WEBSITE: www.nhsb.org February 28, 2014

E.MAIL: newhorizonsnews@yahoo.com 22727 Maple Ave. Torrance CA 90505 Phone: 310 325-3080

EDITOR: Jacob Aslay 310 325-3080 (Office) Fax # 310 325-8926 AD. MGR.: Paul Cohen 310 325-3080 (Office) =================================================================================================== ===============================

NEW HORIZONS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

The Official Publication

for the Board of Directors ,

Residents and Owners

Picture by Jessie Austin

NEW HORIZONS SOUTH BAY ASSOCIA-

TION 2014 ELECTION TIMELINE

March 3, 2014 - Meet the Candidates Night 7:30

pm in the Town Hall

March 6, 2014 - Record date for voter eligibility.

March 11, 2014 - On site voting, 12:00 to 7:00 pm,

and Annual Homeowners Meeting, 7:30 pm

March 13, 2014 - Transition Meeting, 10:00 am in

the Lounge

Irma Maggio

Election Commissioner

************************* THE BOARD APPRECIATION DINNER

I am looking forward to the Board Appreciation

Dinner on March 19 at the Depot Restaurant in

Old Torrance. I have been to many functions at

this establishment. Chief Schaffer prepares a fan-

tastic meal. Dinner is served family style. The

service is top notch. The room is large and we will

have lots of room to socialize. Chef Schafer has

many awards for his fares and is a supporter of

many community events. The sign-up sheet is on

the Clubhouse bulletin board. Socializing from

5:30 pm and Dinner at 6 pm. Looking forward to

seeing you there.

Recreation Committee

Richard St. Amant

PUBLICITY AND NEWSLETTER COMMITTEE

YEAR END ACTIVITY REPORT

1. With the next issue, we will conclude this year’s Pub-

licity and Newsletter Committee activities.

2. We published newsletter without interruption (except

for the 2 weeks during the Christmas and New Year

holidays.) We tried to provide you with a variety of

information that would be interesting to you. We also

published your articles, comments, and suggestions

without any bias. Your newsletter designers tried to

post the pictures that were sent by you. Our advertis-

ers made it possible for us to reduce our cost of op-

erations. By making the newsletter available on Web

and emailing, we further reduced the number of print-

ings from 800 to 540 weekly. Thus saving about

$8000 a year.

3. I thank all of the volunteers who, every Wednesday

morning, came to the office to pick up the newsletters

and then deliver them.

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WELCOME NEW RESIDENTS !

John & Sylvia Conway Bldg. 615

Alex & Erma Moreno Bldg. 418

Correction

Our candidate to the HOA Board Ed Benardo’s last

name was misspelled in last week’s newsletter.

“MEET THE CANDIDATES NIGHT”

Monday, March 3, 2014

7:30 pm, Town Hall

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I also thank those people that made the newsletter

available for publication. Special thanks go to Steve

Bartok and Jean Liu for designing, formatting, and

mailing the newsletter for printing. In addition, I

thank Phyllis Mathis, Shelley Zirkes for the proof

reading; Daphne Hellyer, and Jack Dorman for la-

beling; Mary Carruthers for preparing monthly cal-

endar; Ray Lambert for bringing back the newslet-

ters from the printer; Ron Burke taking the newslet-

ter to the post office; Mathilde Lax and Karen Wija-

na for correcting and printing the address labels;

Paul Cohen for checking the advertisers making sure

that we receive the advertising fee on a timely basis;

and Sandra Tull (New Horizons secretary) for ad-

vertiser follow ups. And last but not least thanking

to our committee secretary Joyce Higginbotham for

creating the committee meeting agenda; making

sure that the members joins the meeting; and writing

the minutes of the meetings. Jacob Aslay

Chairman, Publicity and Newsletter Committee

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MEN'S GOLF RESULT, Wed. 2-19-14

By Carroll Massey

17 Golfers played Wednesday and course is in good

shape.

Winners

A Flight Low Gross Low Net

R. Stoffer 48

Craig Conant 48

B Flight

Fred Koblizek 55

Jim Kenny 48

Hole in one: None

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WOMEN'S GOLF RESULT, Thu. 2-20-14

By B. Bowman & P. Mathis

We had 14 players and a beautiful balmy day. Bo

brought a box of golf balls free for the taking. They

are in the golf room.

Winners

A Flight Low Gross Low Net

Renee Chang 60

JoAnn Megill 48

Phyllis Mathis 50

B Flight

Joanie Johnson 63

May Carruthers 50

Barbara Bowman 50

Hole in one: None

TRAVEL CLUB NEWS Feb 28, 2014 From: Ed Reilly, Chairman ,Club New Horizons

Phone: 310 326-4710

Next month, in March, we are heading south to Palm

Springs to take in the “Palm Springs Follies.” This will be

our last trip to the Follies as this fun show closes in May.

