Category: June 2020

SunBird Garden Club Always at Work!

The SunBird Garden Club always is working and making excellent improvements to the community. This past month, the Garden Club and volunteers made beautiful landscape improvements with additional rocks and new plants to the landscaping on the golf course along Championship Drive just south of La Costa Drive. We sincerely appreciate all those who support…

SunBird Social Events and Activities

Wendy Weber, Lifestyle Director Greetings SunBird! I hope everyone is continuing to stay safe and healthy. It’s hard to believe that it is already June. By the time you are reading this, I am hoping that the clubhouse has begun to reopen (with restrictions) and that we are starting to regain some “normalcy” back into…

Pickleball News

Christina Riley The courts are closed until the HOA resumes normal operations. Look for summer hours to be published once the courts are opened up for our use! Hours will be available in the glass case and in the kiosk found in the copy room of the clubhouse. If you are a new resident and…

Post Office Update

Jan Griffin, Manager We are now open from 9:30 a.m. to noon, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday; closed Wednesdays. The SunBird Post Office would like to thank all of you for supporting us! We greatly appreciate all of you! Keep well and stay safe.

Energy and Functional Yoga

June 2020 Schedule Classes are held at the SunBird Golf Resort, Navajo Room, upper level. Morning: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, 7:40 to 8:50 a.m. Afternoon: Tuesday and Thursday 4 to 5:10 p.m. Energy yoga includes tapping and slapping the body to increase movement of blood and energy through the body. This slapping or tapping is…

In Passing

Marilyn June Palmer French

Marilyn June Palmer French Marilyn June Palmer French, 89, died April 11, 2020, at her home in Chandler, Ariz. She was born April 3, 1931, in Beadle County, S.D., to Bertha Hurst Palmer and Otis Clyde Palmer. Marilyn lived and attended school both in Beadle County, S.D., and Renville County, Minn. She married Vernon Lee…

PCE Grant to Christine Walters

Larri Templeton, Christine Walters, and Rose Saunders

Linda Reber P.E.O. Chapter EN of Sun Lakes was pleased to present a check to Christine Walters while “socially distancing!” Christine is a valuable member of our community here. She is currently working a part-time job, as well as volunteering in our area while she is working on her nursing degree. The Program for Continuing…

SunBird Lions Close Out Season

Fred Garmeson On April 22, the SunBird Lions held their end of season board of directors meeting. This meeting is required to close out their accounts for the year. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the clubhouse was locked down, so the meeting was held on Lion Fred Garmeson’s patio. Recommended social distancing guidelines were observed.…

Word of the Month: Tsuris

David Zapatka Friend Marty Minnich and I were discussing the coronavirus pandemic when he closed his email with this statement, “I hope you and I will see each other fairly soon on the other side of all this tsuris.” Marty loves words so he threw in “tsuris” at the end of his message. He’s a fellow “verbivore.”…

Bird Spikes

Wendy Weber, Lifestyle Director Are the birds making a mess on a light pole near your home? If you would like to request the Salt River Project (SRP) to install bird spikes on a specific light pole, you may send a request to www.srpnet.com/electric/streetlight-repair.aspx. You will need to provide the light pole number (it will…