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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Thanks again to the 80+ volunteers who agreed to participate in our Strategic Planning Focus Groups in June. You’ll find photos of some of the participants on page 10-11, along with an article written by Brian Walker highlighting year to date accomplishments and detailing the Strategic Planning Process itself. *********** BTP welcomes HP’s Director of […]

“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” – Jack Welch Over the last three months, there has been a lot of activity related to the Strategic Planning Process as we continue to gather input from our members, Board, and staff on topics related to Strategic […]

L-R: ELENA & DOUG MULLER, AND BERNARD & LISA PATTERSON 160 players hit the links on a hot, sultry Fourth of July… 80 on the Royal course, and 80 on Sabal. Festive outfits of red, white and blue – as well as many stars and stripes – were seen everywhere, and the flag pins sported […]