Redefine Retirement

SIR BR54 has a focus on retirement enrichment. We have activities that expand your experiences while you make new friends. We travel, play games, hike and enjoy interesting speakers while we enjoy lunch.

Monthly BR54 Member Lunch

If you cannot join in person, most meetings are on Zoom . You can view the presentations by clicking the links or images associated with the speakers on the Speaker Page.

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Jon Haveman is the Executive Director of the National
Economic Education Delegation (NEED). He is a noted
California economist, where he has been practicing
since 2001.

Immigration is a policy issue with both social and economic implications. Economics has something to say about both. This presentation will shed light on several aspects of immigration that tend to overwhelm the narrative. These are: crime, government support programs, and jobs. It will also raise other issues that ought to be contemplated when developing appropriate immigration policy. This presentation will help members of the audience make sense of the currently hyperbolic treatment of the immigration issue.

Click Jon Haveman image to view presentation.

A nice April day with sun makes a lot of happy faces. Our Big SIR, John Knapp welcomed everyone with a nice lunch of Beef Kabobs, rice and mixed vegetables. He then introduced five new members and Jon Haveman made an interesting presentation on the Economics of Immigration. Finally, Chuck Moggia presented the next day trip to Morgan Hill to see exotic cars and Glenn Ando accepted the Attendance award.

TRAVEL

 We have several travel opportunities in 2024 ranging from Alaska, through the Panama canal, Mexico and several trips to Europe..

To view travel opportunity details… Go to our Travel Page

Investment Club

Silicon Valley Retirees Investment Club (SVRIG) –Meeting Notice – We meet at 1 pm on the LAST Thursday of the month except November & December when it is combined on the FIRST Thursday of December.

  Go to our Investment Page for meeting information the schedule.

May Day Trip

The Exotic Cars and Coffee Show

Whether you own a car, truck or motorcycle, you will find the Exotic Cars and Coffee Show a very interesting way of enjoying and remembering all those fun cars that we had or wished we had. The event is held on Sunday May 19th at Hobby Lobby, 990 Cochrane Road, Morgan Hill.

SIRS will meet at 9:00 am in front of the Hobby Lobby on Sunday, May 19th for a photo. We can then go at our leisure and enjoy all those timeless cars that were a part of our lives and memories.

For information or questions contact Chuck Moggia at 408-623-1078

Dear Hiking Sirs,

In my earlier email, I named our next hike the Guadeloupe Creek Trail hike which is not what I had in mind.  We will be doing the Los Alamitos Trail.  We will meet at the Almaden Lake Park Winfield Avenue entrance also.  As it happens, both trails meet at the Almaden Park but the Guadeloupe Trail turns west and crosses Almaden Expressway which makes it less desirable.

If I confuse you, I am sorry but we are doing the Los Alamitos Trail and we are meeting near the entrance on Winfield Avenue at 10:00 A.M..  Do not park inside as it will cost you unless you have a San Jose City parking permit.  There is a lot of room on the street once you pass by the entrance.  Let me emphasize that this one is more like a walk in the park rather than a hike.  We will, however, do between 3 and 4 miles. 

Let me know if you are coming and call me at (408)206-0532 if you need more info.

Marcel Tomassian

P.S.  I have attached a tentative hiking schedule for 2024.  Be aware that we can be flexible due to weather reports, requests from you, or conflicts with other events.

Folks,

Are you coming to join us to play Petanque today?

Attached please find our photo last Wednesday.

We had four teams that played in the tournament.

It was incredible and lots of fun.

Join us to compete today.

Cheers 😃,

Archie

For directions and more information go to the Petanque page.

On Wednesday and Saturday you can join Archie at Azule Park for lively competition and lots of fun. For rules, park directions and prior event photos click Petanque.

Competition Golf 

State SIR Tournaments

• Spring Fling 4/24-25
• Reno 6/4-7
• Team Championship 8/7-8
• Gold Rush 9/8-11
• Individual Championship 10/3
• Fall Classic 10/23-24

For details go to State SIR Golf

SIRS Area 11 Golf Tournament

The 2024 Area 11 Golf Tournament schedule is now available just click here.

For more images go to the golf events page.

    SIRS  Area 11 Golf Tournament

April 2024 TOURNAMENT

Callippe Golf Preserve

We had a fantastic round at Callippe with perfect weather and the course in good shape except for the greens. The greens had been aeriated and not completely recovered. We did very good on par 3’s but fell off the truck on the par 5’s which cost us the game.

Peter Catherwood, Charlie Raisor, Ken Walling & Nelson Chew finished 7th, had a great front 9 but faded on the back. Ken Hengst & his team came in 6th. The beat us again.

Golf is fun on Monday and Wednesday

For more images visit the Golf page.

To see the golf schedule, competition results and photo’s just click Golf.

Some of our members also regularly play golf at Bay View, Moffett Field and Spring Valley. Sometimes we play Dublin Ranch, Santa Teresa, Poppy Ridge, Canyon Lakes, Wente Vineyards and Cinnabar.

There is a challenge for all of us. But most of all we just have fun. Come and join us.

On Wednesday Apr 24 we will play Deep Cliff at 7:38 am. We normally have open spots so just come over and join us. The early morning is a good time to enjoy the deer and squirrels along with a few turtles, ducks and blue Herons.