Category: May 2019

Relishing Pickleball

David Zapatka The 2019 USAPA/IFP Rules have been updated. Here are some of the highlights: * Pen or sharpie-type markings are allowed on the paddle playing surface so long as they do not impact the surface roughness and are in good taste. * At the beginning of the serve, both feet must be behind the…

Edgar Cayce Study Group

Our Search for God study group meets every Thursday at 7:00 p.m. in Room A-2 of Cottonwood Country Club. We explore the readings of Edgar Cayce who is recognized as the greatest psychic of the 20th century and the founder of holistic healing. We strive to be healthier, peaceful and to be one with the…

OLGA news

Carol Smith We have crowned a new OLGA Cup winner for 2019. Congratulations to Cathi Pospisil. She won the OLGA CUP. It was a two-week tournament. The Flight winners were Flight 1: 1st Dori Akin, 2nd Judy Darnell, 3rd Roselyn Hoiby; Flight 2: 1st Shirley Weaver, 2nd Joan Hammond, 3rd Barb Anderson; Flight 3: 1st…

Wearing of the Green

Janet Myrick Wearing of the Green, Saint Patrick’s Day Pickleball Social was another huge success. This year, we had 48 players which were split into eight teams with six players each. It was a team event only allowing each person two points when serving with any rotation of players for all five rounds. The names…

Cottonwood Men’s Golf Association has been busy

Buddy Meola The Cottonwood Men’s Golf Association had a very busy March. It started with an Ace of Aces Qualifier on March 2. There were five flights with the Low Gross and Low Net players qualifying for the Ace of Aces tournament held at the end of the year. Flight 1: Low Gross Paul Brauer,…

Spanish Conversation Group

Do you speak Spanish? Are you looking for a fun, friendly and lively environment in which to practice? This group is for you! Our conversational Spanish group meets every Wednesday from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. in the Ocotillo Room of the Arts and Crafts building at Oakwood Country Club. Topics and backgrounds are varied as…

To mourn, to remember – Holocaust remembrance

Rabbi Irwin Wiener, D.D. The German Jewish Political Theorist, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), wrote during the trial of Adolph Eichmann in Israel: “It was as though in those last minutes he (Eichmann) was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us – the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of…

March madness/frustration

Sheila Barton March madness/frustration. Golf is a game of limitless frustration. Like when you have the perfect drive and it hits a hard surface and bounces into the water, when you miss a six-inch putt, when you are on the green in two and then you four putt. That one perfect drive, or hole, is…

Restless Minds will discuss volunteerism

As a retirement community, Sun Lakes is filled with people with much experience and a willingness to share those strengths and abilities with others. We are a community that relies heavily on volunteers. For its last program of the 2018-19 cycle, the Restless Minds discussion group will consider all aspects of volunteering – including rewards,…