Sun City Clubs

Duplicate bridge

Capturing first place in duplicate bridge Jan. 21 were Yvonne and David Petty. Shirley Bruns and Irene Crawford took second place. Janet Clark and Arvind Shah came in third. Heike and Bill Kingery placed fourth.

Winners of duplicate bridge played Jan. 25 were Jay Kadakia and Ron Schwarz playing north-south and Yvonne and David Petty for east-west. For north-south Harry Leopold and John Papaleo tied with Jim Howard and Joan Mudd for second place. Sandy Johnson and Fran Logan took fourth place. For east-west, Nancy Berg and Grace Selby took second place. Marilyn Bailey and Holly Borkowski came in third. Nancy and Wally Carlson tied with Shirley Bruns and Lois Stachnik for fourth place.

Contract bridge

Contract bridge for pairs Jan. 22 went to Janice Apel and Marilyn Bailey who scored 5,000 points for first place. Walt Figge and Loren Stuvick came in second with 4,120. Nancy and Wally Carlson placed third with 4,120. Betty and Bob Zimmerman took fourth place with 3,970. Ann Dlugos and Jan Koerner were fifth with 3,220.

Winning contract bridge on Jan 23 was John Papaleo with 6,600 points. Pat Danna took second placed with 4,970. Betty Beard came in third at 4,320. Esther Auster was fifth with 4,170. Helen Hayes took fifth place with 4,050. Sixth place went to Ann Danna with 3,880.

Euchre

Nettie Haraburda walked off with first place in euchre Jan. 24, scoring 60 points. Bob Brown and Brian Schroeder tied for second place with 59. Tying for third place at 58 were Helene Langen, Ed Langen and Don Glasgow. Sandy Brown took fourth place with 57.

Bowling

Standings of the Sun City Bowling League at Brunswick Zone, Algonquin as of Jan. 16 had the Suns in first place with a 22-6 record. Trailblazers took second place with 21.5-6.5. The Heat was third with 21-7. The Jazz and Mavericks tied for fourth place at 19-9. In individual scoring for women Carol Feliccia swept the field with 205 for high game scratch, 254 for high game with handicap, 562 for high series scratch and 709 for high series with handicap. Men's scores gave high game scratch to Ben Hall at 225, high game with handicap to Jerry Rubinberg with 265, high series scratch to Harry Mandell with 579 and high series with handicap to Phil Johnson and Rubinberg, each with 675.

Cribbage

A perfect score of 484 gave Yvonne Petty first place in cribbage Jan. 23. Bob Mis placed second with 482. High individual hands went to Don Glasgow and Carol Charpentier, each with two hands of 24 points. Bob Ferraris had hands of 24, 21 and 20. Jim Elder had two hands of 20. Petty, Wally Bartels, Jerry Jarvis, Don Baden and David Petty each had a hand of 20. There were four skunks.

Canasta

Taking first play in triple play canasta Jan. 24 were Mae Connelly and Past Garcia with a score of 81,810.

Pinochle

A high score of 671 went to Art Merkelz in the morning pinochle session Jan. 21. Don Glasgow was low scorer with 397. Al Brewer took a double pinochle. Dan Bressler and Diane McFarlin each played an all-trick hand. Brewer and Viktor Weber won the round house.

In the afternoon session, Frank DePino was high scorer with 638. Marge Frey played the low score of 426. Taking double pinochles were Rosemary Haskins, Alice Stuckmeyer, Lorraine Williams and Marilyn Winter. All-tricks went to Judy Engeriser, Earl Mueller, Bud Reyes, Herb Smith, Alice Stuckmeyer and David Stuckmeyer.

Current events

Current events club member and Huntley Village Trustee Jay Kadakia responded to questions of members meeting Jan. 22 regarding two proposed major development projects in the village. One development, Huntley Town Center, would cover over 400 acres north of Main Street, east of Coyne Station Road and south of the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. The project would include up to 2,000 housing units, big-box and other retail stores, restaurants, business offices and an assisted-living facility. Among other benefits, the village would receive developer assistance in financing a full access interchange at I-90 and Route 47. Mertz Development, Inc., developer of the Town Center project would also extend Algonquin Road west to Marengo Road as a part of the $800 million to $1 billion venture. Mertz hopes to start work in 2009.

The second project proposed, by The Portofino Group, would involve more than 100 acres west of Route 47 between Regency Parkway and Deicke Park. The plan ultimately calls for apartments, a movie theater and retail stores, all in an Italian setting including plazas and artificial lakes. The development would be adjacent to Sun City, which prompted club members to suggest building a tunnel under the creek which runs along Sun City's perimeter so residents could have golf cart access. Sun City's own "chunnel," in the words of some.

-- Garry Winter