January 2015 Issue - MarinaCityClub.net

A Publication of Marina City Club
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Tennis
Holiday Party
he 2014 MCC Tennis Holiday
T Party was once again the
place to be on Dec. 5th! We
celebrated another exciting year
of tennis and laughs with drinking,
food, tennis awards, and our
stories of tennis battles won and
lost. We had over 70 players and
friends in the Galaxy Room. We
invite all
tennis
enthusiasts at
MCC to join
in this funfilled event
that
happens
every season
on the first
Friday in
December.
January 2015
Save the Date:
Valentine’s Day
Gourmet Dinner
Friday,
February 13th
Reservations Required
with a credit Card
at Ext 215
Concert at MCC
Restaurant
News
By Candace Miller,
Food & Beverage Director
Happy 2015 MCC!
hat a great year 2014 was! Cheers to
2015 being just as successful and fun for
all! For those that came to our December
events, such as the Member Holiday Party and
Hanukkah Buffet, we want to thank you. We hope
you enjoyed yourselves as much as we did having
you. It was very impressive to see many events in
2014 sell out! Let’s keep the ball rolling into having a
successful 2015!
Through 2015, we will continue our $11.95 Early
Bird dinners Monday-Wednesday, 5-6:30 p.m., dine in
only; also our Tuesday and Thursday Prix Fixe dinner
specials, and encourage you to come enjoy the
Chef’s unique creations for a great price of $16.95++
for three courses.
As a reminder, all the Weekly and Event menus
and Regular Dinner and Café menu are listed on our
website www.marinacityclub.net. If you’re calling for
Room Service, it would be advantageous and faster
for us to get your order to you if you view the menus
prior to calling and ordering.
Author’s Corner features Hattie Kauffman on
Wednesday 1/14. She will share her inspiring story of
grace and triumph over hardship and heartache
with a reading from her memoir: Falling into Place.
Q&A and book signing to follow.
There is a special educational financial seminar
in the Ballroom on 1/23 by Homeowner Tiffany Book
and her partner John D. Quinn, both Financial
Advisors for Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. They
will have light snacks and wine from 7-8 p.m. while
discussing such topics with you. Please add this to
your calendar; it will be very a beneficial seminar.
Save the Date: Friday, February 13th VALENTINE’S
DAY GOURMET DINNER. The menu and
entertainment info will be posted in the elevators
and outside the fitness center and restaurant
elevator. Please keep an eye out for info.
Please be sure to check out the Event Website
www.marinacityclubevents.com and recommend
us to anyone you know having an event. We are
booking up 2015 weekends quickly and will continue
to take on events until we have no more dates
available!
Thanks again for allowing us to serve you in 2014;
we look forward to everything 2015 has to offer!
~The Restaurant & Café Staff
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Thursday, January 29
he MCC Social Committee will be presenting
the first of many special events for residents
and members. A concert on Thursday,
January 29 will be presented at 8:00 p.m. in the
Galaxy Room. It will feature the very talented
Warren Peterson, pianist, and Geoffrey Maingart,
violinist, who have performed numerous times to
sold out audiences at the Marina Yacht Club. A
lovely buffet of pastries, fruit, cheese and wine will
be served during intermission. A nominal fee of
$20.00 will cover the cost of entertainment and
refreshments. Reservations for this extraordinary
event may be made by calling 310-822-0611, ext.
215. Doors open 7:30 p.m. , Restaurant Coupons
Welcome, and we look forward to seeing you there.
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Pacific Resident
Theater – Play
Jan. 25 • 3 p.m. • 703 Venice Blvd, Venice
he MCC Social Committee invites you to
attend “Kalamazoo”. This sparkling world
premiere romantic comedy examines the
romantic roller-coaster ride of a 70-something Irish
Catholic woman and a 70-something Jewish, East
Coast man who together try to embark upon a latein-life love affair and prove that you’re never too old
to be young. Group fee $30 per person with hors
d’oeuvres and wine after the play. Sign up and pay
by check at the Fitness Center by January 9. Tickets
will be available for pick up at WIll Call.
