Issue #8 / april 2019
netanya
wife Leah, and Gail proudly declared: “( ”אני רוצה ללכת הביתהI want to go home”). It took 67 years, but they finally fulfilled this wish.
A Comedy Act? “Israel is a comedy act; you can’t take it too seriously,” muses Norman whimsically. “I just enjoy being here.” For Gail, it hasn’t been easy. She left many friends in America and would like to go back for visits but can’t leave her 15-year-old dog, Honey Bella, who is “tied to Gail like an umbilical cord” (explains Norman). Gail also misses driving as she was not prepared for the Israeli driving scene (who is?), so different from what she was used to. She misses the spaciousness of Laguna Beach as she watches one building after another shooting up in her new neighborhood. Of course they miss their son Kenneth and his family as well as their niece Dena whom they raised after she was orphaned. Their flat is filled with the beautiful furnishings and artwork from their split-level California home. They enjoy the services and the friends they’ve made at SNAC, and with the warmer spring weather now heading in, they hope to become more involved in SNAC activities.
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Countdown to Lift Off!
Many of you will have noticed the flurry of activity in recent months at the site of the new beach elevator in front of The Island Hotel. As pictured above, the foundations are being laid, concrete is being poured and friendly workmen have explained to your intrepid SNACshots reporters that erecting the supporting columns for the lift shaft is next on the work schedule. The lift should be completed about a year from now and the surrounding area is, apparently, to be landscaped. No information is yet available about plans for the vacant lot at the side of the hotel currently functioning as a temporary ‘carpark’, but shops and cafes are a possibility. Watch this space! advertisment
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