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Senior Softball news

Gene Grandquist of the Mutual of Omaha team swings away at a recent contest. On deck hitter Bob Zawidski looks on. (Courtesy of Core Photography, LLC.)

Larry Wolfe The Sun Lakes Senior Softball League’s fall season’s 60-game schedule ends on December 17. Each of our six teams will have played 20 games by that time. Check out the Stats Page on our website at www.sunlakessoftball.com to see up-to-date standings and batting statistics. After a holiday break, the winter season begins on…

Holes-in-one!

Did you hear all the whooping and hollering at Ironwood the other day? Terry Clark got her second hole-in-one on Monday, October 26. She was on hole no. 10 at Ironwood – a 76 yard distance – and used her pitching wedge to hit the perfect shot. Her first ace was it the same golf…

Relative to ART

Lightfastness is the way a pigment or color reacts when exposed to light, particularly sunlight.

Susan Plouzek For the past few years I have talked about many different aspects of art, particularly about genre or materials. I have written about paper being acid free so that the work of art will be archival quality. But then I started thinking about lightfastness. Lightfastness is the way a pigment or color reacts…

Ask Your Agents

Hi Tammy, Cheri and Bety: We are thinking about taking a trip to Europe to do some river cruising exploration. Do you have any suggestions for us? Sincerely, The Cruisers, Sun Lakes, AZ Dear the Cruisers: The rivers and canals of Europe are open for travel. As many as 20,000 total miles of inland waterways…

Lions’ community service benefits local area children

Lion Joyce Davey and Lion Jim Brotherton hand out dictionaries.

The Sun Lakes Breakfast Lions Club recently participated in a Lions Children First project to assist children in the community by presenting 200 pocket dictionaries to third and fourth graders of the Galveston Elementary School. This project demonstrates how Lions are committed to putting children first and to providing those in need with essential services.…

What do you want for Christmas?

Pastor Ron Burcham, Risen Savior Lutheran Church What do you want for Christmas? That question is being asked by millions of people around the globe. Parents are asking their children, sweethearts are asking the love of their life, and hundreds of men dressed in red are asking it a thousand times a day to the…

Life beyond the teabag

Diane Eddy The rituals of tea are a celebratory journey with friends and family, or as Okakura Kakuzo so eloquently states in The Book of Tea, “Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea….let us dream of evanescence and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.” More than just an ancient beverage, tea enchants us…

Niners results – October 2015

Jim Wegman, Publicity The 2015-2016 season is underway and the pairings lists are growing longer each week. As more members return to play, the pace of play becomes more important. Let’s all help to keep the game moving along. As Lee Trevino said “let’s hit and git!” Membership: Our league is growing again. We are…