For more information or reservations, please contact Free Spirit Vacations and Events at 480-926-5547 or [email protected]. Mystery Tour January 9, 2019 Price: $99 per person We’ll travel down the road a bit and stop somewhere you wouldn’t want to miss. Next – our lunch stop – then more surprises! Dolly Steamboat, Superstition Mountain Festival…
Category: Features
Features, January 2019
Gamer for the ages
Larry Wolfe Billy Kee may have passed the “three-quarter century mark,” but he hasn’t lost his zest for the softball diamond. For more than 60 years, he’s found the fountain of youth while playing softball. “I don’t feel like I’m 75,” he says. “I can still play with the best of them.” And play with…
Features, January 2019
Spotlight On Advertiser: In whose hands are you placing the care of your skin
DBK has had an outstanding reputation in Sun Lakes for over 30 years. The staff has efficiently prepared personal, business and estate taxes, and we thank those clients who have been most loyal. Tax clients come to us for the hometown feeling of friendship as well as expert tax counseling and the latest news…
Features, January 2019
In Passing
Aletha “Lee” Paulette DeLeo Aletha “Lee” Paulette DeLeo passed away on November 6, 2018, at Promise Hospital in Mesa, AZ, at the age of 75. She was born October 10, 1943, to Emma Lillian (Ochs) Karst and Paul Arvin Karst at Russell Hospital in Russell, KS. She spent the early part of her life…
Features, January 2019
Spotlight On Advertiser: How will the new tax laws affect you
According to the International SPA Association (ISPA), the spa industry surpassed $16.3 billion in 2017 and is forecasted to steadily increase over the foreseeable future. New spas continue to pop up all over the Valley, and with this influx of businesses, it would be prudent to ask, “In whose hands am I placing the…
Features, January 2019
Sun Lakes ladies making memories
Jean Steinberger Five Sun Lakes ladies enjoyed a day trip to the OdySea Aquarium. When we arrived, we took many pictures and put them in book form for a great memory. A terrific time was had by all. We incidentally learned a great deal about the sea and the animals that occupy or make use…
Features, January 2019
Thank you, Friends
Donations to Chandler Food Bank Junita Alexander and Julia Norton Thank you so much to the friends in Sun Lakes who so kindly donated non-perishable foods to be delivered to the Chandler Food Bank. There were cans, pasta and even spices. The food was donated the week of Thanksgiving by Juanita and Jolynn Alexander who…
Features, January 2019
Hope and Fear: A Journey Through Cancerland
Michele Fujimoto Michele Fujimoto is a winter resident of Ironwood. In December of 2015, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, just four months after having a “normal” mammogram. Hope and Fear: A Journey Through Cancerland is a personal account of her struggle to understand and survive cancer. Based on actual journal entries, it captures her journey,…
Features, January 2019
Word of the Month: Smithereens
David Zapatka While watching an action movie recently, I heard a character say, “We’ll blow them to smithereens!” I immediately thought I hadn’t heard that word in a long time. Seems like it was popular when I was a kid but who still uses that word? My next thought was, “Where is ‘Smithereens’ anyway…