Category: December 2015

Social Events

DJ/Karaoke with Jamal Fridays, December 4, 11 and 18 from 6:00–9:00 p.m. Bring your dancing shoes and your singing voices and enjoy a fun-filled evening with Jamal. Purchase your favorite drinks at the bar and purchase appetizers until 8:00 p.m. Farmers Market Monday, December 14 from 10:00 a.m-2:00 p.m. The Farmers Market will be in…

Attention: Red Hats!

Please join us at our fifth annual convention. We will be celebrating our return to the Oakwood Ballroom with a Mardi Gras theme. If you are a Red Hat Society supporting member, please join your sister Red Hatters for a day of fun and merriment. Mardi Gras costumes are optional, but please respect our royal…

Trips and Tours

Phoenix Zoo, Dinner and the Mormon Temple December 9; price is $99 per person The magical, colorful sights and sounds of The Phoenix Zoo’s holiday light spectacular will make your season sparkle! More than 3.8 million lights glow in a total of 700 sparkling displays. An early dinner at Organ Stop Pizza and a stop…

New Years Eve Party

New Year’s Eve Party Thursday, December 31 SunBird Ballroom 4:30-10:30pm, $50pp Join us for a New Year’s Eve party on Thursday, December 31 in the SunBird Ballroom from 4:30–10:30 p.m.; $50 pp. SunBird will celebrate New Years’ Eve this year by New York time. We will have a sit down dinner served at 6:00 p.m.…

SunBird Personalities

Curt and Marlene Almlie

Bob Neuman This interesting, active and delightful couple spent several years avoiding Midwest winters by renting in Sun Lakes. After a couple more in SunBird, they decided to purchase a home. The house required some work, but so what? Marlene is an interior decorator who once had her own shop. Their house is now a…

Saint Lucia Day in Sweden

Learn about St. Lucia at the December meeting of the Scandinavian Club.

Lyle Replogle The Scandinavian Club of Southeast Valley started the new season with a catered dinner at Sun Lakes Country Club in the Arizona Room on November 15. Our speaker was Avis Jorgenson, author of Early Danish Pioneers: Southern Arizona Territorial Days. It was a wonderful evening learning about those Scandinavians who came to Arizona…