GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS EVERYONE! I hope everyone has recovered from all the extracurricular activi-ties we had in January. February won’t be as hectic, however it will be just as exciting. This month we have “The Talent Show”, the play “Noah”, and a Ventriloquist Show In addition to our regular fun activities. I’m scheduling next seasons entertainment, so if you have an opinion about any of this seasons performances or bands or a suggestion of someone to bring here, please stop in and let me know, or email me at events@phoenixrvresorts.com I appreciate your input. Unfortunately, the Spaghetti Din-ner and Western Show scheduled for Friday, February 14th is can-celled due to the health of one of the entertainers. If you purchased your tickets please bring them back into the Activities Office so I may refund your money. We will try it again next season. I’m sorry for any inconvenience. VENTRILOQUIST SHOW: Wednesday, February 5th at 7pm Ventriloquist Jerry Breeden will be performing here. Jerry was here about 4 years ago and we re-ally enjoyed his show. He’s changed things up a little so it

won’t be exactly the same show as before. We will see his Variety Show with Multiple Characters, also Music Hits of the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, “Name That Song Contest”. Tickets are $7.00 each and availa-ble in the Activities Office and at the door the night of the show. RESORT PLAY: Last Season if you bought a ticket for the Resort Play you were to see two plays, but to unforeseen circumstances “NOAH” was not performed. Good News! “NOAH” Will be performed this season on Wednesday, February 26th at 7:00pm. To attend please bring a non-perishable food item to the Activities Office in ex-change for a ticket. You may do this the night of the performance however, I only have so many seats, so first come first serve. TALENT SHOW: Our Talent Show is on Tuesday and Wednesday, Febru-ary 18th and 19th at 7pm each night and performances are the same. Tickets are $2 each in the Activities Office and at the door the night of the shows. We may sell out! Come check out your talented residents. I, (your shy, crazy activities director) will even have an act in the show.

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Volume 41, Issue 5

ACTIVITIES OFFICE HOURS

TUESDAY– FRIDAY

9:00 - 12:00 ; 1:00 - 3:00 SATURDAY: 9:00– 12:00

ACTIVITY OFFICE PHONE

623-869-9224 events@PhoenixRVresorts.com

FRONT OFFICE HOURS

WEEKDAYS 8:30 am – 4:00 pm

WEEKENDS 8:30 am – 4:00 pm

OFFICE PHONE 623-869-8178

Website: www.PhoenixRVresorts.com

SATURDAY NIGHT DANCES: Feb. 1st – Come Back Buddy (Football Jersey/Hat/T-shirt night) Feb. 8th – Saguaro Sunset (Animal Print Night) Feb. 15th – Cactus Wine (Valentine’s Dance) Feb. 22nd – Cactus Country (no theme just come have fun) Feb. 29th – Classic Example (Mardi Gras Night) Our dances are from 7:00pm – 10:00pm in the Front Auditorium. Tickets are $7.00 each if pur-chased in advance in the Activities Office and $8.00 at the door. Please remember to bring your own beverages and snacks to the dances. Those of you that won Gift Certificates to VALLE LUNA Mexican Restaurant on 33rd and Bell I hope you enjoyed them. THANK YOU VALLE LUNA for your donation and to the anonymous donators donating for our additional door prizes. BINGO:

Thursday Evenings we enjoy BINGO in the Front Auditorium. Game sheets are sold from 6pm thru 6:45pm. Bin-go starts after the money is counted and divided between the games. We play 10 regular games and 2 Jackpot

Coverall’s, to play one game sheet of every game it costs $4.00. However, you may purchase as many game sheets as you would like to play. Must be 18 years of age or older to attend. So grab your bingo daubers (we sell them too) and try your luck, you may be a WINNER! KARAOKE & DANCING: Friday, February 28th at 6:00pm in the Front Au-ditorium is our Karaoke and Dancing Night. Even if you don’t sing well (like me) it’s a lot of fun. Bring your own beverages and snacks and join in! GAME DAY: We’ve had some fun playing FAMILY FEUD. We’re going to play FAMILY FEUD on Thursday, February 20th at 10:30am in the Front Auditorium. You can come and play or be in the studio audi-ence and watch.

