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Please Help Remove Stinknet

Young plant

Nancy Mumpton Stinknet is a fast-moving, invasive weed in Arizona. It has green “carrot like” leaves and rounded flowers. The leaves smell pungent. It can be allergenic. It emerges from November to April and starts flowering in February. Seed is easily spread by wind and traffic. It loves to sprout in the stones along the…

Paper Crafting Club Member Profile: Jaine Toth

Jaine especially enjoys making cards with unusual folds and shapes.

Jaine Toth “I don’t have a creative bone in my body.”—Jaine Toth’s plaint of her younger years. After attempts at sewing, knitting, crocheting, needlepoint, macramé—the typical handcrafts—and failing, Jaine figured she’d missed out on the arts gene. Eventually she caught the acting bug as well as the one for writing. Pleased to have these creative…

Vagabonds on the Road Again

Gene Bond, Wagonmaster After numerous rallies being canceled because of COVID, a group of Vagabonds headed out in their RVs in January 2022. On day one, Jan. 19, the members traveled to the La Paz County Campground located on the Colorado River north of the town of Parker. A total of 12 RVs arrived in…

Black and White to Gray with a Little Color

Nils Johnson Back by popular demand, the Fine Arts Guild held an acrylic painting class instructed by Nils Johnson. The class started with black and white color mixing to learn value, which in the art world is essentially how light or dark something is on a scale of white to black (with white being the…

Robson Ranch RC Club Profile: Jane Minish

Jane Minish

Bob Kehoe Among my auto racing associates in the Pacific Northwest, one stands at the top of the ladder. His name was Rolla Vollstedt, a decorated World War II veteran who returned home and became thoroughly involved with the sport of auto racing in the late 1940s. Rolla passed away in 2017 at age 99.…

Gourder of the Month: Kathy Foran

Gourd art by Kathy Foran

Martha Spillane Meet another gourd club celebrity, our very own Kathy Foran. Kathy and her husband, Royal, have lived at Robson Ranch since 2009. Within six months of their move to the Ranch, Kathy was seeing many transformations. She watched the construction of the Creative Arts Center, and she was thrilled when she found out…

Ladies Social Club February Luncheon Highlights

Kelsie Pate and Brandy Prescott, guest speakers at the February luncheon

Nora Shelton The Robson Ranch Arizona Ladies Social Club held their luncheon on Feb. 14 with 80 attending! Brandy Prescott and Kelsie Pate, aestheticians from the Chatty Shack Salon and Med Spa in Casa Grande, were the guest speakers. They provided information about the many kinds of skin care treatments that are offered at the…

Dancing Benefits Your Brain

Line dancers in action

According to Fred Astaire Dance Studio of Coral Springs, dancing makes you smarter. “It’s been scientifically proven that the only physical activity to offer protection against dementia is frequent dancing.” Reading has a 35% reduced risk of dementia, and doing crossword puzzles at least four days a week reduced the risk by 47%. Dancing, however,…