Activities By TOM KELLS
Please go to website for a complete list of activities Welcome May. Flowers are popping up and the weather is getting warmer and there will hopefully be less rain. May is such a wonderful month that we can get started playing in the dirt, getting dirt under our nails, planting flowers in our gardens and in our pots and hanging beautiful baskets from our
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homes. It will be fun to see all the new plantings that make our community
so beautiful. It’ s also a great time to get outdoors, going for walks, riding bikes, shooting some hoops, playing bocce ball or flying a kite at Edith Green Park. The pools will be opening, with family and friends having fun in the pools, but they are also great places to get exercise, whether it’ s swimming, walking or even water aerobics. The great thing about living here in Charbonneau is that we have so many activities to participate in at all levels of physical abilities. Get out and have some fun!
May 4 SOCIAL SUNDAY, from 3:30-6 p. m. in the Hazelglade Lounge & Kalapuya Room.
Come start the month in good company. Gather for some food, socializing, music and lightly-facilitated fun
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with conversation and story starters. Bring a dish, a bottle and a readiness to get to know folks.
If there is interest, we’ ll end with some casual bingo with fun and simple prizes at 5 p. m. For more info, contact Dana Brenner at dbrenkel @ gmail. com.
May 5, Cinco De Mayo Taco Night, come have some fun and celebrate Cinco de Mayo with your Charbonneau neighbors. Bring your favorite Mexican dish that you’ d like to share. This is a BYOB event that will be held in the Clubhouse Dining Room from 430-630 p. m. in this Potluck event. Please RSVP Brooke at 503-694-2300 or at BROOKE @ CHARBONNEAU- COUNTRYCLUB. COM.
May 18, CAA presents Conversations with a Hollywood Producer, in the Clubhouse Dinning Room starting at 3 p. m. Come hear the extensive background of a Hollywood producer of film, television and radio audiences, which has given Roger Galloway unique opportunities to work with major stars and musicians. Roger will be visiting family here in Charbonneau and has agreed to share some of his personal extensive library of video footage and hear his personal accounts of working with stars dating back to the 1960s and‘ 70s. There will be stories and video of Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, James Arness, Rock Hudson, Conway Twitty, Brenda Lee, Hank Williams Jr., Muhammad Ali, and many more. Using big screen TV monitors, this event will feature video and audio clips of celebrity interviews from various television productions, woven together with Roger’ s storytelling flair. This is an opportunity to ask questions about how television productions are made,
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what it was like working with A-List celebrities and insights into the world of television production. This is a free event, although Charbonneau Arts Association will always appreciate any donations towards supporting teachers and students at Wilsonville and Canby schools. Pack a picnic basket of goodies and brings some friends to this unique visual and storytelling experience of someone who achieved a successful 50-year career working with the highest level of Hollywood stars. The Market Cafe will host a bar for this event, so this is not a BYOB event.
May 19, Nonfiction Book Group, examines the power of the individual to elect change. In our legacy of American presidents, where Thomas Jefferson is described as enigmatic, Andrew Jackson would be conspicuous and obvious. Jackson was our first president to not be a cultivated gentleman from either Virginia or Massachusetts. A decorated military hero, he was equally forceful imprinting his will on defining democracy in his vision. The book“ American Lion,” by Jon Meacham makes a convincing case that Andrew Jackson’ s presidency transformed the office into what it is in modern times: the powerful center of government. Sentimental on one hand, brutal on the other, Jackson brought his warrior spirit to the presidency and left the nation forever changed. May’ s book is“ Revenge of the Tipping Point,” by Malcolm Gladwell. The author challenges the treatises from his previous book,“ The Tipping Point,” with his typical insight. The nonfiction book group will discuss the book in the fireplace room at 1:30 p. m.
May 21, Charbonneau Country Club’ s Annual Resident Meeting, this
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event will be held in the Clubhouse Dinning Room from 630-830 p. m. At this meeting, you will hear from our CCC Board of Directors and our general manager will briefly describe major accomplishments and issues from the last year. They will also announce the individuals who won the three board seats that were up for election.
May 28, Charbonneau Community Food Drive, they will be accepting donations in the Activity Center from 830-1 p. m. There are many people here in our Wilsonville community who really do depend on our generous donations, and they are really appreciated. So please do what you can to help, a little or a lot, are all welcome. This month they are asking for chili, cereal, canned vegetables( but no green beans please) and tomato products( but no paste). Please make sure that any food item that you donate is in code; please don’ t donate out of code items. Monetary donations are also welcome; they really help to fill in the gaps for items in need. If you’ d like to make a monetary donation, please make checks out to Wilsonville Community Sharing.
June 7,‘ Ride and Roll’ event, last year’ s ride through the beautiful Willamette Valley countryside was scenic and entertaining, but was all the more meaningful because it supported a local veterans charity“ Ride and Roll” is sponsored by the Sgt. Watts Veterans Foundation, named in honor of a decorated local veteran. It’ s a fun event where you ride— motorcycle, car, pickup, whatever— on backcountry roads stopping at unique places and then roll dice— leading to prizes.
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