.

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The 13-week study will explore how the Christ of the New Testament is the fulfillment of the Old Testament. Explore how the Gospels reveal different aspects of Christ. This interdenominational study, which begins on February 7, is held at Calvary Community Church, 718 Lathrop Road in room 206. Books are $10 and should be picked up Monday, February 4, between 1 and 3 p.m. at the home of Carolyn Johnson, 2492 Pepper Tree Lane. All women are welcome to join us as we enjoy Christian fellowship, refreshments, music, discussion and prayer. Please contact Carolyn at 239-0936 or email grjclj@verizon.net if you plan to attend.

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both days. Food will be served by youth from Discovery ChalleNGe Academy in Lathrop, a partnership between the California National Guard and San Joaquin County Office of Education (SJCOE) for youth between the ages of 16 and 18 who have dropped out of high school, are at-risk of dropping out or are credit deficient. Desserts will be hand made by the Women of Woodbridge and include many choices.

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All proceeds will be donated to benefit the Health Services Department of the Manteca Unified School District for its homeless student program. We have found that the need has grown over the years. These students need basic services and Women of Woodbridge is proud to be able to help in this worthwhile cause.

We continue to plan the fashion show with fashions to be provided by dressbarnŽ on Saturday, February 16, and by J. JillŽ on Sunday, February 17. The models for our event are women who have been active in our community in years past. They will be escorted by members of the Manteca Police Department SWAT Team. The name of our event this year is “Friendships in Bloom� and is being held on February 16 and 17 starting at 11:30 a.m. in the Multipurpose Room. Cindy McGehee is the chairperson.

Our next Women of Woodbridge membership meeting will be Wednesday, February 20, at 11 a.m. We will also have a Steering Committee Meeting, Wednesday, March 6, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. We will be making plans for the remainder of the year and will then bring them to the membership for discussion. Please join us to provide your support and innovative ideas.

Tickets are $25 and went on sale January 16. Terri Heath and other Women of Woodbridge members will sell tickets in the Clubhouse lobby Mondays and Fridays, 9 to 11 a.m. and Wednesdays, 2 to 4 p.m. A large poster board will show the tables and hostesses for

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Thanks to all who attended the January Winter Dance where the Second Chance Band played. Looking ahead in 2019, we hope you will join us as the Men of Woodbridge presents some of its traditional events. Coming up on March 13, we will hold the annual St. Patrick’s Corned Beef and Cabbage Feed. On May 12, please join us as we sponsor the annual Mother’s Day Breakfast in the Clubhouse. Later in the summer, we will hold additional dances and local DJ Talent Nights, host our annual Baked Potato and Chili Feed and have a final Dessert and Dance event before the holidays.

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he Men of Woodbridge closed out the 2018 giving campaign by delivering a $1,000 check to the San Joaquin County Meals on Wheels program. This is the second year that Men of Woodbridge has supported this program with a year-end donation. Meals on Wheels serves the entire county and delivers more than 100,000 meals per year to homebound residents who meet program eligibility requirements. The check presentation was held at the Meals on Wheels warehouse, which provided an opportunity to meet and thank the delivery drivers and program managers. Photo by Carmen Matty, Aging Program Coordinator for San Joaquin County

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en of Woodbridge is a service and social group open to all gentlemen residing in the community. The group’s motto is “Do what you can, when you can.” We are excited to serve you in 2019 with affordable fun-filled MOW sponsored events, as well as assisting other Woodbridge service organizations with their events. All funds that the MOW raises are returned to local community service agencies via charitable gifts at the end of each year.

In addition, the MOW team will assist the Veterans of Woodbridge with the CPL Palmer Troop Packing Event on March 9 in the Clubhouse, the Wheels of Woodbridge with its car show this summer, and at the Women of Woodbridge’s annual gala event in the fall. Except for quarterly offsite breakfast meetings, MOW meets the second Monday of each month at 10 a.m. in the Clubhouse. The next meeting will be Monday, February 11, at 10 a.m. in the Quincy Room. If you haven’t attended a MOW meeting, please consider joining us to meet new friends and learn more about the group and its plans for the year.

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eterans of Woodbridge will host a packing event in support of the Cpl. Charles O. Palmer II Memorial Troop Support Program, Saturday, March 9. The Cpl. Charles O. Palmer II Memorial Troop Support Program is a volunteer effort designed to give the “everyday” citizen an opportunity to reach out to active duty military personnel serving on the front lines defending our country. This support program was born from the ashes of personal tragedy. After the death of Cpl. Charles O. Palmer II (KIA in Iraq, May 5, 2007), the Palmer family sought opportunity to minister to other troops standing in the gap, offering the same sacrificial service to our great nation that their son, Cpl. Palmer, gave his life for. The support program is simple. Personal care packages are assembled and sent to individual troops on the front lines. Anyone can do it; anyone can help. We welcome you to join our efforts. The CPL Palmer Troop Packing event will take place in the Lakeview Clubhouse Saturday, March 9, at 11 a.m. with set-up beginning at 9:30 a.m. Please see the f lyer on this page for a list of items needed. There are collection boxes in the Clubhouse maintained by the Veterans group where you may place your donations. If you have any questions about how you can help, please call Jack Dauler at 629-8575.

