Wes Akerman found a need in SunBird of assisting people who could use help and/or physically could not pick the fruit from their own citrus trees each season. Oftentimes, the citrus would fall to the ground and go to waste. A group of volunteers was organized a few years back to help resolve this…
Dianne Reed The 2018 Bocce Ball Marathon is complete. The competition was amazing, with SunBird residents showing skills they didn’t even know they possessed. From the second week of January through mid-March, 90 SunBird residents participated in over 900 games of bocce. The marathon participants were divided into four leagues, and each competing team…
Catherine Hammond On February 22, 2018, New Adventures in Learning, a lifelong-learning program, took a field trip to tour Intel’s dSpace. This outing was one of four offered for the spring semester. According to Mary and Rick Kenny, the organizers, “Staff from Intel’s Chandler Boulevard facility provided a tour of dSpace, which is Intel’s…
Norma Davis and Maddie Meyers Aqua Birds Water Aerobics classes will be in session 8:00-9:00 a.m., Monday through Friday, May 1 through October 31. Water workouts will include stretching, toning and cardio movements. Bring your water bells on Mondays and Wednesdays and a noodle on Fridays (no equipment required on Tuesdays and Thursdays). Stay…
Jeanette Cline Chaplain Colonel Michael D. Sproul will be the guest speaker for the National Day of Prayer on Thursday, May 3, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. in the ballroom of SunBird Golf Resort, 6250 S. SunBird Blvd., Chandler. Chaplain Colonel Sproul is the Air National Guard Assistant to Command Chaplain United States Air Forces…
Marianna Buescher The SunBird Pickleball Club had a fun end of season event and party. The group started open play at 8:00 a.m. A game of round robin was played for an hour and a half, and then the team adjourned to the Horizon Room to enjoy a delicious lunch catered by Julie Mathis…