Personalized objective assistance to seniors, the disabled and caregivers provided by volunteer counselors especially trained by the Arizona Agency on Aging Benefits Assistance Program. Services include: Basic information about original Medicare, Supplemental (Medigap) policies, Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (Part “D”), Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO’s, etc.), AHCCCS (Medicaid), ALTCS (Arizona Long Term Care System) as well…
As a team the Iowans pulled it off with a scrumptious supper. Special thanks to Shirley Clark for fixing the pork and her team of helpers who shopped, set up and served; to Betty Nobiling who lettered the names tags; to Dave and Neva Beech, Joanne and Gary Astor and Donald Nobiling who made sure…
Mary Sullivan As usual, we are enjoying fantastic weather at SunBird. We are truly fortunate to have mostly sunny weather! This year we are having the first SunBird fitness challenge starting in April. Everyone in the community who is interested will be given a sheet with instructions to measure distance, time and miles. There will…
Our February meeting welcomed speaker Marcia McGaw, a community educator for Gemini Hospice and her associate and ambassador of love, Bella, a yellow Labrador mix. Bella is invaluable to the program, as clients immediately warm up to her. She is great therapy for the lonely and despondent reciprocating freely with natural affection. Hospice provides custodial…
Dr. Marc Drake, Sr. Pastor, First Baptist Church, Sun Lakes “But the Word of God is not bound!” (2 Timothy 2:9). What powerful words from the first century that must never be forgotten here in the 21st century. The Apostle Paul wrote those words from a prison cell and it was part of a letter…
Bob Neuman Many residents of SunBird feel fortunate growing up in the ‘40s and ‘50s. Sure, there was a big war, but wasn’t the pace slower and weren’t people, for the most part, kinder and gentler? In my small town, a bank loan sometimes took only a handshake. Weren’t the majority more accountable, responsible, honest…