🪨 Rummage sales, rocks and an actual Arizona cardinal? 🦜

Another Tuesday, another beautiful day here in the Sun City Communities!! ☀️ 🌵

Thank you to those of you who reached out with details about your club events!! I love hearing from you, and what is happening in the community that I may not know about. Keep those emails coming!! 🙏

COMMUNITY NEWS

~Taiwan Semiconductor Company (TSMC) has announced a further $100 billion investment to come in the United States. This is in addition to the $65 billion they have already committed to investing in their facilities here in Arizona. (link)

~The City of Surprise is seeking feedback with its 2025 Surprise Retail Survey. This is your chance to share your thoughts & help shape which retail businesses you’d like to see in the city. (link)

~The Sun City Posse has announced their annual open house, which will be held on March 22nd from 1-4pm. The Posse also has invited the MCSO’s Horse Unit and the agency’s Explosive Ordinance Device dog unit along with the Sun City Fire and Medical Department’s rescue and fire trucks, plus a NASCAR racecar & driver will be on hand. The Sun City Ukulele Club & the ‘Ramblin Ringers’ handheld bell club will be performing. (link)

~After a very successful inaugural event, The Sun City Home Owners Association has scheduled a spring Day of Service for Friday, April 4. This is a great chance to get out and help clean up the community. (link) Looks like they have not updated their website quite yet. Check back soon!

~Watts Family Maryvale YMCA has opened the first of its kind food pantry. Food is available for pick up by YMCA members, but officials say no one is turned away. (link)

~Pet owners, a large microchip company has closed their doors, and you may need to re-register your pet’s microchip. (link)

EVENTS

[Sun City] Congregational Church of Sun City is hosting a rummage sale on March 6th & 7th. (map)

[Sun City West] Desert Garden Church is hosting a rummage sale on March 7th & 8th. (map)

[Sun City] The Sun City Mineral Museum and Rockhound Club is hosting an event on March 7th & 8th. Join them for their open house and rock sale at the Sundial Recreation Center. (link)

[Sun City West] Sun City West Farmers Market & Craft Show. Every Friday from 9am-2pm. Open to the public & pet friendly. (link & map)

[Sun City] Sun City Farmers Market, every Thursday from 9am-1pm (link & map)

[Sun City West] Every Thursday through May, Photography West ‘The Camera Club of Sun City West’ hosts a brief club meeting & member presentations featuring their own photography. (link)

[Sun City] Turn the Page, the Bob Seger tribute band, will perform at the Sun Dial Auditorium on March 5th, as part of the Sun City Winter Concert Series. (link)

[Sun City] Hooter’s Blues Jams will be performing on March 9th, as part of the Sun Bowl Winter Concert Series. Food trucks are available 90 minutes prior to show time.

[Sun City] Sun City Posse has announced a blood donation drive at their headquarters on February 27th, from 8am-12pm. (link)

[Sun City West] Stardust Theater Movie Night is showing Wicked featuring Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba. March 6th at 630pm. (link)

[Sun City] RCSC Annual Membership Meeting will be held on March 11, 2025, at the Sundial Auditorium. (link)

[Sun City] Sun City Posse, in partnership with the Sun City Homeowners Association, is hosting an electronics disposal event on March 12th, 8am-12pm at the Bell Recreation Center Parking lot. (link)

[Sun City West] Tickets are now on sale for the St. Patrick’s Day Show featuring Kilted Spirit on Monday, March 17, in the Summit Hall at Palm Ridge. (link)

[Sun City] The Knights of Columbus Annual Frank Comainni Golf Tournament is slated for Saturday March 22 with a shotgun start at 8 am at Willowcreek Golf Course in Sun City. For more information call Andre Casabonne at (608) 633-0324

[Sun City West] Tickets are now on sale for the Sun City West Food Truck Festival on April 1st. Live music provided by Dawson Acoustic & Thaddeus Rose Band. (link)

[Sun City West] Tickets are on sale for the Bash with Sundown show on April 8th. (link)

[Sun City West] Easter in the Park will be held on April 19th at Beardsley Park. Tickets are free but each child must have one, registration begins on March 4th. (link)

[Sun City] Registration is open for the Midnight Madness golf tournament on April 12th at the Lakes East Golf Course. (link)

Have an event you want listed here? Please reach out!

