Mike Swoverland A small part of our group had a potluck at Sisk Park in Palo Verde on Sept. 24. It was a very warm day; however, we did have a representative of Free Spirit Travel Agency, whom we work with, to tell us of some exciting upcoming trips as well as extended trips. It…
Category: November 2024
November 2024, Clubs & Classes
Savvy Travelers Club to Meet November 13
Jeanette Rajamaki Welcome to a River Cruise Night with top-ranking AmaWaterways. The new business development manager is a local fellow by the name of Scott Horn, which gives us an inside track for deals with AmaWaterways for Savvy Travelers! AmaWaterways always has bicycles to do your tours daily. They include all your tours for all…
November 2024, Clubs & Classes
Creative Educational Enrichment Is Good for Us
Sarah Marks The respected journal Frontiers in Public Health recently published a new study indicating that “participating in art making as you age is good for your mental well-being.” This is based on a year-long study of 2,843 adults born between 1946 and 1964 and the links between art and mental well-being. This year-long study…
November 2024, Clubs & Classes
Let’s Have Some Fun!
Joyce Selk We are excited that the snowbirds are coming back to join the “full-timers” in all the great things Sun Lakes has to offer! And the Fun Lakers (best social club around) has lots of activities planned so you can reconnect with neighbors and friends or meet some new ones! Sign up today so…
Clubs & Classes, November 2024
Sun Lakes Card Makers November Meeting
The November meeting of the Sun Lakes Card Makers will be held on Nov. 20. This November meeting is always devoted to our annual calendar page exchange. Each member selected a month of the year and designed a calendar page for that month. At the November meeting, we bring multiple copies of our month, one…
November 2024, Features
News from the Sky: New Taxiway Represents New Connections at PHX
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport If you haven’t heard of Taxiway Uniform yet, you soon will. Also known as Taxiway U, this major capital improvement project is one of many called for in the airport’s 20-year plan, and the beginning stages of construction have started. The seeds for this project were sown in Phoenix Sky…
November 2024, Features
Estate Clearing: How to Wrap Up a Well-Lived Life
Kim Kubsch Clearing a home after someone passes away can be an emotional and challenging task. The first five steps to help you through the process were featured in the October 2024 Sun Lakes Splash. Here are the last five steps to help you clear an estate, which can be a very long process that…
November 2024
In Passing – November 2024
Joyce Carol (Otis) Benson Joyce Carol Benson passed away Oct. 25, 2023, at the age of 80. She lived the majority of her life in Washington state, then resided in Sun Lakes since 2019. She was loved and appreciated by all who shared life with her. She was a florist by trade and found joy…
November 2024, Features
Check Washing—Everything That’s Old Is New Again
R.O.S.E., Resources/Outreach to Safeguard the Elderly It seems every week you hear reports that someone has broken into the community mailbox. But why? In the digital age, financial fraud takes many forms, but one old-school method that is far from digital is making a comeback—check washing. This type of fraud involves altering the details on…
November 2024, Features
Word of the Month: Neologism
David Zapatka Are you as fascinated with the creation of new words as I am? I find the people who create new words deliciously inventive and their new words fun to learn. While reading an article titled Literary Wordmakers by my friend, Richard Lederer, I ran across this sentence, “Although the identities of most of…