Dementia—What’s Really Happening

As part of our mission to create a Dementia Friendly Community, Creative Partners (host of the weekly Memory Café), is sponsoring a free class for the community: “Dementia—What’s Really Happening in the Brain?” on Tuesday, March 29, at 10:30 a.m. For more information and/or to RSVP, call 480-203-8548, email admin@slcep.org, or go to www.slcep.org.

Desert Threads Holds a Mini ‘Quilt University’

The Feb. 9 meeting was a different format for Desert Threads members. Four experienced members set up tables to demonstrate different techniques. Members rotated every 15 minutes to a different topic. Diana Jones explained different battings and when and why you would use them. Mary Platt showed two different techniques for making half-square triangles, including…

Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation March Update

Joyce Spartonos On Friday, March 12, Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation (SLJC) will be holding its monthly service at 7 p.m. in the Chapel in Sun Lakes Phase 1. SLJC sincerely hopes that you’ll attend in person, where social distancing and masks will be required. But if some of you still feel uneasy in this regard,…

Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation Sisterhood

We are so happy to announce that the SLJC Sisterhood annual Card Party is back. We will gather at our new location, the Cottonwood Country Club ballroom in Sun Lakes, to play Mah Jongg, bridge, canasta, Scrabble, Rummikub, or any table game of your choice on Monday, April 11, at 10 a.m. There will be…

In Passing

Donald G. Baldwin Donald Grover Baldwin, age 96, of Sun Lakes, Ariz., and former resident of Oakes, N.D., passed away peacefully in his own home on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. Donald was born in Ludden, N.D., on Aug. 4, 1925, to parents Grover and Esther (Schroeder) Baldwin. He was raised on a farm and attended…

Sun Lakes Writers’ Group

Kidnapping Grandma Frank Garshak Not only was I lucky regarding finding the woman to whom I was married for almost 63 years, but also acquiring the wonderful parents she had. Except for taking their daughter away with me around the world, they seemed to like me and I never had any bad in-law stories. Eventually…