Category: Features

Ataxian Athlete Initiative announces 2014 grant recipients

Mary Fuchs, 2014 AAI grant recipient.

The Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA), in partnership with the FA Project, Catrike, The Melting Pot, and the Texas Irish Foundation is pleased to announce the 2014 Ataxian Athlete Initiative (AAI) grant recipients. The AAI provides adaptive cycling equipment to people with Ataxia who have demonstrated the desire to stay active and healthy despite their…

The Hot Spot – September 2014

Surrounding Mr. Marr in the blue shirt is the lifesaving crew (left to right) firefighter Tom Geffert, firefighter Ricky Quinn, paramedic Les Legarreta, firefighter Brent Kohl, engineer David DeGraaf and Captain Robert Olmstead. Mr. Marr said, “These men are my heroes.”

Sun Lakes resident Michael Marr stopped by the Sun Lakes Fire Department Station One recently to thank the crew that saved his life. Mr. Marr was in full cardiac arrest when the SLFD was called to his home on July 9. His wife, who had called 911, had been given instructions over the phone by…

Veterans’ Voice – September 2014

Art Sloane The Defense Health Agency, relying on medical laboratory experts and existing authority to conduct medical “demonstrations,” will restore TRICARE coverage this month for up to 40 genetic tests used in patient care. Many of these laboratory-developed tests — also called molecular pathology tests — are viewed as medically necessary. But TRICARE had stopped…

Sun Lakes author receives rave reviews

Sun Lakes Country Club resident and author R.H. Yocom

“Yocom is the Thriller Genre’s Best Kept Secret,” so says Amazon reviewer H. G. Smith about Darkest Hour: a Tony Alisone Thriller, a newly published novel by Sun Lakes Country Club resident R. H. Yocom. Smith goes on to say the book “is wild and unpredictable, a brew of modern technology and ancient shamanic practices.”…

Ask Your Agents – September 2014

Dear Tammy and Cheri, Please help! I’m an over packer and I’m hoping you can offer some suggestions of how I can travel with just carry-on luggage? I’m trying to avoid paying extra baggage fees. Carried Away, Sun Lakes, AZ Dear Carried Away, We do have a few tips that might help you. But here…