The trip date is Friday, March 28. The cost is $95.00 with

38 or more folks and lunch will be on our own. The head-

liner at that time will be Darlene Love. Darlene started her

singing career by being a backup singer for Elvis Presley,

Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra and many more. As an ad-

junct to her impressive resume, Love became the decade’s

most sought after session singer working with some of the

era’s biggest stars. This trip was discussed at our February

meeting, and it was agreed that since lunch is on our own, I

will provide a list of places to eat in the immediate area.

Departure time is 8:30 AM and we should be home around

6 PM. The signup sheet is on the board. Won’t you join us

in saying farewell to the Follies?

In April, we have been planning a trip to Ventura County

for a special outing called “Have Trunk, Will Travel.” We

will have a fascinating day visiting the Exotic Animal

Training facility at Moorpark College. Called “America’s

Teaching Zoo,” the animals include everything from Mar-

mosets to an African lion, leopard geckos to alligators, and

camels to emus. The zoo is also home to a spotted hyena, a

bald eagle, a mountain lion, red foxes, a wide variety of

primates, birds, and many other exotic and endangered an-

imals. Our visit to the teaching zoo begins with a live ani-

mal show, followed by a guided tour of the facility. We

will then have lunch at the Elephant Bar in Simi Valley.

Our final stop of the day will be a guided tour of the Gar-

dens of the World in Thousand Oaks. This garden com-

memorates the various cultures of the world. Included are

Italian, French, Japanese and English gardens. This trip is

offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays and costs $69.00 with

38 or more. However, apparently this trip has limited

appeal. So far, since this trip has been on the board, we

only have 16 interested folk, far too few to fill a bus. Con-

sequently, I will probably have to cancel this month’s trip.

We will give it another week and if we don’t get a substan-

tially better turnout, we will not have a trip this month..

In May, the members at this month’s meeting said they

would like to make the first of two Laughlin getaway trips

this year, one in May and the other in November. Due to

hotel scheduling problems, the first excursion is slated for

Monday through Wednesday, May 5, 6 and 7. We will be

staying at the Riverside Resort Hotel and Casino. In addi-

tion to being perhaps one of the least expensive hotels on

the river, the hotel has full gambling action including Bin-

go, sports a movie theater and is close to the outlet center.

The cost for these three fun-filled days is $116 double and

$134 for a single with a number of free meals if we have a

full bus at 38 or more. This trip will be discussed at our

March meeting.

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2013 Christmas Golf Tournament By Gene Aurand

Chairman, Golf Club

The Christmas Golf Tournament sponsored by the New Horizons Men's Golf Club was a great success. We had 39

golfers and a total of 45 at the luncheon after golf. There was a brief delay caused by a cold and windy rain shower. A

vast majority of the players completed their round and kept their team in contention for the team victory.

I want to thank all of the volunteers and especially the hole sponsors for making this the best Christmas Tournament

that we have had. The sponsors donated $50.00 each of which $30.00 went to funding part of the luncheon cost and

$20.00, that went into the blind draw raffle.

Sunni McBride Kay Mori Richard St. Amant

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Linda Falzone Gerry Johnson Nick Blaney

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I also want to thank Nicole Conant of Conant Catering (310-753-7120) for the great lunch that she prepared.

She also does private party catering. Mark Potochniak (310-650-4650) was our bartender. He also is a senior

construction manager, in addition to bartending.

Team Results Individual Low Gross Individual Low Net Guest Flight

1st. Place Men - A Flight Men - A Flight Men Low Gross

Team Craig - 185 Craig Conant - 48 Tom Kasterko - 51/46 Bob York

Craig Conant

Elizabeth McCue Women - A Flight Women - A Flight Men Low Net

Carl Aleccia Kay Mori - 51 ML. Lombardi - 59/47 Ron Prando

Jason Aurand

Men - B Flight Men - B Flight

2nd. Place Ping Hsu - 53 Steve Spolidero - 53/47

Team Ray - 191

Ray Tominaga Women - B Flight Women - B Flight

Kay Mori Barbara Bowman - 63 Joann Megill - 67/53

Marge Fry

Ralph Dilibero Men - C Flight Men - C Flight

Carl Aleccia - 55 Jim Kenny - 58/48

Women - C Flight Women - C Flight

Elizabeth McCue - 62 Marge Frye - 69/49

This was my last tournament as the Tournament Director and I hope everyone enjoyed last year's golf tourna-

ments. The Golf Committee needs more volunteers to be involved in the golfing activities at New Horizons.

The Golf Committee meets on the first Wednesday of every month @ 7:00 PM in the Clubhouse lounge. Th e

Committee is open to all New Horizons residents.

