Rabbi Irwin Wiener, D.D. Look around in any community within our great country. You will find people who may appear different, but in reality, they are not, because each of us is distinctive in our own way. Some may speak with an accent that makes it hard to understand, and some wear clothing that seems…
Clubs & Classes, August 2020
Line Dancing with Judee
Judee Curtis What a different year for my 81st birthday and our 61st wedding anniversary. I’m hoping and praying it won’t be different in September when we are scheduled to restart our line dancing year. If people would understand it’s time to take responsibility and wear masks everywhere, we just might come out of this…
Clubs & Classes, August 2020
VFW Post 8053 Auxiliary News
Karen Shaffer From the VFW Action Corps Weekly, an article, “Building Your Mental Health Through Resiliency,” Army Col. (Dr.) Wendi Waits notes, “There is significant evidence in the medical literature that the way we think influences the way we feel, which influences the way we behave or react.” One of her suggestions to help put…
Features, August 2020
What a Wonderful Life!
Roger Bonngard We have fields of green, expansive skies of blue; Parks, schools, highways for me and you We can say to ourselves, What a wonderful life! The colored flowers in our neighborhoods are beautiful against the sky, As are the colors on the faces of our neighbors and friends passing by. Seeing our people…
Sports, August 2020
Softball Alternative to COVID
Larry Wolfe The term COVID has, unfortunately, entered the lexicon of our everyday language. It, of course, isn’t a “real word,” but a contraction for COrona VIrus Disease. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could substitute softball terms for C-O-V-I-D? How about this: The batter Crushed a long fly ball, hoping for a home run,…
Sports, August 2020
June PVLGA News
Christine Lecoutre This month’s hole-in-one was made by Christine Jones on hole number 4. Congratulations. Results for weekly play follow: June 2: Flight 1: 1st Bonnie Moore; 2nd Colleen Mitchell, Pat Tjosvold, and Dolores Allard; 5th Nancy Hermanson; 6th Val Verbeck and Mary Horn; Flight 2: 1st Denise Orthen and Linda Grendahl; 3rd Karen Bailey…
Sports, August 2020
SLCC Results
Judy Wegener 6/2/20 Pink Ball +1 Net 1st Place (tie) Jan Cobb, Janice Dahl, Kerri Jerome, and Mary Eberle; Joyce Switzky, Linda Hillyard, and Betty Peer; Debbie Ebel, Nettie Dingler, Kiwi Munoz, and Lynda Smith 6/9/20 T&F Holes Flight 1: 1st Lynda Smith, 2nd Debra Emerick, 3rd (tie) Donna Smid, Judy Bray, and Betty Ulrich;…
Sports, August 2020
June PVLGA News
Christine Lecoutre This month’s hole-in-one was made by Christine Jones on hole number 4. Congratulations. Results for weekly play follow: June 2: Flight 1: 1st Bonnie Moore; 2nd Colleen Mitchell, Pat Tjosvold, and Dolores Allard; 5th Nancy Hermanson; 6th Val Verbeck and Mary Horn; Flight 2: 1st Denise Orthen and Linda Grendahl; 3rd Karen Bailey…
Clubs & Classes, August 2020
Sun Lakes Hiking Club: Snake Smarts
Warren Wasescha As a hiker during warmer months, can you ever not think about rattlesnakes on the trail? Same here, so I found a great article from Associate Professor Dale DeNardo of the Arizona State University School of Life Sciences, who studies rattlesnakes. Here in part is what he had to say about snakes and hiking: Q:…
Features, August 2020
What Is Dry Heat?
Dale Fanzo Living in the desert one must adjust, The sun rises early and then goes down at dusk. The thermometer can reach as high as one hundred fifteen, The asphalt can skillet my eggs and bacon that is lean. Humidity can go as low as one percent, My sandals will melt on the scorching…