On March 20-21, the Sun Lakes/Chandler community will have an exciting opportunity to be part of the area’s first Care and Kindness Conference to be held at Sun Lakes United Methodist Church. The conferences are an integral part of the Care and Kindness Ministries, founded by Dr. James Kok, the popular author of The Miracle…
The Apple Users Group of Sun Lakes will meet on Monday, February 9 in the Bradford Room of Oakwood Country Club at 6:30 p.m. If you have a Mac, iPod, iPad, iPhone or Apple TV, are new to Apple products or are a seasoned Mac user, this is the club for you. Check out our…
Bea Loozer I just found that I am among those who survived the holiday season without gaining any weight. At Golden Goalies our practice is to weigh in the week before Thanksgiving and compare that weight with weight in early January. The goal, of course, is to not gain weight during the challenging season. Of…
Patrice Reis “I am excited about the new energy and the new dynamics in our group,” announces Dr. Adam Thome, director of the Chordaires Show Chorus of Sun Lakes. “We have a lot of new members who bring a freshness to the Chordaires. I’m looking forward to how this manifests in our upcoming spring show,…
The February meeting of the Low Vision Support Group will take place at 9:00 a.m. on February 11 in the Card Room at the Renaissance Building on Riggs Rd. Visitors are welcome. There is no charge. Additional information is available by calling Alexander Meek at 480-895-8540.
Dee Rasmussen Sunday, March 1 will be another exciting evening for the Crystal Awards past and present awards winners with dinner at the Palo Verde Country Club starting at 5:00 p.m. The 2015 award winners will be presented their Crystal awards following dinner. This year’ honorees, selected for their outstanding volunteerism within the Sun Lakes…
Pat Wolfe Members of the Cotillion Dance Club discovered the perfect way to celebrate the first dance of 2015; spend an elegant evening dining and dancing to an incredibly talented 19-piece orchestra with friends. The dance, held January 10, featured the Sonoran Serenade Big Band playing some the best music one could imagine. This year’s…
Recycling basics Pauline Lee The population in the U.S. is just 5 percent of the entire world’s population, yet we generate 40 percent of the world’s waste. This amounts to 1,690 pounds of trash per person per year. When solid waste is put into landfills, labor and energy are required to dispose of the trash…
Helen Daley Think Mardi Gras and it brings to mind New Orleans, food, parades, beads, partying, music, dancing, costumes and masks. Known and celebrated as Carnival around the world, it is actually a holiday in many countries. Mardi Gras started as a pagan celebration of spring and fertility thousands of years ago. Christian leaders decided…
Colette McNally This month we honor two fairly new members, Janet Hartkopf and Sandy Lundburg. These two wonderful young women joined our Rotary group recently; Sandy in 2013 and Janet in 2014 and went straight to work. Together they produce and edit our weekly newsletter and take care of our overhead projector for all our…