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MARINA CITY CLUB
4333 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
(310) 822-0611
www.marinacityclub.net
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mark Fleischman
President
Jerry Simonoff
Vice President/Treasurer
Carole Barlin
Secretary
Tom Hallick
Director
Milton Condon
Director
Message
from the President
By Mark Fleischman, President of the Marina City Club
Condominium Owners Association, Inc.
president@marinacityclub.us
RESTAURANT CORPORATION
BOARD
Mark Fleischman
Co-President
Marie Rassman
Co-President
MCC CLUB COUNCIL
Don Mantarro
Carole Barlin
Vivienne Versace
Tommie Jackson
Mike Pagani
MARINA CITY CLUB STAFF
Alexandria Pollock
General Manager
Catriona McCarthy
Assistant Manager
Rose Judkins
Director of Resident Services
Susan Stohrer
Director of Fitness Center
Gene Desrochers
Tennis Director
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n behalf of your Board of Directors,
I would like to wish you and your
family a great Holiday Season and a
Happy and Healthy New Year. It has been
our pleasure to serve on your board and
together with the Seabreeze Management
Team hope to continue to make progress in
creating a better quality of life at the
Marina City Club.
Mark Fleischman, President
Jerry Simonoff, Vice President/Treasurer
Carole Barlin, Secretary
Milt Condon, Director
Tom Hallick, Director
Mark Baldus
Director of Engineering
Mark Blackburn
Director of Security
MARINA LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE
Marina Lifestyle Magazine
is a monthly publication of
the Marina City Club.
For editorial information,
please contact the
Executive Office:
phone:
(310) 822-0611, Ext. 236
fax:
(310) 578-4905
e-mail:
info@marinacityclub.net
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Gerry
Ramirez
Invitational
2014
he 2014 Gerry Ramirez
invitational featured
players representing UCLA
playing in a team format against
players representing USC. The
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battle took place at 1p.m. on the
day of the UCLA versus USC
football game and is used as a
predictor of the outcome in that
rivalry game. However, this year,
our outcome was not indicative of
the football outcome since USC
managed to pull out the victory
with a 2-1 match edge. Congrats
to the USC faithful at MCC!
In addition to the tennis, we
celebrated a dearly departed
member, Gerry Ramirez, a man of
mirth and myth who had a way of
making everyone smile and get
along. Fun was Gerry's mission in life
and he made this club the center of
that mission for decades. Mercedes,
Gerry's wife, was kind enough to
come out and share her memories
of Gerry along with the members
who remember this wonderful
person. We miss you Gerry, but you
live on in our tennis and our hearts.
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MCC Tennis Awards 2014
Best Dressed: Don Mantarro & Barbara Rubin
Most "Fun" Doubles Partners: Allan Bledstein & Mary Ella Pegnato
Most Aggressive Player: Arnaud Dunoyer & Leslie Howard
Most Improved: Bill Pegnato & Margaret Skalski
Best Sportsperson: Geoff Ingram & Sheelagh Boyd
Contrats to all the winners and nominees!
Gene's Tip
of the Month
“Look Back
and Learn”
s 2015 begins, this is a good time to review
your 2014 tennis year. Consider where you
started last year and where you ended.
Are your strokes better, worse or the same? Are you
physically stronger, weaker, or the same? Is your
movement better or worse? What about your
attitude / mental approach? Most of the time,
these areas of your game can be improved, but you
need to have a starting point to recognize the
improvement. Sometimes, one of these areas is far
more developed than the others, in which case, you
might want to work on getting your weaker areas
caught up to your strengths. For example, if you are
a great mover, but all you do is bunt the ball back
when you get there, perhaps you would consider
spending less time on movement in 2015, and more
time improving your power either by getting
equipment that creates power for you, working on
your core conditioning, or generating more rackethead speed. Pick one of these things (they
sometimes overlap as you may need a stronger core
to generate more racket-head speed) that will seal
up a hole in your game over the next year, then you
are more likely to see improvement when you review
2015 next December. If you do not consider these
things, then realize that you might be spending time
on the same things and in the end not getting much
bang for your efforts.
You might also pick a particular stroke or decide
that you need to drill more on the ball machine. In
that case, set a goal for how many balls you want to
hit out of the ball machine over the next year versus
how many matches you play. Some players have
the opposite problem: all they do is drill and they
are terrified of playing matches. Then set a goal for
playing a certain number of matches over the next
year to give yourself a chance to get used to
dealing with the completely different mental stresses
that matches put on a player no matter how good
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their strokes are. Whatever you decide, make the
goal realistic that way you are likely to feel successful
and might even discover you like doing the previously
scary activity. I would love to hear some of your goals
and progress through the year, so please feel free to
email me at gdesrochers@seabreezemgmt.com with
any stories and plans for your tennis game in 2015. I
will even share them on our Facebook page if you say
it's okay. Good luck and see you on the courts in 2015!
