If you are a resident of the SunBird Golf Resort and are looking for an activity that will get you and keep you in shape, the SunBird Tennis Club invites you to join our Beginner Program which will start this winter season, 2017. The SunBird Tennis Club is offering five FREE lessons to get you…
Norm Noble On Tuesday, September 12, Dr. Matt Strom, Asst. Superintendent of Instruction at the Chandler Unified School District, will discuss how they have developed a detailed strategic plan in order to guide the district towards the goal of becoming the best public school district in the nation. His office evaluates student achievement data, student…
Roger A. Mandeville As she recovers from an ankle injury (not associated with pickleball), Margaret McCathern, a retired physical education teacher and SunBird resident since 2002, is just itching to get back on the courts. Dubbed by this writer as the “mother of SunBird Pickleball,” she has seen pickleball grow from a new sport/activity with…
Jerry Lingen I’m back. The last time I wrote this column, I had said it was going to be the last time. At that time, I was filling in between managers. Now I am back because Mike Butler decided to leave us for personal reasons. I have agreed to take the position again and will…
Anne DeRose The Fifth Anniversary of the Patriotic Rosary was celebrated on July 7 at St. Steven’s Church in Sun Lakes, Arizona, with a special luncheon following at Cottonwood Country Club to recognize the multiple participants and the effect the rosary has had for peace and our Nation. “The Patriotic Rosary is prayed everywhere from…
In honor of the 100th Anniversary of the six Apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima that took place beginning on May 13, 1917, through October 13, 2017, to three small shepherd children, Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta, in a little cove in Portugal, St. Steven’s Parish will be celebrating the sixth and last Apparition with a…