Besides being fun, dancing is an activity that offers many rewards to the participants. You can exercise without working out, improve your social life, increase flexibility and agility, strengthen your balance, develop more social poise and confidence, strengthen all your muscles, meet new friends, improve your skills in other sports and physical activities; all this…
The reward in teaching line dancing is when you see what the dancers are doing now compared to a year ago. Some of the dancers in the Basics Plus Class have only been dancing for a year or two. Not only were they happy learning and dancing Higher and Higher, Queen of My Heart and Over…
Hip, hip hooray Sun Lakes Camera Club! This month we celebrate the club for its many achievements. First, let’s look at the Arizona Camera Club Council’s Spring Round Up. Hosted at the Sun Lakes Country Club on March 14, our members brought home a pencil box full of awards. Fred Giese, long time member and…
Pauline Lee At our March meeting our speaker Krys Hammers, president of Desert Rivers Audubon Society, treated us with recordings of songs from birds that we might hear in our gardens. We learned that mocking birds always prefer to sing three different songs in a series, rather than just sing one song as other birds…
Gary Vacin “Going out on a call in a helicopter is just like going out in a squad car. But we can get to the scene a lot quicker through the air.” That’s how Darren Rigsby, a pilot and officer with the Mesa Police Department Aviation Section, described how his unit uses aircraft in law…
Ben Carrillo, Commander, Post-55 On the weekend of February 21, the Ira H. Hayes American Legion Post 84 of the Gila River Indian Community in Sacaton, Arizona commemorated the 70th Anniversary of the Flag Raising on Iwo Jima during WWII. Amongst the participants of the annual Parade were the surviving Native American Code Talkers and…
Marilyn Conner Hello Sun Lakers, well here we are in the middle of another fabulous spring. The weather is amazing. As you look around our community, you can’t help but notice the beauty. So much in bloom. It’s God’s art. We are still in full swing of creating these images and many other things when…
Bea Loozer This is my favorite time of the year — or at least it is as I write in early April. It’s time to party; to get together with friends before they start getting ready to leave for the summer. Or it’s time to start packing to leave. Personally, I love warm weather, so…
Ron Leimer, Publicity Cheers Singles met at the Navajo Room at Sun Lakes Country Club for the quarterly birthday party. The happy faces in the photo all had birthdays in February, March or April so we wish them all the best in the year ahead and look forward to seeing them all next year on…
The R Countryman Chapter of the Korean War/Korea Service Veterans will meet on Tuesday, May 26 in the Friendship Room of the Sun Lakes Country Club at 10:00 a.m. Each month we have a passionate, informational and entertaining speaker who will make you glad that you came! Please join us Tuesday to find out who…