REGENCY AT MONROE – NEWS UPDATE – NOVEMBER 25, 2017

GoDADDY AND MAILCHIMP 

Finally, after reviewing the stats from the past weekends, I will be emailing using GoDaddy and Mailchimp. The HOA EMAILER will no longer be used. 

Mailchimp is free but it has it’s limitations 

With GoDaddy, I pay for a plan that should be okay with the number of email addresses they give me (2500) and currently I have 1380 email addresses on file. They also allow me to send out 25,000 emails per month under the plan I took out.  So just with GoDaddy I could send out about 18 emails per month and this should be okay.  What is good is that I can now add friends from other adult communities, keep residents who have moved on my emails, if they desire plus other things which my HOA EMAILER limited me too. 

REGENCY MEN’S GROUP 

YANKEES VS PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES BASEBALL GAME

(IN PHILADELPHIA)

 JUNE 25, 2018

 SIGN UP NOW

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 BIRTHDAY’S AND ANNIVERSARY’S

 Well it is time to update my file on BIRTHDAY’S AND ANNIVERSARY’S. You can view the file which is directly below REGENCY EMAILER by clicking on it.  Check it out and if you want your Birthday and Anniversary added, please let me know

(rpost@monmouth.com)

 REGENCY HADASSAH SELLING MAH JONGG CARDS

 Just a reminder that Regency Hadassah is selling 2018 Maj Jongg Cards.

 $8- Standard Print

$9-Large Print

 Checks made payable to Regency Hadassah and either left in mailbox  of Karen Ross at 42 Beth Page Drive, Monroe Township, NJ 08831or mailed to her at this address. Please indicate note including address to which you want card sent or if you want Karen to hold it and you will let her know when you are at Regency to receive it.   Cards will be sold until January 15th.

PAIR OF GLASSES FOUND

We found a pair of glasses between Doral and Harbortown.  They are blue and black glasses.  We dropped them off at the clubhouse.

Tom and Rose Marie Healey

 REGENCY SINGLES MINGLES 

COME JOIN US – ALL REGENCY SINGLES ARE WELCOME

 DO ACTIVITIES WITH OTHER SINGLES. MEMBERSHIP $30 WE MEET THE FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EACH MONTH AT THE TENNIS PAVILION UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTIFIED.

Contact Tanya Ashuck or Georgia Doyle 732 641-2662.

 Upcoming Events –

  December 4 – Book Club, “The Trust” by Ronald H. Balson,

                           at Karen Calder’s house, 7:30

 December 6 – Holiday Party, Nonna’s, Rt. 9, Marlboro, 6:30,                                  $44.00.  Bring a $20.00 wrapped gift to exchange

 January 3 – Monthly meeting, Tennis Pavilion, 7:30

 January 15 – Book Club, “The Girl With Seven Names”                            by Hyeonseo Lee and David John 

REGENCY MEN’S CLUB

  PINBALL WIZARD – FRIDAY JANUARY 19, 2017

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 A MESSAGE TO VETERANS FROM A RESIDENT

 Just two items that might be of interest for veterans

 1-I hope you all know that if you qualify for the VA system drugs (& some other med issues) are dirt cheap.

 2-Even if you don’t qualify for the VA ANY honorably discharged vet can now avail themselves of the PX system.

 Registering can at times be difficult, but as my Grandmother used to say “if it’s free take two”.

 The address to start the process is “shopmyexchange.com”

 Good Luck

Gene Altbaum

 MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE DRYER VENT PIPE

 (EMAILER’S NOTE: WHAT THE RESIDENT SAID ABOUT THE RUBBER GASKET AROUND THE DRYER VENT PIPE ON THE ROOF IS TRUE.  MANY RESIDENTS HAD TO HAVE IT CHANGED)

 The dryer vent is ONLY exhausted thru the side of the house when the washer/dryer is on an outside wall or in the basement of the house. When the washer/dryer is in a laundry room on a inside wall then it is exhausted thru the roof ONLY.

 You might want to remind homeowners that ALL the vent pipes coming up thru the roof have a rubber collar around them This inhibits water leakage. After several years of our changing weather (hot to cold) the rubber collars dry up, crack and water can then leak into the attic and then the house

The homeowner who reported the mishap, should have had the roofer check all the rubber collars if the house is not new.

 TELL US ABOUT SOME HUMOROUS THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED TO YOU

 Emailing, as you can tell, is getting to be boring at times. We need some laughter and over our lifetimes, many things probably happened to us that we still laugh about.  I will start it off but I hope others would send me their “humorous” stories.

 Okay, what happened to Greta and I, happened MANY years ago. We went to Las Vegas with friends of ours and after we checked in we were told that our elevators to our rooms  were in the back of the hotel.  So we got there and as soon as we arrived, about 6 men in black suits started to walk in through the back doors.  I really thought this was going to be the end of our vacation.  Walking in with them was a man in a light brown suit.  He was about 2 feet away from Greta and all Greta could say was, “YOU ARE?  YOU ARE?” and finally he said, “YES, I AM PRESIDENT FORD”. (The current President at that time)  Goes to show you how political Greta was in those days.  We just laughed and laughed and of course, they took the elevator and we couldn’t ride with them. 

