Julie’s Fitness Classes

Julie Bauman invites you to come to her classes at the Cottonwood Palo Verde Fitness Center. Hours are Mondays and Fridays at 8 a.m. and Wednesdays at 8 and 9 a.m. For the past 15 years, Julie has been teaching Group Fitness in the Chandler, Sun Lakes, and South Gilbert area. She currently has punch…

¿Habla Español?

Would you like to use and keep up your Spanish? Our group is informal, and our purpose is to have fun talking and listening to each other while improving our language skills. We discuss topics suggested by members and, when needed, we help each other with grammar and vocabulary. We encourage intermediate Spanish speakers to…

Singles Group Supper Club

Sylvia M. Lee Come one, come all to the Wednesday evening dinner club for singles. The group will now only meet at the Cottonwood restaurant on the first Wednesday of the month, for dinner at 5 p.m. and will gather at Palo Verde on the third and fourth Wednesdays of the month at 5 p.m.…

U.S. Military History: Unrecognized Heroes

Ross Dunfee When you hear your service-song played and you were in that branch of military service, please stand and be recognized. And so, the song goes, Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard, and now Space Force. In turn, veterans of each branch of military service stand, the audience appropriately applauds the veterans, and…

Word of the Month: Run

David Zapatka Reader Carmela Hopkins writes, “Every month I look for your column in the Splash. Have you considered an article on the word ‘run?’ You’re on a run. I mean roll.” There are more definitions of this word than any word I have researched. Here are a few. Run verb a. to go faster than…