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Sun Lakes Lion of the Month

Lion of the Month Raymond Born

The Sun Lakes Lions Club voted Lion Raymond Born as their Lion of the Month. Lion Born’s hometown is Naperville, Illinois. After high school, he began working in sales as a milkman, making home delivery for Willow Farms Dairy. With 25 years of sales and service in Chicago, Las Vegas and Laughlin markets, Ray retired…

DAR offers scholarships to four high schools

Carolyn Hawkins, DAR Scholarship Chair

Toni Bolling Lutter Gila Butte Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), has announced that four local high schools will be offered $1,000 scholarships in 2017. Scholarship Chair Carolyn Hawkins identified the high schools as Basha, Hamilton, Perry and Mountain Pointe. For six years, Gila Butte Chapter has offered a $1,000 scholarship to a Basha…

Life beyond the teabag

Diane Eddy Whether you call it tea, bohea, thé or cha, tea is so much more than just a drink. For many countries it is a national obsession. Its mystique is living art, steeped in ceremony and thoughtfulness reflecting the accoutrements and people we love, and our concept of ourselves and what we have meant…

Spirit of the Desert Gourd Patch sale – March 31

This is one of two beautiful hanging gourd quilts made by all the members of the Sprit Desert Gourd patch. Last month at the Running of The Gourds festival in Casa Grande, one was donated for a fund raiser; the other was sold in our patch’s booth.

March brings a much-needed break to our members after a great four-day festival in Casa Grande February 9-12. Over 8,000 people attended the event at the Pinal County Fairground. One hundred ninety-seven gourds were entered into the Arizona Gourd Society state competition, of which we were in charge. Hundreds of volunteer hours go into planning…