ARIZONA TRIVIA

Last week’s trivia question was, ‘What was the original name of he Sun City Master Planned Community?’ There were 14 responses, and 5 of you got the correct answer, Marinette Retirement Community.

Sun City was opened January 1, 1960, with five home models, a shopping center, a recreation center, and a golf course. The opening weekend drew 100,000 people, ten times more than expected, and resulted in a Time magazine cover story. The future retirement community was built on the site of the former ghost town of Marinette. At first it was called the Marinette Retirement Community, but after a nationwide naming contest in which the winner would win a house, developer Del Webb selected the name Sun City. (link)

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

[Sun City] The Long Range Planning Committee is seeking volunteers that are Sun City residents and members in good standing, especially members who have City Planning and/or Masterplan experience, to serve on the committee. Please contact Jim Rough at [email protected]

[Sun City] After a very successful inaugural event, The Sun City Home Owners Association has scheduled a spring Day of Service for Friday, April 4. This is a great chance to get out and help clean up the community. (link) Looks like they have not updated their website quite yet. Check back soon!

Do you know of organizations looking for volunteers in or near the Sun City communities? Please reach out with details so I can add them to future newsletters.

REAL ESTATE

Deal of the Week in The Grand. This approved short sale is the exact opposite of most short sales and bank owned homes. This one is in great conditions with lots of upgrades, and it has the lowest price per square foot in The Grand that you can go buy today.

See all the details & pics here.

Market Update

Here is a snapshot of home sale data from February 2025. As a whole, prices are pretty flat and the time it takes to sell a home currently is greater than it was a year ago.

Real estate is a hyper local exercise, and painting with broad strokes when comparing one community to another is quite challenging. If you have questions about your community, feel free to reach out.

J.D. Manning, My Home Group, Realtor & Sun City Scoop Publisher, (480) 797-8975

Who is watching after your home while you are away for the summer?

Don’t take a chance, have a home watch professional look after your property.

Visit PhxHomeWatch.com to find out if home watch is a good fit.

CLUBS

The Sun City Mineral Museum and Rockhound Club is hosting an event on March 7th & 8th. Join them for their open house and rock sale at the Sundial Recreation Center.

Opened in 1990. the Sun City Mineral Museum is an extension of the Sun City Rockhound Club, which originally formed in 1963.

Over the years, the club has amassed an amazing collection of rocks and minerals, now housed at the Sundial Center. The museum has grown to include three display rooms with over 1,500 specimens on display.

The Rockhound Club participates in Sun City’s Arts & Crafts Festival on thanksgiving weekend and has a Rock Sale in March of each year. Specimens are available for purchase at both events and in the museum gift shop

Learn more about the museum & club at SCRockMuseum.com

The resident clubs are what make the Sun City communities so special, but there are literally hundreds of them and sharing all of the different club meeting & events in the newsletter is more than I can handle. It would be a mile long!!! 🤣

What would you like to see here? A club spotlight where you can learn more about one specific club and the leaders & members of that club? Club events open to anyone, not just residents of that community?

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RANDOM STUFF

My friend is an amazing bird photographer and he captured this amazing image of a Cardinal last week. He shares photos almost everyday of his walks in Arrowhead Ranch. You can see more of his images here, they are amazing!!!

Speaking of birds, have you seen the livestream of the bald eagle couple in Big Bear Valley in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California? They had two of their eggs hatch. This couple became famous in their steadfast pursuit of hatching their eggs, and it finally happened. You can watch along on YouTube. (link)

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From a hike last week at the White Tank Mountains Regional Park. If you have never been, its just a short trip west and it is worth the $7 admission fee. There are many beautiful spots that do not require much of a walk from the car. (map)

Thank you for reading, have an amazing week!!