The award winning American Legion Oro Valley Post 132 is sponsoring its tenth annual charity golf tournament Saturday, August 31, at “The Views” in Sun City, Oro Valley. One hundred percent of the proceeds are to provide care and assistance to local homeless and at-risk veterans and to the families of the deployed soldiers of…
Madelaine Salas Monday morning, May 20 at the Mountain Vista School auditorium in Oracle, the atmosphere is charged with excitement. At the end-of-year awards ceremony, the school principal, Crystle Nehrmeyer, is doing what she does best: leading, urging, rewarding and challenging her students to become the best versions of themselves they can be. And the…
What is a reverse mortgage? Melanie Sedam, ReverseMortgage62AZ.com Reverse mortgages were originally created in the 1980s to help Americans age 62 and older convert part of the equity in their home into money that could be used during retirement. Equity is the amount of money you have made as a result of the value of…
Jim Donat “He plays a game with which I am not familiar.” Those famous words can also be used to describe Mike Williams. To begin, he hits from the wrong side of the ball. Yes, he is a lefty. He is also a member of the Sensitivity Group that meets every Monday on the golf…
Gail Blizard Word for the day: tacos (no translation needed!) Our May meeting was a party – a taco party, that is! An energetic team of club members, led by the always creative MaryJo Swartzberg, set out a feast and provided entertainment that made us want to shout, “¡Olé!” If memory serves correctly, a few…
Michael Sedgwick My home town of Portsmouth in Hampshire, England has been a naval base since medieval times. Since then it has been the premier base for the British Navy and occupied a strategic role during WWII by preventing Germany from moving its capital ships into the Atlantic Ocean via the English Channel. Portsmouth is…