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…
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.…