June 2017

Reiki Circle news

Rina Cupples When I lived in Connecticut, we hibernated indoors in the winter. Now in Arizona, I stay in a good deal during hot summer days. These periods of hibernation offer me opportunities to slow down, calm my harried brain, rest my overtaxed body. And I have time for Reiki treatments … soothing, restorative, regenerating…

IMGA Personality of the Month

Danny Smith, IMGA Golfer of the Month

Bruce McCorkle “It’s been a life accented by wonderful memories and good fortune, but also great tragedy,” recounts Danny Smith, our IMGA Golfer of the Month. Born in 1948, he grew up in a modest neighborhood only a few blocks from Grosse Pointe, the mansion-filled suburb of Detroit on Lake Sinclair where the automotive elite…

June Jubilee Stamp Camp

Pat Crocker and friends Join four Stampin’ Up! demonstrators as we unveil the NEW 2017-2018 Stampin’ Up! Catalog. Each attendee will create 13 beautiful all-occasion cards and receive a bag of NEW Stampin’ UP! products valued at about $40 to take home. Stampers, we are providing the card kits, stamp sets, envelopes, inks and embellishments.…

Sun Lakes Lady Putters

Sun Lakes Lady Putters

Susan Gottschalk Our 20th anniversary season has ended. It’s time to enjoy summer and look forward to next season starting the last week in October. Watch for the new season news in the October Splash. Monday Flight: 4/10. Teri Danaher, Sharon Darnell, Norma Marsh, Betty Perry 4/17. Betty Perry 4/24. Jean Cohen, Sharon Darnell, Bea…

The Hallelujah Girls take the stage this July

The very talented cast for The Hallelujah Girls has been selected to bring this amazingly funny play to life on the San Tan Ballroom stage. The show will start with a 2:00 p.m. matinee on Sunday, July 23. The play will be dark on Monday and Tuesday and will start again on Wednesday through Saturday, July…

Desert Rivers Audubon Society

The Desert Rivers Audubon Society (DRAS) is a local chapter of the National Audubon Society. DRAS meets the second Tuesday of the month between October and April at the Gilbert Library, 775 N. Greenfield Road, Gilbert, AZ 85234, at 7:00 p.m. A lovely place to visit here in Maricopa County is the Desert Botanical Garden…

Computer Booters goes into summer hibernation

Ed Robson Library’s new branch manager, Jenny Young, and Al Hill

Kc Coller, Publicity Director Our May general meeting was most likely comprised of residents who are year-rounders of the Sun Lakes-SunBird areas. How nice to see all the smiling faces there to listen and ask questions of our guest speaker Jenny Young. It was great to have Alan Levy with us again after his medical…

CMGA April results

April 1 Morning Aces of Aces qualifier Flight 1 Gross: 1st Kim Barnes, 2nd Rusty Williams, 3rd Ed Frees Net: 1st Kim Barnes, 2nd Jack Goyer, 3rd Rusty Williams Flight 2 Gross: 1st Paul Graebke, 2nd Jerry Cisneros and Rafael Take Net: 1st Paul Graebke and Jerry Cisneros, 3rd Rafael Take and Bill Hartnett Flight…

Sun Lakes VFW Post 8053 Auxiliary – friends, fun, service

Ken Marshall, after making a hole-in-one at the Sun Lakes VFW Annual Golf Tournament

Sandra Whittenberg New VFW Auxiliary officers elected at our April meeting were: President Janice Cournoyer, Sr. VP Angie Freedline, Jr. VP Christa Marshall, Treasurer Carolyn Laschinger, Secretary Betty Peer, Chaplain Dorothy Eberle, Conductress Sheilagh Dillon, Guard Diane Gordon, Patriotic Instruction Philomena Herring, Trustee 1 Year Sandra Whittenberg, Trustee 2 Year Carol Veenhuis, Trustee 3 Year…

Sun Lakes Country Club

Inaugural Easter Parade Easter Bunny in a decorated golf cart at the inaugural Sun Lakes Country Club Spring Parade on Saturday, April 15. Happenings at the Sun Lakes Country Club Library Sharon Lavender Welcome to summer! Thank you to all our library patrons who return books quickly, remember those book jackets and take care of…