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Combat Veterans To Careers…

and The Villages. There are so many great things going on in The Villages and Combat Veterans to Careers has to be one of the best. We all hear and read how our young Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are struggling to find employment, continue with their education, deal with their health issues and […]

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I find myself…

wanting to say, if I already told you this story stop me. I actually picked that up from my Grandmother who when in her 80’s was so afraid of repeating herself that she would start every sentence with it. Well this morning I was starting to write about how time flies when I thought didn’t I […]

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Score one more…

for The Villages. As I had mentioned, my son and his family were here for a couple of days and had a good time as usual. My grandson Damian is celebrating his 17th birthday next week and is the son everyone would like to have. He plays Varsity sports, he gets great grades, he’s a […]

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It’s great…

to have company especially when it’s your son and his family. They are arriving this afternoon from New Jersey and they were the lucky ones. No trees down and they had their electric back on in just hours. They have had cousins and nephews staying with them. Teenagers need showers, so it was just a […]

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Learn, Understand, Involve…

and Participate in your local government to guarantee the sustainability of The Villages. That is a sentence taken from the first page of the CDD overview in my Resident Academy binder that I received prior to my attending the Academy several weeks ago.  Many people have expressed concern about the future of The Villages.  It […]

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18 Foursomes…

qualified to be the first golfers to play Evans Prairie on opening day, which was last Friday. It was quite a feat they performed to be the 72  winners of the Golf Quest 2012 Challenge, which was to play the 504 holes of golf in The Villages that were available as of January 2012.  One […]

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Alligators and customer service…

Was a post I wrote and can be found in the archives, (right hand side menu) – January 2012.  It was great advice and I heeded it many times during the year.  However this past week I forgot all about it and when I finally came to my senses I was too late.   If you […]

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Everyone is safe…

When I was young my Grandmother wintered in Florida and came north in the summer. In the 40’s & 50’s Florida was a prescription for the relief of arthritis pain, which she suffered severly, so the minute the cool mornings appeared she packed and headed for the train station, where she bought her ticket. Waving […]

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Emergency room delight…

Barefoot no more.  All my life I have gone barefooted and never had a problem, although I have had many warnings of the terrible things that might befall me. My sons spent their early years barefooted, as the theory was they developed better arches. Not really thinking the theory out, the arches probably were developed […]

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Evans Prairie…

Championship Golf Course is, out of the mouth of an avid golfer, the best golf course in the Villages. Sean had an opportunity to play Evans Prairie this morning and he came home raving. If you know Sean, he is an Ambassador at Tierra Del Sol, you know that he loves golf. He will play […]

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