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here has been some discussion regarding how the U.S. flag should be displayed on homes in Woodbridge and I have been asked to rerun the U.S. flag article published in September 2018.

Title 8 of the U.S. Flag Code states, “No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the U.S.A.; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, state flags and organization or institutional flags may be dipped as a mark of honor.� For years, when the need to fly the flag at half-staff was announced, Woodbridge residents have been lowering or placing the flagpole in the lower position on the house flag bracket. The American Legion states this is an unacceptable method of display. According to the Legion, this is considered to be “dipping the flag� and is disrespectful to the flag. The flag should never be “dipped� to any person or thing, unless it is the ensign responding to a salute from a ship of a foreign nation. It was reported at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, all countries were asked to “dip� their flag to King Edward VII. American team flag bearer Ralph Rose did not follow this protocol and is quoted as saying, “This flag dips before no earthly King.� This protocol has been observed since that event. The proper way to display a house-mounted flag for purposes of mourning is to leave the flag in its normal position and attach a black ribbon to the top of the flag and let it hang to the bottom tip of the flag. The black ribbon should be as long as the flag and as wide as a stripe on the flag. The ribbon may be homemade or ordered from any one of several flag companies.

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As a reminder, Veterans of Woodbridge (VOW) sells U.S. flags, poles and mourning ribbons in the Clubhouse at the flag kiosk, located on your left as you enter the main entrance. Any profit from these sales goes to local charities supported by the VOW. Flagpoles sold by VOW are 6 feet long, whereas Pulte-issued flagpoles are 4 feet long. The extra length allows you to walk beneath without hitting the flag. Far too often, we hear of people burning and disrespecting the U.S. flag and wonder how they get away with violating the law. The U.S. Flag Code establishes advisory rules for display and care of the U.S. flag in Chapter 1 of Title 4 of the U.S. Code. This is federal law, but the penalty for failure to comply with it, described in Title 18 of the U.S. Code, is not enforced. In 1990, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in U.S. v. Eichman that the prohibition of burning the U.S. flag conflicts with the First Amendment right to freedom of speech and is, therefore, unconstitutional. Most U.S. citizens, however, hold their flag in high esteem and treat it accordingly. Again, if you are a veteran and live in Woodbridge, you are invited to attend VOW meetings. Meetings are held the second Monday of every month at 11 a.m. in the Clubhouse. A 7 p.m. meeting is held every third month to accommodate working vets. Hope to see you soon.

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We learned that several of the seasonal beers came about out of necessity. For example, due to the lack of refrigeration, the German Märzen (German for “March”) was brewed in the spring so that it could be lagered over the hot summer months and served in the fall. This is the main beer served at the fall festival, Oktoberfest. For similar reasons, in the French-speaking region of Belgium, they brewed a beer called Saison (French for “season”). This was a low alcohol beer brewed in the winter and offered to field workers in the summer to keep them cool (and happy!). These beers are sometimes called Farmhouse beers and they have a distinctive “farmhouse” flavor. The people who drank them were called saisonniers (“seasonal workers”). Recently, there has been a trend in beer making to brew big malty beers for the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. Brewers like Coors, who make holiday ale for friends, workers and family, originally did this. These efforts grew into a major trend, where every brewer now makes special holiday beers. They often feature flavors like our holiday goodies: chocolate, cocoa, coffee, sweet malts and seasonings like nutmeg, cinnamon and coriander. Those present at the December session enjoyed a wide variety of the various seasonal offerings from our favorite craft brewers. Our next session in mid-February will feature a local craft beer distributor from Manteca. Delta Pacific Beverage distributes craft beer to a large area in the Central Valley. The distributor will discuss the local craft beer market and emerging trends. Perhaps we will find out why there is not a craft beer pub in Manteca. There will be a $3 charge for this event. Tentative event date: February 19 at 6:30 p.m. in the Lakeview Clubhouse. Watch the announcements for confirmation of the date.

