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band Uvaldo Marson recently rented a house in Palm Springs for a week. “It almost felt normal there. It was so good to get away. We had contact-less check-in. They sanitize between people.” The 46-year residents of Windsor Village [recently relocated to Beverly Hills adjacent] will eventually plan their annual visit to Italy to see Mar-
POKER
(Continued from page 13) size of your pots, bluffing and other forms of deception, raising, value betting, and more… George Epstein, a long-time local resident, was an engineering manager in defense and aerospace. Upon retiring in 1991 at age 65, poker became his second career. He is the author of three poker books and currently is writing “Win More in Texas Hold’em.” He has taught poker classes at West L.A. Community College, the VA/West Los Angeles, Santa Monica Public Library, and an Alzheimer’s group. He created the Claude Pepper Seniors Poker Group, which grew from six members to over 200. He has been elected to the Seniors Poker Hall of Fame.
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Larchmont Chronicle son’s daughter Giorgia and her husband Massimo. They also will be changing their typical accommodations. “We usually do house exchanges,” explains Frey, “But I don’t know when we’ll do that again.” The headache of planning a trip with a pandemic as backdrop makes Frey nostalgic for trips past. “We went for a month to Australia and New Zealand in 2019. I am so glad we did that trip when we did.”
Griffith Park
(Continued from page 7) according to various, subjective degrees of strenuousness, from a plodding pace on relatively flat ground to all-out trail running, with various levels of moderate hikes in between. What better way to spend an evening than with good exercise and feeling a sense of accomplishment in reaching the summit of Mount Hollywood, to look out at twinkling lights of our vast city below? Before you join the fun, however, avail yourself of this excellent Griffith Park guidebook! Larry Guzin is a longtime Sierra Club hike leader in Griffith Park as well as a Himalayan trekker. Guzin is president of the Windsor Square Association.