Category: October 2018

Spanish Conversation Group update

This fun, friendly and lively conversational Spanish group meets each Wednesday from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. in the Ocotillo Room of the Arts and Crafts building at Oakwood Country Club. We discuss a wide variety of topics in an informal setting and assist each other with grammar and vocabulary. Sun Lakes residency and Spanish fluency…

Calling all singers

  Jim McCutcheon Rehearsals for the SunBird Singers Christmas concerts will begin October 15 at 3:00 p.m. in the ballroom. If you are a returning member, please arrive about 15 minutes prior to then to get your music and register as a member. If you would like to join the Singers as a new member…

Come play “Rattlesnake” Golf

  The Snakes play a modified Stableford golf format currently on Tuesday (randomly assigned team competition) and Wednesday (individual competition) afternoons. We normally have a season of games from November through March, and then the group hibernates during the summer season. Stableford is a golf format where points are assigned according to your stroke score…

Ponytail news

  We meet on Saturdays in the Lakeview Room which is located on the second floor by the Pro Shop. We start playing at 12:30 p.m. There is no fee – playing is free. PonyTail is a form of Hand and Foot, only a little more detailed. Come and join us and please arrive earlier…

Art Club season resumes

  Sharon Eade October is always such a fun month in our wonderful Sunbird Art Club. It is so fun to reunite with each other as we return from our various homes away and we begin planning for another season of learning and creating art. We are so lucky to have such a talented group…

Come play horseshoes!

  Hi, Horseshoers! It’s that time again! We will start playing on Wednesday, October 3, 2018, at 9:00 a.m. and continue through December 2018. All are welcome to play – we need players! If you have questions, please call Jim Jerome at 480-802-0282.

Energy and chair yoga October schedule

  Experience the benefits of Energy Yoga with Paullene. Classes are held in the Navajo Room, which is on the third floor of SunBird Golf Resort. Mornings: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 7:45 to 8:45 a.m. Afternoons: Tuesday and Thursday, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. – No afternoon classes on Mondays Cost: Make a donation. Chair Yoga:…

Addendum to the Irish Club news

  Mary Pilon Attention Members: Your sterling journalist made an error in September’s issue of SunBird News. Our October meeting will be held at 5:00 p.m., not 6:00 p.m. At this writing, it’s unclear whether or not it will be held in the ballroom. If so, we are not able to BYOB, as you all…

Line Dancing with Judee

  Judee Curtis When you have the “hiccups” and they stop, you are happy to have this inconvenience go away. When “critical life hiccups” happen and you can finally get back to a life that you can enjoy and be active, it is a “MIRACLE!!” It’s a blessing to have the technology to “fix you,”…

SunBird Yarn Club

  The SunBird Yarn Club meets each Wednesday morning at 10:00 a.m. in the Hopi Room. If you are learning and your first attempt to crochet a dishcloth turned into a triangle, or if you are experienced and can teach us intarsia and mosaic knitting, we want you. We share advice and patterns, exchange yarn…