Category: June 2020

Sun Lakes Lady Niners Playday Results

Sheila Barton League play for the 2019/20 golf season kind of fizzled out at the end of April for the Sun Lakes Lady Niners. Even though we were practicing “safe golf,” some chose to stay safe at home. There will be no organized play from May l through Oct. 31, but you can still play…

DAR Serves at Home During Pandemic

Patty O'Neill

Toni Bolling Lutter For only the second time in the history of the Society, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) canceled Continental Congress, DAR’s annual convention in Washington, D.C. In 1945, during World War II, Congress was canceled because of war necessity. In fact, in this time of pandemic, DAR finds it must develop its…

Sun Lakes Democratic Club

Dolly Loftin The June meeting of the Sun Lakes Democratic Club is canceled due to the COVID-19 situation. We hope to resume our meeting in July, as noted below: Monday, July 13, 2020, in the Navajo Room, 25601 E. Sun Lakes Blvd. N. Social begins at 6:30 p.m. followed by the meeting at 7 p.m.…

Golden Goalies: Still Calm

Here is a photo from the Golden Goalies archives. Enjoy!

Jan Bobbett Most of us are experiencing some different sensations. That’s true for Goalies, too. Thank goodness we have friends nearby—but not too near. As we keep our home spaces clean and maintain a whole array of other safe practices, we’re also taking stock of how we can help each other in our effort to…

Unity: A Leap of Faith

Kay Davis Unity Church of Sun Lakes is a community of souls who focus on peace, love, and healing. We follow the teachings of Jesus and other spiritual masters and use only affirmative prayer to align ourselves with the Truth that is in all of us. We are going to start back to having church…

Be of One Heart…

Pastor Marvin Arnpriester

Marvin Arnpriester, Senior Pastor at Sun Lakes United Methodist Church We are living in the most interesting of times, aren’t we? Voices seem to grow more and more strident. Tensions escalate pain and frustration, which highlight differences in understanding and perspective. This gives way to anger, hostility, and accusations. It happens in homes, in churches,…

Recipient of Lions John Herdt Scholarship

Lion John Peterson Dear Lions, My name is Jocelyn Alvar, and I was the recipient of the John Herdt Memorial Scholarship in 2016 when I graduated from Perry High School. This week, I graduated from Arizona State University Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences with a concentration in Neurobiology…

Sun Lakes Hiking Club—Summer Hiking Smarts

Sun Lakes Hiking Club members DeEtte Faith, Diane Alessi, and Henry Silberblatt enjoy the view near Tom's Thumb last month in the Scottsdale McDowell Sonoran Preserve. (Photo by Henry Silberblatt)

Warren Wasescha As Valley temperatures reached 112°F, a friend called to say he caught the news of multiple hikers being rescued from trails due to fainting, heat stroke, and falls. Then last week, the news of a man rescued who stepped aside to let faster hikers pass, only to have the rock he leaned on…