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The Way We Were . . . . “We Were Not Too Young at All” (from the song by Nat King Cole)

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n 1947, when Shirley Venable entered the 7th grade, her parents bought a house in Lynwood, Southern California. That move set Shirley on a lifetime of adventure. It didn’t take her long to notice the cute boy, David Lopes, who lived down the street. She wanted to get his attention so she would roller skate past his house, hoping he would notice her. It took a while but finally they started dating when she was 14 and he was 17. When Shirley was a senior in high school and David was in junior college, they were madly in love and knew they wanted to be married – so they ran off to Yuma, Arizona, and were secretly married on December 23, 1951, when she was 16 and he was 19. They kept it a secret from everyone for a year but when Shirley became pregnant, they decided they should tell their parents. LOL. This was certainly a surprise to their parents but they gave the couple a beautiful wedding on February 7, 1953. Therefore, they have been married twice – but to each other. David always gives Shirley gifts on both anniversary dates – what a guy! In 2018, the Lopes celebrated their 67th anniversary. Shirley and David have three daughters, two grandsons and one granddaughter – no greats yet. Music is very important to Shirley. She sings in two community choir groups, plays piano and serves on the Woodbridge Lifestyle Committee. She enjoys making quilts, some of which she someday hopes to give to their great grandchildren. David enjoys woodworking projects. They both like playing bridge, enjoy many games and traveling. They have been on several memorable trips. Among the most exciting were a two-month cruise around the continent of South America from Florida down the Atlantic Ocean, through the Straits of Magellan (rocky ride!) up the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco; a two-month motor home trip through the Alaskan interior; three weeks touring Spain; two weeks cruising the Amazon River on the original Love Boat from Manaus, Brazil, to the Atlantic Ocean, ending in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. All of those trips were extremely interesting

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had a nice visit with Earl and Dolly Reedy as we discussed the history of their long and loving marriage of 62 years. Both Earl and Dolly grew up in this valley – Dolly in Tracy, where she was born and raised and Earl born in Martinez but for the most part raised in Manteca. Of course, the question of how they met was asked and they said they met at the Brethren Church in Manteca. Earl volunteered for the draft and served as an airplane mechanic. He had planned to be in Korea with the rest of his group but the Army had other ideas. Earl was sent to Japan while the rest were sent on to Korea.

and sometimes a bit scary. But that doesn’t stop the couple from continuing their travels to far off and nearby places. They started their camping/driving adventures in a pup tent after they married and moved through the ranks to enjoy their luxury 38-foot diesel pusher motorhome. Traveling continues to bring new adventures that they enjoy doing together. Shirley was a stay-at-home mom while their girls were growing up. She always regretted not getting her college degree, so after their girls graduated from college, Shirley went back to school and earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration when she was 50 years old. “You’re never too old for education” is her motto. Shirley worked as a medical group administrator for many years, then a planner for Northrop on the supersecret B2 Bomber Project. David worked at Northrop in Hawthorne, California, for 38 years. When he retired in 1990 as a Research and Development Model Shop Manager, the Lopes moved north to Discovery Bay, California, where they enjoyed golfing, boating, fishing, traveling and meeting new friends. After 23 years in “Disco Bay,” they moved to Woodbridge in July 2013 and are enjoying all of the wonderful activities offered. They look forward to celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary in eight years!

When Earl returned from military service, he and Dolly were married on August 15, 1956. Their first home was an apartment on Sherman Avenue in Manteca. Later, they bought their first house on South Maple which they remembered as “the south end of Manteca.” The Reedys went on to live in Redding, Sacramento, Winters and Tracy before moving to Santa Cruz and Scotts Valley, all the while hoping to make their way back to Manteca. Dolly is the youngest of 15 children and she missed the large family and its gatherings. Her parents came from Kentucky to California where they raised their children. Dolly was the baby and was the last of the four children born in Tracy. Dolly commented she now has “nephews older than she is!” Earl was the only son and had two sisters. As children, they played the usual games, hide and seek, sandlot baseball, jump rope, etc., in the other children’s homes. Earl was in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, ending as an Eagle. During WWII, Dolly fondly remembers sitting on a piano singing with her brother, a B-17 turret gunner, the 1943 song, “Comin’ in On a Wing and a Prayer.” Earl became a general contractor, designing and building custom homes and Dolly helped with design, decorating and their clients. They built in the hills above Los Gatos and in the mountains above Santa Cruz - sometimes a challenge but one they met. Two of the most interesting projects the couple worked on were Water World and the slide at Cal-Expo in Sacramento. Dolly’s design talents show in the lovely gardens she designed for their present home.

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The Reedys were very active in Rotary Club for over 40 years and, like a lot of us, family vacations were camping in tents, then RVs. After their children were grown and gone, their favorite trip was two months spent in New Zealand. They loved exploring all of the North Island and half of the South Island. After retirement, they rented a house in the mountains near Santa Cruz for a month or two each summer. Earl and Dolly enjoyed RVing, while towing their Jeep®. In 1976, they bought a 1957 T-Bird and now belong to the Thunderbird Club as well as the Wheels of Woodbridge car club. They love to go to lunch with their many friends and Earl likes to work out at the gym and ride his trike. Earl and Dolly are both readers. Earl likes to read non-fiction while Dolly prefers almost anything else. Last year she read 112 books but said she “usually reads only 90”! The Reedys are enjoying their lives, their lovely home and gardens and each other. They have many friends in Woodbridge and Earl’s sister Shirley and husband Paul Bowers live in the community as well. Dolly and Earl, thank you for the opportunity to get acquainted.

