Jerry Higgins Rain on Sunday morning, Jan. 7, postponed the start of the Cottonwood Tennis Club for 64 players vying for the title of Gender Team Champion in one of the six seeded levels of play. Red-rated 4.0 gentlemen and ladies Green-rated 3.5 gentlemen and ladies 75-year-old senior gentlemen group Blue-rated 3.0 ladies group Despite…
Linda Smart and Sarah Lythgoe Join us on the second Saturday of every month to make two greeting cards with an Independent Stampin’ Up demonstrator. The class fee is $8 and includes everything you need except adhesive. Bring yours or purchase during class. Doors open at 9:20 a.m. The cards will be completed during one…
David Zapatka While reading The Metaphysics of Ping-Pong: Table Tennis as a Journey of Self Discovery by Guido Mina di Sospiro, I ran across the word redolent. His use of the word while describing table tennis rubber was intriguing. Redolent—red·o·lent adjective 1. Exuding fragrance: aromatic 2. Full of a specified fragrance: a. scented (air redolent of seaweed)…
Leonard Horst We made it past the shortest day of the year in December; Christmas, Boxing Day, and New Year’s celebrations; the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot; the end of the college football season; and our annual Safety Day event, and here we are in the “Month of Love,” getting ready for Valentine’s Day.…
Brrrrrrr is all that can be said for the Jan. 9 scramble and business lunch at Palo Verde. Seventy-two brave and strong football-loving women golfers bundled up in 30-degree weather for a fun scramble chaired by Mary Fitzke and Jan Hawks. We started with game-warming hot chocolate and Baileys in the Palo Verde restaurant at…
Larry Wolfe Manager Dave Kratz’s Skyview Digital Media team edged Manager Gary Hillabolt’s Young Home Team by one game to win the Lakes Division Fall League pennant. Skyview finished with a 12-8 record, while the Young Home Team Realty squad had an 11-9 record. Doug Warwick was the top hitter, batting .783 with a slugging…