Esther Moeller always attends the Lovin’ Life After 50 Expo, but this year she enjoyed the event even more than usual. Moeller won a two-night stay at the Harrah’s Ak-Chin Casino at the expo Tuesday at Sundial Recreation Center; she was very pleased and planned to use the prize as soon as possible. “I always look forward to this,” Moeller said. “I learn a lot.” The expo, now in its 23rd year, gives seniors an opportunity to obtain the latest information on retirement, health care, leisure, travel, education and casinos from more than 70 vendors.

South Mountain Community College will host a Continuing Education Fair on May 3 to showcase the many non-credit, leisure learning courses the college will be offering this summer.

Some middle-aged couples will no longer have to wait as long to avail themselves of a life of leisure.

As Queen Creek's population expands and diversifies, town officials have found that recreational offerings and facilities must do the same.

The "sunburst" is back — at least for a few games. Tonight is the first of seven games in which the Suns will wear the throwback uniforms they had for 20 years (1973-92), featuring the western-style lettering on the tops and the familiar sunburst on the sides of the shorts.

The FBR Open, a professional golf tournament that attracts 500,000 spectators and a national spotlight to the region, marks its 20th year in Scottsdale starting today. The event’s two-decade run at Tournament Players Club of Scottsdale has refined the city’s image as a tourism and leisure hub.

The FBR Open, a professional golf tournament that attracts 500,000 spectators and a national spotlight to the region, marks its 20th year in Scottsdale starting today. The event’s two-decade run at Tournament Players Club of Scottsdale has refined the city’s image as a tourism and leisure hub.

It may be called Leisure World, but ongoing improvements and renovations at the 30-year-old retirement community are geared more toward active lifestyles.

Registration is under way for the annual Leisure World Charity Golf Tournament benefitting Mesa United Way, to be held Saturday, Nov. 10 at the community’s two golf courses.

Long weekends were made for leisurely hours spent on pleasures we’re normally too busy to enjoy, like ditching the usual mad dash to the grocery store in favor of a more laid-back food-finding experience.

Leisure World will host a golf tournament on Dec. 3 to benefit Mesa United Way, continuing a 35-year tradition of supporting the charitable organization. The event, open to all interested golfers from throughout the Valley, will take place at the Coyote Run Championship Golf Course and will include an awards luncheon, raffle and putting contest.

“We look like a painters’ convention,” Bob Sharkey of Leisure World told Tribune photographer Ralph Freso as the Mesa retirement community’s lawn bowling club, all dressed in white, hosted rivals from Venture Out for a match.

February 13, 2005