Brooks Scofield The Dolly Dressers are looking for new donations of dolls suitable for our Spring Program. If you have any 18-inch dolls, Cabbage Patch dolls, or Barbies you would like to donate to our Spring Program, contact us. We also take all kinds of rag dolls and stuffed bears. First, all our dolls spend…
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Generals, February 2025
Matthew’s Crossing Is Hoping We Will Be Their Valentine
If you walk into a grocery store with $1, you won’t be able to buy too much. But when you donate $1 to Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank, they can turn it into three meals! Peanut butter, soup, cereal, canned meat (tuna), pasta, and macaroni and cheese are the foods that are most needed by Matthew’s…
December 2024, Generals
Sun Lakes Sheriff’s Posse/American Red Cross to Hold Blood Drive on December 7
Bill Shedd The Sun Lakes Sheriff’s Posse and the American Red Cross will hold our next blood drive on Saturday, Dec. 7, at the Sun Lakes Sheriff’s Posse Office, at 9531 E. Riggs Road. Please be sure to schedule your appointment by going to our website at www.sunlakesposse.org and click on the link to pre-register.…
Generals, December 2024
Supporting Animal Rescues
Time and time again, we get asked, “My condition currently restricts mobility to volunteer. How can we support a rescue?” First, a little about rescues and volunteering: About the Rescue Dogs: Each rescue dog is unique, and each one comes from a very different environment, type of socialization, neglect, abuse, or even abandonment. Sometimes their…
November 2024, Clubs & Classes
Sun Lakes (Evening) Lions Club: Lions Provide Disaster Relief
What just happened? Hurricane Helene became the deadliest hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland since Katrina. Hurricane Helene struck on Sept. 26, and at least 227 persons have died, hundreds are unaccounted for, some residents and communities are isolated, and hundreds of thousands are without power from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Helene. From July…
November 2024, Clubs & Classes
11th Annual Thanksgiving Meal Drive November 17
For over a decade, we have joined together as a community and donated/collected enough turkeys and check donations to provide more than 1,800 frozen turkeys! We have since added Thanksgiving meal items to help our local citizens in need. One hundred percent of all donations and items support AZCEND and Children’s First Leadership Academy. Let’s…
Clubs & Classes, October 2024
Sun Lakes (Evening) Lions Club
Our club has been busy this summer serving our community. Numerous work days were scheduled at the shed to dismount the 300 flags damaged this year and remount 300 brand-new flags in order to be prepared for Labor Day and 9/11. A request for school supplies was made to our members, and enough supplies were…
October 2024, Clubs & Classes
See the Future Before You Cast Your Vote
Dwight Flatt Another election year is rapidly coming to a close. Your early ballot arrived in the mail, but you’d love one last chance to meet some of the candidates before voting. Well, that opportunity will present itself to members of the Sun Lakes Democratic Club (SLDC) at the club’s Monday, Oct. 14, meeting at…
October 2024, Clubs & Classes
Doll Collector Club Seeks Doll Donations
The Sun Lakes Doll Club is looking for donations of soft rag dolls like the Cabbage Patch doll, stuffed bears and other soft toys, the 18-inch American Girl-style doll, and Barbie dolls. We take what is worn, and after a day at our spa, turn her into something wonderful. We have a growing Doll Repair…
September 2024, Religion
Operation Christmas Child at First Baptist Church Sun Lakes
Pam Wortman It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, at First Baptist Church Sun Lakes (FBCSL), that is. Operation Christmas Child (OCC) ministry starts with the planning phase in January and February, but the official launch for OCC begins in March. As the months pass, the inventory of Christmas goodies comes rolling in, like…