Next was something I wrote in one of my very early emails. My friend, Stu Finger, who has moved from Regency, tells this story to anyone he meets.   

I stated in my email, if Stu Finger’s brother was Brad Pitt, do you know what Stu would be called, yes “STU PITT”   Say that a few times and out comes STUPID. 

 Now it is your turn. 

ORGANIC MILK VS REGULAR MILK

What’s the difference? Well all my life I have always been a milk drinker (no coffee).  To some degree, I guess I can be an expert on Milk (besides emailing).   

My wife recently purchased a quart of organic milk and I noticed that the expiration date was over a month. How many of us when we take the milk out of the refrigerator give it the smell test?  Yes, keeping regular milk past the expiration date, you will get an odor.  How many half containers of milk have we all thrown out based on the smell test?  Plenty!   

So is it cheaper in the long run to pay more for organic milk, than regular milk? In my case, YES, organic milk would be less expensive since I throw away  a lot of regular milk that spoils quickly.  Some say, regular milk has a better taste.  My answer, it has the same taste as Organic milk. 

So let me know if you are an organic milk drinker if you find this milk to last longer and have the same taste as regular milk. 

What makes milk organic? Well from various scientific sources, the milk that comes from cows is all the same except, certain cows are treated better.  They eat better foods and are not given any chemicals or antibiotics.  Once the milk comes from these cows, pasteurization is a little different.  I believe they heat the milk at a little higher temperature for a short time.  Some say this takes away from the taste.  I say, it really doesn’t. 

Okay, off the milk and onto Orange Juice. Yes, all my life I have been an Orange Juice drinker.  Most of my life it has been Tropicanna.  However, one day SIMPLY ORANGE was ordered and it had a pretty good taste.  What I have found is that Tropicanna’s taste changes the longer you have it but Simply Orange doesn’t, so it lasts longer and has the same taste as if you opened it on day 1. 

HARMONY IN MOTION 

 DJ GARY MORTON – JANUARY 20TH 

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 FIRE ELECTION

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  WE ARE RUNNING FOR REELECTION AS YOUR FIRE COMMISSIONERS IN FIRE DISTRICT 3. THE ELECTION WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2018, AT THE CLUBHOUSE FROM 2 TO 9 PM. YOU CAN ALSO VOTE FOR US BY MAIL, USING AN ABSENTEE BALLOT REQUEST TO RECEIVE A RETURN BALLOT EITHER AT YOUR HOME OR YOUR WINTER ADDRESS. ONLY FILL IN QUESTIONS 1 THROUGH 9. THERE IS NO POSTAGE NECESSARY. YOU CAN PICK UP A REQUEST BY MAIL APPLICATION AT THE CLUBHOUSE NEAR THE CONCIERGE DESK. ALL REGISTERED VOTERS HERE AT REGENCY CAN VOTE IN THIS ELECTION.

  THANK YOU. JOEL AND GERALD

  EMAILER’S NOTE: WE NEED JOEL AND JERRY RE-ELECTED.  THEY HELPED IN GETTING OUR FIRE COMPANY TO CHANGE OUR FIRE/SMOKE DETECTOR BATTERIES.  NO OTHER FIRE COMPANY DOES THIS)

  CHANGING BATTERIES IN YOUR SMOKE DETECTORS

  MONROE TOWNSHIP FIRE DISTRICT 3 IS OFFERING TO REPLACE YOUR SMOKE DETECTOR BATTERIES AT NO CHARGE.

  PLEASE HAVE THE 9 VOLT BATTERIES AVAILABLE. WE WILL COME TO YOUR HOME TO INSTALL THEM FOR YOU NOW THROUGH DECEMBER 31st. 

 732-521-3498 EXT. 4 

 FIRE COMMISSIONERS JOEL KAPLAN, GERALD KAPLAN, JIM FISHER 

 WOMEN’S GROUP MESSAGES 

Come celebrate the season with our Holiday Party, Monday, December 11th at 6:30, We will enjoy dinner catered by Food Architects and laugh with the hilarious ventriloquist/comedienne Sylvia Fletcher. $25.

  In the holiday spirit, we will be collecting unwrapped toys, $10 value, no stuffed animals please, for Jamesburg Families in Need and/or gift cards for Target, Walmart, ShopRite or Dunkin’ Donuts for The ARC, an organization and group homes for intellectually and developmentally challenged adults, as well as a donation to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital from our 50/50 raffle.

  RSVP to Elaine Robin with your completed table of 10, (12 top tables are sold out), no later than December 2nd.

  REGENCY MEN’S CLUB 

 PINBALL WIZARD – FRIDAY JANUARY 19, 2017 

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 JULIET HOLIDAY LUNCHEON

  DATE:     DECEMBER 14th (Thursday)

  TIME:     12:30 p.m. 

