Category: Clubs & Classes

Reach Out Sun Lakes continues spring success

Ellen Engel We start this month’s report with a plug for our beneficiary organization, Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank of Chandler. Our Sun Lakes community continues to have significant impact on meeting the need, both through the monthly “Reach Out” food drives and with resident volunteers who work at the food bank itself. Matthew’s Crossing always…

Local DAR attends state and national conference

Gila Butte Daughters at State Conference

Toni Bolling Lutter Gila Butte Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), sent delegates to Arizona DAR’s State Conference in Tucson and to Continental Congress, the annual national conference held in Washington, D.C. Gila Butte Chapter sent the largest contingent of any chapter in the state to the Tucson meeting. The State Conference is Arizona…

Just the facts info session

Sue Schwartz Invite your friends – CWPV Connections (not affiliated with CWPV HOA) will be meeting July 7 in the Phoenix room at 1:30 p.m. for those homeowners who support a modern, two-story Health and Wellness Center that makes us competitive in the senior community marketplace, enhances our property values and, most importantly, keeps us…

Making wellness a part of successful aging: Interview with Kelly Stranburg

Sue Schwartz This is the final article in our series of three. Prior articles may be viewed at www.cwpvconnections.com; questions: [email protected]. Q: What makes Senior Living Communities’ approach to health and wellness unique? Beyond offering the most innovative calendar of fitness and general health-oriented programming available, as a company, we have invested in the equipment,…

Line Dancing with Judee

Changes happen. Changes are harder to adapt to “as we get older.” For one change, we will be adapting to a new time schedule. Thank goodness it’s only a half hour. Ultra Basic Class will start our afternoon of dancing at 11:30 a.m. on Mondays for $2 in the SunBird Ballroom starting in October. Classes…

Card Making class notice

Join us on the second Saturday of every month to make two greeting cards with an Independent Stampin’ Up Demonstrator. Class fee is $5 and includes everything you need! The cards will be completed during your choice of two class times: 9:30 a.m. OR 11:00 a.m. Each class is limited to 20 participants; therefore, registration…

Join the Chess Club

Arthur Fink The Sun Lakes Chess Club invites you to join us, whether you are a beginner or a grand master chess player. We meet every Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in The Ceramics Room, A-8, Cottonwood. Come early or come late; you are always welcome. There are no dues or membership fees.…

Sun Lakes Women’s Association-paying it forward

From left, Marge Shipe, Carol White, Dennis White, Judy Caniglia and Pam Yocum

Pam Yocom Sun Lakes, Arizona – “Right now, there is a need in our community to provide aid and support to our neighbors.” We’re talking of a generation that is proud and self-sufficient; they do not often ask for help,” said Dennis White, President of Sun Lakes Country Club’s Member Assistance Club, aka “MAC.” The…

Celebrations coast to coast

Seattle Icons, by Nancy Thoma

It’s the Fourth of July holiday! We have miles of midwestern farmland to oceans of coastline to rocky mountains and grand canyons offering some of the most spectacular landscapes a photographer could imagine. This Independence Day, we celebrate another year our nation claimed its freedom. I ask all photographers alike, from smartphones to medium format…

Gary Whiting receives “Service Above Self” Award

Gary Whiting

Norm Noble Gary Whiting is a long-time member of the Sun Lakes Rotary Club, serving as its President in Rotary year 2000-2001 and then serving as Arizona Rotary District 5510 Centennial Governor in Rotary year 2004-2005. This year, he chaired the club’s Website Committee which undertook a much-needed overhaul of the website with a new…