What a night! Our Newcomers Club bocce event brought together a wonderful crowd for an evening of friendly competition, great food, lots of laughs, and absolutely perfect desert weather. We had nearly a full turnout, which made the courts feel lively from the very beginning. Bocce event organizers Andrew Steele and Francesco Biasi The evening was organized by Andrew Steele, Francesco Biasi, and Xenia Biasi. To keep things interesting, Andrew gave each team an animal name, so

Another good time was had by all at our October Happy Hour and Trivia at Shadows. Good food, good conversations and a good use of brain cells. Our trivia ended up using several tiebreaker questions, until Marty (I know, shocker!) got the final correct answer! Congratulations to everyone - you are all winners in my book! I am looking forward to being a participant in the November HH/T, when Diane makes her return to her desert family.

We had such a good time with friends old and new at our 2026-27 season kick-off potluck. It was great to see over 70 of our friends, plus many new faces, gather for laughter and fun. Steve's 'Places we COULD have gone for summer vacation' was a fun trivia game that had everybody working together and scratching their heads over matching up unique town names with the State they belonged to. We are looking forward to sharing many more fun times with the members of this amaz

Hello, everybody! It was great to see so many of you at our Season Kick-Off potluck in September! I look forward to spending more time with all of you are our upcoming potlucks and events. As we get closer to the cooler weather here in the desert, things are heating up with our Club. Upcoming events for October include my last Happy Hour/Trivia event, since the Goddess of all things Trivia, Diane Chapman, returns to our hallowed grounds just in time for the November HH

Hello Newcomers! At our September, 2026 potluck, we heard from Christine Knadler about a way we can all help support Ronald McDonald House Charities, which provides much needed help to sick children and their families. One way we can help RMHC is to save your aluminum pull tabs from your cans. Throw them in a bag, or other container, and bring them to our next potluck. Christine will get them where they need to go. Together, we can help, one pull tab at a time! Th

As we kick off our second year of our fabulous website, we have discovered some little glitches that don't allow for as much automation as we want to see for our renewal process. That has been addressed, and will be in place for next year. For the time being, all renewal reminders will be sent via email from me, so keep an eye on your email inbox, please and renew soon, so you don't miss a moment of the fun!

Holy Smokes! Can you believe summer has flown by in the blink of an eye and here we are, getting ready to fire up our new season of fun for our Club! We hope you have had a fantastic summer, and are ready to join us this season, as we explore our CV Lakers, CV Firebirds, Polo and Tennis grounds, Concerts on El Paseo and In the Park at Palm Desert, some light hiking and road trips, as well as exploring our own SCSH grounds for concerts, Bocce, Putting, and Pickelball, along w

ALOHA! Guilty. I’m a sports geek. Strategy, Substitutions, Playoffs…I get into it. Too much. Geek world. So, pardon me, as I find myself using a sports term for this “Message From The Ex-President” letter. The term I find myself using is “lottery pick”. Every year, the first 14 players selected in the NBA draft are called “lottery picks”. The owners of the 14 teams that failed to make the playoffs enter a lottery to determine the order in which their teams draft college playe

Hello, summer! What a great start to what promises to be another fantastic year of Newcomers fun. I cannot believe that the 2025-26 “season” is over and we are preparing for 2026-27 events already! Time truly does fly when you’re having fun. Let me start out by thanking our out-going Board members, Michelle Lackner (Past President), Rich Rawson (Vice-President) and Andrew Steele, who is moving from President to Past President. None of this would have been possible without the

Good food, great people, and plenty of laughs. Moments like these are what Let’s Meet & Eat is all about. This past season, our Newcomers group really enjoyed being part of the Let’s Meet & Eat evenings. While it’s a separate club, having our two Newcomers tables each month gave us a great way to be part of something bigger while still sitting together and getting to know each other. Let’s Meet & Eat is held once a month in the Montecito Ballroom and feels more like a lively

A fun time was had at our Tex Mex potluck tonight, which featured great food and even better entertainment, with our First Annual Newbies Awards! Check out the photos!!

Our inaugural Euchre night was a success! We had 18 members come, and 13 of them had never played, or only played once or twice before. Can't wait to see who joins us in March. Yes...it'll be another Friday the 13th event! Come play with us.

Our Club enjoyed a peaceful start to our day with an up close encounter with Hummingbirds in Palm Desert, then the Desert Labyrinth provided us a peaceful spot to refill and settle our souls, before we ended the morning at Stuft Pizza in La Quinta for lunch.

A great time was had by all, once again. Captioned are the smiling happy faces of the biggest winners and the below photo are the biggest non-winners. Come join us next month!

Newcomers Club members walked through historic Palm Springs snooping around in a number of classic inns. A lot of walking followed by a lovely dinner, lots of stories and laughter! Thanks to everyone who was able to make the journey.

Photos from last night’s Bigly Hooch Happy Hour (courtesy of Diane Chapman).

Newcomers Club had a wild time at Wild Nights at the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens. Thanks to Jean Brusavich and Rose Nakazawa for...

This will be my last newsletter as President of the Newcomers Club. (I have a note for you at the end of this post.) Short version: It...