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The Long Island Single Sailor’s Association .. Our 31st Year Dedicated to Sailing and Boating
Vol. 31 No. 11 December 2018
God Bless America
Commodore’s Corner Howard Marks
Tis’ The Season to Be Jolly. For the next few weeks, we hope that you will deck your halls with Holiday Cheer. Give to those in need and remember: A small act of kindness goes a long way. It is also the season to renew your LIS-SA MEMBERSHIP for 2019. We have re-designed the MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL FORM and simplified it to ONE PAGE. The FORM is in the Jib. Please fill it out and return it WITH your check to Marilyn Horowitz ASAP. Currently, the DIS-COUNTED FEE of $60.00 is in effect. Why pay more? Take a look at the fee schedule on the renewal form and please do not de-lay. Renew today. The LISSA Holiday Party / Change of Watch Gala is on Sunday, December 9th at Nocello’s, from 5 – 9:00 PM. Irv will pre-pare a special Holiday Gala sit-down din-ner and Rick C will spin seasonal tunes all night. It’s always a lot of fun. Wear your Santa Hat. Please be reminded that we don’t collect money at the door. And so, please send your $32.00 check ($37.00 guest) to George Fuchs’ PO Box by De-cember 1
st. If you haven’t already done so,
you will need to mail you check TODAY, because it is most assuredly past the Dec 1
st deadline. Make check payable to LIS-
SA and mail to: LISSA, PO Box 321, West Islip, NY 11795. (See flyer)
Birthday Babies this month will be at Flanagan’s on Thursday, December 27th. (The old Bruno’s, of course.) Choices will be from the full menu. The cost is always reasonable, generally around $25 - $27.00. Not only that, Thursday night is Flanagan’s Steak Night. For $24.95 you can get a NY Strip steak cooked to perfection. I’ve never been disappointed. I’m hungry now. Call Sally Hogeman by Dec. 22
nd, at (631) 269-
9398, to reserve your spot. Planning Meeting – Dec. 20
th: This is the
meeting where we usually put all of the LIS-SA major events on the calendar. There are always a few changes. We urge all who are usually involved in hosting and running these events to come on down and be part of the date selection and planning. Re-member, the LISSA wheel is powered by its members. Without you, the wheel stops turning. Hope to see you there. This year, we have 2 New Year’s Eve op-tions. The first choice is at Nocello ’s with the Blue Angel Band. This band is fab-ulous and Irv always has a great spread. The second choice is at the VFW, on Lake-land Ave. in Sayville, with DJ Gerry Ricci, from Contemporary Singles. Please see Rear Commodore’s corner for information on Nocello’s and flyer for more information on the VFW. Wishing you all a Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
See You All – Out There!!
2018 Board of Directors
COMMODORE Howard Marks (631) 226-1575
VICE COMMODORE Peter Aiello
(516) 443-8614
REAR COMMODORE George Fuchs (631) 661-1847
FLEET CAPTAIN Kenneth Ruffino
(631) 586-5991 [email protected]
SERGEANT AT ARMS Holly Schiller
SERGEANT AT ARMS
Patricia Kaminski (631) 423-7527
RECORDING SECRETARY Diane Tynebor (631) 331-3517
TREASURER Billy Vassel
(631) 663-3309 [email protected]
MEMBERSHIP Marilyn Horowitz (631) 368-5712
MASTER AT ARMS Skip Belli
(516) 551-0633 [email protected]
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Kathyann Peccia (631) 661-4489
The Jib * The Long Island Single Sailor’s Association * Vol. 31 No. 11 December 2018
JIB PRODUCTION
The JIB is produced by Carol Rizzo. All articles must be submitted by the 15th of each month and mailed to JIB Editor, 36 Saratoga Avenue, Medford, New York 11763 or e-mail to [email protected]. Also submit your article to Howard Marks at [email protected].
NOTICE
Should you become aware that a member of our Club is ill or has lost a loved one, please let our Corresponding Secretary Kathy Peccia know so that she may send acknowledgements from the Club. Thank you.