My special thanks to Renee Chang, Steve Spolidero, Tom Kasterko and Janet Weber for their help in running

the tournaments.

Team pictures were taken prior to the tournament. If anyone is interested in obtaining a copy, please email me

@ candogene@gmail.com and I will forward a copy to you.

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“HAVE-A-HEART TOURNAMENT” RESULTS

New Horizons Golf Club - Feb. 16, 2014 By Steve Spolidoro

The monthly golf tournament for February was a

great success. We had a good turn-out with over

thirty residents and guests showing up to try their

skills (and luck) on the New Horizons links. There

were a lot of good scores and a slew of people taking

prize money home with them. A nice lunch of tacos

and beer, wine and soft drinks was provided to the

golfers (and non-golfers alike) while the winners

were being determined and everybody was bragging

about how close they came to making all those putts,

what could’a, should’a been. Kudos to the winners

and a special shout out to Gene Aurand for the great

work he’s doing with the groundskeepers to get the

course back into great shape. Thanks to all the vol-

unteers who worked to make this tournament hap-

pen; and thanks to all the participants who made it

possible for New Horizons Golf Club to make a

generous donation to the Richstone Family Center

and the work they do to help alleviate some of the

pain caused by family violence. Thanks Everybody!

TEAM WINNERS:

1ST

PLACE 2d PLACE

Team Gross Score 170 Net Team Score 139

Craig Conant Ray Tominaga

Vince Manto Kay Mori

Bob Branning Paul Cohen

3d PLACE 3d PLACE

Net Team Score (tie) 140 Net Team Score 140

Steve Spolidoro Jim White

Terry Hayes David Decker

Barb Bowman Jacque Abel

INDIVIDUAL WINNERS:

Women A Flight Low Gross Low Net

Kay Mori 50

JoAnn Megill 45

Women B Flight

Barb Bowman 63

Elis. McCue (tie) 63

Ann Min 46

Men A Flight Low Gross Low Net

Craig Conant (tie) 49

Ray Tominaga (tie) 49

Jim white 45

Men B Flight

Ron Prando (tie) 55

Vin Manto (tie) 55

Terry Hayes 45

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310-938-6153

Golf course closed Mondays until 2 pm March 2014 Water Aerobics 11 am Daily

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1

2 11 am to 4 pm

Private Party - Lounge

1 pm Getting to Know You

3 11 am Grounds Maint. 3 pm Rec. Council 7:30 pm Candidates Meeting –

Town Hall

4 9 am Ceramic Wkshop 10 am Exec. & Rules 10:30 am Personnel Mtg 10:45 am B. I. S. Mtg. 1 pm Scrabble 2 pm Clubhouse Mtg 3 pm Civic Affairs

5 8 am Men’s Golf 10:15 am Residents &

Orient 6 pm Golf Comm.

Meeting

6 9 am Women's Golf 7 pm Travel Club meeting

7 Recyclables- Pick-up CRV bott les & cans only

1 pm Sit 'n Knit Lounge

8

9 1 pm Getting to

Know You - Lounge

10 10:30 am Bridge Club 10:30 am Insurance Mtg. 1:30 pm Condo Code Mtg. -

Lounge 6:45 pm Line Dancing - Cele-

brate birthdays

11 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm ELEC-

TION – Town Hall 7:30 pm Annual Home

Owners meeting

12 8 am Men's Golf

13 9 am Women's Golf 10 am Transition meeting 2 pm Bingo

14 1 pm Sit 'n Knit Lounge

15

16 9 am Golf St.

Patrick’s Day Tournament

1 pm Getting to Know You - Lounge

17 10:30 am Bridge Club 6:45 pm Line Dancing St. Patrick’s Day

18 9 pm Ceramic Wkshop 9:30 am Architectural

Comm. Mtg. 10 am Newsletter & Publicity

Mtg. 1 pm Scrabble 1 pm Silver Belles

19 8 am Men's Golf 5 pm Appreciation

Dinner

20 9 am Women's Golf

21 1 pm Sit 'n Knit Lounge

22 11:30 am Me-morial Service - Lounge.

23 1 pm Getting to

Know You - Lounge

24 6:45 pm Line Dancing

25 9 am. Ceramic Wkshop 9:30 am. Bldgs & Pools Mtg. 1 pm. Scrabble

26 8 am Men’s Golf 7 pm CIC Meeting

50/50 Raffle

27 9 am Women’s Golf

28 7 am Employees' Safety Mtg.

Town Hall Travel to Palm Springs “Fo l-

lies” 1 pm Sit 'n Knit Lounge

29

30 1 pm Getting to

Know You - Lounge

31 6:45 pm Line Dancing

1:30 pm Board

Workshop

Maint. Fee $284 Due

Handyman Carpentry, Plumbing, Painting. Electrical Mr. Kent 310-200-1707