Category: Clubs & Classes

Basha students capture $7,000 in DAR scholarships

Basha Principal David Loutzenheiser and Gila Butte Scholarship Chair Carolyn Hawkins with scholarship recipients.

Toni Bolling Lutter This year, seven local Chandler Unified School District senior women will proceed to Arizona schools of higher learning with the help of DAR scholarships. Each year, Gila Butte Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) offers a $1,000 scholarship to a deserving Basha High School senior woman. This year, six additional women won…

Restless Minds topic: Are you patriotic?

Bill Gates Are you patriotic? Most Americans would answer with an unqualified “Yes!” But what makes you patriotic? And who decides? These and other questions about love of country will be explored when the Restless Minds discussion group begins its 2016-17 year on Tuesday, September 13. Restless Minds discussions are open to all people with…

Fall and winter art classes

Rose Kelton Rose Kelton offers ongoing classes at Oakwood Country Club Arts and Crafts Center on Mondays – Watercolors from 9:30 a.m.-noon. With the use of transparent watercolor paint, we will strive to have each student develop his or her own artistic nature and style. We will cover different techniques of applying the paint to…

Edgar Cayce Study Group

Our “Search for God” study group meets every Thursday at 7:00 p.m. in Room A-2 of Cottonwood Country Club. We explore the readings of Edgar Cayce who is recognized as the greatest psychic of the 20th century and the founder of holistic healing. We strive to be healthier, peaceful and to be one with the…

Sun Lakes Fly Fishing Club news

This picture was taken at the Black River Crossing on the Black River which is located a couple of miles above the confluence of the Salt and Black Rivers. Fishing at this location also yielded us a few dozen Smallmouth Bass and Red Ear Perch.

George Abernathy Last month Brad Smith, a Sun Lakes Fly Fishing Club (SLFFC) member and I went on an exploratory camping-fly fishing trip throughout the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation. Three nights camping and four days of fishing brought back fond memories of when I used to camp and backpack extensively. My last camping trip…

Bridge Results

FUNdaMENTAL Bridge lessons Back by popular demand! Have FUN. Exercise your BRAIN. Hundreds of your neighbors have taken enjoyable, stimulating FUNdaMENTAL bridge lessons over the past several seasons. Beginning Bridge, Monday mornings at the Friendship Room in Sun Lakes, November 7-December 19, seven weeks, $70, plus text; starts with the basics and proceeds to Stayman…

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.-3:00 p.m. in the Music Room A6 at Cottonwood. Come early or come late; you are always welcome. There are no dues or membership fees. For…

Zumba with Mary

Take a Zumba class with Mary!

Are you ready to Zumba® again? I am so ready! Join me as I start my fifth season of Zumba® with Mary in Sun Lakes on Tuesday, September 13. What better place to welcome your friends back and make new ones? Zumba® is a Latin inspired fitness program that incorporates all your favorite music and…