Category: February 2021

American-Irish Club Recap

Mary Pilon, Publicity A very happy and prosperous New Year to all! I’m sure we all are hopeful that 2021 will see an end to COVID’s threat and the restoring of peace and harmony in our beautiful country. 2020 was quite a stressful year for all of us. I pray that in 2021 we will…

SunBird Lions Club Update

Arlene Block While SunBird Lions Club is following the rules and regulations during the pandemic, we have continued to help those in need. In November and December, we collected toys for the children at Hartford School. Several Lions collected foods and hygiene items for the AZCEND Food Pantry. Lion Carol Zittel and her volunteers made…

Footnotes from the Library

Lois Anderson With plenty of time on our hands, let’s go back to those “olden days” when we did a lot of reading instead of watching TV or our smartphone. SunBird’s Library is full of interesting material. We have two banks of shelves of Large Print books. They are in alphabetical order by author, so…

Bridge Results

Friday Afternoon Bridge Jim McCutcheon 12/04. 1st Gunter Deflieze, 2nd Barb Ott, 3rd Sue McCutcheon 12/11. 1st Peggy White, 2nd Toni Greisiger, 3rd Sue McCutcheon 12/18. 1st Gunter Deflieze, 2nd Beth Miller, 3rd Carol Dawley Bridge 12/02. 1st Carol Dawley, 2nd Toni Onyx, 3rd Karlene Garn 12/09. 1st Frank Nechvatal, 2nd Toni Onyx, 3rd Rose…

Almost Time for the Bridge Gala

Sue and Jim McCutcheon This year’s Gala will be held on Feb. 21, 2021, in the Horizon Room. Arrival time is 1:30 p.m. with dinner following cards at 5 p.m. Gala tickets are $5 and are being sold at Monday, Wednesday, and Friday bridge, but the last date to purchase your ticket is Feb. 15.…

Let’s Keep on ‘Truckin’

Harry Huckemeyer As we approach the second month of the new year, things appear to be “status quo.” No major changes to report regarding any major progress being made pertaining to the virus now affecting so many, and the current forecasts warn us all to proceed with caution as we lead our lives in the…