Dee Rasmussen Sunday, March 1 will be another exciting evening for the Crystal Awards past and present awards winners with dinner at the Palo Verde Country Club starting at 5:00 p.m. The 2015 award winners will be presented their Crystal awards following dinner. This year’ honorees, selected for their outstanding volunteerism within the Sun Lakes…
Pat Wolfe Members of the Cotillion Dance Club discovered the perfect way to celebrate the first dance of 2015; spend an elegant evening dining and dancing to an incredibly talented 19-piece orchestra with friends. The dance, held January 10, featured the Sonoran Serenade Big Band playing some the best music one could imagine. This year’s…
Recycling basics Pauline Lee The population in the U.S. is just 5 percent of the entire world’s population, yet we generate 40 percent of the world’s waste. This amounts to 1,690 pounds of trash per person per year. When solid waste is put into landfills, labor and energy are required to dispose of the trash…
Helen Daley Think Mardi Gras and it brings to mind New Orleans, food, parades, beads, partying, music, dancing, costumes and masks. Known and celebrated as Carnival around the world, it is actually a holiday in many countries. Mardi Gras started as a pagan celebration of spring and fertility thousands of years ago. Christian leaders decided…
Colette McNally This month we honor two fairly new members, Janet Hartkopf and Sandy Lundburg. These two wonderful young women joined our Rotary group recently; Sandy in 2013 and Janet in 2014 and went straight to work. Together they produce and edit our weekly newsletter and take care of our overhead projector for all our…
Mary Lou Kaye It’s that month; romance your sweetheart and go dancing together. Oops! Don’t know how. Well join our Basic Social Dance class that will be starting on Wednesday, March 4 in the Phoenix Room in the Cottonwood community. Taught by a certified ballroom instructor who grew up street dancing, this is an amazingly…