Category: October 2017

Annual Rummage Sale notice

Our annual Rummage Sale will be held at Risen Savior Lutheran Church, 23914 S. Alma School Road, Chandler, on October 20 and 21 from 7:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. If you have any questions, please contact Jane Zehnder at 480-802-5334.

Crisis of faith

Rabbi Irwin Wiener, D.D. As time goes by, we seem to wonder, more deeply, about life, our fallibility and our mortality. When we were younger, we would laugh at older people talking about their ills, and now we are the ones who have taken their place. Some of us do go through questions about our…

Relishing Pickleball

David Zapatka These are truly exciting times for pickleball. Not only is the sport growing by leaps and bounds across the USA, the United States of America Pickleball Association, USAPA, hosts its annual national tournament, a 10-day extravaganza of the best pickleball in the world, the first full week of November every year. This year,…

Join in the fun with Desert Rivers Audubon Society

This is a Sun Lakes barn owl.

Gwen Grace The Annual Bird Migrations are starting, and Desert Rivers Audubon Society wants you to join the fun. Desert Rivers Audubon Society (DRAS) events are as follows: Monthly Meetings: October 10, 7:00-9:00 p.m., monthly meeting. And then each second Tuesday of the month until April. Place: Southeast Regional Library in Gilbert at 775 N.…

In Passing

Gordon “Bud” Arneson Gordon “Bud” Arneson, 80, a 23-year resident of Sun Lakes, a Phoenix retirement community, passed away August 16, 2017, after a long bout with Parkinson’s disease. He was born and raised on a farm in south central Nebraska. His mother Effie called their second son her little Buddy. He spent his youth…

Happy Birthday to you!

Eleanor M. Patton

Eleanor Patton celebrates 100th Birthday – October 25 Tom Patton Eleanor Patton, a Sun Lakes resident from 1976 to 2016, will turn 100 years old on October 25, 2017. Born and raised in Utica, New York, she attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and married Dale W. Patton in August of 1940. Eleanor and Dale…

Chordaires welcomes new director

Sandy Bocynesky Marc Gaston will be directing the Chordaires Show Chorus, and we are so excited to welcome him! He has over 30 years of musical experience in the multi-faceted arenas of performance and production. Mr. Gaston brings extensive knowledge to the chorus, having directed in both church and community choral and arts programs which…

SLLGA 18 Holes results

Nancy Field 15 of 18 Flight 1: 1st (tie) Jan Fletcher, Judy Wegener, Karen Kolis, Kelly Dennis; 2nd (tie) Marci Koppelmaa, Pinky Kubiak, Shirley Brenner; 3rd (tie) Debra Emerick, Iris Cannaday, Julie Hamlin Flight 2: 1st Tricia Colombe; 2nd Debbie Martin; 3rd (tie) Jean Jones, Judi Kilgus, J.M. Scramble 1st Place Team – Judy Wegener,…

CMGA news and scores

Rick Nelson Results of recent events: Cha Cha Cha, September 9, 2017 First Place: Blind Draw, Jeff Sedlack, Les Blaylock, Russell Grgich 122 Second Place: Jim Curran, Ronald Sarnicki, Steve Martz, Danny Jetton 122 Third Place: Thomas Wilhelm, Don Mugrage, Rick Nelson, Jim Rahilly 125 Ace of Aces Qualifier, September 2, 2017 First Flight: 1st…