For 10 years now, Vera Shury, a certified specialist in exercise therapy and a fitness trainer, has passionately used her skills and love for helping people throughout the region improve motor skills to deal with Parkinson’s disease.

On April 9, 2013, the Oro Valley Police Department responded to the 13000 block of North Tom Ryans Way (Sun City). Officers were sent to the residence after receiving an emergency 911 phone call requesting a welfare check. Forced entry was made into the residence where two individuals were found deceased. The individuals are identified as Clarence R. Shaub (male, age 78) and Doris J. Shaub (female, age 76). Evidence indicates the incident is a homicide-suicide. Detectives are actively investigating.

“Regional collaboration is what happens when you think outside the box…By creating and taking advantage of opportunities for partnership, we have learned to extend our resources while redefining success and financial stability.”

Feeling like she wasn’t able to give all her help to the elderly, Senior Placement Advisor Andrea Blattberg decided to start her own business, which helps with the transition of aging seniors to different living situations.

You’ve retired from life’s hurly-burly. You’re in your 60s or 70s and the walls start closing in.  Retirement will often do that - slow life down and close you off from an active social life.  You end up, hour after hour, at the foot of your television either watching the soaps or increasing your anxiety about the future of the world by absorbing the clatter of “cable news”.  Life has become empty and you need to fill it up.

For the past few months, the big question for Sun City residents was, “Will it pass or fail?” On Jan. 31, the ballots were counted and the question answered - it passed. The proposed multi-million dollar fitness facility was approved. The new question is, “When will it open?”

Coinciding with the retirement of former Parks and Recreation Director Ainsley Legner, the Town of Oro Valley has officially hired Kristy Diaz-Trahan to take over the position. The former Recreation Services Division Manager in the City of Albuquerque, Diaz-Trahan began work on Feb. 4.

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It was a packed room at the Sun City Social Hall on Tuesday when Oro Valley Police Chief Daniel Sharp discussed community policing – a sign the residents of Oro Valley are not only interested in the topic, but already implementing it.

If you hiked from Tucson to Portland, Maine, down to Miami, then to Seattle and finally back to Tucson, you would still be about 800 miles short of how far Sun City Oro Valley residents Bob and Leslie Esparza have hiked.

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On Tuesday, January 22, from 1 to 3 p.m., the Sun City Posse will host a Crime Prevention and Safety Awareness Seminar at the Sun City Social Hall, 1495 E. Rancho Vistoso Blvd.

Known by locals as one of "the best golf courses in Tucson, Arizona," The Views Golf Club has 18 holes of spectacular desert golf with a unique Greg Nash-designed layout. The Views Golf Club has earned a reputation as one of the hidden gems in the Tucson-area golf scene. Speaking of gems, The Views recently received a GEM award from the AWGA for playability for women, customer service, merchandise, clubhouse/facilities, course conditions, and F&B.

The 13th annual Holiday Tree Lighting Celebration will be held this Friday, November 30, 2012 at the Oro Valley Marketplace, 4:30 – 7:30 p.m. The event will be emceed by KOLD News 13 Anchor Dan Marries, and the tree lighting will be conducted by Mayor Satish Hiremath.

Sun City Oro Valley invites all the residents of Oro Valley to help support homeless veterans. Sun City is hosting the sixth-annual Sock Drive, which benefits the Homeless Veterans Program at the Tucson VA Hospital.  

As Oro Valley resident Payton Davies competed in the El Tour de Tucson this past weekend, she had the thoughts of her husband and numerous friends and family on her mind, just as she did every day she trained and has done in six El Tour de Tucson races.

Last week, some of the fifth graders at Coronado K-8 School felt like Christmas came early. The Sun City Oro Valley Astronomy Club made it possible for every student in Rose Adamo’s science class to receive a telescope that they could take home.