Clubs & Classes

DAR to hear from retired Army Colonel Bill Reeder

Carole Jones In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, the Gila Butte Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is pleased to announce our guest speaker William Reeder, Jr., Ph.D., of Seabrook, Washington. Bill Reeder is a retired Army Colonel and highly-decorated combat veteran of the Vietnam War who served two…

Fascinating month of Rotary meetings

Roller Derby

Norm Noble On Tuesday, April 4, 2017, the Rotary Club will have its annual Four-Way Test Speech Contest. If you want encouragement about the future, come hear these students compete in a challenging speech contest. Students from each of the six Chandler Unified District high schools will give a five- to seven-minute speech on the…

Edgar Cayce Study Group

  Our Search for God study group meets every Thursday at 7:00 p.m. in Room A-2 of Cottonwood Country Club. We explore the readings of Edgar Cayce who is recognized as the greatest psychic of the 20th century and the founder of holistic healing. We strive to be healthier, peaceful, and to be one with…

Other Card Results

Tuesday Cribbage 2/07. 1st Michael Roberts 13-93, 2nd Milt Knutson 11-61, 3rd Rudy Gerstner 11-37, Low Jean Drenthe 2- -77 2/14. 1st Stan Wengrzyn 12-119, 2nd Bill Bade 12-101, 3rd Lydia Kolsch 11-73, Low Rudy Gerstner 2- -156, 23 Hand Frank Costa 2/21. 1st Eldon Drenthe 12-92, 2nd Stan Wengrzyn 11-104, 3rd Jean Drenthe 10-85,…

Line Dancing with Judee

Line Dancing with Judee

The rewards of learning and teaching line dancing come to surface when we have a “dance,” i.e., December before Christmas break and March before our snowbirds “fly away.” We were lucky to have half the group attending March 5 as “life” gets in the way of “pleasure” sometimes, i.e., illness with dancers or family members,…

Best in show

Our patch President Vicki McKenna became a Grand Master in February after winning Sponsor’s Choice, Best Living Figure in the Masters Division, Best of Division and Best of Show at the 2017 Arizona Gourd Society competition. Well deserved for a fabulous artist, leader and mentor. Congratulations, Vickie!

Colleen McKnight Spirit of the Desert Gourd patch had a big sale right about the time you received this paper. On Friday, March 31, in the lobby of Sun Lakes Country Club, about half of our 50-member club displayed and sold gourd art. We were open from 3:00-7:00 p.m. Maybe you can still come; if…