Category: June 2024

Relishing Pickleball: Evaluate Your Game and Improve

David Zapatka Evaluate: * Watch your opponents during pregame warmups to discover weaknesses and tendencies. Be sure you notice if they are right-handed or left-handed. * Be patient. Take your time. Learn to dink the ball cross court and straight ahead. * Play soft. Hit the ball hard only when you have proper timing and…

Science and Technology

Karen Vollis Are you interested in science and technology? During the winter, we can attend nature walks to learn about the flora and fauna of the desert. We can volunteer to be Citizen Scientists at the Maricopa Parks (to document the various species of plants, birds, or insects). During the summer, we can stay cool…

Desert Artists Club Welcomes Summer

Sue Sindelar Ahh, June is summertime in the desert—a time to enjoy our indoor activities, be grateful that we don’t have to shovel any snow, and can look outside and appreciate the sunshine that brightens our days and gives us our beautiful, flowering trees and shrubs. But wait! We don’t want to be stuck inside…

IronOaks Breakers Pool League

Tera Crisalida, Breakers Board Secretary On April 17 the IronOaks Breakers Pool League completed the spring 8-Ball tournament. Finalists Gene “Terminator” Granquist and Don “Smoothie” Lewis competed for the championship. After a tough battle, Don won with a score of 5-3. Congratulations to both players who worked their way to the finals. The tournaments are…

Bocce Completes Season with Banquet and Winners

John Terranova, President The bocce season concluded, with the final games being played on March 17. However, March was full of bocce ball activity, with our second tournament, held on the 14th, and our final Awards Banquet on the 24th. The tournament was highly competitive with 32 members, eight random teams, signing up to play,…

Hello Apple Device Users

Next, we will be presenting Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. It premieres on June 10, but we will be showcasing it to our club in October. Watch for the date in the summer issues of the Splash. Summer is upon us. Keep trying new things with your devices. Jot down questions you seek answers to and…

Evening Lions Present Scholarship

Christine Linder, Public Relations The Sun Lakes (evening) Lions Club showed their support of community youth by presenting Perry High School student Evan Magana a scholarship of $1,000 per year for four years for continued college education. Evan will be attending Notre Dame University. According to Larry Palmer, club president, Evan has set an excellent…

Sun Lakes Breakfast Lions – June 2024

Breakfast Lions Makes Their Donations Brian Curry It’s that time of year again, as the Sun Lakes Breakfast Lions Club closed out the fiscal books for the year with some, but not all, of their donations. Sun Lakes Breakfast Lions Presents Scholarship Brian Curry Sun Lakes Breakfast Lions Partner with Kids Need to Read School…