The Super Bowl will once again be played in Arizona next year, and the City of Phoenix Aviation Department has been planning for several months among its three airports—Phoenix Sky Harbor, Phoenix Deer Valley, and Phoenix Goodyear Airport—to ensure we’re fully prepared for the expected spike of travelers. Super Bowl LVII will be played Sunday,…
January 2023
Features, January 2023
So Many Books, So Little Time: ‘The Madonnas of Leningrad,’ by Debra Dean
Violetta Armour The setting is St. Petersburg, Russia. The main character, Marina, is a guide at the Heritage Museum when war breaks out with Nazi Germany. She helps to pack and evacuate the million-plus paintings and art objects in the collection, and during the first winter of the siege, she lives in the cellars beneath…
Generals, January 2023
New Summer Newspaper Mailing Update
Due to the increased cost of postage, we can no longer forward your newspaper over the summer months (May through September). We invite you to keep up with your friends and neighbors in Sun Lakes online at sunlakessplash.com.
January 2023, Clubs & Classes
Dance Classes Available
Group dance classes run four weeks for $30 per person for all four weeks or $10 drop-in fee if there is room. All classes meet in the Oakwood Mirror Room, which is across from the Patrol office. The schedule for group dance classes is as follows: Two Step Progressive classes (more moves from basic) are…
January 2023, Clubs & Classes
Julie’s Fitness Classes
Julie Bauman invites you to come to her classes at the Cottonwood Palo Verde Fitness Center. Summer hours are Mondays and Fridays at 8 a.m. and Wednesdays at 8 and 9 a.m. For the past 15 years, Julie has been teaching Group Fitness in the Chandler, Sun Lakes, and South Gilbert area. She currently has punch…
January 2023, Clubs & Classes
Upcoming Calendar of Free Events
Sun Lakes Women’s Association January Speaker of the Month: Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, at Cottonwood Country Club, 25630 S. Brentwood Drive, Sun Lakes, in the Computer Learning Center, Room 1, from 10 to 11 a.m. Speaker is Robert W. Truman, President, New Adventures in Learning – Where Curiosity Thrives. (New Adventures in Learning is located at…
January 2023, Clubs & Classes
Restless Minds—What’s Ahead?
John Brasch What does the future hold? Locally, statewide, nationally, internationally, for the earth, for humanity, for the cosmos? Medical breakthroughs? Political turmoil? Ecological disasters? A new Enlightenment? A wave of global humanitarianism? A spiritual outpouring or a wave of intolerance and corruption? Whatever your outlook, dystopian or utopian, you can share your views on…
January 2023, Clubs & Classes
Singles Group Supper Club
Sylvia M. Lee Come one, come all to the Wednesday evening dinner club for singles. The group will now only meet at the Cottonwood restaurant on the first Wednesday of the month for dinner at 5 p.m. and will gather at Palo Verde on the third and fourth Wednesdays of the month at 5 p.m.…
January 2023, Clubs & Classes
Women’s Association of Sun Lakes
The purpose of the Women’s Association of Sun Lakes is to raise funds in support of those who make the lives of our seniors safer and more comfortable and provide information, with an emphasis on serving all of our Sun Lakes communities. Upcoming January Calendar of Free Events: Weekly Meetings: Mondays from 9 to 11 a.m.…
January 2023, Clubs & Classes
Dolly Dressers Go Independent
The Sun Lakes group known as the Dolly Dressers has decided that it is in our best interest to leave Sew-N-Sews and become an independent group with no membership in Sew-N-Sews. However, our goals remain the same as they have always been: the repair and refurbishment of “old” and much-loved Barbie dolls and other 12-inch…