Ellen Engel In a fine finish to its ninth year of collecting food and funds for the Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank in Chandler, and thanks to a late December contribution of 127 pound of staple foods from the Sun Lakes Jewish Community, Reach Out volunteers collected a total of 5,653.5 pounds (well over 2.5 tons!)…
Kathy Jones, Historian In December, the Palo Verde Ladies collected $2,100 for five needy families. Colleen Mitchell spearheaded this drive and did a wonderful job. Congratulations to both Hole-In-One winners pictured above. The 2017 executive officers were installed: Susan Lamb, president; Linda Reber, vice president; Florence Wright, secretary and Jan Stuckey, treasurer. The most improved…
Ducking the Problem Bob Hirt Duck Dynasty of TV fame has recently met its match. The Dynasty group, unshaven and often scruffy in appearance but no intellectual dummies, have graced television screens throughout the country with their quirky comments, their retorts and humor. But now in the news is another rather humorous item for us…
Basic social dance is so much different than ballroom dancing. It’s “lead and follow.” You, your partner and the music are the top priorities. Let the music tell you what to do. The limited space on a social dance floor and the wide range of music provided at social events requires more than memorizing a…
No More Chilly Nights will be held Saturday, February 25, at PRS Management in the Chandler Airpark. The annual fundraiser for the Clothes Cabin, a Chandler non-profit providing free clothing, shoes, linens, homeless laundry services, socks and underwear to local Title I schools, and a free work boot program, is a sell-out event. It starts…
Mary Jameson Rose Mary has always loved working with beads and all things sparkly. Her first beading project was actually her wedding bouquet, a huge assortment of ivory roses and baby’s breath all made in the French Beaded Flower technique. Since then, she has been designing fashion in various mediums for over 30 years, first…