CLGA Match Play Champion

Judy Onken Terry Gaube “outmatched” the field to become the 2023 Cottonwood Ladies Golf Association (CLGA) Match Play Champion. This is one of Terry’s favorite formats, as each hole is a game in and of itself. You can have a snowman on a hole and come back and win the next one. It’s never over…

Sun Lakes Writers’ Group

Happiness Is … Dorothy Long 2-Year-Old: Getting bigger Getting new teeth New shoes A new toy Not taking a nap Not wetting your pants The first snowfall Presenting mom a dandelion Bugs Running and climbing A new pet An ice cream cone Holidays and gifts Siblings most of the time A new friend A big…

Other Card Results

Wednesday Pinochle Join us for Pinochle every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in the Cottonwood clubhouse, A-7 Painting Room. 1/04. Women: 1st Karla Gabriel 692, 2nd Lisa Carlson 668, 3rd Marlene Hinkle 634; Men: 1st Jack Bigus 678, 2nd Harry Smelser 674 1/11. Women: 1st Celeste Dorsey 714, 2nd Lisa Carlson 625, 3rd Katy Johnson 621;…

Chandler Schools’ Families In Transition Talks to Breakfast Lions Club

Chandler School District’s Dr. Sarah Galetti, Director of Federal Programs and State Initiatives, and Valerie Gyory, Academic Families in Transition Advocate, Federal Programs, met with the Sun Lakes Breakfast Lions Club at their January meeting. They discussed a variety of serious subjects that Chandler students and families in transition face, from homelessness to domestic violence,…

Horton Is Once Again Visiting Elementary Schools

Kate King Turner Sun Lakes Community Theatre’s (SLCT) well-loved Children’s Theater is back in Chandler Unified School District 80 (CUSD80) elementary schools, and the reaction of students and teachers is overwhelmingly positive. Thank-you notes are piled up on the director’s desk, with brilliantly colored pictures of Horton the Elephant in a tree or the clown…

Benefits of Volunteering

Volunteers are the heart and soul of any shelter or dog rescue. Rescues are 95% volunteer-based, 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations, relying on the assistance of caring and hardworking volunteers. As a rescue grows, their reliance on volunteers increases, as the rescue cares for even more abandoned, abused, and neglected dogs finding them loving, life-long homes. For…