Category: March 2018

Join Essential Oil Club

  Vicki Vitality Come join Essential Oil Club members who have remained healthy this season while surrounded by friends and family that suffered through weeks of colds and flu. At the meetings, you will learn natural ways to boost your body’s immunities and fend off bacteria and viruses. Essential Oils can support the body’s natural…

Aero Club members hear from flight attendant

  Gary Vacin Sun Lakes Aero Club members and guests heard how a Sun Lakes woman’s life story progressed from wife and mother to radio talk show host to flight attendant flying on the world stage. Karen Fischer was guest speaker at the club’s January 15 gathering at the Sun Lakes Country Club Navajo Room.…

Noted neurologist coming to Sun Lakes March 10

Doug Ross, Director of Promotion We hear it all the time – “Growing old is not for sissies” – or “I just had a senior moment! Sometimes it feels like our middle name should be “forgetful”! We forget to purchase what we went to the store for in the first place. We forget to take…

Desert Navy Club meeting notice

  Dave Riggall Tony Contrabasso, a valley resident for over 28 years, delivers his Dynamic Visual Productions at various venues in the valley to high acclaim. His shows are educational and enjoyable, with narrated colorful PowerPoint presentations produced on varied subjects. Program topics range from the history of the Attack on Pearl Harbor to the…

Move your chi to enhance longevity

  Kim Kubsch What is Chi and why do you need to MOVE it? Chi is the life force or energy that moves your circulation, warms your body and supplies your organs with oxygen rich blood. Moving your chi circulates more oxygen to the tissues and nourishes the joints, making you feel more vibrant and…

Wuertz Gourd Festival results

  Colleen McKnight Spirit of the Desert members enjoyed a busy February at the Wuertz Gourd Festival in Casa Grande. The highlight of the festival is the Arizona Gourd Society state competition and, as usual, our patch was well represented in the Winner’s Circle. Congratulations to winners from our patch: Novice Division: Diane Wimmer –…

Conservation Corner: Lights and our living world

  Pauline Lee Our bodies operate optimally when we maintain regularity in our sleeping and waking hours. This regularity correlates to the 24-hour dark and light cycles in nature, also known as the circadian rhythm. With modern improvements in providing inexpensive artificial light, man has increasingly disturbed the dark cycle not only for himself but…

Sun Lakes UCC Lent Project gets underway

Chuck Reinhart The children of longtime Sun Lakes resident Shirley Chase kick off the Sun Lakes UCC Lent Project with donations for the needy in her memory. During Lent, the Sun Lakes United Church of Christ is collecting items that cannot be purchased with subsidies from government assistance. These donations will be delivered to the…

Sew-N-Sews news

  Pat Kovarik We have another interesting and informative program planned for our March 14 meeting. Pam and Kay from Mulqueen’s Sewing will give us information on interfacing and stabilizers. What is the difference between the two? How do you determine which type to use? How best to use it? Did I hit on a…