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…

FREE beginning Mah Jongg lesson

If interested, please e–mail Stephanie Hemberg and leave a phone number so I am able to call and talk with you; stephaniehemberg@wbhsi.net. You must be available to play Mah Jongg on the second and third Mondays and/or the first and second Tuesdays of the month, October through May. We play from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Please, non–smokers…

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,…

Helpful tips

R. Buchanan A neighbor recently came down with shingles and we are not talking about those things a builder puts on your roof. We are talking about a medical condition that the Mayo Clinic calls, “a viral infection that causes a painful rash.” The people I know who have had shingles use several adjectives in…