HAPPY DECEMBER BIRTHDAY
2018 Grievance Committee
Rosemarie Madros, Paul Argendorf , Shelley Dennis Alternate: Jean Grande
A message from the Rear Commodore….. First of all I have 2 mea culpas of sorts: At our Annual Meeting on November 4th. I erroneously called the Appalachian Mountain Club, the "Adirondack" Mountain Club. The Appalachian Mountain Club (a primarily conservation, mountaineering and hiking club) has a lodge or cabin in Atlantique on Fire Island which offers water related activities such as canoeing, kayaking, sailing, etc. For more infor-mation go to: http://outdoors.org The other one concerns Meetup.com listings; I couldn't remember the store in Lake Grove which "colludes" (pun intended) with Meetup .com and sponsors various outdoor activities throughout the year, including water related ones, (too many to list here). Are you ready for this? -- and the store is L.L.Bean in Lake Grove. Go to: L.L.Bean Lake Grove, NY | Outdoor, Camping and Clothing Store On another topic: Celebrate New Years Eve (December 31, 2018) at Nocellos, our regular "LISSA Social" venue. Featuring: Fran and Jack's Blue Angel Band. From 7:30 P.M. to 1:00 A.M. Included are: Hors d'oeuvres on your table upon arrival, Appetizer, Salad. Choice of 4 Entrees, Dessert, coffee/Tea, Champagne Toast, Hats and Noisemakers. Cost: $85.00 plus tax and tip. Drink Packages are available. George
Joseph Scotti 12/1 Carol Sauer 12/15
Irene Guerriero 12/3 Edward O’Hagan 12/25
Joan Murray 12/6 Sally Hogeman 12/28
Cliff Rosenberg 12/7 Betty Pati 12/28
John Reilly 12/13 Bill Jenkins 12/31
Happy Early January Birthday to: Diane Tynebor 1/1; Laila Peters 1/9; Terry Schumann 1/11; Richard Heelan 1/13; Billy Vassel 1/14
The Jib * The Long Island Single Sailor’s Association * Vol. 23 No. 8 August 2010
Sunday, December 2nd, Sundown Hanukkah Begins
Wishing our Jewish members, their families and
our friends
Sunday, December 9th, 5-9 PM Holiday Party/Change of Watch
Sit-down dinner, cash bar, DJ Rick C., coffee and dessert. $32 members, $37 Guests. Checks payable to LISSA must arrive to George by December 1st. No payments accepted at the door. Please see flyer for mailing address.
The Jib * The Long Island Single Sailor’s Association * Vol. 31 No. 11 December 2018
Thursday, December 20th, 8 PM Planning Meeting
Let’s have some ideas for the New Year. We meet at Nocello’s. If you wish to have dinner, arrive by 7 PM. Come and support your Club.
Tuesday, December 25th, All day
We wish our members and their families and our friends
Thursday, December 27th, 7:00 PM
Birthday Babies Dinner Babies and friends will meet at Flanagan's Pub, 451 Hawkins Avenue, Lake Ronkonkoma, NY 11779. Full menu, steak night special for $24.95. Please call Sally Hogeman to reserve your spot at (631) 269-9398.
Annual Meeting: Thanks to Billy Vassel for his arranging for the food for our Annual Meeting held on November 4th. Ideas were put forth and it was a very productive meeting. Election was held and the Secretary cast her one vote. The Board remains the same as last year with one exception— CeCe Moffitt joins Peter Aiello as our Vice Commodores. Welcome CeCe. Bermuda was a delight. The weather was sunny and warm enough to go swimming on the pink sand of Horseshoe Beach. The 5 hour bus tour showed us the entire island, as seen from the main road. Picturesque, of course, and quite up-scale in most cases. Interestingly, all the houses on Bermuda are made of poured concrete. The limestone roofs catch and purify all the rainwater and deliver it to a tank beneath the house. Smart and simple. There isn’t a wooden structure any-where. Even the bus shelters are made of stone. The island is hurricane proof. Oh, the boat… At a build cost of 1.2 billion dollars, Royal Caribbean’s “Anthem Of The Seas” is the 2nd largest cruise ship in the world. It’s a very impressive monster with plenty of ways to entertain and separate you from your money. The Royal Esplanade was filled with high end boutiques, jewelry stores and expensive restaurants. But we didn’t spend that much on food or drinks. We watched that carefully be-cause drinks were all more or less about $14.00 ea. Fairly insane. But if you enjoy adult beverages however, their $400.00 drink package is the way to go. If you’re a theater lover, “Anthem” will not disappoint. If you like Broadway shows and music, this boat is a masterpiece. I have never seen anything like it. The singing and dancing, the special effects and the intensity of the lighting was dazzling, much like what you can see in Times Square at night. I was amazed. Well, it ’s a high tech world after all. It’s a big boat. Lots of walking but, all and all, it was a very pleasant week. One morning, at 6:00 AM, we received a wake-up call BY MISTAKE. I said to the guy, “We didn’t order a wake-up call. It’s 6am and you woke us up!” I was a little short with the poor fellow and hung up. Well, the next day, coming back to our state room, there was a bottle of Champagne, a dozen chocolate strawberries, and a box of candy, with a note of apology. Hey… Call me every morning! That was a very nice apology, don’t you think?..... Howard Birthday Babies Dinner: 15 of us gathered at the Sonoma Grill Wednesday night to enjoy a terrific meal. I ordered the steak rare, which came to me correctly prepared but it was cut into tid-bits which makes it no longer really a steak. It was good enough. But I would have had the salmon had I known this in advance. Everyone had a good time. A hearty thank you to Jeff Feiner for hosting the evening.
LONG ISLAND
SINGLE SAILORS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
122 MARIE STREET
LINDENHURST, NY
11757
WWW.LISSA.ORG
DECEMBER 2018
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