On January 30, 2019, Bill Speck of Faribault, MN, had a hole-in-one on Ironwood Golf Course’s 13th hole using a 7 iron on the 113-yard par 3. Bill hit his great shot witnessed by his playing partners Jerry Lane, Tom Truax and Ted Baehr, all of Sun Lakes.
Susan Gottschalk Our Spring Luncheon will be held on Friday, April 5, at the San Tan Ballroom in Cottonwood. Good eats and a special short program featuring the “Tea Lady,” along with the usual raffle drawings will highlight our afternoon. Monday Flight: 2/04. Sharon Darnell, Susan Gottschalk, Phyllis Schager 2/11. (tie) Kathi Bobek, Elaine Greer,…
Larry Wolfe The Ponchos, our 70+ travel team, recently won the annual Palm Springs Senior Softball Tournament. And they not only won it, they dominated the tournament, winning all six games they played, including an 18-9 drubbing of the Arizona Rockies in the championship game. The tournament featured teams from Arizona, California and Washington State.…
Ellen Engel Many new things are happening at Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank. With our donations and others, they are able to increase the work they do. Now they are able to provide emergency food boxes to 6,000 people per month. About 1500 children are on MCFB school meal programs each week of the school year.…
The Palo Verde ladies’ traveling team participated in four competitions this season. Format for team play is equivalent to match play where two members of one team square off against two ladies from another club with similar handicaps. When the last match was completed at Ironwood Country Club, points were tallied from all events and…
Dick Nelsen The Sun Lakes Rotary Club is proud of the Rotarian selected for the month of March. This fellow joined our club on May 30, 2017. He was a member of The Chandler Rotary Club prior to joining us. Easy to spot, he is the one who is always on the run with a…
George Abernathy, Founding Member For the past five years that I’ve been involved with the Sun Lakes Fly Fishing Club, I’ve had the pleasure of spending numerous days fly fishing with over 30 club members. Throughout all these trips, I have found that they all have one thing in common regardless of their background, experience…
A Sun Lakes chapter of the Red Hat Society, Divine Desert Divas, hosted a ‘60s/‘70s Disco Dance on Friday, January 25, at Sun Lakes Country Club. Many Red Hat chapters from the Valley attended and enjoyed the fashion show, at which the clothes presented were from JW Boutique at 925 S. Riggs Road, Chandler. They…
Jerry Vance The Sun Lakes Tennis Club hosted Cottonwood for tennis on Saturday, February 23. After the snow and sleet the night before, we had to work hard to get the courts dry and ready to play. Ice was on the chairs as we cleaned them off to sit on. We started a half hour…
Carol Smith Well, we have crowned a new Club Champion. She is Roselyn Hoiby. Congratulations! Great job, Roselyn. The flight winners were 1st Flight: 1st (tie) Sharon Bowdich and Carolyn Marchuk, 2nd Mary Dyrseth; 2nd Flight: 1st Dari Akin, 2nd Glo Malmberg, 3rd Dang Teater; 3rd Flight: 1st Nancy Cohn, 2nd Susie Lynch, 3rd Kathy…