FIRST SUNSHINE SINGLES’ OUTING 2026.
“If I was a rich man … yubby biddy biddy biddy biddy biddy dum” – from the song from Fiddler on the Roof at the Broadway Palm where 12 SunShine Singles spent a wonderful Sunday afternoon in February. This was one of the many fun activities we have enjoyed lately. Others included Honky Tonk Sunday Line Dancing, a Super Bowl party, a Palentine Party, movies, The Luau Party by the Sabal Springs Events Committee, a dinner at the M’Xuma Taco and Mexican Grill in Babcock Ranch, and many other entertainment gatherings at our clubhouse.
We expect March will be full of fun things to do as well. We are scheduling a trip to Iguanaland, and an eco-tour of Babcock Ranch, The Lee County Community Band performance and some musical events in our clubhouse. In mid-March, weather permitting, we expect to resume Sunday noon “Pool Parties.”
We will be introducing members of the SunShine Singles Club (in addition to Donna Milbee and Terri Marotta) in the months to come, starting with some members who provided the backbone for the club to thrive. This month, we’d like to honor Geri Gregorio, who came to the Cape Coral area around 2000 when her parents moved to Florda. She spent a few years flying back and forth from Rhode Island to vacation with them; she joined a singles group at the Cape Coral Yacht Club. She participated in a few activities with that group while still traveling to and from Rhode Island where she was still working. A little bit later, her parents bought a home in Sabal Springs in 2001, at which time she retired and decided to do the same. At that time, she joined a loosely formed singles group in Sabal Springs that met at the clubhouse and had regular cocktail parties. Eventually, that group faded out. Several years passed and she heard about another singles group starting up here. Reluctantly, she joined the SunShine Singles and to her surprise, found that our group was fun! Perhaps it was Geri’s influence that helped make the group realize the importance of variety. With the group she has enjoyed outings to the Broadway Palm dinner theater, ushered at the Florida Repertoire Theater, made crafts, travelled and cruised, and had many fun nights enjoying the entertainment at our clubhouse and through it all made some wonderful friends. She loves morning water aerobics and cardio exercises and basically appreciates and enjoys all of the activities here in Sabal Springs.
Another active member of the SunShine Singles is Tish Stencel, who has been single for 24 years. She moved from a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, to Cape Coral in 2014; she then made a change or two and bought into Sabal Springs. Tish recalls that her first outing with the SunShine Singles was a dinner at Heavenly Pizza in 2022 (pictured). Her favorite activities are attending Mighty Mussels Baseball games, going to Octagon (Wildlife Refuge) and Babcock Ranch tours, having a subscription to Broadway Palm, and going to monthly movies. With the SunShine singles her favorite things are meeting new people and having a variety of singles social events available. She said it is especially nice to go to Sabal Springs community events knowing that other singles will be there to sit with. Her hobbies include playing golf, the card game Hand, Foot, and Elbow, dancing, water aerobics, and hot tubbing. She expressed that she has played Bocce and would like to start playing it again, adding that she has bocce balls and would like to know if anyone is interested.
The SunShine Singles next meeting is Wednesday, March 18, 4:30 in the Sunrise Room at the clubhouse. If you would like to have your name added to the master e-mail list (or removed), please send your e-mail address to Jane Hansen, [email protected].
