Look what fell out of the friendly skies – a flock of former stewardesses, now known as flight attendants. Now in our golden years, we remain vibrant with the memories of our once glamorous job, before the women’s movement, before airborne luxury was edged out by low fares and frequent flyer miles. Back then flying…
Dianne Zimmerman Join us for Spanish conversation! We are a group of Spanish speakers who created an informal Spanish conversation group so we could practice speaking and understanding. If you have studied Spanish in the past, lived in a Spanish speaking country, spoke Spanish at home while growing up, or have graduated from an intermediate…
Kim Kubsch June is National Smile Month and I encourage you to support more frequent smiling for stress reduction! The energy required to smile is two-thirds less than to frown. Plus stress-busting smiles often generate more positive connections with others. Try our easy and gentle Tai Chi-QiGong, and you too will smile inside and out,…
Gary Vacin Every spring, Sun Lakes Aero Club (SLAC) members gather for their year-end pot-luck at Sisk Park. This year’s event on April 12 was attended by 27 members and guests. Attendees enjoyed brats cooked by Bob Walch, along with the usual goodies provided by attendees. On hand for the festivities were Gary and Dorothy…
Gary Vacin Rod “Babe” Thompson and Tom “Pooch” Ferris are the Lucky Shot Pool Club 2014-15 season champions in 9-Ball and 8-Ball, respectively. Champions are determined by a playoff of winners of the club’s fall, winter and spring tournaments. Thompson, fall and winter tournament winner, defeated Fred Falconetti, spring tournament winner, 7-2. Ferris, fall and…
Joe Schwab Cottonwood Rock, Gem and Silver shop buzzed with activity on Monday, May 5. Stones were being cut, shaped and polished for a project spearheaded by Dianna Ahart, a member of Sun Lakes Rock Gem and Silver club on behalf of another member, Nancy Hibbard who volunteers at Camp Sunshine, a retreat center for…
Susan Plouzek Can you believe it’s June already? It is officially summer and we are feeling the heat. In the Oakwood Artists’ League, we paint every Friday in the Arts and Crafts Room. There are artists who paint in oil, acrylic, watercolor, colored pencil, graphite, gouache, charcoal, pastel and ink. We paint on handmade papers,…
Anne Munoz, a gifted Agave quilter, recently won the Moda Piece and Comfort quilt challenge at the local (store) level. Here, in the greater Phoenix area, the challenge was sponsored by Mesa quilt shop, A Quilters Oasis. After winning at the local level, Anne’s quilt was entered, along with many other shop winning quilts, in…
The Sun Lakes Democratic Club will meet on Monday, June 8, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. in the Navajo Room of the Sun Lakes Country Club (25601 Sun Lakes Blvd). We are pleased to have Dr. Camille Casteel and Mr. Joel Wirth of the Chandler Unified School District No 80 as our speakers. Dr. Casteel has…
Norm Noble Rotary’s motto is “Service Above Self,” so when a member is declared winner of the annual Service Above Self award, he or she has accomplished something great. Such is the case this year. The Sun Lakes Rotary Club recently announced that Bill McCoach had received this award. Chief among the credentials specified by…