Facebook Page
f you haven't done so already, please go
check out our MCC Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/MarinaCityClubTennis
Please "like" us so we can reach 100 likes. Tell
your friends and family to like us as well.
Special thanks to Maureen Hunt for creating
this page!
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Elyse Filderman
celebrated her
birthday at the
Tennis Holiday
Party on
December 5th.
COURT WASHING SCHEDULE
Courts 1 & 2
Tuesday January 6: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Court 3 and 4
Tuesday January 13: 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Courts 5 & 6
Tuesday January 20 : 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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Susan Stohrer, Fitness Director
www.marinacityclub.net
MCC Belly
Dancing
his class taught
participants
how to use their
core for dancing as
they experienced an
introduction to Tribal
Fusion Belly Dancing.
Everyone had a lot of
fun. We look forward to
more of these types of
workshops this year.
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MCC Belly Dance Workshop
Sunday
January 2015
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Save The Date:
Friday, February 13th
Valentine’s Day Gourmet Dinner
4 Early Bird
Specials
5-6:30 p.m.
5 Bridge Night 6
Thursday
Restaruant
Closed
18 Early Bird
19
20 Cardio Ten. 21 Prix Fixe
26
27
28 Prix Fixe
25 Early Bird
“Kalamazoo”
Specials
3 p.m.
5-6:30 p.m.
Pacific Resident
Theater
703 Venice
Blvd.
8 Dining &
Third Floor
dining room
closed,
however
City Café is
open from
7a.m.-3 p.m.!
9
Third Floor
dining room
closed,
however
City Café is
open from
7a.m.-3 p.m.!
Prix Fixe
Dinner
Specials
8:30-9:30 a.m. Dinner
Court 3
Specials
Ameriprise
Seminar
Early Bird Spec.
5-6:30 p.m.
Cardio Tennis
8:30-9:30 a.m.
Court 3
Dancing w/
Stack of 45s
Happy Hour
5-7 p.m.
(Bar only)
Dinner
Specials
12
Specials
5-6:30 p.m.
2
Dancing w/
Sonny and the
Mis-B-Havers
Happy Hour
7 Prix Fixe
Early Bird Spec. Cardio Tennis
8:30-9:30 a.m.
$11.95++
Taco Tuesday Court 3
Prix Fixe
Early Bird Spec.
Dinner
5-6:30 p.m.
Specials
Bridge Night 13 Cardio Tennis14
Early Bird Spec. 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Court 3
$11.95++
Taco Tuesday Author’s Corner
7:30 p.m.
Prix Fixe Spec.
Early Bird Spec.
5-6:30 p.m.
Dinner
Specials
Saturday
1 Dining &
City Café
Closed
11 Early Bird
Specials
5-6:30 p.m.
Friday
Dining &
Dancing w/
Summerwind
Happy Hour
3
10
16
22 Dining &
Third Floor
dining room
closed,
however
City Café is
open from
7a.m.-3 p.m.!
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29 Dining &
Third Floor
dining room
closed,
however
City Café is
open from
7a.m.-3 p.m.!
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15
Dancing w/
Vic Moraga
Happy Hour
Concert in
Early Bird Spec. Galaxy Room
8 p.m.
5-6:30 p.m.
Dancing w/
DJ Tom Foley
Happy Hour
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Third Floor
dining room
closed,
however
City Café is
open from
7a.m.-3 p.m.!
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www.marinacityclub.net
Author’s
Corner
features
Hattie Kauffman
on
Wednesday,
January 14
7:30 p.m.
Galaxy Ballroom
MCC Belly Dance Workshop
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Welcome New Members
Sheila Rendell-Baker
Stephen Beluso Jr.
Stephen Beluso Sr.
Adam Bright
Rossol & Darabian
Ali Ezzati
Bruce Fields
Megan Franco
Ted Malek
Michelle Memar
Valerie Sayles
Narmin Sayyah
Yoko Takasumi
Frank Todd
David & Lea Zinberg
4333 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
310.822.0611
www.marinacityclub.net
Bella Mar
Salon
wishes you a
Happy
New Year
Salon Phone Number:
310-305-4009
Hours:
Tuesday-Saturday 10-5
Call to book your
appointments.
Walk-ins welcome.
We are located
down the hall
from the Gym