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Crystal Card Project looks forward to new year

Buying Crystal Cards helps raise money for charity.

Bobbie Reed Donations! Volunteers! Sales! These three things gave the Crystal Card Project a jump start in its first year. Over 20 volunteers created more than 3500 new (recycled) greeting cards. Sales exceeded 1500 by mid-December. A great start for a project that is only eight months old. We aim to surpass that in 2017…

2017 Keep on Dancin’

Lesly Holness Happy New Year! Wanna start the New Year off right? Like to dance? Well, come on over and try this. This class is exercise in disguise. Let’s take the work out of workout and have a blast! In this class the fun comes first, the physical benefits follow. Low impact and high energy,…

Join our fruitful fun

James Harrald Now in our 11th year of service, the Sun Lakes Citrus Sharers are once again ready to pick the surplus fruit in the Sun Lakes communities. We will have our annual Kickoff Koffee on Saturday, January 21 at 10:00 a.m. in the Navajo Room located at Sun Lakes Country Club. What began as…

First Baptist Choir sings Christmas Cantata

Norm Noble The powerful cantata, A Great and Mighty Wonder will be sung by the First Baptist Church Choir at the Sun Lakes Country Club Clubhouse on the 4th of December at 4:00 p.m. It will be performed again at the First Baptist Church on Sunday, December 11 at their 10:00 a.m. service. As FBCSL Pastor…

Risen Savior presents 2016 Community Christmas Concert

Rev. Ron Burcham, Senior Pastor of Risen Savior Lutheran Church invites all Sun Lakes residents who love the Christmas season and enjoy well-performed Christmas music to attend this year’s Community Christmas Concerts on Sunday afternoon, December 11. The cast will present two, one-hour performances beginning at 2:30 and 4:30 pm. “We were absolutely overjoyed by…

Come one, Come all

To the annual Lake Diamond Luminaria Walk on Saturday and Sunday, December 10 and 11 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. in Oakwood located at Diamond and Starcrest Drives. Come enjoy the carolers, beautiful lights reflecting from the lake, festive decorations and maybe some snowball snacks! A food drive to collect food or cash will be at the…

Sun Lakes Art students honor their art instructor

Sharon Gale The students at Sun Lakes are having to say goodbye to their watercolor art teacher, Alice Van Overstraeten. She is retiring from teaching in Chandler. She is still teaching pastels and watercolor in the Tempe, Gilbert and Mesa areas. The Sun Lakes art students will miss her greatly but plan to see her…

Risen Savior hosts Thanksgiving Turkey Drive

On Sunday, November 13, the congregation of Risen Savior Lutheran Church will be donating frozen turkeys and checks to assist the Chandler Food Bank in helping less-fortunate families in our community prepare turkey dinners on Thanksgiving. Invites Sun Lakes Community Participation Once again, Risen Savior is also inviting their neighbors in the Sun Lakes Community…