Gary Vacin Rod “Babe” Thompson and Tom “Pooch” Ferris are the Lucky Shot Pool Club 2014-15 season champions in 9-Ball and 8-Ball, respectively. Champions are determined by a playoff of winners of the club’s fall, winter and spring tournaments. Thompson, fall and winter tournament winner, defeated Fred Falconetti, spring tournament winner, 7-2. Ferris, fall and…
Joe Schwab Cottonwood Rock, Gem and Silver shop buzzed with activity on Monday, May 5. Stones were being cut, shaped and polished for a project spearheaded by Dianna Ahart, a member of Sun Lakes Rock Gem and Silver club on behalf of another member, Nancy Hibbard who volunteers at Camp Sunshine, a retreat center for…
Susan Plouzek Can you believe it’s June already? It is officially summer and we are feeling the heat. In the Oakwood Artists’ League, we paint every Friday in the Arts and Crafts Room. There are artists who paint in oil, acrylic, watercolor, colored pencil, graphite, gouache, charcoal, pastel and ink. We paint on handmade papers,…
Anne Munoz, a gifted Agave quilter, recently won the Moda Piece and Comfort quilt challenge at the local (store) level. Here, in the greater Phoenix area, the challenge was sponsored by Mesa quilt shop, A Quilters Oasis. After winning at the local level, Anne’s quilt was entered, along with many other shop winning quilts, in…
The Sun Lakes Democratic Club will meet on Monday, June 8, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. in the Navajo Room of the Sun Lakes Country Club (25601 Sun Lakes Blvd). We are pleased to have Dr. Camille Casteel and Mr. Joel Wirth of the Chandler Unified School District No 80 as our speakers. Dr. Casteel has…
Norm Noble Rotary’s motto is “Service Above Self,” so when a member is declared winner of the annual Service Above Self award, he or she has accomplished something great. Such is the case this year. The Sun Lakes Rotary Club recently announced that Bill McCoach had received this award. Chief among the credentials specified by…