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Published June 13th, 2009
The SentinelThe SentinelThe Sentinel A publication of the Sandpiper Bay HOA
May/June 2009 Volume 6 Issue 3
OOOO n a cold, wet Sunday after-noon, Sharon C o o k s e y and four of
her buds finished the Avon 40 mile breast cancer walk with the sunniest faces I’ve seen in a long time. I’ll just call them the “Smilin Five”. Through the generosity of many Sandpiper residents and many others, Sharon raised $3,000 for the cause. Remarkably, the entire event raised over 6.8 MILLION. When all was said and done, Sharon announced her retire-ment from the walking phase, but volunteering for future events seems likely
The Smilin’ Five kicked off the walk with a fabulous carbo loading party at one of the ladies homes in Reston, Virginia. There I learned that these ladies don’t just show up and walk. Outfits, (including pink monkeys, pink ponchos, and white hats with pink pony tails) had been carefully coordinated over the sev-eral months leading up to the event. Gifts were exchanged ranging from pink dangling earrings to bags of Epsom salts and lavender (a bath thing I was told). Next morning, bright and early, they were on their way leaving from West Potomac Park near the Jefferson Memorial and arriving many, many hours later near Bethesda Maryland. Sharon reported great walking weather that day, even if she had forgotten exactly how long the al-most 27 miles really was. She also praised the route, through some of Washington’s nicest and most sce-nic neighborhoods. She was also
excited to have met up with one of our neighbors, Rita McLean who worked the walk as a volunteer.
Being veterans, the ladies skipped the overnight tent city por-tion of the walk and took up resi-dence at a Bethesda Maryland Doubletree Inn. Besides, they don’t serve Cosmos at tent cities! This of course, was after devouring what they all described as the most memorable spaghetti and meatball dinner they will ever eat (guess you had to be there). The next day, after Sharon determined that she could get out of bed and her legs would actually move, they were off on day two, a mere thirteen miles or so. Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate. I can attest as I was playing golf with 3 of their spouses when in a matter of about 15 minutes, the rain got heavy and the temperature dropped to somewhere in mid 40’s, but then, the ladies did have ponchos!
Because of the weather, I was able to find a spot at the fin-ish line when I ran into Mikey, as in our own Mary Ard and Mikey.
Soon enough and sure enough, I saw the Smilin Five round the cor-ner and after a little organizing and
perking up, they triumphantly and happily crossed the finish line. Frankly, other than a little soaked, they looked great! Sharon said, yes the weather made the walk a little rough, but the worst was on Memorial Bridge, when in sight of the finish area, they got drenched when a car went through a pud-dle. At least they were close! From there, Sharon and I headed back to the Mahoneys where we were staying. After a hot shower , a chilled glass of
chardonnay, and a wonderful meal ,Sharon said she felt almost human, at least for the 20 or 30 minutes more that she was awake. If you know Sharon, when it’s sleepy time, it’s sleepy time NOW! I am proud of her and indeed she is proud of herself for completing the walk, but more importantly for her contribution to a much greater cause.
Rita McLean, Sharon Cooksey and Angela Ruel
L-R Jackie Garland, Angela Ruel, Madeline Jackson, Sharon
Cooksey and Jewel Hudson
The Smilin’ Five
By Ray Cooksey
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Around the world in
107 days By Clint Rose
WWWW ell after 107 days and 40,000
miles we have returned to our
home in Sandpiper. There
have been numerous questions, like “how
can you be on a ship for that long?” Look at
it this way, where else can you have your
breakfast in bed or on your veranda and
then go out of your room and have someone
come in and clean up for you and make your
bed? Where can you go and have someone
cook all your meals and have 4 star dinners
every night followed up with a show at a
Royal Theater and then dancing in a Grand
Ballroom?
During the day you walk out of your
room with the choices of attending very in-
teresting lectures by noted writers, take
dance lessons, go to a movie, visit the
planetarium or just sit by a pool reading a
book. To tell you the truth it was just
“Fantastic”.
