Brooks Scofield The Agave Quilt Guild sponsored Art Group recently completed a superb wall hanging for the upcoming Agave Quilt Show that will be held on March 28. This unique contemporary quilt illustrates President Faith Bragg’s show theme of “Holidays and Celebrations” in a very distinctive way. Over the 2014 summer and into the fall,…
It is the countdown for Art at the Lakes – one week away! Many of us are getting our paintings matted and framed, art cards carefully packaged, change drawers ready and vendor tents looking sparkly clean. All of this in anticipation for the seventh annual art show around one of Cottonwood’s beautiful lakes. As a…
Denise Lott This month the East Valley Marines, Detachment 1296, once again spent a Saturday afternoon at the Veterans Hospital in Phoenix. These sessions are when we provide two of the wards with root beer floats and assorted flavors of ice cream, along with cookies. The patients quickly line up and select their choices, often…
Shirley Jackson The SunBird Kare Bears will hold a fair on Saturday, March 7 from 8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in the SunBird Ballroom located at 6250 S. SunBird Boulevard in Chandler (on Riggs Road between Cooper and McQueen). This fair will bring over 40 vendors with their homemade gift items, bakery items, candles, soaps, jewelry, health…
Jill Curcio Bring the family and come have lunch with your local Sun Lakes firemen and support the Firemen’s Relief Fund. Enjoy beautiful works of art! No admission fee! Art at the Lakes Show and Sale will be held on Saturday, March 7 from 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. The art show is a community outreach sponsored…
Sun Lakes United Methodist Church will again present “Understanding the Journey of Dementia” by Dr. Maribeth Gallagher, DNP, Psych NP, FAAN. Dr Gallagher is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner with a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. She serves as the Director of the Dementia Program at Hospice of the Valley and has been featured as…
Susie Dunn As mentioned in last month’s issue our popular Men’s and Women’s Doubles Tournament was scheduled to play on January 11th-16th. Weather became a big factor causing delays and rescheduling of matches. The results were as follows: Red Division Women: 1st M.J. Robinson and Kay Wengert, 2nd Lynn Cox and Bonnie Livingston, 3rd Kaipo…
Unit 19 Phyllis Stephens Unit 19’s next monthly meeting will be held on March 9 at 6:00 p.m. in the Phoenix Room. All homeowners are encouraged to attend. Be sure to review the meeting’s material prior to the meeting on Unit 19’s website at www.slunit19hoa.info. If you have any questions about this meeting or Unit…
Colorful pinwheel pins are appearing in the community. They symbolize air circulation and will be used to aid in a fundraising campaign for CHILD, a research foundation for rare childhood lung diseases. The last week in February is CHILD week and the campaign will run until the second week in March. Sun Lakes residents Penny…
Rabbi Irwin Wiener, D.D. A funny thing happened to me on the way to nowhere. I was confronted with the prospect of listening to a diatribe from a so-called Baptist preacher. I say so-called because I find it hard to understand how such venomous pronouncements could be delivered from the mouth of someone supposedly dedicated…