 PLACE:   BRIO TUSCAN GRILL 

   3710 US ROUTE 9   –   Freehold Raceway Mall 

                FREEHOLD,N.J.  07728 

                732-683-1046 

 Holiday time is here. Time to celebrate and enjoy an afternoon with each other. Looking forward to seeing all my Juliets at our Holiday Luncheon.  If you plan on attending, please call or e-mail Marie Tomasulo no later than DECEMBER 9th.   Thank you and “HAPPY THANKSGIVING”.

  TEL. #:       732-605-1309 

E-MAIL:       ttom0406@verizon.net 

Attention Snow Birds 

 Regency Car Club members are looking for garages to store their special interest vehicle. 

 If you are interested email Lou Principe – LouPrincipe@comcast.net

  INVESTMENT DISCUSSION GROUP 

 The next meeting of the Investment Discussion Group will be on Thursday, November 30th at 2pm in the Tennis Pavilion. All are welcome. Phil Sloan 

Regency Italian American Club

Christmas Party

  Saturday December 9 th 2017

  The Regency Ballroom

  7:00 – 11:00 PM

  Catered By: Tuscany Catering

  Music & Song by: Vocal Group “MEMORIES”

  Come and Join us, Start your Holiday Season with “Great Food, Fantastic Music and Wonderful Friends”

  Dress Code: Dressy Casual

  $40.00 per Person   ***B.Y.O.B***

  (Make Checks payable to: ITALIAN AMERICAN CLUB”)

  R.S.V.P. before December 2nd 2017

  Place your Table Grouping requests with checks, in  Rosemarie Puma’s lower mail box @ 113 Country Club Drive

  Appetizer Platter on each Table

  Main Course: Garden Salad, Cavatelli with Tomato Sauce and Farfalle Tuscany, Sausage and Peppers, Rolled Eggplant Parmigiana, Shrimp Oreganata, Chicken Balsamic, Veal Parmigiana, Rice Balls, Potato Croquettes, and Sauteed Vegetables

  Dessert: Tray of Cookies on each table, Coffee/Tea.

  I/We will attend:

  1.________________________________

  2.________________________________

  3._______________________________

  4._______________________________

  5.________________________________

  REGENCY BOWLING CLUB

  Regency bowling teams meet on Thursday evenings at 6:30 pm at the Knob Hill Country Lanes, 363 Route 33, Manalapan, NJ 07726, Email:info@manalapanbowling.com. All Regency men and women residents are invited -no matter what your skill level- to participate as guest bowlers.  Call Russ Porges, 732-561-2301,mailto:rporges@aol.com,  or Ping Eng, 732-521-5508, mailto:pnmeng@comcast.net for more information.

  Regency Men’s Book Club 

 The Regency Men’s Book Club will be meeting at the Clubhouse on the first Wednesday of the month at 4:00pm. All men are welcome. Please call Lou Flumen at 732-641-2495 if you are interested in joining or if you have any questions. 

 Below is the list of books the Men’s Book Club will be reading during the next few months 

  December 6, 2017:  A Small Death In Lisbon by Robert Wilson 

 January 3, 2017: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. 

 Open Bridge 

 Every Friday at 1:00 in the multimedia room ACBL masters are available to help you with your bidding and play. Many of you have been taking bridge classes on Tuesday evening and many of you have been playing for a while. Now come down to the Open Bridge sessions and practice what you learned under the guidance of masters. This is not a bridge class. This is playing and learning proper bidding and more importantly the play of the hands. 

 2017 ROMEOS SCHEDULE  THRU  DECEMBER REVISED

  NOVEMBER 

 28 CITY STREETS 

 DECEMBER 

 5 CIROS 

 12 THE CABIN 

 19 FIRESIDE 

 26 BERNSTEIN’S ON ESSEX 

 Regency Shuffleboard 

 We play every Tuesday at 5:00pm and every Saturday & Sunday at 9:30am. We are looking for more players! All residents are welcome to attend. Contact George Steinberg for more information 732.605.9526 

 Regency Chorus 

 The Regency Chorus, under the direction of Sharon Scheckner, is looking for residents who enjoy singing, and love the camaraderie that our chorus can provide. Rehearsals would begin sometime in the spring. If you are interested in joining please contact Carol Kortmansky at carolee@aol.com. We look forward to hearing from you. 

Regency Scrabble Club  

Meets on Thursdays evenings at seven o’clock in the multi-purpose room. Learn how you can improve your Scrabble and Words with Friends games. Everyone is invited to play. Please bring your set if you have one. Call or email Linda Litsky at 732-605-0320, LLitsky@aol.com for more information.

 VENDORS WANTED  

We need your help in keeping the Community Vendor List growing. Please submit the name and contact information, via email, for your favorite vendor to:  

communityvendorlist@gmail.com 

THAT’S IT FOR NOW 

RON  

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