Starla Kramer The Sun Lakes Garden Club invites members and visitors to the upcoming monthly meeting on Oct. 20. The club meets all year, on the third Tuesday of the month, plus one field trip/class each month. The featured October speaker is Margaret Dykeman, the current President of the Desert Rivers Audubon Society. It covers…
Sue Neel The Ocotillo Artists Group (OAG) is a collection of local artists from 13 neighboring East Valley communities working in a variety of mediums and styles. OAG hosts three public shows each year. Our next show is Saturday, Dec. 12, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Holiday Inn at Ocotillo and Alma…
Sue Sindelar Welcome to our October fall-like weather and time to enjoy finally being outdoors again. Whether you are exploring areas of Arizona you haven’t seen yet or perhaps taking a trip to see Stonehenge, it feels wonderful to have made it through another summer here in the desert. Another wonderful opportunity is being in the Desert…
Peggy Abney September 9 kicked off the return of Sew–N–Sews 2026-27 season. We have tons of fun and classes and education planned for this new season. You will be sure to want to join our group and meet many of our members, 152 to date! Our educational program was given by Sun Lakes own Joyful…
Nancy Stutman All veterans are invited to learn how to get free tickets to sporting and entertainment events and help support the Vet Tix Hero’s Wish program. Steve Weintraub, Chief Strategy Officer at Veteran Tickets Foundation, and member of the Arizona Veterans Hall of Fame, will address Jewish War Veterans Copper State Post 619 on…
Are you missing the monthly gatherings of your P.E.O. Chapters? Yearning for the camaraderie and friendship those monthly meetings offer? Did you know that there is a P.E.O. Group right here in Sun Lakes that meets once a month for a mid–morning meeting and monthly socials from November to April each year? Group C, created…
George Abernathy For over 35 years, I have attended Apache Troop 1/9th Cavalry reunions with the guys I flew with in Vietnam. Thirteen years ago, we started a fly-fishing tournament in honor of John Bartlett, an Apache Troop Cobra pilot who has since passed away. The tournament has become another tradition that brings us fly…
Phyllis L. Carr If you have not read a Nancy Turner novel, you are in for a literary delight. I read Turner’s first novel, These is my Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine 1881-1901, Arizona Territories, in 2000 (published in 1998) and fell in love with Turner’s writing and the main character, Sarah Prine.…
Sun Lakes Community Theatre’s upcoming fall production, Tennessee Wet Rub, by Kim E. Ruyle, takes place in the rustic, out-of-the-way Bertha’s BBQ restaurant in northern Tennessee, run by an older white couple. It’s January 1951, and while the worst snowstorm in the state’s history rages outside, Bertha frets about dark times ahead while Hank busies…
Kathy Hoff Our Bocce Ball Club at Sisk Park is celebrating our 30th Anniversary this season! Have you ever wondered how to play Bocce Ball! Come join us for a fun and informative Bocce Call Tutorial on Oct. 16 at 6:30 pm. This informational meeting is open to all Sun Lakes residents. You do not…