Wednesday Singles Dinner Club

  Come one, come all to the Wednesday evening club for singles. We meet every week at 5:00 p.m. at the Palo Verde dining room for a sumptuous dinner and wonderful conversation with others in the same place in our lives. If Wednesday isn’t good for you, we also have a table for singles on…

Join the Lady Niners this fall

  Ernest Matuschka Have you been thinking about golfing in the fall? The time will be here before you know it! A suggestion is to join the Lady Niners for 9 holes of golf on Tuesdays beginning in November. This group welcomes and provides encouragement, support and camaraderie to all women golfers, both new and…

Bridge Results

  Monday Afternoon Social Partnership Bridge 7/02. 1st Bernie Ross and Dee Guthrie, 2nd Newell Orr and Paul Budrick, 3rd Dagmar Bostick and Fran Carissimo 7/09. 1st Bernie Ross and Dee Guthrie, 2nd Jeanette Newman and Jeanie Kitzman, 3rd Joe and Joan Silver; Slam: Dee Guthrie and Bernie Ross 7/16. 1st Ruth Hiner and Nancy…

Lifelong-Learning program offers fall classes

Catherine Hammond More than 80 classes are available this fall through New Adventures in Learning. All presenters are volunteers who have gathered their knowledge in a variety of ways. Some are retired experts who have been formally trained or have worked for a lifetime in a particular field. Others have a newer passion to explore…

The Arizona Wind Symphony expands 2018-19 concert season

The Arizona Wind Symphony, a dynamic 90-piece concert band based at the Tempe Center for the Arts, will be presenting additional concerts for your enjoyment during its 2018-2019 season. Under the direction of William J. Richardson, the band entertains Tempe and surrounding communities with an enjoyable variety of music including marches, Broadway and film tunes,…

Writers’ Page

  Drydock Roy Parfitt Within a month of reporting aboard the USS Wrangell, an ammunition ship out of Norfolk, Virginia, we steamed north to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to go into dry-dock for retrofitting and repairs. I remember just before my very first underway watch, standing on the deck at 4:00 a.m., looking at the…