Thursday Bridgeport Group
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I am happy to report that we are back at Bridgeport Recreation Center with no more interruptions!
Our next meeting will be on September the 5th at 1:00 p.m.
September’s luncheon is right around the corner. You have until August 29th to submit your check made payable to the VIP
Please mail check to Jean Hatten
17725 Southeast 84th Sheldon Terrace The Villages, Florida 32162 The cost is $10.
Our very own Jean and Bob Hatten with the Sumter Lions Club will be serving us a lunch catered from Francesco’s Italian restaurant. On the menu is penne pasta with sausage, salad along with garlic knots, and a cookie.
For our September luncheon, we are excited to have the villages violin Club perform for us.
Cruise news 2025
Our original cruise selection had to be canceled due to no early dining options available. We are looking into another cruise with Celebrity Equinox leaving Port Canaveral on March 22nd through the 29th .
If you are interested in this Cruise, please reach out to me either by email zemanzoo@gmail.com or call or text me at 386-867-0284 to let me know that you would like to be put on the Cruise list.
We now have a brand new website for the VIPs. Please check us out at villagesvip.org
Mailing list notice
Due to our high volume when sending out our newsletters we are asking all two-person households to please share the email once the first person receives it. That is simply done by forwarding it to your partner. It will help us get them out in a timely manner and not go over our limits. Thank you for your understanding
Sumter Lions Club is collecting aluminum cans and old eyeglasses. If you have any that you would like to donate, please bring them to our meetings.
Eastport Lions Club is busy trying to determine how we may assist the Ezell meeting. Golf is on hold for the extra hot summer months. Game day in the south area is being assessed. Bingo for the VIPs looks promising.
You will now have a monthly chance to win a $5 Publix gift card just by simply reading or listening to our newsletter and then name the artist and title of the song that we played to start our meetings off with. If you know them both, just stand up as soon as the song is over. The first one that stands up will win a $5 gift card!
Last month’s winter was Frank Traina!
Did you know that we partner with New Vision for Independence and all of the resources that are available to us as visually impaired persons? They offer training in all areas for independent living as well as the opportunity to exercise with them over the phone or play games.
Erica comes to our meetings every month and is glad to assist us with any questions we may have. You can also reach her by calling the new vision for the Independence office directly at 352 607-7607.
Game day is the second Thursday of every month at Laurel Manor 1 to 3pm.
V I P bowling 4th Wednesday of each month at Fiesta Bowl 3 to 5 pm.
Plan on going out to dinner with us.
The spousal support group will be meeting on September the 18th at Mallory Country Club at 3:00 p.m. questions, please call Joyce Isaacson at 941-661-4108
We now have brand new magnetic VIP pins, cost is $2 a piece, and they will be on sale at the information table.
Don’t forget to wear your VIP pins to all our functions.
Melinda Zeman
VIP chairperson and leader of the Bridgeport meeting
386 867 0284
Zemanzoo@gmail.com
Monday Ezell Group
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All VIP’s and their companions are welcome to join us for the Visually Impaired Persons Support Group meeting on Monday September 16th at the Ezell Recreation Center across from Sawgrass Grove. Doors open at 1pm and the meetings are over at 2:30pm.
If you can, please bring a snack to share. We will provide the drinks.
* John Corneille is our speaker for September. John is almost totally blind from retinitis pigmentosa and recently retired from his 14 year career with the Foundation Fighting Blindness. He will tell us a little bit about his journey with vision loss, the Foundation as an important source of information and resource on emerging treatments and therapies for vision loss from inherited retinal disease and AMD and some of the most recent and exciting science breakthroughs. There will be time for questions.
Our friends from The Eastport Lions Club are moving forward with the details to offer games for VIP’s and other actives in the very near future. Thank you, Eastport Lions, for your support and active involvement with the VIP Ezell meeting!
Caring Neighbors has added Villages to their list that can help residents within those neighborhoods. They now have a website. Thevillagescaringneighbors.com Check it out!
We appreciate your participation in the 50/50 drawings at both our meetings. It’s a great way to financially support the VIP Support Group!
In addition to the two monthly VIP meetings, there are a number of other activities that you may be interested in.
The spousal support group is meeting the 3rd Wednesday of the month at Mallory Country Club at 3:00 pm. For more info Call Joyce Isaacson 941-661-4108.
VIP Game day is the second Thursday of each month at Laurel Manor 1pm. to 3pm.
VIP Bowling is the 4th.Wednesday of each month at Fiesta Bowl in Spanish Springs from 3 to 5pm. There’s always a plan to get together dinner afterward.
Lawn Bowling, every Friday at the Rio Grande rifle range at 10am and will start up again in the fall. Contact Al Sessa: 908-812-6523 for more information about these 2 activities.
Golf for VIPs with the Lake Sumter Lions is taking a break from the summer heat. Golf will resume in October. For more information call: John Thomson 352-259-6104.
VIP CRUISE 2025 MARCH 22-29, 2025, for all the details call Melinda 386-867-0284 Come and join the FUN!!
Hope to see you at the Ezell VIP meeting Monday September 16th.
Donna Evans, leader of the VIP Ezell meeting
Call or text: 352-391-4586