January 2023

Joyful Downsizing: Clutter-Free Gifting All Year Long

Kim Kubsch How do we get creative with gifting and give joy without clutter? Here are some unique gift-giving resources to be used throughout 2023, as well as future years. Whether you are attending a housewarming, a wedding, baby shower, or gifting for birthdays and anniversaries, easy, appropriate, and clutter-free resources are abundant. Give something…

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…

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…

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…

Fit and Fun Club

Karyl Garbow Fit and Fun is a positive health and wellness group who embraces a healthy lifestyle! Receive information about health and lifestyle issues as we take charge of our own health, lives, and attitudes together! We cover a new topic every Wednesday in Cottonwood Country Club Room A-7. The meeting is from 9:30 to…

Annual P.E.O. Coffee  to be Held February 8

Cindy Thomas The 2023 annual P.E.O. Coffee will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at Sun Lakes United Methodist Church. P.E.O is a Philanthropic Educational Organization whose mission is to celebrate the advancement of women; educate women through scholarships, grants, awards, loans, and stewardship of Cottey College; and motivate women to achieve their highest aspirations.…

Why Hands? Why Feet? Reflexology

Kathleen Ismael, Reflexology Practitioner The human body is self-sustaining, intricate, and amazing. The hands and feet are the sensory organs of the body. The fingers sense a myriad of stimuli such as heat, cold, heavy, light, pressure to squeeze or release, to name just a few. Movements of the feet stimulate the entire body. The…

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…