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East-West Coast Couple By Marie Evans

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oth John and Lorraine (Chiodo) Sommerhalder were born and raised within a few blocks of each other in the Bronx, NYC, and went to grammar and high school together. As they matured, the two “ran around with the same crowd” and shared the same friends. John didn’t really notice Lorraine until she turned 16 and then he surely did! They became interested in each other and have been together ever since. John went on to New York State Maritime College at Ft. Schuyler in the Bronx and Lorraine went to work in the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City. The two continued to see each other and became engaged in 1955. They were married July 27, a month after John graduated from college. That was when the fun of a 62-year marriage began. It all started about four weeks before the originally planned wedding day as the Navy decided to activate John’s commission and ordered him to report for active duty. After modifying the wedding date, John and Lorraine married in the afternoon and John left for active duty that evening to ship out of San Diego. To make matters worse, the airlines lost their luggage. They honeymooned in the Hotel del Coronado for a week and an additional two weeks in Coronado before reporting for duty. John was then advised at the end of the two weeks, he would be leaving for the Western Pacific for nine months. Lorraine went back home to NYC to her job. After sea duty, John came home and he and Lorraine started their family, then off he went again for another nine months. Lorraine went back to New York City, again. There seems to be a pattern developing here! The Sommerhalder’s first of four children was born in 1959 in Coronado, California. In August 1960, John left active duty but stayed in the Naval Reserve until he retired. John joined Worthington Corporation, settling the family in Middletown, New Jersey. The couple’s longing for the West Coast grew increasingly stronger and in 1968, John was able to relocate with his company

Lorraine and John Sommerhalder

to Southern California. In 1976, he was transferred back to corporate headquarters in New Jersey and stayed till 1980, when another opportunity opened in Northern California. After 40 years with the same company, he retired in 1996 to San Ramon, California. John and Lorraine lived in San Ramon for 31 years before moving to Woodbridge in September 2011. They love the Woodbridge community and take advantage of many of its activities. They like to travel with their 5th wheel, enjoy international travel, board games and golf. Woodbridge has become their extended family.

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oodbridge LIFE staffers, with assistance from the class coordinator, share a retrospective of fall and winter Cooking 401 classes held in the Quincy Room’s demonstration kitchen. The popular Cooking 401 class is always well-attended and seats fill up every month. The $5 fee goes to purchase class supplies and defray the cost of sample portions served. September – Guest chef Eleni Krieger (at head of table), a local home chef and author of two cookbooks, shows the class how to prepare two Greek dishes: dolmades (stuffed grape leaves) with lemon sauce and chicken souvlaki (succulent char-grilled skewers of chicken). Born in Germany, Eleni learned to cook by watching her mother. Her cookbooks contain recipes handed down by family members. October – Woodbridge resident cooks Shelley Tate and Dottie Olsen led a hands-on class that turned savory meatballs into festive pumpkins. Strings tied around the dough-encased meatballs created a pumpkin look. A rosemary sprig on top resembled the pumpkin stem.

Eleni Krieger, pastry chef of Eleni’s Decadent Cakes, shows the class how to make dolmades.

Resident cook Shelley Tate demonstrates how to make pumpkin-shaped meatball appetizers.

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Rosemary Hein displays her baked pumpkin-shaped appetizer.

Lifestyle Committee member Connie Reed wears a jaunty Santa hat. Students assembled dough with sauce and strings and are ready to place a meatball in the packet.

(L to R): Albert Fuchslin, Heather Fuchslin, Tony Delgado and Marge Nelson added a meatball to the dough packet.

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November – Guest chefs Rosemary Hein and Vickie Mitchell demonstrated how to prepare Thanksgiving dinner in an Instant Pot. Turkey, sweet potatoes and cornbread dressing were prepared and a sheet pan slab apple cobbler was served as a dessert.

December – Class members enjoyed a holiday potluck with tables beautifully decorated by Sharon Borstad and an array of delicious foods.

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(L to R): Pat Estarziau, KaCee Hill, Nancy Certo and Andrea Edmunson (lead) taught the class to make hearty split pea soup and homemade yeast rolls.

January - Andrea Edmunson and three helpers prepared split pea soup accompanied by wonderful homemade yeast rolls.

