Volunteer members of the Arizona Fire & Medical Authority/Sun Lakes Crisis Response team man their information table in the San Tan Ballroom at the Cottonwood Palo Verde Open House. The AFMA Fire Corp Crisis Response team responds with the firefighters and medics on emergency calls in Sun Lakes, assisting the families of patients in a…
Phyllis Swanson, Sun Lakes Posse Medical Equipment Volunteer Thank you to all the hard-working volunteers who work at the Sun Lakes Sheriff’s Posse office. The medical equipment loan program has grown over the years. In 2014, the number of items checked out to residents of Sun Lakes was less than 400. We are projecting…
Sarah Auffret Holiday spirit is in the air at the Assistance League of East Valley thrift shop, as volunteers prepare for the store’s biggest event of the year, the festive Holiday Preview from noon to 6:00 p.m. on November 12. The shop will be filled with unique holiday decorations and housewares, many of them new…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…