Category: January 2016

News from the SunBird Quilters

Nussy Merchant We meet every Thursday in the Hopi Room which is available to the group from 12:30-5:30 pm. Most of us work on our own projects, but we do have classes or group projects. We are planning to restart working on the AZ Blankets for Kids. A couple of our members have continued making…

Library program January 12

The Ed Robson Library in Sun Lakes is holding a fascinating program on Tuesday, January 12 at 1:00 p.m. entitled “Lavender Love: Herbs and Crafts for Adults.” It’s not just for candles! Lavender is an ancient herb prized for its culinary and medicinal purposes. Learn about the history and uses of this incredible plant before…

Garden Club news

Sue McCutcheon The Garden Club’s first meeting of the 2015-2016 year was held on November 13 in the Ballroom. This has been a challenging beginning for Jean Mrugala, the current President. She lost three of the people in key positions due to health issues, the Vice President, historian and home tour organizer. However, the membership…

American/German Club

Frank Nechvatal The club celebrated Weihnachten (Christmas) on December 22 with a dinner in the Horizon Room. The meal was ausgezeichnet (outstanding), once again a tip of the Hut to the Julie and her Horizon Room Staff. For the January meeting on Tuesday, January 26 we will celebrate Fasching, Fastnacht, Karnaval, the celebration that comes…

Bunco planned

Treva Christenson Come join us for fun and laughter on the first Friday of the month at 6:00 p.m. upstairs in the Clubhouse in the room across from the elevator. For more information call Treva at 480-273-8963.

Canadian Club news

Mike McMillan November 29 was our first activity for the 2015/2016 season, Canada’s (CFL) 103rd Grey Cup; 111 people assembled in the SunBird Ballroom to watch the game between Ottawa and Edmonton. It looked for a while that the eastern team, the RedBlacks, would take the Cup but that wasn’t to be as the Eskimos…

Sun Lakes Democratic Club to meet January 11

At our first meeting of the New Year on Monday, January 11 in the Navajo Room of Sun Lakes Country Club, 25601 Sun Lakes Boulevard at 7:00 p.m., there will be two speakers, Jan Terhune, the Executive Director of Matthew’s Crossing and Pati Urias of the Children’s Action Alliance. Jan Terhune will speak about the…