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Gardener’s Corner By Master Gardener Cate White Photos submitted ow that January is behind us, can spring be very far away? As the days begin to lengthen, a gardener’s mind starts anticipating longer, warmer days and more time spent in the garden. Even those of us who are well along in years feel the urge to be out in the fresh air, tending our plants and taking satisfaction in watching them grow. But, aging also means accommodating issues like limited mobility, strength, balance and flexibility, so gardening comfortably and safely becomes a priority. There are many ways to make garden jobs safer and easier. First, be sure to keep paths free of obstacles, including hoses lying on the ground, and be aware of uneven or slippery pavement. Next, take inventory of your tools. Think about investing in long-handled cultivating tools to minimize stooping and search for ergonomically-designed hand tools that can reduce injuries and soreness. Keep your tools sharp. A kneeler bench that has a low padded bench for kneeling and four legs shaped as handles to help you get back up is a great addition to your tool collection. The bench can also be used for sitting by turning it over and straddling the seat with both feet on the ground for stability.

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done by younger helpers. This also applies to hauling and lifting heavy items. Installing raised beds is a great way to reduce back and knee strain. These can be anywhere from 18 inches to 3 feet tall, made out of wood or concrete blocks, sometimes covered with plaster. Kits are available or you can hire someone to construct them. Another option is using galvanized livestock watering tanks. Fill your new beds with quality garden or potting soil fortified with aged compost.

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Cate White as daffodils, freesias and grape hyacinths will return every spring, while summer bulbs such as daylilies, iris (technically a rhizome) and amaryllis are also reliable repeaters. By learning to adapt, you can continue to experience the joys of gardening for many years to come! For further information, check out the San Joaquin County Master Gardeners website: sjmastergardeners. ucanr.edu

You can also reduce your garden chores by growing plants that have low maintenance and water requirements. Consider whether you really want to do the work necessary to keep fussy plants like hydrangeas, gardenias and azaleas flourishing. For attractive alternatives, check out websites like the Arboretum All-Stars: arboretum.ucdavis.edu/arboretumall-stars Lastly, one of my favorite strategies is to plant annuals and bulbs that will naturalize in my yard. Violas will reseed and come up every spring, covering the ground with pretty little flowers and smothering out weeds. Once the weather gets hot, they die back, but only after setting seed for next year. Alyssum is another great ground cover that reseeds and blooms in spring and summer. Bulbs such

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oodbridge residents rang in the New Year with a 1920s Great Gatsby themed party. The Multipurpose Room/ballroom was lavishly decorated in sparkling gold and black. Guests were served a three-course meal including tri-tip with chimichurri, creamy balsamic chicken, roasted garlic mashed potatoes

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Robert and Donna Ybarra had a great time welcoming 2019 with Woodbridge friends and neighbors.

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and roasted veggies. Dessert was chocolate mousse garnished with berries and mint, served in miniature martini glasses. A prop-filled photo booth provided goofy entertainment and Cluster Phunk, a Woodbridge favorite, played familiar danceable music that got everyone up and dancing throughout the evening. 1920s theme decorations in sparkling gold and black.

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ĂŚĂŚwine 101 By Jon Ford

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ast month we began the eighth year of Wine 101. Again, my thanks to those who assisted with class set-ups, contributed wine articles, shared ideas and helped with connections for speakers and trips.

The sold-out January class featured “Marvelous Malbec,� the signature grape of Argentina, once a major player for blends in Bordeaux, France. The community table was laden with sampling Malbecs from Argentina, France and Chile. The February class will feature “Super Shiraz and Syrah.� The class will be held Thursday, February 21 ($3 non-refundable tickets went on sale January 11). Class attendance is limited to 120 residents. Syrah (also know as Shiraz) is a full-bodied red wine with intense fruit

flavors and middleweight tannins from grapes heavily planted in the RhĂ´ne Valley in France as well as in Australia. Dr. Vinifera on the “Wine Spectatorâ€? website explains, “Syrah and Shiraz are two different names for the same red wine grape and wine made from that grape. Just like Pinot Gris and Pinot Grigio are two names for the same grape and wine made from that grape.â€? Unfortunately, the words Syrah and Shiraz are used inconsistently. Wine producers might choose one term or another to indicate the style of their wine. Dr. Vinny says a winemaker “might bottle a ‘Shiraz’ to indicate they made a rich, lush, riper, more fruit-forward wine in the Australian spirit. Or he might, instead, call the wine ‘Syrah’ to indicate a French influence, with more fruit restraint.â€? Wine 101 class participants are asked to bring their own wine glasses, a wine to share with their table along the theme of the class and an appetizer that will be placed on the food tables to share with other class members.

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oodbridge Seniors Golf Club’s first tournament for 2019 is just around the corner, on February 25, at beautiful Spring Creek Country Club in neighboring Ripon. WSGC tournaments are open to all residents 55 years and older. We welcome all players no matter your skill level. Come join us for a fun day. This tournament is $58 for members or $63 for non-members. Sign-ups are due by February 10. Please make checks payable to WSGC. This event comes with a box lunch, driving range balls, cart and FUN for all. Our second tournament of the year will be on March 25 at Stockton Golf and Country Club. This will be our first time playing at this venue. This is a great course located near Stockton’s deep-water channel. For further information, please contact Mike Patterson at 408-640-9768.

