Category: June 2017

Oakwood Nine Hole Couples Golf League

Oakwood Nine Hole Couples Golf League dinner

Sandy Krediet Oakwood Nine Hole Couples Golf League ended a great season of golf on May 5. We had a surge in our membership, wonderful afternoons of golf and new friendships formed. We want to thank all our league members for a successful year, and we look forward to another awesome season beginning in November.…

Medicare, Medicaid and related health benefit information

Neil Tamber Personalized objective assistance to seniors, the disabled and caregivers provided by volunteer counselors especially trained by the Arizona Agency on Aging Benefits Assistance Program. Services include: * Basic information about Original Medicare, Supplemental (Medigap) policies, Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (Part “D”), Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO’s, etc.), AHCCCS (Medicaid), ALTCS (Arizona Long Term Care…

Rotary’s Outstanding line-up of speakers this month

Bill Larson

Norm Noble On Tuesday, June 6, Russell Yurk, attorney at Jennings, Haug & Cunningham L.L.P., will share a talk, “Follow the Rules: Why Ethics and Professionalism Matter.” Russell is an AV-rated lawyer whose practice focuses on professional liability, lawyer discipline and complex civil litigation. He regularly represents lawyers and other professionals in professional liability and…

Great Blue Heron Rescued

Blue heron capture

Gwen Grace Mid-March, two members of the Desert River Audubon Society observed a blue heron stumbling over rocks in the lake, not eating and even falling beak-first into the water! Sunday, they decided to call Liberty Wildlife rescue and rehabilitation. This is a volunteer organization that rescues injured birds and animals. Within 20 minutes, Kim…

IWLN most improved golfers

Judy Thompson and Lynnie Cheney, Most Improved Golfers

Nancy Davis, Publicity Most Improved Golfers: On April 12, President Denise Fleshner hosted our General Meeting and Brunch and announced the IWLN “Most Improved Golfers” for 2016. Denise awarded the 1st Place Most Improved Golfer to Judy Thompson and the Runner-Up Most Improved Golfer to Lynnie Cheney. Both of the ladies were presented a certificate…

Dolly Dressers on summer hiatus

Viv Sloane Our last meeting until September 2017 was attended by four members. We have two new ladies who joined us; Barbara Kase and Linda Nicolin. We sorted through newly-donated fabric and that in the cabinet. A short meeting followed, since several women had to leave early. Underprivileged or homeless boys and girls are very…

Sun Lakes Keyboard Connection

Front row (left to right) Carolyn Rooder, Judy Manley, Darlene Honn, Carol Mills, Cindi Decker and Susan Schlesinger. Back row (left to right) Evelyn Fuller, Judy Kraker, Susan Langan, Arlene Fletcher, Jan Main and Director Jeanette Cline. Not pictured, Nancy Swanson

The Sun Lakes Keyboard Connection just concluded their fourth season playing recently a 30-minute program as the pre-brunch music for Sun Lakes Women’s Connection. Their program included numbers from classics to Broadway to showtunes and more. The director, Jeanette Cline, assigns various instrument sounds to each number, thus making an orchestra for a Broadway showtune,…

Happy Anniversary

Dick and Rose Marie Murray

The Murray’s celebrate 70 years “I choose you. And I’ll choose you, over and over. Without pause, without doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep choosing you.” Dick first met Rose Marie when they were both 14 and working for the Santa Fe Railroad in Kansas City, Kansas. His shop foreman suggested he check out the…

Robson Communities named a Top 100 Employer in Arizona

Sherry Jackson, Corporate Communications, RCI Robson Communities, Inc., is proud to have been named by the Arizona Republic as one of the State of Arizona’s largest private-sector employers in 2017. Robson Communities made the list, along with other top employers such as Banner Health, which leads the list with more than 43,000 employees in Arizona. Other…