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PANCAKE BREAKFAST: Our All The Pancakes You Can Eat Breakfast is on Saturday, February 15th and Saturday, February 29th , from 8-9am in the Front Auditorium. Tick-ets will be on sale in the lobby that morning for $4.00 each. We provide everything you need ex-cept if you want sugar free syrup, please bring that from home. SATURDAY MORNING SOCIALS: Join us at 7:30am for Donuts (.75 each) and Muf-fins ($1.25 each) in the Front Auditorium on Satur-days, February 1st, 8th and 22nd. We have FREE COFFEE for you as well. It’s a great time to visit with your neighbors. If there are any donuts and muffins left over, they will be available in the Ac-tivities Office for you to purchase 9am –noon. It’s been brought up to me by more than a few res-idents that 7:30am is early, especially on a Satur-day morning, they suggested donuts to be at 9am. So I am in need of a VOLUNTEER that will sell donuts and muffins from 8:30am till 9:30 or 10 in the auditorium. If I get a volunteer we will try it and stay in the auditorium later selling them. ICE CREAM SOCIAL: Please join us Saturday, February 22nd at 1:30pm for our Ice Cream Social in the Front Auditorium. Make your own Sundae for $2.00 each. GUYS AND GALS GOLF OUTING: This years Golf outing is on Wednes-day, March 11th. Sign-up on Saturday, February 29th at 9:00am in the Card Room. For early registration please see Bill P. or Barry B.

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Activities Continued

Sunday Morning Interdenominational

services are at 9:00AM in the Auditorium.

February 2020

Everyone is welcome to attend .

COMPUTER GROUP NEWS: Computer group meets Tuesdays at 10:30am. We’ll be in the room behind the auditorium for at least 2 hours. Bring your electronic giz-mos and your questions. If ques-tions occur to you during the week, write them down and bring them to class, ‘cuz you might for-get…. Your question just might be the hit of the day! We can do one-on-one help during class or come to your unit to help if that works better for you. We’re always looking for ideas to present to our fellow computer users, and we’ll try to make it en-tertaining and informative. If you have a topic you’d like to hear about, let us know by either con-tacting Doug at fuzzydoug@hotmail.com or Jo Ann (traderjo@gmail.com). CRAFT AND VENDORS DAY: Friday, February 14th is our CRAFT AND VEN-DOR FAIR! Vendors are in the Front and Back Auditoriums from 10am – 1pm. Our traveling KNIFE AND SCISSOR sharpening guy “WILL”, will be here this month parked in the Activities Director parking space. I try and have some NEW VENDORS at each of our events so please come check it out! Donuts go on sale by 9am in the back auditorium and our Hot Dogs and Nachos start by 11:15am. Hopefully the missing vendors from last month due to illness will have recovered and should be here this month. Since it will be Valentine’s Day, you can be sure to find something for your special VALENTINE!

TRIVIA NIGHT: This month’s Trivia Night is on Wednesday, Feb-ruary 12th at 7:00pm in the Front Auditorium. Prizes will be given to the team with the most points. We will play 5 rounds of 10 questions each, and a tie breaker question if necessary. Questions will range from easy to hard, so bring your thinking cap and a beverage from home and come have some fun! GENEALOGY GROUP: If you are interested in learning how to research your genealogy or just to visit with others interest-ed in genealogy, come to our groups on Thursdays at 1:00pm in the back auditorium. QUILT SHOW The QUILT SHOW will be on Tuesday, March 3rd from 10am -2pm in the Front Auditorium You may see all the community projects they have worked on in addition to all the quilts, etc. they have been working on this season. If you have friends and family that live outside of the resort they are welcome to come with you to see the show.

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Our Quilters, Sewing group and Swedish Weaving group have been doing Community Outreach work this season. They are making 400 pillow cases for the Children's Hospital. Since they are making so many they will be donating to other children's or-ganizations in the area. The Swedish Weaving Group have been crocheting the cutest “chemo” hats to donate as well. Thank you for DOING all that you DO to help and those of you that have helped iron the pillow cases.

The Desert Shadows Interdenominational Church will be publishing an updated Directory listing names, telephone numbers, and lot numbers of De-sert Shadows residents. Participation in the direc-tory is voluntary, so we need you to let us know that you are interested in being included. While the church is initiating this project, it is open to all residents of the Resort. Please contact Elaine Stauffer in Lot #124 to arrange for inclusion in the directory. Not sure of deadline date so please do it as soon as possible. Thank you!

