The Palo Verde ladies’ traveling team participated in four competitions this season. Format for team play is equivalent to match play where two members of one team square off against two ladies from another club with similar handicaps. When the last match was completed at Ironwood Country Club, points were tallied from all events and…
Dick Nelsen The Sun Lakes Rotary Club is proud of the Rotarian selected for the month of March. This fellow joined our club on May 30, 2017. He was a member of The Chandler Rotary Club prior to joining us. Easy to spot, he is the one who is always on the run with a…
George Abernathy, Founding Member For the past five years that I’ve been involved with the Sun Lakes Fly Fishing Club, I’ve had the pleasure of spending numerous days fly fishing with over 30 club members. Throughout all these trips, I have found that they all have one thing in common regardless of their background, experience…
A Sun Lakes chapter of the Red Hat Society, Divine Desert Divas, hosted a ‘60s/‘70s Disco Dance on Friday, January 25, at Sun Lakes Country Club. Many Red Hat chapters from the Valley attended and enjoyed the fashion show, at which the clothes presented were from JW Boutique at 925 S. Riggs Road, Chandler. They…
Jerry Vance The Sun Lakes Tennis Club hosted Cottonwood for tennis on Saturday, February 23. After the snow and sleet the night before, we had to work hard to get the courts dry and ready to play. Ice was on the chairs as we cleaned them off to sit on. We started a half hour…
Carol Smith Well, we have crowned a new Club Champion. She is Roselyn Hoiby. Congratulations! Great job, Roselyn. The flight winners were 1st Flight: 1st (tie) Sharon Bowdich and Carolyn Marchuk, 2nd Mary Dyrseth; 2nd Flight: 1st Dari Akin, 2nd Glo Malmberg, 3rd Dang Teater; 3rd Flight: 1st Nancy Cohn, 2nd Susie Lynch, 3rd Kathy…
April is a beautiful time of year in the Valley. I know many of you are getting ready to leave for the summer, so I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for supporting my Zumba® Fitness program for the past seven years here in Sun Lakes. Once again, we’ve had another great…
Dick Kane took the gold medal for best time in his age class (85-89) at the 2019 AZ Senior Olympics road races held in Scottsdale on February 24. His winning time for the 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) race was 78 and 1/2 minutes. Kane is a resident of Cottonwood and is also an active tennis player in…
High Scratch Games: 2/04. Men: Hank Mathias 234, Hal Newton 205; Women: Tammy Visser 200, Ruth Andersen 179 2/11. Men: Bill Dwyer 217, Jerome Schultz 194; Women: Fran West 199, Pat Schmeckpeper 189 2/18. Men: Pat Wilson 184, Dave Dahl 171; Women: Christa Marshall 193, Pat Schmeckpeper 170 2/25. Men: Pat Wilson 215, Hal Newton…
Liz DeMichael The Palo Verde Ladies Golf Association (PVLGA) posted some hot scores in February, even though it was pretty chilly on the course. Check it out. 2/05 and 2/12. President’s Cup. Sandy Chavez is the 2019 President’s Cup champion for PVLGA. She played against a talented field of ladies and prevailed in the two-round…