Nancy Stutman On Sunday, Feb. 19, Jewish War Veterans (JWV), Copper State Post 619, welcomes MAJ (Retired) Cassandra “CaS” Facciponti, founder of Operation Shockwave, who will tell how her organization is devoted to healing veterans to prevent suicides. The meeting takes place at 10 a.m. at the Poolside building of Oakwood Country Club, 24218 S.…
Volunteers of Crystal Cards meet in the Ceramics Room in Cottonwood each month on the fourth Wednesday, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. It’s a fun time to meet people, work on the many different jobs needed to create our recycled cards, and purchase some, too. No experience is required. Our next card-making workshop will be…
Bruce McCorkle The responsibility of organizing and running the IMGA Member/Guest Tournament falls on the shoulders of our vice president. And it’s a big job! We are fortunate that Daniel Kiska has volunteered to take on that responsibility! Daniel grew up with four siblings in South Holland, Ill. (a suburb of Chicago). It was a…
The Cottonwood Lady Niners got into the spirit of the Christmas season during regular league play (yes, we golfed in these outfits!) on the last Thursday of December, 2022. A rousing game of Cha Cha Cha was played while scouring the course to find nine hidden elf toys. Find an elf, get a prize! Following…
Vicki Ray The PebbleCreek Gun Club in Goodyear, Ariz., is this year’s host for the 12th annual trap shooting competition called the Robson Trap Trials. Trap shooters from any Robson community in Arizona may participate in the event, which takes place Friday, March 24, at Casa Grande Trap and Skeet. Each person will shoot three…
Violetta Armour If you are a fan of Western fiction, you will like White Sands Gold, reminiscent of Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour novels. If you are new to Western fiction, this might be a good place to start with a story that has mystery, romance, and many twists that kept me turning the pages.…
Tickets to the upcoming Feb. 8 show at Sun Lakes Country Club were snapped up by eager fans of the zany improv group The ImproVables. Sun Lakes Community Theatre’s comedy improv troupe has been selling out venues consistently since they returned to the stage after COVID-19 caused them to take a two-year hiatus. They’ve performed…
Jacque Texeira The last Comedy Show was so popular that we are having another one on Feb. 4 featuring Leigh Cummings, host; Kristofer Royer, feature; and Joey Gaynor, our headliner. It’s open to the public—just $10 for members and $15 for non-members, and tickets are on sale now. If we’re not sold out, you can…
Ellen Brittingham The January Sew-N-Sews meeting featured a program by Heidi Pridemore of The Whimsical Workshop. Heidi presented a slide show explaining the steps she goes through to design a quilt pattern. She showed several examples of quilt patterns available in her store. One of her examples was a succulent pillow that resembles a succulent…
Kay Davis Unity Church of Sun Lakes is a New Thought Community. We celebrate Peace, Love, Light, Joy, and Healing. We practice affirmative prayer and positive thinking and support one another in living a Spirit-centered life. As of Jan. 1, we will begin having our church services at 10 a.m. Sunday mornings. We meet in…