Come to the recycling event, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Sun Lakes in partnership with AZ StRUT, on Saturday, Nov. 9, from 8 a.m. to noon. Sorry, no early drop-offs. Drop off computers, laptops and accessories, iPads, cell phones, flat-panel TVs and monitors, printers, cables, power supplies, DVD players, VCR players, and calculators in…
September 2024
The ImproVables Return to SLCC on September 28
As everyone knows, laughter is beneficial to a person’s health. So, if you want to feel good, come to Laughter Is the Best Medicine, The ImproVables’ newest show! Sun Lakes Community Theatre’s famous improv comedy troupe, The ImproVables, is returning to Sun Lakes Country Club on Saturday, Sept. 28, with a brand-new, hilarious, and extremely…
September 2024, Front Page
Ukulele Group Kicks Off on November 3
Nancy Harrison The Sun Lakes Ukulele Group, led by Cottonwood Palo Verde resident Nancy Harrison, will kick off its eighth season on Sunday, Nov. 3. We meet on the first and third Sundays of the month in the winter season in the Computer Learning Center, Room 1 (the Phoenix Room). We learn songs, chords, strums,…
September 2024, Front Page
Summer Heat Is No Match for Tennis Enthusiasts
Barb Jorgensen The Cottonwood Tennis Club (CTC) has organized play seven days a week. The CTC stays very busy, even during the summer (though the snowbirds can’t believe anyone plays tennis during the summer!). They start earlier, take more breaks, drink lots of water and Gatorade, and huddle in the shade as much as possible.…
September 2024, Front Page
Why the Senior Games? What Bowling Green State University Discovered
Ray Texeira We’ve had a lot of positive feedback on the upcoming Senior Games and are occasionally asked, “Why the Senior Games in Sun Lakes?” The answer is simple: to create the time and space for everyone to join in and compete, even if they haven’t risen to the top in any particular sport. This…
September 2024, Front Page
Don’t Miss Out!
Nancy Patterson, Team Captain, Citrus Sharers It’s not yet time for Citrus Sharers to rev up buckets and poles for fruit pickin’. This article is dedicated to those 200-plus Sun Lakes volunteers who already donated 5,700 hours picking fruit this year, back in January and February. They know stuff. They know that all the fruit…
September 2024, Religion
Operation Christmas Child at First Baptist Church Sun Lakes
Pam Wortman It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, at First Baptist Church Sun Lakes (FBCSL), that is. Operation Christmas Child (OCC) ministry starts with the planning phase in January and February, but the official launch for OCC begins in March. As the months pass, the inventory of Christmas goodies comes rolling in, like…
September 2024, Front Page
Robson Library Celebrates 20 Years
Everyone loves a birthday, whether it’s their own or someone else’s. Birthdays are a celebration and a confirmation that the world goes on. And this year, Sun Lakers will be invited when the Ed Robson Library celebrates its 20th birthday. It’s hard to believe that the vision of Sun Lakes’ own library was a dream…
Religion, September 2024
‘Life After Caregiving’
There is a natural sense of loss when the need for one’s caregiving is over. Part of life after caregiving is to find a new normal. Beginning on Sept. 17, Sun Lakes United Methodist Church, located at 9248 E. Riggs Road, is offering a three-week program for grief support and education, “Returning to Life After…
September 2024, Clubs & Classes
Card Scores
Tuesday Night Cribbage Jeff Scott Join us for Cribbage every Tuesday night at 6 p.m. in the Cottonwood clubhouse A-7 Painting Room. Games are organized by Stan Wengrzyn. 7/02. 1st Jeff Scott 10+54, 2nd Patty Donahue 9+37, 3rd Royce Bohning 9+26, Low Bob Mariano 3-73, 24 Hand Bill Bade and Rudy Gerstner 7/09. 1st Kathy…