Would you like to join us for Spanish conversation? We are a group of Spanish speakers who created an informal Spanish conversation group so we could practice speaking and understanding. If you have studied Spanish in the past, lived in a Spanish-speaking country, spoken Spanish at home while growing up, or have graduated from an…
Category: April 2015
Features, April 2015
Happy Anniversary – April 2015
Liv and Svein Jenshus It is hard to believe how time passes when you have fun. We have just celebrated 60 years of wedded bliss and friendship. At sea, we invented the Love Boat coming from Norway in 1953 and have never gotten the credit for it! We celebrated our anniversary onboard ship, cruising the Caribbean…
Sports, April 2015
IronOaks Tennis Club
Denise Lott IronOaks Tennis Club welcomes Jenny Browne. Jenny will hold the position of Racquet Activities Coordinator. She is excited to build great relationships with the members by planning and promoting events, clinics and assisting with tournament organization. Please check the Fitness Center for her office hours. Tennis has been a large part of her…
Clubs & Classes, April 2015
Keep on Dancin’ with Lesly
Lesly Holness April already? Time is just going too fast! Many of the snowbirds have already gone home, but we are still here dancing, laughing and kicking up our heels. I have had such a great winter here this year and met so many wonderful people. We Zumba girls have a lot in common: we…
Clubs & Classes, April 2015
Spring is blooming at Women’s Connection brunch
Susan Reynhout Spring is in the air. Flowers are blooming. What a great time for a girlfriend get together. How about having brunch with your favorite friends? Invite them to join you on Thursday, April 12 for Women’s Connection Brunch in the Kingston Ballroom of Oakwood Clubhouse. Owners Heather Norton and Haley McCoy of Paris…
Front Page, April 2015
Join neighbors and friends for annual Easter Golf Cart Parade and Festival
Our annual Easter Golf Cart Parade and Festival will take place on Saturday, April 4. Plan on decorating your golf cart this year and win some prize money. There will be two categories: Best Easter Theme and Best Decorated. We’ll have our famous egg hunt for the children thanks to the Rotary, Lions and Lions…
Religion, April 2015
Holocaust remembrance – Memory, the path to immortality
Rabbi Irwin Wiener, D.D. None of us will ever comprehend the horrific chapter in humanity’s history referred to as the Holocaust. Even those who lived through this nightmare cannot understand how human beings can be brought to such a level of monstrous proportions. Each year we stand and remember those who have no candles lit…
Clubs & Classes, April 2015
Two Rotary meetings you will want to attend this month
Norm Noble What’s ahead for our youth? What are the prospects for the future? Will our country be in capable hands? These are things about which we all wonder on occasion. The media gives us the bad news and as the older generation, we cringe just a little. What are we leaving as an inheritance?…
Generals, April 2015
What is New Adventures in Learning?
Tony Contrabasso I would like to present an exciting program being offered at the Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Sun Lakes Center at the corner of Alma School and Riggs Roads. My name is Tony Contrabasso. I live here with my wife and we have been full-time residents for the past 20 years. Unfortunately, we were not…
Features, April 2015
Veterans’ Voice – April 2015
Art Sloane I recently wrote about the Senator McFarland Memorial in Wesley Boland Plaza in front of the Arizona State House thinking it was the only one to honor of the founder of the GI Bill. There is also a beautiful memorial to Senator McFarland in the Veterans Garden at Mesa Community College. It is…