HOWARD LIPIN / Union-Tribune Every Sunday Softball players Don Salom (left) of Pacific Beach and Ben Maloney of Rancho Bernardo shared a laugh between innings of a game at Kumeyaay Elementary School in Tierrasanta.

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The top of the ninth: the score is 24-23 and the tying run is on third. The runner tosses an ominous stare toward home and cracks his knuckles as if he's already there. It may seem like a casual game of Sunday softball, but make no mistake, this is a matter of life or death.

Nancy and Arnold Steimke are thrilled they reached their latest life goal: In June, they celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. Though the celebration was low-key – lunch, candy and flowers at the Fletcher Hills home they share with their daughter, Judy – it was very special.

Carol Feldman, a retired instructional aide from Imperial Beach, doesn't eat frog legs. “It would seem a little sacrilegious of me,” she said. This started with a nightmare. I used to have a big aquarium. I dreamt I had some frogs in there, and they got out and one of them ate me.