Scrabble Club Gathers Weekly at Meadowlark Senior Center
In a Meadowlark Senior Center hallway on Tuesday mornings a small group of women play Scrabble, weaving four-letter words into brisk matches. Jackie Decker moved the sessions from Vista Grande Retirement Center to MSC in August, making the game one of the center’s popular weekly activities.
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Meadowlark Senior Center
Jackie Decker
MSC
Vista Grande
Decker
Brunets
Dodgington
Conn
Scrabble origin and rise from Lexiko to a global pastime
The article traces Scrabble from Alfred Butts's Lexiko birth in the 1930s to its commercial rise with James Brunot. It notes Decker and others in word games, global champions like Brett Smitheram, and the game’s spread through Macy’s, Selchow & Righter, and Hasbro. It highlights word strategy, high scores, and Scrabble's cultural reach.
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Butts
New York Times
Hasbro.com
James Brunot
The
Brunots
Seichow& Righter Company
U.S
Canada
Selchow &Righter
Selchow & Righter
Coleco Industries
Scrabble
Hasbro, Inc
Milton Bradley Company
America
Debra Hays Discusses Health Travel and Family in Corrales Interview
Former Sandoval County Manager Debbie Hays, after de stressing from an 18 year tenure, says she is alive and well and healthier, with roles as author world traveler and devoted mother and grandmother. The 1967 Highland High School graduate reflected on her renewed energy during a sit-down in Corrales.
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Sandoval
Debbie Hays
Corrales
Destress
Hays
Highland High School
Debbie Hays Led Travel Advenures and County Office Wins
Debbie Hays traveled widely including the Great Wall India and China trips and India with her daughters. She and Sherrie Doke published Garlands of Grace in 2012 from photos Hays took during exotic stays in Granada and Yellowstone. She also led efforts to establish a county fire department and secured land with the Del Norte Gun Club for county offices.
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Great Wall
China
Guatemala
Brad
Mexico
Europe
Taj Mahal
India
Hays
Bernalillo
Sherrie Doke
Hays and Coke
RoseDog Books
Granada
Spain
San Carlos
Yellowstone National Park
Corrales
Jon Tibbetts
Sparky Speakman
del Norte Gun Club
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France
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London
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Mark Nyman
BBC
Nyman
Macy's
Scientificamerican.com
Soe
Rio Rancho
Gary Herron
Observer
Gherron
Rrobserver
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