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Stockton Golf and Country Club, Stockton

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he 2019 Australian Open was just completed in January and let’s hope that an American was victorious! The last U.S. male to win the Australian Open was Andre Agassi in 2003; however, we have been fortunate to have Serena Williams win this portion of the Grand Slam seven times in the past 15 years, including 2017 when she announced, after winning the championship, that she was 10 weeks pregnant. Serena did not play in last year’s championship after the difficult delivery of her daughter Alexis, born September 1, 2017. Serena is back at the Australian Open; when she returned last year, she was ranked #491 but after she made it to the finals of two Grand Slams in 2018, she is now ranked 16th in the world. The question now is, who will be the “successor” to Serena’s dominance of women tennis players? Is there an American woman ready to move up? The answer should be simple but it is not. Sloane Stephens, who is only 25 years old, was ranked #3 in the world last summer but since that time, she has not played well and her ranking has slipped to 6th in the world. Sloane won the U.S. Open in 2017 and everyone expected her to be at or near the top from that point on but she has not been able to reach that level of play since that major win. The woman Sloane beat in the finals of that 2017 U.S. Open was also an American, Madison Keys, who is now just 23 years old. She was ranked #8 after losing at the U.S. Open but her play has been less than spectacular, has not lived up to the expectations and her ranking has slipped to 17th in the world. Both Sloane and Madison are very powerful players and certainly have the potential to be consistent winners, so maybe 2019 will be the year that one or both of them break through with a championship at a major. There are two other young American women making upward strides in the rankings. Danielle Collins is 25 years old, began 2018 ranked #160 and is now ranked #36, a very impressive year. Danielle was born in Florida and still resides there. She started playing at age 3, introduced to tennis by her dad who used to be her coach. Sofia Kenen is another woman to keep an eye on. She is only 20 years old, was born in Moscow, Russia, and moved to Florida with her parents at a very young age. When Sofia started playing professionally in 2015, she was ranked #620 and has played so well that her ranking is now at #52 after starting 2018 at #108, a very good year for this young player. Both Danielle and Sofia could break through this year and win a major championship but they will have to work very hard to surpass either Sloane or Madison and, of course, Serena Williams is still the favorite in almost every tournament she plays in, less than 1-1/2 years after giving birth to her daughter. So, do you know who won the Australian Open?

As many mushrooms grow and spread they form Fairy Rings. These can be very visible in lawns as grass begins to turn yellowish in the middle where the mycelia have used up the nitrogen in the proc of producing the fruiting bodies. A little bit of lawn fertilizer should solve the problem.

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A useful fact I learned years ago in a mycology (fungi) class is that mushrooms can be species spec which means many mushrooms are frequently found growing under specific types of trees or shrub Makes them so much easier to find when collecting for a class project.

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You can also make mushroom spore prints by carefully removing the cap(top) of the mushroom whe has fully opened to expose the gills and place it gill side down a on piece of white paper. The spore fall leaving a gill patterned design on the paper. Set spores with hair spray and you a piece of natura Spores come in a wide variety of colors, white, brown, pink, cream, yellow, black.

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fter the winter rains, we frequently see mushrooms popping up literally overnight in lawns and in the mulch under trees. Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of fungi and have root-like structures called mycelium growing and spreading under the soil surface, invisible to us until correct moisture and temperature allow for the formation of the fruiting body. The mushrooms pop to the surface, produce spores (think seeds), spread their gills and, on the breeze, a shoe, a paw, a drop of water, spread them to new areas. Shaggy Mane mushrooms are edible, but because they can be confused with some poisonous mushrooms and because you do not know what fertilizers or poisons they might have absorbed, it is not advisable to eat them. They are not listed as poisonous to dogs, but individual digestive systems, human and canine, react differently to various mushroom toxins. (For more information, see the websites listed below.) As many mushrooms grow and spread, they form Fairy Rings. These can be very visible in lawns as the grass begins to turn yellowish in the middle where the mycelia have used up the nitrogen in the process of producing the fruiting bodies. A little bit of lawn fertilizer should solve the problem. A useful fact I learned years ago in a mycology (fungi) class is that mushrooms can be species specific, which means many are frequently found growing under specific types of trees or shrubs. This makes them so much easier to find when collecting. You can make mushroom spore prints by carefully removing the cap (top) of the mushroom when it has fully opened to expose the gills and placing it gill side down on a piece of white paper. The spores will fall leaving a gill-patterned design on the paper. Set spores with hair spray and you will have a piece of natural art. Spores come in a wide variety of colors – white, brown, pink, cream, yellow and black. Resources: petmd.com/dog/slideshows/6-poisonous-mushrooms-are-toxicdogs; hostdefense.com/blogs/host-defense-blog/the-mushroom-lifecycle; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom

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ææDid You Know. . . Baked Alaska Compiled by Mike Spence

February 1 is National Baked Alaska Day but did you know?

