Oakwood 9-hole Couples League

The Oakwood Nine Hole Couples League has as its motto: Fellowship, good food and drink and by the way golf. Our goal is to have a good time every other week. Our last event was Friday, January 30. Although our President invoked an executive order for the rain and cold to cease and desist, his…

Finishing the course

Dr. Marc Drake, Sr. Pastor, Sun Lakes Baptist Church Perhaps you’ve seen the TV commercial where the young boy hops up on the concert stage and begins playing Chopsticks on the grand piano. His stunned parents are embarrassed and don’t quite know what to do. But then the performer comes out and begins playing alongside of…

San Tan Crown Rotary members serve in Hermosillo, Mexico

Seen here are members of the San Tan Crown (Sun Lakes) and Green Valley Rotary Clubs along with officials from the FinReg Bank standing in front of FinReg’s Hermosillo Office.

District 5510 of Rotary International is helping sponsor a Micro-Credit Program in partnership with the Hermosillo Rotary Club and officials from FinReg Bank. The Micro-Credit Program involved making small loans to entrepreneurs who are unable to secure small business loans on their own or through the Federal government. The Micro-Credit Program allows these entrepreneurs from…

Men’s Club news

The Men’s Club toured the Hall of Flame Fire Museum and National Firefighting Hall of Heroes on January 21.

The Men’s Club started 2015 with three planned monthly meetings with doctors. In January we had Dr Paul Petelin, Jr., an ophthalmologist in Sun Lakes Center for Sight. As an eye doctor, he diagnoses and treats diseases, injuries, or trauma of the eye such as glaucoma or cataracts. In February we had Dr. Mathew Karlovsky…

Word of the Month – March 2015

David Zapatka Reader and fellow Pickleball player Connie Wilkinson brought up an interesting topic. There are so many words with the prefix “dis” that are not words when dis is removed or are they words? How about disgruntled, dismayed, disturbed distilled, discombobulated, disrupted and distinguished? Connie asks, “Did you ever hear of anyone being gruntled,…