SunBird Singers and Ringers Prepare for the Holiday Season

Spread the Joy!

Save the Date for the The ImproVables’ Fall Show Oct. 4

SunBird Lions Club – September 2025

Kare Bears Begins Season Under New Leadership

Shirley Jackson The first meeting of the SunBird Kare Bears will occur on Wednesday, Oct. 19, commencing at 1 p.m. in the SunBird ballroom. President Karen Volk will preside over the meeting with new board members Kay Davis (vice president) and Lena Craft, Patsy Covington, and Donna Moran (members at large). Barb Dunbar will serve…

All Aboard

Harry Huckemeyer The Short Line Model Railroad Club is rapidly tracking into the second half of the 2022 season anxiously with a heavy load and an expectation of some fun times, as there are some busy times not too far ahead. This is the time of the year when our area shines, as many of…

Word of the Month: Luthier and Oud

David Zapatka At a recent Weird Music concert at Stillwell Pianos in Mesa, I was pleasantly surprised to hear a traveling Belgian-Italian guitar duet playing the music of Gurdjieff collaboratively written with Gurdjieff’s musically gifted pupil, Thomas de Hartmann. I have had an appreciation for Gurdjieff’s philosophies since I began reading him in the early ‘70s…

Bridge Quips

Aces on Bridge If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss. —Rudyard Kipling

Women’s Connection to Resume in November

Sun Lakes Women’s Connection is preparing to resume their events on Nov. 10 at 10 a.m. in the Oakwood ballroom. After a spring gathering of the planning team to say farewell to two of their members, they are seeking new volunteers for the upcoming season. The first gathering in November will be a real western-themed…