James Harrald The Sun Lakes Citrus Sharers are once again ready to pick the surplus fruit in the Sun Lakes Communities. We will have our annual “Kickoff Koffee” on Saturday, January 13, at 10:00 a.m. in the Navajo Room, located at Sun Lakes Country Club (a/k/a Phase 1). Now in our 12th year of…
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Generals, November 2017
Wreaths Across America
Roman Martin Our mission is to Remember, Honor and Teach. We Remember each person by speaking their name as we place the wreath on their gravesite. We Honor the memory of those who have died while on active service or in recognition of their past service to our country. We Teach by commemorating the important…
Clubs & Classes, October 2017
Reach Out Sun Lakes continues to produce for Matthew’s Crossing
Ellen Engel In August, Reach Out Sun Lakes collected donations from generous Sun Lakes residents totaling 225 pounds of food and $338, an above-average result given that so many of the area’s residents spend their summers elsewhere. But September began the annual up-tick, as nearly 240 pounds of donated food was delivered to the Matthew’s…
Generals, October 2017
ASU looking for volunteers to take part in an aging research study
Kyle Elliott, Project Coordinator, ASU Wanted: Participants in an aging research study at Arizona State University. The study, titled “Acquisition and Generalization of Functional Task-Specific Motor Training in Older Adults,” is designed to test whether older adults can acquire and generalize learned information after task-specific training of their upper extremity (arm and hand) from one…
Clubs & Classes, September 2017
Reach Out Sun Lakes continues to produce for Matthew’s Crossing
Ellen Engel Usually in this space we report the results of each month’s food drive for the Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank in Chandler, but collections were not completed before the deadline date of the Splash this month, so we decided to skip the results and simply to review the process and its progress. We will report…
Generals, September 2017
Volunteer needed
The Ed Robson Library in Sun Lakes is looking for a holds shelving volunteer. The shift is every Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. for about 45 minutes to an hour, and involves shelving our incoming holds in alphabetical order by customer last name. If you’re interested and are a year-round resident, please stop by the library…
Clubs & Classes, July 2017
Volunteer service award recipients
The Volunteer Services Award was presented by the St. Steven’s Ladies Guild in Sun Lakes to two recipients. This award winner has to be an active member of the guild from September 1 to the last general meeting in April. The criteria is to work well with others on projects, be a good team leader…
Features, May 2017
Hospice of the Valley offers volunteer training in June
Beverly Medlyn Sharon Pocian loves meeting new people and has a special place in her heart for elderly people. “I was close to my grandmother,” she said. “I want everyone’s grandmother to be treated with the same care and love as mine.” Pocian has volunteered two years for Hospice of the Valley in East Valley…
Generals, May 2017
Gila Crossing Community School seeks volunteer program coordinator
Part-time voluntary position matching up teacher needs with prospective Sun Lakes volunteers – the Gila Crossing Community School (pre-school – Grade 8) is located within the Gila River Indian Community. Duties include taking prospective volunteers out to school for a tour, providing a volunteer packet and walking volunteers through the AZ Fingerprint Clearance Card process.…
Clubs & Classes, April 2017
Food donations for Matthew’s Crossing continue to grow
Ellen Engel As of the Splash deadline in March, food donations to Reach Out Sun Lakes (ROSL) from generous Sun Lakes residents have substantially exceeded a half-ton, and the March collections are still coming in as ROSL volunteers collected 327 pounds of food and $479 in cash for the benefit of over 600 needy Chandler-area families.…