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Mar 25th, 2025….Celebrating 25

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MICHELLE’S MESSAGE

Today we celebrate number 25-it’s March 25^th and the year 25!! Twenty-five lucky ticket holders are winners of gifts and 25 winners for a free donut/toast and coffee coupon. Fun!!

Good luck to your March Madness NCAA bracket! May all your selections be winners. For the ladies, I took out UCLA and Maryland with UCLA winning it all. In the men’s bracket I took out Michigan and Arizona out with Michigan Wolverines winning it all-Lord help me! Good luck players!

VOLUNTEER SHOUT OUT

Volunteer of the week.. Mary Sue Kintzer

This week’s volunteer shout out is for a resident Baker at Betmar. She bakes every week for Betmar’s Bingo Bistro and bakes for the all shuffle lunches. She is also a Baker for any of the bake sales sponsored by any club or organization. She is director of the kitchen band, head of Thursday night bunco, member of the Betmar choir, longtime hospitality member, and game club member. She actively works for each group. Thank you so much for being our volunteer shout out of the week Mary Sue Kintzer!!

THANK YOU, CARPORT CONCERT, FOR YOUR DONATION of $700 ( ½ for security and ½ for communications)

THANK YOU, INDIANA PICNIC-THEIR FIRST ONE, FOR YOUR DONATION OF $80 ($20 FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND $60 TO BETMAR)

Coffee Hour volunteers for the month of March include Pam Belknap, Rich & Sue DelGrand, Tom & Marti Dumas, Bob & Shelby Fetterly, Kerry Fritz, Jane Hamilton, George & Holly Hefner, Bill & Linda Rood, Vite & Linda Vitale, coordinators Tom & Dee Brown with an assist from Celeste Riendeau and Patty Cheely.

ACTIVITIES

*Time Capsule items due this week-either to Michelle or Melinda

*Dark house forms are due in the office April 1st

*Musical Bingo April 3^rd-free but a ticket is needed; 60 only-already gone-sorry

BETMAR BANDSTAND

We invite you to come to Clubhouse 2 at 6:00 on Wednesday, March 26 to once again enjoy the music of the band Bone Cartel. Today is the last day to get your tickets for the April 2 dinner show. It will be a delicious pork loin dinner and you will have the pleasure of enjoying the amazing music of our Jam Bandits band following dinner. Our season is ending soon. Don’t miss out on the fun.

BINGO Bistro Taco Salad

DANCE CLUB

On Saturday night March 29th come and dance the night away to the music of Bill D. Williams in clubhouse #2 from 7:00 till 10:00 P.M. with the doors opening at 6:00 P.M. BYOB. Also bring your own snacks and all your friends, as everyone is welcome. Dance Dance Dance!!!

GOLF CLUB

ATTENTION GOLFERS:

1) The GOLD course will NOT be shut down on Wednesday, it will be shut down on Thursday the 27th for pencil tinning. We will however be asking for anyone available to help with Spring Clean up of the GOLF Club House that day starting @ 9 am. They do realize that it is the Ladies Banquet, so all you men out there, bring your mops and dust rags and make us proud.

Congratulations to Jerry McClure on 2 Hole in 1’s in less than a month. Gold #9 and White #2.

Rob Shaffer 2/2825 White score of 25

Karen Quinlan Hole in one on Gold #3

Bill Johnson Hole in one on White #3

Ernie Vaillancourt Hole in one on Gold #3

Jerry McClure Hole in one Gold #9

Thursday, March 27th Ladies Golf Banquet 11am CH2

Saturday, March 29th Golf CanAm Tourney Check in 1:30/Sign Up Canadians!!

Monday, March 31st April Fools Golf. Check in at 1:30. Last event of the season, don’t miss this one. Still looking for volunteers to help with the events on the course. Please call me if you can spare 1 1/2 hours to run a game/event during the outing. Thank you, Terri 269-501-4752,

Saturday, April 5th Breakfast by Mike & Gail 8:00 am to 9:15 am. CH2

LIBRARY

Books are hard-bound drugs with danger of an overordose. I am a Happy Victim of Book overdosing.

The Betmar Library is doing well. We are very excited to see all of our patrons streaming in. Starting on Monday April 14 we will be changing over to our summer hours from 10:00 until 12:00 noon daily Monday through Friday. Please continue to come in and see us. We are continuing to operate the kiosks in club house 2. Let us know if we can do anything to make your Library experience more pleasurable. Toni Nelson

SHUFFLE CLUB

Check out the pictures of the shuffle club celebrating Marta Wilson’s 100 birthday-early but snowbirds are here now and will not be in August

SWIM CLUB

If you use Facebook and haven’t already signed up, please search for the “Betmar Swim Club” group and ask to join. You will need to answer two or three easy questions and agree to the terms of use (basically just “be nice”). If you have any questions, just respond to this email and we’ll see if we can help.

This is a great way to get timely and early notification of pool closings, upcoming meetings and membership events, etc. Your suggestions are always welcome too!

Thank you! Betmar Swim Club

TABLE AND CHAIR SET UP

Block assignments for Table & Chair volunteers are published in each month’s Betmar Bulletin. Blocks are mapped out on page 28 of the phone book. The block assignment for the second half of March is blocks Q & R ((most of Jodi, Arrowhead & Strand).

Schedule for this period follows:

Wed 3/26    8 am         Spring Concert
                    4 pm         Bandstand
Thu 3/27     8 am         Spring Concert
                    8 am         Ladies Golf Banquet (Annex)
Sat 3/29      8 am         Dance
Mon 3/31    8 am         Bingo

For questions, contact Tom Brown

THEATRE

Fantastic job on your performance last weekend-Two Tales of Intrigue

VIDEO

Anyone wanting a video copy for M & E St. Patty’s day show or the Betmar Theater show both should be ready at the end of this week. You can sign the clip board here on stage or call Ralph at 724-730-3064 thank you. Ralph

Check out a glimpse of the March 2025 Betmar Car show via video as provided by the Betmar Video Group. Here’s a link:

WHAT NOT BARN/SALE

2026 What-Not Sale dates
Wed., February 18: Ant March & Setup

Thu., February 19: What-Not Sale (internal)

Fri., February 20: What-Not Sale (public)

Sat. February 21: What-Not Sale (public)

JOKE OF THE DAY

A young cowboy walks into a seedy old cafe in Wyoming. He sits at the counter and notices an old cowboy with his arms folded staring blankly at a bowl full of meaty chili. After a few minutes of just watching him staring at the chili, the young boy bravely asked the old cowpoke, “if you ain’t gonna eat that, do you mind if I do?”

The older cowboy slowly turned his head toward the young Wrangler and in his best cowboy manner says “Nah, you go ahead.”

Eagerly the young cowboy reaches over and slides the bowl over to his place and starts spooning it in with the light. He gets nearly down to the bottom and notices a dead mouse in the chilly. The site was very shocking and he immediately barfed up the chili back into the bowl.

The old cowboy quietly says,” Yep, that’s as far as I got also.”

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