Desert Shadows Homes for Sales: Call 623-734-3133 for more info

7 1998, Larger lot on wall, 2 car covered parking, W/D, 2 sheds, Gazebo, wood floors, New AC

$38,500

22 1985, On the wall, covered/paved parking, deck, add-on, wood floors, dishwasher, furnished, shed, W/D

$35,000

28 Partially furnished, covered/paved parking, new tile in shower, W/D, shed, newer fridge

$35,000

63 2 bedroom 1 ½ bath, Walk in closet, Laundry room, Large corner lot, covered parking, partially furnished

$74,900

158 1992 Nice single unit, furnished, covered parking, shed, deck with storage underneath, W/D in shed

$32,500

161 1986 Unfurnished, covered/paved drive, remodeled, W/D hookups, wood floors, addition, workshop, newer appliances, newer AC unit

$45,000

164 1988, partially furnished house with covered/paved drive, W/D, wood floors and shed

$29,000

186 1984, paved drive, private back deck, W/D hook up, Addition, Shed $32,000

329 1984, Completely remodeled, 2 bed/1 ½ bath, deck, new windows, W/D, shop, furnished, Wood floors, new AC

$68,500

434 1985, Remodeled, redwood deck, Paved/covered parking for 2 cars, W/D, New appliances, shed

$38,000

452 1987, large room addition. Laminate wood floor throughout, fully furnished, newer AC, W/D inside home, covered/paved parking

$39,900

484 Furnished, paved/ covered drive, large deck, remodeled with granite counters, wood floors, Large lot, newer AC and appliance, shed

$44,000

SOLD

486 1986 Furnished, covered/paved drive, Deck, completely remodeled, W/D, wood floors, Addition, 1 ½ bath, Shed, large lot, Newer appli-ances and AC, has large outdoor kitchen

$91,000

628 1990, fully furnished, Paved/covered drive, deck, W/D, shed, wood floors, newer cabinets

$38,500

FEBRUARY

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

**LEGEND**

FA = FRONT AUDITORIUM BA = BACK

AUDITORIUM CD = CARD

ROOM CF= CRAFT

ROOM

*WATER AEROBICS 8AM *LINE DANCING 9AM *TABLE TENNIS 9AM *SEWING GROUP 10AM *PINOCHLE 1PM *DARTS 6:15PM *MEXICAN TRAIN DOMINOS 6PM

*WATER AEROBICS 8AM *QUILTERS 8:30AM *TABLE TENNIS 9AM *CRIBBAGE 9:30AM *CHURCH COMMITTEE 3PM *BUNCO 3:00PM *500 6:00PM *AGGRAVATION 6PM *HAND & FOOT 1PM *BRIDGE 1PM *COMPUTER GROUP 10:30AM

*WATER AEROBICS 8AM *LADIES GOLF 8:30AM *BEGINNERS LINE DANCING 9AM *TABLE TENNIS 9AM *PINOCHLE 1PM *PONYTAIL 1PM *WII BOWLING 3PM *TEXAS HOLDEM 6PM *BIBLE STUDY 1PM

*WATER AEROBICS 8AM *TABLE TENNIS 9AM *SWEDISH WEAVING 10:15AM *CRIBBAGE 1PM *MEN’S BILLIARDS 1PM *BINGO 6PM *GENEALOGY 1PM

*WATER AEROBICS 8AM *TABLE TENNIS 9AM *LINE DANCING 9AM *BRIDGE 9:30AM *CHOIR PRACTICE 2:30PM

1 DONUTS (FA)

7:30AM

DANCE (FA)

7-10PM COME BACK

BUDDY (FOOTBALL

NIGHT)

2 CHURCH (FA)

9AM

3 4 QUILTERS PA-JAMA PARTY

5 *JERRY*

BREEDEN VENTRILO-

QUIST SHOW –7PM

6 BINGO

6PM (FA)

7 8 DONUTS (FA)

7:30AM

DANCE (FA) 7-10PM

SAGUARO SUNSET

(ANIMAL PRINT)

9 CHURCH (FA)

9AM

10 11 12 TRIVIA

7PM

13 BINGO

6PM (FA)

14 CRAFT & VEN-

DOR FAIR 10AM-1PM

DONUTS 9AM HOTDOGS 11:15AM

15 PANCAKE

BREAKFAST (FA) 8AM -9AM

DANCE (FA) 7-10PM

CACTUS WINE (VALENTINE’S)

16 CHURCH (FA)

9AM

17

18 TALENT SHOW

7PM

19 TALENT SHOW

7PM

20 *GAME*

DAY FAMILY

FEUD (FA) 10:30AM

BINGO

6PM (FA)

21

22 DONUTS (FA)

7:30AM ICE CREAM

SOCIAL

1:30PM DANCE (FA)

7-10PM CACTUS

COUNTRY

23 CHURCH (FA)

9AM

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26 PARK PLAY

“NOAH” 7PM

27 BINGO

6PM (FA)

28 KARAOKE

& DANCING 6PM

29 PANCAKE

BREAKFAST (FA) 8AM -9AM

DANCE (FA) 7-10PM CLASSIC

EXAMPLE (MARDI GRAS)