Category: March 2021

Spotlight and Spatter

JoAnn Gantos After a week of multiple snowfalls, freezing and below freezing temperatures, along with boil water restrictions, the Sassy Stampers group was ready to make a beautiful card for February 2021. Thank you to Theresa Rosprim, project lead, for the card design, kit prep, and card kit distribution. The card is absolutely beautiful, and…

Mark Your Calendar for Kiwanis Diaper Drive

Kiwanis Diaper Drive, April 5—support the Rainbow Rooms of Denton County with much needed diapers for children going into foster care.

Kathy Perry The Kiwanis Club of Robson Ranch (RR) is hosting a drive-thru Diaper Drive in support of the Rainbow Rooms of Denton, Carrollton, and Lewisville. The Rainbow Rooms supply the needs of children going into the Foster Care system. These children are taken from abusive, neglectful, and dangerous home situations. Rainbow Rooms supply car seats,…

Warm Hearts in Freezing Weather

For nearly four days in mid-February, Texas was literally frozen. It was the perfect storm. The first time in memory that all 254 Texas counties were under freeze warnings. Boats froze at their moorings in Galveston. Minus 3 degrees recorded in Denton—a tie with our record low. And perhaps worst of all, when we needed…

Music Club is Lying in Wait

Front (left to right): Mike Simms, Bill Hackley, Jeff Miller, and Bob Wilking. Middle row: Suzanne Horne, Ann Madigan, Anita Thedford, Carol Heine, and Mary Fabian. Front row: Melba Beckham, Martha Gills, Barbara Leurig, Barb Wiking, and Linda Smith. Not pictured: Chris Dugdale and Fran Hackley

Frances Hackley, Publicity Chair The Robson Ranch Music Club is indeed lying in wait, to pounce on the chance to sing again! However, some members of the club did get their singing fix when the group went out and delivered singing valentines. Singing and entertaining is what these folks enjoy. It has been far too…

Pickleball Club Player Profile: Sherril Kerr

Dave Parker This month, the Pickleball Club would like to feature Sherril Kerr as the player profile of the month. Sherril is currently a 4.5 player and a certified IPTPA pickleball instructor, and certainly has a most interesting background. Sherril, how did you get started in pickleball? Pat Claytor got me started playing pickleball (in…

Word of the Month: Librettist

David Zapatka Commenting on the January WOTM column, reader Tom from Arlington, Va. writes, “Here’s a Washington Post article where your word of the month ‘jeremiad’ is used by the paper’s reporter Michael Scherer. In this case, the reporter uses it to describe the words of the chairman of the Nye County Republican Party in Nevada…

Ready, Set, Go! Kiwanis CAP Walkathon April 10

Kathy Perry Help support the Kiwanis Club of Robson Ranch’s Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Walkathon. All donations go to support the Community Partners of Denton County, which serve the Rainbow Rooms of Denton, Carrollton, and Lewisville. The CAP Walkathon will take place from 8 a.m. to noon, starting at the Creative Arts and Technology Center building to…

Bocce Is Back!

John Humphries Everyone is hoping that the new year will bring back the Robson Bocce League stronger than ever. Last year was a total loss for league play due, of course, to the COVID pandemic. Like many of the clubs and organizations here at the Ranch, bocce was forced to suspend activities. The board has…