June 2013
Club Happenings 1
The News of Sun City Center
Metaphysical Society Events
There is Nothing Like a Dame!!!
PHOTO BY JO PRATER
Sun City Center Photo Club Competition Tuesday, June 11 at 6:30 p.m.
Ellen Kleinschmidt, Performing Arts Company president, and Linda Halperin, Pelican Players president, met recently to discuss ways to open the curtain on a new era of theater growth for both theater companies located in SCC.
Sun City Center is fortunate to have two theater companies, The Performing Arts Company and the Pelican Players, to entertain audiences from the greater Tampa Bay area. Both companies have recently appointed women to lead the way. These women have great energy, are passionate about theater and are excellent performers who are both dedicated to ensuring the future of theater in the South Shore. PAC President Ellen Kleinschmidt and Pelican Players President Linda Halperin come from strong yet different theater backgrounds. Linda was a theater major in college where she learned all aspects of theater production. But her career for 25 years has been as an oncology social worker. Her retirement goal was to become involved with a local theater company. Imagine her joy when she found the Pelican Players in her own backyard. Ellen’s career has been in music education with 25 years spent as an elementary music specialist. She has spent the last 13 years learning everything she could about the world of musical theater, both onstage and off. Her playground has been The Riverview Little Theater and The Rollins Theater, home of the Performing Arts Company. The primary goal of the Pelican Players has been to provide college scholarships to high school seniors interested in pursuing a degree in the performing arts. Halperin says that “My first priority as president was to ensure
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that we safeguard our commitment to our scholarship program. The Board of Directors is now in the process of creating a lifelong endowment to support higher education students majoring in the performing arts.” The Performing Arts Company of Sun City Center is committed to staging full seasons of theatrical productions, conducting educational activities in acting, voice, dance and other theater skills, transforming The Rollins Theater into a first-class venue and, eventually, building a state-of-the art theater. The vision of the Performing Arts Company is to one day become an Actors’ Equity Association theater company that will allow them to bring in NY touring companies, hire professional actors and produce the highest possible quality of theater productions, especially musicals. Part of the future will most probably cause the two companies to unite in some fashion. With the dedication, talent and commitment to excellence these two “dames” possess, audience members and actors alike are in for a fabulous season of theatrical excellence. “Both companies working together toward a common goal is a win-win situation”, says Kleinschmidt eagerly. With a future that looks exciting and bright let’s hear it for the girls and as they say in the theater, “BREAK A LEG, LADIES!”
AIRPLANE AND CAR MODEL EXHIBIT
An exhibit of airplane, car, boat and train models, as well as paintings of these subjects, will be on display during the month of June at The Art Gallery in SCC. This show offers a complete departure from the usual exhibition material and will deliver an entirely new viewing experience to Gallery visitors. The models and paintings will represent the works of a wide range of residents in the SCC community whose talents are demonstrated in both a two- and threedimensional format. The opening reception for this new exhibit will be held on Wednesday, June 5, in the Art Room, from 2 to 4 p.m. Admission is free and refreshments will be available. All are invited to attend. For those that cannot attend the reception, The Art Gallery is open to visitors each Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. —Ed Laudano
The Sun City Center Photo Club is holding its second full photo competition on Tuesday, June 11, at 6:30 p.m. in the Caper Room. This is a great opportunity for community members to view digital and print photographs taken by our talented photographers. Media show “shorts”, created by our photographers, will also be shown. At 6:30 p.m., we will begin with our media shows on a widerange of topics. The judging of print and digital photographs begins immediately following. Community members and guests are welcome to attend. For more information on the club and its activities, please see our website a www.photoclubscc.com or visit the learning lab at 960D Cherry Hills Drive. Dues for the 2013 year remain at $20 per person or $30 per household couple and provide access to club activities, competitions and classes as well as the photo lab with computers, scanners and large format printers.
Ask Pete your questions about
prostate cancer Why don’t women have prostates? It seems unfair to men! A— Here’s a tricky question!
Women do not have prostates— but in its place women have two ovaries and one uterus. So maybe it’s women who are unfairly burdened with organs that can become cancerous. The prostate is considered a sex organ, part of the man’s reproductive system. Its function is to produce fluids that are needed for the transport and nourishment of the sperm at the time of ejaculation. For some reason that we do not understand, nearly all prostates will develop cancer over time. Another mystery is why some of these cancers become aggressive killers, while others are slow-growing and not likely to kill you. We seek the answers!
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Meetings and Presentations June 5: Sandpiper Room, Central Campus. In Service. Susan Pagano, of Chapters Health System, Tampa, will speak to what Chapters offers our community through its many and varied services from post-acute care for those facing lifethreatening or life-limiting illnesses and challenges, to in-home and community-based services for frail but independent seniors, to hospice and palliative care. June 12: Heritage Room, Central Campus. Other Worlds. Speaker Jack Alexander has been intuitively envisioning other worlds of our Galaxy since childhood, and will guide us today as we recall our commitment to manifest life “on Earth as it is in Heaven.” June 19: Heritage Room, Central Campus. Managing Life’s Stress. Speaker James Lynch shares HearthMath’s techniques to manage stressful emotions and to improve our health, well-being and relationships. June 26: Heritage Room, Central Campus. Have you Lived Before With ??? Speaker Rev. Joe Kelly asks if we sometimes feel that some of those people in our life have been with us before. Day: Wednesdays. Time: 10 a.m. to noon. Open to SCC/ KP Members and guests. Admission: Love Offering. For info call Holli at 813-419-4704. Book Group June 3 at 1 p.m., in t he Armstrong Room, Central Campus. The current metaphysical book is Ask and It Is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks. No homework and the group reads aloud and discusses as they go. This is the last meeting until the Book Group resumes in the fall. Open to SCC/KP members and guests. Admission: Free. For info call Alice at 813-634-9065. Drum Circle June 3 at 6:30 p.m., in the Eberhardt Bldg., Central Campus, next to the Fitness Center. Bring your drums, rattles, rain sticks, pots and/or pans and enjoy each other’s company. This is the last meeting until the Drum Circle resumes in the fall. Open to SCC/KP Members and Guests. Admission: Free. For Info call Holli at 813-419-4704. Discussion Group With Michael McGoldrick in Kings Point June 6, 13, 20 and 27, Thursdays at 11 a.m., in the Kings Point North Clubhouse, South Social Room (Tell gatekeeper you are going to the Clubhouse). Death and Dying. This Discussion Group focuses on any facet—from the thought of one’s own path of dying or preparing one’s self and their family for their death. Open to the public. Admission: Free. For Info call Mike McGoldrick at 813-938-1252. For information call Mike McGoldrick, president, at 813-9381252. For membership information call: Ludi at 813 / 938-5686 or send e-mail to metaphysicalsociety@ gmail.com.