Singles Dinner Club Update

Come one, come all to the Wednesday evening club for singles. We meet every week at 5 p.m. at the Palo Verde dining room for a sumptuous dinner and wonderful conversation with others in the same place in their lives. If Wednesday isn’t good for you, we also have a table for singles on Friday…

Art at the Lakes 2020

Diane Hitt Artists! This is the last month to apply to show your artwork at the 2020 show. We had the largest crowd ever last year. We are now receiving applications for artists to participate in the show. Applications must be returned by Jan. 31, 2020. Applications are available in the Cottonwood and IronOaks Art…

Zumba® with Mary

Mary Tyree Start the new year with me at the new CWPV Fitness Center. Hi everyone, I hope you all had a fantastic holiday. Now it’s time to get back to a serious workout, and we have a brand-new location to do Zumba. Check it out. Enjoy great music, great people, and burn a ton…

Word of the Month: 10 Words Turning 100 in 2019

David Zapatka Entering the 2020s, which seemed so far into the future, caused me pause and focus on the plethora of words that come into our language every year. Entering the year 1920, some of the world’s great minds were inventing the rotary dial telephone, the pop-up toaster, and forming the League of Nations which preceded…

Christmas Golf Cart Parade and Show Big Success

Pictured from left to right are Caitlyn Ortbahn - Mr. and Mrs. Claus’ granddaughter; Julie Ortbahn (real grandmother to Caitlyn) – Mrs. Claus; Santa – Bill Carpenter; MJ Clement – Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer; Merrie Crawford – Elf; and Wanda Johnson – Frosty the Snowman. Running around in the crowd somewhere was Elf Joyce Recupido.

Linda Caton The weather for this year’s Recreation Department’s annual Christmas Golf Cart Parade and Show was perfect! There were 49 golf carts this year at the parade. The winners were the following: 1st – Bill Cordner, 2nd – Chaya DePerz, 3rd – Kent Skalla, 4th – Amy Deshenes. Congratulations to all the winners and…