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IronOaks Breakers Pool League

Tera Crisalida, Breakers Board Secretary On April 17 the IronOaks Breakers Pool League completed the spring 8-Ball tournament. Finalists Gene “Terminator” Granquist and Don “Smoothie” Lewis competed for the championship. After a tough battle, Don won with a score of 5-3. Congratulations to both players who worked their way to the finals. The tournaments are…

Sun Lakes Breakfast Lions – June 2024

Breakfast Lions Makes Their Donations Brian Curry It’s that time of year again, as the Sun Lakes Breakfast Lions Club closed out the fiscal books for the year with some, but not all, of their donations. Sun Lakes Breakfast Lions Presents Scholarship Brian Curry Sun Lakes Breakfast Lions Partner with Kids Need to Read School…

Evening Lions Present Scholarship

Christine Linder, Public Relations The Sun Lakes (evening) Lions Club showed their support of community youth by presenting Perry High School student Evan Magana a scholarship of $1,000 per year for four years for continued college education. Evan will be attending Notre Dame University. According to Larry Palmer, club president, Evan has set an excellent…

Open and Affirming

Marge Harris Apostle Paul reminds us in 1 Corinthians, verses 12:4-27, “For the body does not consist of one member but of many, that there may be no discord in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another,” and “There are varieties of gifts, but it is the same…

Tennis Tip from Coach Kwong

Many recreational doubles players seem to station themselves in the backcourt. They are comfortable displaying groundstrokes, lobs, and occasional drop shots. If this describes you, there are plenty of opportunities for you to advance forward, bringing your opponents forward. This forces them to transition from their comfortable backcourt placement to test how strong/weak their volley…

Softball Player Profile: Rick Berry

Larry Wolfe So, who are we profiling this month? Well, the answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. Or is that just Rick Berry’s awesome beard? A California native, Rick was born in Pasadena and attended Rosemead High School, which is about 12 miles east of LA. Rick went directly into the workforce after…

Singing & Sailing

Yvonne Orlich While the Sun Lakes Chorale is officially on summer break, some of our members continued to gather and sing on the high seas. Ten of our Chorale members embarked on a Mexican Riviera cruise. The members were all acquainted with each other through the Chorale, but after sailing to Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlán,…

Come Try the New Thing in Tennis—Short-Court Tennis!

Penny Petersen Short-court tennis is played on a standard tennis court using a standard net. The singles lines are used, making it narrower. The service line is used as the baseline, thus the title “short-court.” A low compression tennis ball is used, which is exactly what juniors use when learning tennis. A special tennis racket…

JWV Honors Two of Its Members

Jewish War Veterans Copper State Post 619 members honored World War II veterans, 101-year-old Bob Stone and 98-year-old Bernie Domsky, at its 30th Anniversary Celebration Luncheon. Bob served in the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force under General Dwight Eisenhower. Bernie spent his military career at sea, liberating the many islands in the Pacific. JWV is…

Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation

The regular monthly Shabbat service for June will be held on June 14 at 7 p.m. and will be a healing service. Full services are conducted each month starting in September, except for July and August, on the second Friday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Sun Lakes Chapel. For additional information or…