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Get your game on at annual charity event

Esther Spear Attention all Canasta, Bridge and Mah Jongg enthusiasts, Scrabble players and all card players! It’s time for the Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation’s annual fund-raising event for local charities on Tuesday, February 7, 2017, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Oakwood Clubhouse. There will be lots of extravagant gift baskets, cash raffles,…

SLUCC collecting water for older homeless adults

Sun Lakes United Church of Christ will be collecting cases of water (or a monetary donation for same) on July 19 to benefit Justa Center. Justa Center is a facility located in downtown Phoenix that helps older homeless adults, many of whom are veterans, find resources such as medical care, employment and a safe place…

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With the Sun Lakes Fire Department On Saturday, May 9 from 9:00 a.m.-noon First Baptist Church on Riggs and Dobson Donations accepted for Local 3560

Donations from artists and Sun Lakes firemen

Pictured left to right are Nate Van Briesen, Brandon Johnson, Beverly Walter, Christy McClarty, 100 Club Events Manager and Andrew Craken.

A $1,000 donation was made to the 100 Club of Arizona. The money was raised at the seventh annual Art At The Lakes Show which was held on March 7 around the lake in Cottonwood. The combined contributions came from the 86 artists in the show and the Sun Lakes Firemen’s Emergency Relief Fund. This…

Sun Lakers donate over $1000 for rare childhood lung disease

Penny Petersen presents a check to Daisy Steiner for the chILD Foundation

In November 2013, Harrison Steiner (eight), grandson of Penny and Ron Petersen, was admitted to Phoenix Children’s Hospital and diagnosed with viral pneumonia. He had contracted a virus called adenovirus which developed into Bronchiolitis Obliterans (OB), a rare lung disease. OB causes the tiny airways, bronchioles, to become inflamed and the inflammation becomes scar tissue…

Pinwheels raise funds for childhood lung disease

Colorful pinwheel pins are appearing in the community. They symbolize air circulation and will be used to aid in a fundraising campaign for CHILD, a research foundation for rare childhood lung diseases. The last week in February is CHILD week and the campaign will run until the second week in March. Sun Lakes residents Penny…