With all of that being said you still get
the chance to visit 31 different ports in 28
different countries, sail all the oceans and
too many rivers or seas to mention. Yes, we
did sail right through pirate territory 5 days
prior to the take over of the American
freighter but there was a destroyer and heli-
copter with us when we went through. You are not
only vacationing but are learning the many cultures
of the world making it quite an educational experi-
ence.
What a wonderful way to see such places like
Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, New
Guinea, Japan, China, South Korea, Vietnam Thai-
land, India, Dubai, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Greece,
Italy & Spain. In those travels we got to ride an ele-
phant, climb up on a camel, see the pyramids/
sphinx, visit the numerous temples, cathedrals
whose beauty are unbelievable. There are many
words to describe these many places so I will start a
series of articles on this trip of a lifetime in future arti-
cles.
Many people say, “I would like to see the pic-
tures!” Well we have about 3500 still pictures and 12
hours of video, you would have to spend a week to
see them all. I kept a daily log which totaled 13 chap-
ters which I am completing and would be willing to
lend out if someone has an interest. The next article
will be our first leg from New York to Los Angeles.
Our ports were, Ft. Lauderdale, Willemstad, Cura-
cao, Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala, Puerto Vallarta
Mexico and Cabo San Lucas Mexico.
Cruise Ship Queen Victoria
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Clint and Arlene pose with Walter Cunningham, an astronaut on Apollo 9.
Clint and Arlene dining on board the Queen Victoria
World cruise
DDDD oug and Diane Rauch visited their good friends and part time neighbors, Sam and Diane Car-riker at their Concord, NC home in May. In addition to golfing at the Carriker's favorite golf
club, The Warrior, they were treated to rides on several "toys" of Sam and Diane's. Sam restored his father's old International tractor over the winter, and doesn't Doug seem right at home in the driver's seat ?
TTTT he Carriker's big surprise was a brand new Stallion Trike by Thoroughbred Motorsports. There are cur-
rently only two Stallion trikes in the State of North Carolina, and the Carriker's own one. Readers may recall that Sam and Diane were featured in a Sentinel article last summer when they rode their Honda Gold Wing triked motorcycle out West and back, over 6,000 miles. Besides looking very futuristic, the Stallion features a steering wheel, automatic transmission, Ford 2.3 Liter 4-cylinder engine, heat and air conditioning vents for both driver and pas-
senger, cruise control and drink holders. If you want to find out more about this awesome machine, Google it or wait for Sam and Diane to ride into Sandpiper on it soon. It's cool!
Doug Rauch
By Diane Rauch
Doug Rauch
Diane Carriker & Diane Rauch
Editors !ote: Doug bears a striking resemblance to Eddie Albert on that tractor. ♪Green Acres is the place to be ♪….♪.farming is the life for me! ♫
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1 pound of macaroni elbows Salt 1 small can of Green Giant Mexi-corn, drained 1 small red onion, chopped 4 ribs of celery, chopped Black Pepper 8 oz. brick Monterey pepper-jack cheese, diced 2 Tbs. red wine vinegar ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil 1 cup store bought tomatillo salsa, mild green 2 Tbs. chopped fresh cilantro
BBBB ring water to a boil, salt it and
add elbows. While elbows are cooking, combine drained Mexi- corn, onion and celery in a bowl with pepper jack cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Run cooked pasta under cold water to cool it and drain well. Add drained elbows to vegetables and cheese.
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fold in salsa. Pour sauce over cooled elbows and toss to coat evenly. Garnish with cilantro and serve, or you can refrig-erate until later, it can be kept for days.
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Andy Bober
TTTT he April ladies luncheon was held on Thursday, April 16th at the newly built restaurant at Crow
Creek Golf and Country Club. The luncheon was hosted by Phyllis Roche, Barb Bartholomew, and Bev Sark-isian. Over 60 ladies were in attendance and enjoyed the outside views as well as the beautiful surroundings indoors.
The May Ladies luncheon was held on Thursday, May 21st, as a pool party, at our own Residents Center.
