The Men’s Club started 2015 with three planned monthly meetings with doctors. In January we had Dr Paul Petelin, Jr., an ophthalmologist in Sun Lakes Center for Sight. As an eye doctor, he diagnoses and treats diseases, injuries, or trauma of the eye such as glaucoma or cataracts. In February we had Dr. Mathew Karlovsky…
David Zapatka Reader and fellow Pickleball player Connie Wilkinson brought up an interesting topic. There are so many words with the prefix “dis” that are not words when dis is removed or are they words? How about disgruntled, dismayed, disturbed distilled, discombobulated, disrupted and distinguished? Connie asks, “Did you ever hear of anyone being gruntled,…
R. Buchanan A neighbor recently came down with shingles and we are not talking about those things a builder puts on your roof. We are talking about a medical condition that the Mayo Clinic calls, “a viral infection that causes a painful rash.” The people I know who have had shingles use several adjectives in…
The Sun Lakes Low vision Support Group will meet next on Wednesday, March 11 at 9:00 a.m. in the Card Room at the Renaissance Bldg. Program Director Linda Horton will preside. All are invited to participate at no cost. Visitors are welcome. Additional information can be garnered by calling Rev. Alexander Meek at 480- 895-8540.
Most everyone knows that their dogs must walk; it is in their DNA. But most people do not think about engaging their best friend in mental stimulation. What kind of life is it to just hang around the house all the time – get up, go for a walk, eat, lie around, eat, go for…
CWPV Healthy Lifestyles and you Is a multi-purpose facility for fitness, group exercise classrooms, wellness opportunities and a healthy lifestyle in Cottonwood Palo Verde’s future? Join a live question and answer session with 2015 Board Candidates on Friday, March 6 in the Saguaro Room from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Discover their vision for health and wellness, group…
Larry Wolfe Stan Weiss est originaire de Malartic, une petite ville miniere d’or dans l’ouest de Quebec. How’s my French? Definitely not as good as Stan’s. Stan is a native of Malartic, a small gold-mining town in western Quebec, where French is the first language of 90 percent of the population. He graduated from St.…
Brooks Scofield The Agave Quilt Guild sponsored Art Group recently completed a superb wall hanging for the upcoming Agave Quilt Show that will be held on March 28. This unique contemporary quilt illustrates President Faith Bragg’s show theme of “Holidays and Celebrations” in a very distinctive way. Over the 2014 summer and into the fall,…
It is the countdown for Art at the Lakes – one week away! Many of us are getting our paintings matted and framed, art cards carefully packaged, change drawers ready and vendor tents looking sparkly clean. All of this in anticipation for the seventh annual art show around one of Cottonwood’s beautiful lakes. As a…
Denise Lott This month the East Valley Marines, Detachment 1296, once again spent a Saturday afternoon at the Veterans Hospital in Phoenix. These sessions are when we provide two of the wards with root beer floats and assorted flavors of ice cream, along with cookies. The patients quickly line up and select their choices, often…