Category: April 2021

COVID Vaccinations at Robson Ranch!

Lee, Gail, Michelle, Melissa, and Nicole

Nicole McCracken, Administrative Assistant The Robson Ranch CG Homeowner Association would like to give a huge shout out to Safeway Pharmacy, District Pharmacy Manager Melissa Molitor, as well as your very own homeowner Michelle Brubaker for allowing Robson Ranch to be a vaccination site. Almost 500 vaccines were administered on March 3, with the second…

Quilters Build Community During the Pandemic

Officers elected last March 2020 before lock-down orders: Blanca Sanchez, Diana Jones, Laurie Orendorff, Diane Mitchell, and Nancy Bonngard.

Sue Bart Thanks to the undying efforts of the Desert Threads officers, the new quilt chapter (part of the Arizona Quilters Guild), has continued to function and add new members during our ‘safer at home’ restrictions about in-person gatherings. Despite being less than three years old, we are building a community of friends. We have…

Papercrafters Keep on Giving

Jaine Toth The Robson Papercrafters are like little energizer bunnies who just keep giving. Following our donation of cards of appreciation to staff at the COVID unit at Banner Casa Grande Hospital, more cards expressing our gratitude for selflessly working through the pandemic were delivered to other deserving people in our community. Trudy Foslien dropped…

Softball Club News

Ken Muhlbeier With the winter softball season just completed, the Robson Softball Club is proud to say they were, once again, well represented in the Palm Creek League. With all teams and players participating under COVID protocols, the Robson softball teams played for the league championship at both the B and C levels. Although both…

Word of the Month: Negentropy

David Zapatka While reading Starseed Transmissions by Ken Carey, I ran across the word negentropy. I’ve always been fascinated by the word entropy and its meaning so I was immediately intrigued by this related word driving me to research it for this month’s issue. Entropy: noun /ˈentrəpē/ 1. thermodynamics: a measure of the unavailable energy in a…

Let’s Get Moving

Executive Board Kathy Devlin, CJ Azaria, and Linda Gayer (missing Carol Enright)

Linda Gayer Where can you talk, laugh, get exercise, and have fun? Line dancing! That’s where! No equipment needed, and no experience necessary. It’s opened to both men and women. No partner is needed either! The Line Dancing Club continues to grow in membership. Currently there are about 50 paid members. With COVID restrictions still in place…

Pottery/Ceramics Club April Featured New Artist

Sandy Fried

Carol Breen, Pottery/Ceramics Club Reporter Sandy and Kelly Fried moved to Robson Ranch four years ago from Montana. Having always wanted to try pottery, Sandy quickly registered when an orientation class was offered. That’s all it took and Sandy became one of the regular potters at the studio where she enjoyed meeting and learning from…

Papercrafting Club Member Profile: Linda Gayer

Linda Gayer holding scrapbook

Jaine Toth Creating a scrapbook rather than simply putting memorable pictures into a photo album, has more meaning for Linda Gayer on several levels. One is that when she looks back, she doesn’t have to wonder, “when was that taken?” or “Who are those people in this photo?” or “They look familiar but I just can’t place…

Library Collection Once Again Available to Residents

Laura Jackson In March, the Robson Ranch Library Exchange began accepting email requests for books from the collection. Due to the pandemic, the library closed in March 2020. Since then, the RR Library Exchange Team and other resident volunteers have been working to make the collection accessible in a manner that aligns with pandemic safety…

Softball Profile: Greg Schneider

Ken Muhlbeier Before he was honored as an Honorable Mention All American linebacker, and before he was named to the All-Century Team at the University of North Dakota, Greg Schneider was a concession boy carrying a cooler and selling ice cream sandwiches at his father’s softball games in Grand Rapids, N.D. “The problem was, I owed…