Thanks go to Jacquie Bridge for the wonderful idea! Over 50 ladies attended and enjoyed a relaxing after-noon of food and drink poolside.
The June luncheon will be held at The Brentwood in
Little River on June 18th. Contact information is on the
Sandpiper Bay website.
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D avid Michaelis has recently
written an astute and poignant
biography of the famous car-
toonist Charles Schulz called
Schulz and Peanuts. It is an
intriguing exploration into the life of a person
who, through his long-running cartoon strip,
was considered successful and well-loved
across our society. And yet, at the same time,
it shows the very human side of Schulz his
personal struggles and family tensions espe-
cially as these are reflected in his cartoon
strips. Early in his life, Schulz saw the Orson
Welles movie Citizen Kane, and it became his
favorite movie. He saw it over the years as
many as forty times. In Citizen Kane, Charles Kane is taken from his poor boyhood home,
raised by a banker and thrust into the center
of American life. He rises to prominence,
achieving economic success and societal
fame, only to lose himself in his never-finished
castle home, Xanadu. In the end, Charles
Kane longs for rosebud, the sled of his joyful
boyhood which represented the love he once
knew. Charles Schulz saw in Charles Kane
something of his own life and struggle. Micha-
elis writes: Like Welles’s hero, Charles Fos-
ter Kane, who got everything he wanted, and
then lost it, Charles Monroe Schulz would
succeed on a scale beyond the grandest of
his childhood dreams, and yet he would strug-
gle to love and be loved. All his life, he felt
alone, spending most of his adult half-century
yearning to be taken care of, to be under-
stood.
This struggle and disappointment around
love would be reflected in the cartoon charac-
ters who inhabited both his daily strip and his
later TV shows. There was often in the actions of
his characters a kind of indifference to one an-
other, sometimes bordering on cruelty, an indif-
ference which all too often reflected and reflects
the pace of our modern world as people rush on
oblivious to one another. Charlie Brown pleads
to know the meaning of Christmas, but his sister
is too busy writing a gift request letter to Santa to
really hear him. Lucy has a crush on Schroeder,
but he is too involved with his piano to see or
care. And of course, Charlie Brown always falls
victim to the sly invitation from Lucy to kick the
football which she will hold for him, only to go fly-
ing through the air when she once again moves
the ball at the last second. I suspect that the un-
derlying tone of Peanuts was so popular for so
long because it reflected the subtle feelings of so
many around the struggles and disappointments
and yet the perennial optimism when it comes to
love. Schulz was a master of cloaking all this in
the gentle art of humor.
My sense is that we all yearn for a place
where we can be known and loved by oth-
ers. People spend their lives amassing work
achievements and material goods and exciting
vacations and all the other things our society tells
us to strive for. And yet, in our more honest mo-
ments, we simply want to love and be loved, not
perfectly, but authentically, steadily, in a way that
can transform our lives and make them meaning-
ful. Something inside us longs for this, even
though we also may fear opening ourselves up to
such an experience. At our best, the church
seeks to be a place where love can happen. We
start with a God who loves us, and we begin to
find that love reflected in our sharing in a hundred
little but important ways. Come and be part of
the discovery. Don’t live for later regrets."
Author: Pastor Kip Ingram of the Twinbrook Baptist Church in Rockville, MD
Submitted by Linda Mc 1ish
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AAAA couple was golfing one day on a very, very exclusive golf course, lined with million dollar
houses. On the third tee the husband said, "Honey, be very careful when you drive the ball don't knock out any windows. It'll cost us a fortune to fix."
The wife teed up and shacked it right through the window of the biggest house on the course. The husband cringed and said, "I told you to watch out for the houses. Alright, let's go up there, apolo-gize and see how much this is going to cost." They walked up, knocked on the door, and heard a voice say, "Come on in." They opened the door and saw glass all over the floor and a broken bottle lying on its side in the foyer. A man on the couch said, "Are you the people that broke my window?"
"Uh, yeah. Sorry about that." the husband re-plied.
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