Category: December 2019

Trips and Tours

Sue Arko For more information or reservations, please contact Free Spirit Vacations and Events at 480-926-5547 or [email protected]. Zoo Lights and Dinner at Organ Stop December 9, 2019 Price: $99 per person Phoenix Zoo’s holiday light spectacular will make your season sparkle! Includes dinner at Organ Stop. California Holiday Spectacular December 10-13, 2019 Price: $850…

Sweetie

Ruby Regina Witcraft I can’t imagine, in my wildest imaginings, what has happened between childhood and aged but everyone is calling me “Sweetie” nowadays. As a child, it used to be “Rusty” because I was so tan and “Rhubarb” because I loved the stuff; and would often be seen chewing on a spear of the…

SLCC pinochle – edited

SLCC Pinochle Join us for Pinochle cards every Friday at 6:30 p.m. in the Friendship Room of Sun Lakes Country Club. 10/04. Women: 1st Bunny Sullivan 754, 2nd Betty Echgelmeier 733, 3rd Marlene Hinkle 696; Men: 1st Konrad Spicker 872, 2nd Dennis Mulcahy 870, 3rd Harry Smelser 780 10/11. Women: 1st Sue Stevenson 810, 2nd…

Word of the Month: Shungite-fullerenes

David Zapatka Shungite-fullerenes: a unique combination of carbon and silicate minerals found in an ancient deposit in Karelia, Russia. Friend and fellow wisdom seeker book club member, Sandria (Joy) Valente, gave me a special gift recently—a shungite-fullerenes rock. I had never heard of these before. Joy explained shungite-fullerenes rocks have special properties and are called…

The Remodeling Corner

Janet Cook This day and age, it is more common for family and friends to be scattered across the map. People move to pursue higher education, jobs, even for a location preference like our Arizona winter weather! Whether one has elderly parents you’d like to keep a closer eye on, or adult kids and grandkids…

Rainbow Tennis Social Colorful and Fun

Penny Petersen The “Rainbow” was certainly colorful as players wore their brightest reds, yellows, blues, and greens. Unlike other events, the “Rainbow” players do not pick their own partners. You just sign up, and the managers of the event assign partners. One of the objectives is to match people with someone they don’t normally play…

Sun Lakes Questers support the Arizona Railway Museum

Jeanette Thomson The long whistle of the train evokes for us a nostalgia for a time when the middle of the country contained acres of undeveloped land and open spaces, a time when life seemed simpler. The Estrella Questers has made the Arizona Railway Museum its focus. The group consists of Sun Lakes’ residents who have…

Softball Player Profile: Dave Waibel

Larry Wolfe Dave Waibel grew up in Taylor, Michigan, graduating from Taylor Center High, where he was a three-sport athlete in baseball, basketball, and football. He captained the baseball and football teams and earned a baseball scholarship to Lewis-Clark State College, located in Lewiston, Idaho. The Warriors have one of the top baseball programs in the…

My Favorite Meal

Ruby Regina Witcraft I have many favorite meals, too many to mention because I am a dyed in the wool foodie. I have made everything from lobster Newberg to beef Wellington but today I had the best New England pot of cabbage, onions, and carrots. Better known as good eatin’s, in Okie speak. My husband…

Crackerjack Jazz Band

Helen Daley “Take me out to the jazz party. Take me out for the fun.” How is that for a reworking of “Take me out to the ballgame. Take me out with the crowd,” written by Jack Norworth in 1908? Before the snack food Cracker Jack (two words), crackerjack (one word) was considered something or…