Category: June 2015

Dream Lover: A salute to Bobby Darin

The HOA presents “Dream Lover,” a salute to the music of Bobby Darin on Friday, August 14, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. in the clubhouse auditorium; the cost is $26 per person. Moving effortlessly between genres with his smooth vocals, electrifying stage presence and trademark charm, no entertainer in history has defied categorization quite like Bobby…

Fellowship at the Ranch

It’s difficult for us. We have such a childlike limited view of time and space; we don’t understand and can’t comprehend the vastness of our universe. The sheer distances involved in interstellar space are seen more through science fiction than science. The entertainment industry has offered us “Beam me up, Scotty,” and “wormholes” for space…

Don’t rain on this walkabout

Steadfast walkers in spite of the recent spate of thunderstorms

Vicki Baker Rain, rain, go away…and it did just that for the Living Well Walkabout on Saturday, April 25. Over the past week, just as we thought it was warming up, Mother Nature decided to send a downpour of rain. But on this weekend morning bright sunshine and mild temperatures met the 11 walkers at…

HOA Trivia Night

First place team, Sprigs; Sponsor Philip Leibham: Rich and Kathy Marsh, Dale and Darla Mahan, Sue and Don Hebert, Greg Pettus and Connie Bjella

Althea Parent The second HOA Trivia Night for 2015 was another big success. We had 20 playing teams and two spectator teams; all those who attended had a great time. Teams had eight members, which either helped or hindered with getting the answers. It’s always best to go with your gut, but some teams would…

Memorial Day at Robson Ranch

Rodney Hess (left) with his family, mother, and relatives by the brick honoring his father, A1C Patrick Hess.

Charles Runner The unrelenting rain finally stopped and permitted the Support Our Troops flag team to install 185 median flags from the main gate to the Veterans Park. At 10:00 a.m. over 140 residents and guests gathered at the Robson Ranch Veterans Park to honor our veterans, including the 1,344,000 that made the ultimate sacrifice,…

Robson residents go digital!

Lyn Kosmak, Bob Brown and Carole Johnston find it’s easy to sign up for a Denton library card and you don’t need to leave the ranch! Just bring photo ID. Denton library staff Dee Brown and Parker Stalls registered them for cards right at Robson Library. Robson library volunteer Susan Wells is on the right.

More Robson readers are going digital! E-reader training attendees enjoy reading digital books, paperbacks and hardbacks. Residents use all kinds of devices: iPads, new Samsung Galaxy tablets, Nooks and Kindles and have questions. To answer those questions, the Robson Ranch Library Board requested Denton Library provide e-reader training and Denton library cards. Robson residents are…

Kiwanis Club helps two deserving students

Carol Raushauser, Almas Ali and Jim Galbraith

Larry Varnes Since 2009 the Kiwanis Club of Robson Ranch has awarded scholarships to deserving students attending TWU and UNT. Over these years we have given 14 scholarships to help deserving students who have excelled academically, have provided community service and have demonstrated leadership skills. This year is no different. A review committee comprised of…

A toast to the endurance of Texas wines

Nancy and Pete Toppan

Texas is one of the oldest wine growing states in the U.S. with vines planted here more than a hundred years earlier than California or Virginia. The advent of the Temperance Movement and Prohibition virtually eliminated the Texas wine industry, which did not experience a revival until the 1970s, beginning with the founding of Llano…

Tabs, tabs and more tabs

Kiwanis Club of Robson Ranch President Carol Rauhauser and her husband Bill who have spearheaded this project from the very beginning.

Kiwanis is still at it…we are ready to take 20 buckets of tabs down to the Ronald McDonald House in Fort Worth to help this wonderful organization that is all about kids who are in need of medical help. With these 20 buckets, the Kiwanis Club of Robson Ranch and the residents of Robson Ranch…