Hip, hip hooray Sun Lakes Camera Club! This month we celebrate the club for its many achievements. First, let’s look at the Arizona Camera Club Council’s Spring Round Up. Hosted at the Sun Lakes Country Club on March 14, our members brought home a pencil box full of awards. Fred Giese, long time member and…
Pauline Lee At our March meeting our speaker Krys Hammers, president of Desert Rivers Audubon Society, treated us with recordings of songs from birds that we might hear in our gardens. We learned that mocking birds always prefer to sing three different songs in a series, rather than just sing one song as other birds…
Gary Vacin “Going out on a call in a helicopter is just like going out in a squad car. But we can get to the scene a lot quicker through the air.” That’s how Darren Rigsby, a pilot and officer with the Mesa Police Department Aviation Section, described how his unit uses aircraft in law…
Ben Carrillo, Commander, Post-55 On the weekend of February 21, the Ira H. Hayes American Legion Post 84 of the Gila River Indian Community in Sacaton, Arizona commemorated the 70th Anniversary of the Flag Raising on Iwo Jima during WWII. Amongst the participants of the annual Parade were the surviving Native American Code Talkers and…
Marilyn Conner Hello Sun Lakers, well here we are in the middle of another fabulous spring. The weather is amazing. As you look around our community, you can’t help but notice the beauty. So much in bloom. It’s God’s art. We are still in full swing of creating these images and many other things when…
Bea Loozer This is my favorite time of the year — or at least it is as I write in early April. It’s time to party; to get together with friends before they start getting ready to leave for the summer. Or it’s time to start packing to leave. Personally, I love warm weather, so…