By: Shawn Morris

This year’s Christmas party, being hosted by the Polar Bear Club, will be held on Saturday, December 12th from 9am to 11am at the Club House.  Come have breakfast with Santa and tell him what you want for Christmas!  Each kid will receive a gift from Santa after he arrives at 9:30am.  You can also join in our other Christmas activities including decorating an ornament to take home.

We will be serving pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs and mixed fruit.  There also will be an assortment of beverages.  The party is free to all children and grandchildren of Roaming Shores residents, age 12 and under.

Registration is required with a cutoff date of Saturday, December 5th.  To reserve your seats for the Christmas party, please email the Polar Bear Club at: joeythepolarbear@yahoo.com

When registering, please let us know all of the following:

1. Number of Adults
2. Number of Kids
3. Name, Age and Gender of each kid

We will send a reply email confirming that you are registered for the event within 48 hours.

Our Annual clambake went off with great success. Despite an all-day shower, 160 people attended.

Ed Baitt supplied a large tarp to put over the grill to keep the rain off the chicken being cooked. We had a Chinese auction with 40 prizes. Sister Barbara Emick donated 25 handmade crafts; Jim and Pat Swartz donated many wonderful items including lamps, pictures, and knives; and Jack McMillin donated fishing rods and reels.

Our next meeting will be Monday, October 5th at 7pm in the Clubhouse. This is when new officers will be elected, By Laws changed, and new rules. Anyone who would like to be on the fish club board or help out, male or female, please come to the meeting.

Some suggestions for next year will be a couples only tournament: Husband – Wife, Father – Daughter, Mother – Son or Girlfriend – Boyfriend. This would be a pan fish only event (bluegill, crappie, and perch). Another idea is to have a June fish fry as a fundraiser for the kids fishing day.
After the meeting, fish and chips will be served along with water and pop. Anyone wanting to BYOB is welcome.

There was no Big Fish registered for the month of August.

By Barb Buckley

If you missed the Promotion Club’s End of Summer Dance on August 29 you missed a really super event! The joint was rockin’ while over 50 residents of all ages danced to the lively music of DJ Brendan Cain (TheBrendanCain@gmail.com), also a Shores resident, and enjoyed the DJ’s light show and sound system. So did the younger residents who favored the livelier tunes with their energetic dancing. Still there were plenty of oldies and tunes that several of us more mature folks appreciated. Many stories were shared among both old and new friends in between dances at our Clubhouse. While the rains poured outside the cheerful group inside remained cozy among friends enjoying the music, tasting wines and sharing treats brought from home. Sally Flash, our Promotion Club president and host for the event, thanked Promotion Club members for their work providing the yummy treats and decorating the Clubhouse. Sally said, “I wanted to try a DJ this year instead of a band hoping for a wider range of music that everyone would appreciate.” We sure got that, Sally! Sounds like a blueprint for future events.

Promotion Club events are friendly, get-togethers with no other purpose than to meet other residents and to laugh and share good times. It’s a great way to meet your neighbors learn more about what’s happening in our great community. And speaking about good times, don’t forget about dinner with the Friends & Neighbors on October 10. Mark the date so you don’t miss it. See you there!