Gary Vacin Jersey Mike’s “Just For Fun” billiards event got off to a roaring start on January 8 as 16 players showed up for the inaugural event at the Cottonwood Billiards Room. The event drew the most persons ever to amass in the billiards room, as numerous others were on hand to view the competition.…
With the Arizona Quilters Guild Quilt Show opening on March 21 through March 23, 2019, at the Mesa Convention Center, many Desert Thread members are busy putting finishing touches on their show quilts. This is the first year Desert Thread members will have their quilts adjudicated by two nationally-ranked judges with a written score sheet.…
If any Sun Lakes resident has won a medal in a pickleball tournament and would like it to be added to the “Pickleball Winner’s Corner,” please send photo, name of the tournament and division to Janet Myrick at [email protected].
Penny Petersen Cottonwood Tennis Club held its Triple “T (Team Tennis Tournament) December 5 to 8. There were four teams competing for the number one rating. First place was won by “The Racqueteers” with 59%. Their captain was Mary Park. The “Lovers” with Sandy Casale as captain and “the Aces” with Susie Dunn as captain…
Germany, Reunion: Surprise and Warmth Bob Hirt In the early 1960s my parents went to Germany, their homeland, to visit their many remaining relatives for the first time since emigrating to America. My father, only three years old when they left Germany, lost his mother a year earlier during childbirth of a little brother,…
Susan Gottschalk Monday Flight: 12/10. Susan Gottschalk, Bea Hadsell, Camille Jasien, Nikki Staggs 12/17. Sharon Darnell, Susan Gottschalk, Linda Meylink 12/24. Bea Hadsell, Vickie Smith, Nikki Staggs 12/31. No Play Holes-In-One: 1st Phyllis Schager, Jane Wagner, Annie Hall; 2nd Camille Jasien, Bea Hadsell; 3rd Lori Becker, Nikki Staggs, Linda Meylink Tuesday Flight: 12/11. Laurie Burke,…