Clubs & Classes

Singles Dinner Club Update

Come one, come all, to the Wednesday evening club for singles. We meet every week at 5 p.m., at the Palo Verde dining room for a sumptuous dinner and wonderful conversation with others in the same place in their lives. If Wednesday isn’t good for you, we also have a table for singles on Friday…

Card Makers! Scrapbookers!

Pat Crocker If you want to add to your inventory of stamping supplies, come on over! On Saturday, April 10, from 8:30 a.m. to noon, take a look at over 50 stamp sets, bundles, dies, and punches. All are gently-used Stampin’ Up! products and priced from $5 to $10. Location: 9605 E. Champagne Drive, Oakwood.…

Sun Lakes Writers’ Group

Sun Lakes Writers Group Barbara Schwartz Do you enjoy writing? Do you enjoy reading? Do you want to preserve your family history so that you can relate it to the grandchildren? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, I urge you to become acquainted with the Sun Lakes Writers Group. We meet…

Quilters Build Community During the Pandemic

Officers elected March 2020 before lock-down orders: Blanca Sanchez, Diana Jones, Laurie Orendorff, Diane Mitchell, and Nancy Bonngard

Sue Bart Thanks to the undying efforts of the Desert Threads officers, the new quilt chapter (part of the Arizona Quilters Guild) has continued to function and add new members during our safer at home restrictions for in-person gatherings. Despite being less than three years old, we are building a community of friends. We have been…

Spring Is in the Air

Harry Huckemeyer Spring is in the air, and the sun appears to be shining just a little bit brighter as each day passes by. Although we still are living under the guidelines set forth in the necessary efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus, there appears to continue to be several positive signs seen…

Julie’s Fitness Classes

Julie Bauman

Julie Bauman Julie Bauman invites you to come to her classes at the new Cottonwood Palo Verde Fitness Center, Mondays and Fridays at 8 and 9 a.m., and now also Wednesdays at 8:30 and 9:30  a.m. For the past 15 years, Julie has been teaching Group Fitness in the Chandler, Sun Lakes, and South Gilbert area. She…

Computer Booters

New Adventures President-elect Rob Truman will present Free and Open-Source Software to members via Zoom in April.

Helen Seaton, Publicity Director The next virtual meeting of the Computer Booters club will be on Wednesday, April 7, beginning at 10 a.m. Rob Truman will present a program entitled “How to Buy Your Next Computer.” Rob has over 40 years of experience in information technology and Internet-related fields. He is a retired U.S. Navy…

Artists Who Aspire to Inspire: Jan Meyers

Cathy Porter Delicious free time! What does an artistic and creative person find to fill their time with? Jan Meyers retired from a career in finance and travel in 2010 and was looking for something to grab her interest. She found an outlet for her creativity in glass of all kinds. And she discovered the…

Sun Lakes Garden Club

Starla Kramer We are back to meeting in person as Arizona opens again! Our speakers for the April 20 meeting will be Jeanine and Cameron McChesney, owners of Greenhouse Gardens. They grow crops organically and sell their produce to the public on Saturday mornings. They also sell eggs from their chickens that roam around the…

Sun Lakes Lions Club

Breakfast Lions Donate to Neighbors Who Care Brian Curry Sun Lakes Breakfast Lions Club (SLBLC) Treasurer Kay Glantz and member Judy McFarland present the club’s annual yearly donation to Neighbors Who Care (NWC) AZ, Executive Director Sheryl Keeme. In addition, the SLBLC made a separate donation to NWC this past Christmas. It is impossible to put…