• Baked Alaska seems to have its origins related to the United States’ purchase of what is now Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 10, 1867. • Baked Alaska, in general, is a dessert constructed using ice cream and sponge cake topped with meringue, then baked in a hot oven just long enough to set and brown the meringue but not melt the ice cream – timing is everything. • The exact birthplace of Baked Alaska seems to be in the southeastern states of the U.S., perhaps at Antoine’s (restaurant) in New Orleans. Some may argue about this birthplace and the “proper” name for the dish. • A variation of Baked Alaska called a Bombe Alaska uses frozen meringue coated with dark rum and flambéed. • Delmonico’s restaurant in New York City claims title to a dessert they call “Alaska-Florida,” a knock-off of the earlier New Orleans dessert. • The Betty Crocker® recipe for Baked Alaska calls for layers of peppermint, chocolate chip and vanilla ice creams atop a 9-inch brownie disk covered with meringue. The only problem for the huge dessert of 16 servings is that it only retains its hot-cold stability for 30 minutes. • A Hungarian gastrophysicist created a reverse Baked Alaska called a Frozen Florida. He filled a frozen shell of meringue with liquor and microwaved it so the liquor was hot but the shell remained frozen. • In 1894, another variant appeared on menus, the “Norwegian omelette.” It celebrated the contrasting hot and cold elements of Baked Alaska. (How’d Norway get a piece of the action from a land deal between Russia and the U.S.?) • In the 1971 James Bond film, “Diamonds Are Forever,” Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd served James Bond a Baked Alaska variant they called a “La Bombe Surprise, compliments of Willard Whyte.” The dessert contained a bomb but in true 007 tradition, the bad guys were thrown overboard and James got the girl. Resources: burkesbackyard.com.au/fact-sheets, blog/khymos.org/moleculargastronomy/history, bettycrocker.com, jamesbondfandom.com and en.wikipedia.org.

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PRESERVING AN OPEN BOTTLE OF WINE Excerpted from the original article by Jason Haas in Tablas Creek Vineyard “VINformer,” Winter 2015-2016 edition.

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he question is, “Should I invest in a system that replaces the air in the bottle with an inert gas or in a vacuum that removes the air from the bottle entirely?” The answer is neither as the best way to preserve an open bottle of wine is to cork it and stick it in the refrigerator.

or a richer white, just take it out 20 minutes or so before you want to pour it and let it warm up a bit.

It is helpful to know what is happening to the wine to understand this bold statement. The oxygen allowed into an open bottle of wine initiates a complex series of chemical reactions, first by combining with phenols (flavor components) to form hydrogen peroxide, and then with the hydrogen peroxide interacting with ethanol (the alcohol in wine) to form acetaldehyde. Acetaldehyde has a cider-y aroma and a flat texture. The taste that distinguishes intentionally oxidized wines like sherry and Madeira from traditional wine is their elevated level of acetaldehyde. Many wines benefit from exposure to oxygen, within reason. This is particularly true with young red wines, which receive a high level of reductive compounds from the skins of grapes. Adding some oxygen to these wines, either by decanting a wine, running it through a simple oxygenating system, or letting it sit in a glass after having been poured, will often liberate flavor compounds that are at first tied up by the reductive elements.

If you can get a week of drinkability, which is the general consensus of studies, then you’ve made real progress. What about a small inert gas system (argon or nitrogen)? This works in a large system such as a Coravin found in restaurants or wine bars. On the smaller, home scale it is not effective. The gas is generally inserted in a partial bottle and this helps only at the margins as the wine in the bottle already has oxygen in it. Each time the wine is poured, oxygen is absorbed by the wine as it is sloshed around the emptying bottle. This is true also for the vacuum pump that removes oxygen from a bottle. It does not eliminate the oxygen that has already dissolved in the wine. This process also adds the complication that the wine will respire carbon dioxide which provides acidity in the wine and removing it can make a wine taste as flat as oxidation would have.

Eventually, all those reductive compounds are combined with oxygen, and even a young red wine will begin to oxidize and show the acetaldehyde in serried, flat flavors.

There is one other solution to investigate. Get a half bottle (375 ml) and when you have come to the half of your 750ml bottle, pour the remainder in the half bottle because your wine will then have minimal exposure to oxygen. With this system, you can typically preserve a wine for a week plus.

Older red wines and most white wines have much lower tolerances for oxygen before beginning to show symptoms.

The bottom line is that “cold” is your friend when trying to preserve a wine for a few days.

How long after opening do you have before a wine becomes unpleasantly oxidized? For the most delicate older wines, it may be a few hours. Most younger wines will give you several hours safely, and some robust red wines will last happily for a few days. But eventually, all of them will start to show oxidation’s undesirable effects.

