Our endangered oceans—part 1 Pauline Lee Since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing, sea trash has made global headlines. The hundreds of objects sighted off the Australian coast as possible aircraft debris turned out to be discarded fishing equipment, cargo container parts or plastic shopping bags. Sadly, there’s more garbage in the oceans than we…
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Features, May 2015
Sun Lakers donate over $1000 for rare childhood lung disease
In November 2013, Harrison Steiner (eight), grandson of Penny and Ron Petersen, was admitted to Phoenix Children’s Hospital and diagnosed with viral pneumonia. He had contracted a virus called adenovirus which developed into Bronchiolitis Obliterans (OB), a rare lung disease. OB causes the tiny airways, bronchioles, to become inflamed and the inflammation becomes scar tissue…
Features, May 2015
Veterans’ Voice
Art Sloane I recently came back from an Honor Fight to Washington D. C. with veterans of WWI. The average age is 92 or 93. What is Honor Flight? All WWII veterans are given a free trip from 133 hubs throughout the United States, two of which are in Arizona – Tucson and Phoenix, to…
Features, May 2015
In Passing
George S. Rasmusson George S. Rasmussen, Sun Lakes, passed away March 16, 2015. He was born April 20, 1929 in Seattle, Washington. He was President of Rasmussen Masonry, Inc. in Seattle. George married his wife, De’Anne, in 1967 and they lived in Redmond, Washington until they moved to Kauai upon their retirement in 1978 where…