14th annual Progressive Dinner on Oakwood’s E. Crystal Drive

Perfect weather for the dinner!

Jo Schenk Sunday, April 17 found the inhabitants of Oakwood’s East Crystal Drive once again rocking the block with this year’s 14th annual Progressive Dinner. Beginning at 4:30 p.m., neighbors began arriving at Dr. Keith and Joyce Bachman’s tastefully appointed home. Perfect cocktail party weather assured a free-flowing gathering of happy neighbors both indoors and…

Rotary Golf Tournament a big success!

Hole-in-one winner Dick Jakubowski

When you stage a charity golf tournament and offer chances to win golf carts and cars on select par threes, you normally don’t expect anyone to win. There are tremendous odds against it. An amateur golfer’s chance of shooting an ace is 12,500 to one. Happily, Dick Jakubowski (visiting snowbird from Nebraska) didn’t know that…

News From IronOaks at Sun Lakes

IronOaks May activities Monday, May 2 – Furniture sale at the Oakwood Clubhouse from 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Saturday, May 7 – Ironwood Closing for Golf Renovation Party from 4:00-7:00 p.m. Food, specials, music and fun. Desert Music will provide the entertainment. Billboard Series: Wednesday, May 18 – Fleetwood Mac in the Oakwood Ballroom. Call 480-895-7275…

Oakwood 9 Hole Couples League

The Oakwood Nine Hole Couples League has had a phenomenal year thus far. Our membership has grown to an all-time high with many couples playing for the first time together. Our motto for the year, “Fun, Fellowship, Good Food and Drink and, by the way, Golf” has been the catalyst for our membership growth. The…

Writers’ Page

Cats and Dogs Jim Kirkpatrick They are so often an important part of our young lives as playmates. Many in late and much later life we have them as dear companions. When someone will comment regarding the loss of our dog or cat, “it was only a cat (or dog).” Imagine, it may have been…