Library Preparing for Used Book Sale on March 14

Library Preparing for Used Book Sale on March 14

“Little Shop of Horrors” Wowed With Music and Puppetry

Robson Ranch Ladies Social Club News

Fine Arts Guild Opens the House

Features, February 2022

U.S. Military History: U.S. Navy Flag, Seal, and Song

Ross Dunfee Flag—What do you think of by reading the following list: Fluked, Admiralty, Stockless, Grapnel, Herreshoff, Northill, CQR, Delta, Danforth, and Bruce? If your answer was “various kinds of anchors,” you are correct. The first (unofficial) flag of the Continental Navy, called the Infantry Battalion Flag, was adopted in December 1864. It consisted of a…

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Features, February 2022

Word of the Month: Chicane

David Zapatka The Tour de France is one of the greatest sporting spectacles of the year. I love watching the drama and triumph. While watching the broadcast, I heard a commentator describe the upcoming chicane in the course and knew immediately that “chicane” would be my next word of the month. Chicane verb chi·cane | shi-ˈkān , chi- 1. to…

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Sports, February 2022

Softball Player Profile: Allie Woodcock

Allie Woodcock

Ken Muhlbeier Because his father was a prolific boxer and had no love for team sports, Allie Woodcock was first encouraged and instructed in the pugilistic arts. Soon, other boys in their Norfolk, Va., neighborhood were showing up for instructions and sparring sessions. When neighborhood mothers became aware of what their youngsters were dabbling in,…

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Clubs & Classes, February 2022

Spreading Good Cheer

Volunteers with wrapped gifts for local seniors.

Jeana Capel-Jones and Nils Johnson During the holiday season, the Fine Arts Guild partnered with Casa Grande’s Art Mobile to bring some cheer to some 200 seniors in the local communities of Eloy and Casa Grande. The Fine Arts Guild collected shoeboxes, toiletries, and art supplies to distribute to seniors who are less fortunate. Thank you…

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Generals, February 2022

Christmas Blessing

Becky Sundin with a bag of women’s jackets

This past Christmas season, Rock Springs Church set aside each Sunday in December for our people to bring coats and blankets to give to Regeneration Church in Ocean Beach, Calif. Rock Springs has partnered with Regeneration Church for the past six years as they seek to reach out to the broken and drug addicted street…

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Clubs & Classes, February 2022

Christmas Line Dance Party

The “staff” of the classes—Kathy, CJ, Ursula, Scott, Dawn, and Annie

On Thursday, Dec. 16, from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Robson Ranch Hermosa Ballroom, the Line Dance Club held its first annual Christmas Dance Party. All Dance Club members were invited to attend; and if a nonmember wanted to attend, the price was only $5. The club provided pizza and wine for all dancers…

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