Alan Friedman Cory Goodwin, a video journalist with FOX 10 News out of Phoenix, did a special report and interviewed Robson residents on Jan. 7 at the Casa Grande RC Flyers airfield. The segment was aired that Thursday evening during the 5 p.m. broadcast. Nancy Friedman, secretary/treasurer of the Flyers, along with her husband, Alan who…
Pat Mumy A bright, beautiful day for the annual Red & Green Tournament for Robson Ranch Ladies Golf Association. Forty-nine players were decked out in colors to represent their team for one of the most fun matches of the season. Members then gathered in the dining room for lunch as we waited for the results…
Nancy Friedman With a slow COVID summer, the guild started their demonstration classes again for the fall/winter season in mid-October. As of this writing, five classes have been completed along with two impromptu discussions. Ten classes were scheduled for the months of January and February with four needing to be repeated due to our limited…
Jacquie Fedie I often drove by the “Weaver Pioneer Cemetery” sign by the cattle feedlots on Peart Road. My grandmother’s maiden name was Weaver and I wondered if I could be related to the people buried there. A few years ago, I visited the Casa Grande Historical Museum and inquired about the cemetery and the…
David Zapatka As my friend Mike Schneider and I were discussing this quote from The Urantia Book recently, “Such spirit-born individuals are so unmotivated in life that they can calmly standby while their fondest ambitions perish and their keenest hopes crash; they positively know that such catastrophes are but the redirecting cataclysms which wreck one’s…
David Zapatka This ‘12-common-mistakes’ column recently began after playing with some very excited, highly motivated, new pickleball players at our community courts. After playing a couple games, this question was posed to me: “What should we do to improve and become 3.5 players?” Last month we reviewed the first two mistakes. This month we take a look…
Ross Dunfee While Presidents Day is a federal holiday, celebrated on the third Monday of February, it is not really a national holiday. Splitting hairs? In 1968, Congress passed the Monday Holiday Act for observance of Washington’s birthday, Memorial Day, and Veterans Day to be celebrated on a Monday, but the actual dates for the…
Nancy Friedman Mary Beth moved here by default in 2007. She had retired from a 43-year nursing career followed by a five-year real estate stint. She had also designed and lived in her dream home in the mountains of Colorado on the Arkansas River. “I had this incredible house of which I had always dreamed.…
JoAnne Gaudioso When it comes to personal care, we often get comfortable and complacent in our daily routines. We have our favorite products that we have been using over the years and suddenly we realize that we have only used the product out of habit. Although we may be comfortable with our routine, it is…
Carol Breen, Pottery/Ceramics Club Reporter Laurie and her husband, Wally, have been residents at Robson Ranch for 14 years. The location and quality of the homes helped them to select their retirement spot. They moved from Michigan where Laurie was an elementary teacher. Laurie is often found at the Creative Arts Center where she enjoys…