Catherine PotechinJuly 9, 2026# 6 hole at Ballantrae Golf & Country Club in Stouffville, Ontario, Canada125 yards This is Catherine’s 1st hole-in-one! She was playing with her husband, Allan, and HP members Mike (brother) & Rose (sister-in-law) McPherson. Blair TullisJuly 28, 2026# 15 hole at Ballantrae Golf & Country Club in Stouffville, Ontario, Canada101 yards […]

It’s a familiar routine. Your vision gets a little blurry, so you update your glasses prescription. Then a few months later you’re struggling again — and the glasses you just paid for don’t seem to be doing much at all. That cycle is one of the earliest signs of cataracts, and it’s one of the […]

Hello from the Golf Shop. Summer is winding down, and hopefully we can finish the season without any major storms. September marks the peak of the hurricane season so we are not out of the woods yet. So far, it has been a drier-than-normal summer, very similar to last year. Reciprocal play continues to be […]

Because the HP community is much larger in scope than golf and racquet sports, I thought it might be instructive to expand the focus of this article to groups in general, i.e. committees, special interest groups, and work groups. A significant element of a group (or organization) is its culture. Many of us use the […]

Two Fort Myers regional theatres have announced their robust 2026-27 offerings! Contact these venues now for the best seats and pricing. FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE, 2268 Bay Street, Fort Myers. The FL Rep is celebrating their 29th season as “one of America’s top repertory theatres” according to the Wall Street Journal. Check their website at https://www.floridarep.org […]

First developed in the late 1820s, photography combined art and science into one medium capable of capturing an image in the moment. The innovation transformed recorded history into something that could be documented in pictures as well as text. As the technology advanced, the medium exploded in popularity, making it possible for families to create […]

Boys2men volunteers Jason Skyberg and Lou Bottitta attended the Ray V. Pottorf Elementary Parents Open House on Wednesday August 5 to speak with parents and students about the 2027 mentoring program for 5th grade boys. Anyone interested in learning more about the program can contact Lou via email ([email protected]) and/or visit the group’s website at […]

It’s a familiar routine. Your vision gets a little blurry, so you update your glasses prescription. Then a few months later you’re struggling again — and the glasses you just paid for don’t seem to be doing much at all. That cycle is one of the earliest signs of cataracts, and it’s one of the […]

EXPERT COLUMN Every night, while you sleep, your brain does something remarkable. It cleans itself. A network of fluid pathways — called the glymphatic system — flushes out metabolic waste products that accumulate during the day, including proteins linked to brain disease — the same harmful proteins most strongly associated with Alzheimer’s disease. When that […]

EXPERT COLUMN At some point, most of us have benefited from a medical breakthrough we knew nothing about — a drug that didn’t exist when our parents were diagnosed, a procedure that replaced one far more dangerous, a test that caught something early enough to matter. What most people don’t know is where those breakthroughs […]