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LIVE LONGER AND HEALTHIER How CPR Began By Susie Blair, RN, BSN

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e all know that cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can save lives, but how did it come into being? According to Wikipedia, “CPR is an emergency procedure performed in an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person who is in cardiac arrest.” It started with restoring breathing and further developed into compressing the heart. I think you would be surprised to know that mouth-to-mouth resuscitation was first recommended for drowning victims in 1740. The Society for the Recovery of Drowned Persons became the first organized effort to deal with sudden, unexpected death in 1767. The first documented performance of chest compressions in humans was in 1891. In the early ages, flagellation was used to stimulate a victim who was not breathing. This involved putting something hot on the abdomen (ashes, hot water, excreta), using bellows to introduce air into the lungs, hanging upside down, rolling over a large barrel, burying the torso in snow and splashing water on the face, bouncing on the back of a horse, two rescuers pulling the ends of a long strip of cloth around the chest or someone compressing the chest. These methods, although now considered archaic, must have worked in some instances. In more recent years (1932), the back-pressure-arm-lift method was used (which is still utilized for drowning in some places). In 1957, the U.S. military was one of the first to adopt mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. 1958 saw the beginning of organized mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, which was soon combined with chest compressions. In 1960. the American Heart Association (AHA) started a program to acquaint physicians with closed-chest cardiac resuscitation, which became the forerunner of CPR training for other medical personnel. In 1963, the AHA formally endorsed CPR.

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Using scientific research, CPR has been fine-tuned over the years. Worldwide organizations developed and adopted changes that increased survival rates. 1981 saw telephone instructions given by emergency dispatchers. Pediatric courses were developed in the late 1980s. The 1990s saw the initiation of public access defibrillation programs and automated external defibrillators (AEDs). In the 2000s, there have been numerous changes due to research: The ratios between ventilations and compressions and which to start first, when and how often to defibrillate, and the training of non-medical rescuers versus medical professionals. There was a 2008 campaign to educate the general public on “hands-only CPR” to empower anyone to start compressions even if they had not trained in CPR. Many have misinterpreted this change to mean ventilations are no longer necessary, but that is not the case. Using only compressions will circulate the oxygen left in the victim’s system for a couple of minutes but someone trained, wearing a face shield or mask, should initiate breathing as soon as possible. If a victim is non-responsive and not breathing, anyone can first call 911 then perform chest compressions. Put the heel of one hand over the other on the breastbone at about the nipple line. Press hard and fast (100 to 120 times per minute) at a depth of about 2 inches for an adult and 1-½ inches for a child/infant. For infants, use the tips of two fingers just below the nipple line. Continue compressions until trained personnel arrive. On February 20, I will be conducting a short CPR training class at the Clubhouse. Help someone else live a longer and healthier life by learning CPR! DISCLAIMER: Woodbridge LIFE is not a source of legal or medical guidance. The above article is the author’s opinion and not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or for nutritional guidance.

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February Dedicated to Raising Awareness of Heart Health Compiled by Carol Jo Hargreaves

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4. IF YOU DRINK ALCOHOL, DRINK ONLY IN MODERATION. 5. GET ACTIVE AND EAT HEALTHY. Suggested blood sugar level A1C should be less than 6.5.*

very year, one in four deaths is caused by heart disease, the number one killer of adults in America. The good news, according to Doctors Hospital of Manteca, is that 80 percent of cardiovascular diseases may be prevented.

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For more information, videos and tips on healthy living, eating, fitness and lifestyle, visit The American Heart Association website: heart.org

Heart disease can often be prevented when people make healthy choices and manage their health conditions. You can make healthy changes to lower your risk of developing heart disease. Controlling and preventing risk factors is also important for people who already have heart disease.

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Where in the world? Wow! Woodbridge LIFE has been circling the globe with our wandering residents! We will do our best to include ALL travel photographs, but space and clarity will dictate. Preference will go to those not featured in previous editions and, yes, to those in exotic locales and interesting photo ops! Send images electronically to wblife2017@gmail.com using high resolution or actual size. Thank you for your contributions. We’re happy that you continue to enjoy Woodbridge LIFE. If your picture isn’t here, look for it in the coming months and keep sending them in! Sorry, we can no longer accept print photos.

Molly Cooper at the Wooden Pagoda known as the “Pearl of the Yangtze River” in Shibaozhai, China.

o t o h P l e v a r T John and Linda McNeel at a stop (Vicksburg murals wall) along their holiday cruise down the Mississippi from Memphis to New Orleans.

A group of friends cruised on the Mississippi River for New Year’s Eve. Here they enjoy dinner on an American Queen steamboat. (L to R): Linda Checchi, Carol Zelmer, Margaret Waters, Marlene Riley and Doris Ostrand.

Send travel photos to WBLIFE2017@gmail.com

Please use highest resolution and type WB TRAVEL in the subject line. All travel photos MUST be submitted electronically.

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