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Don't fear the gym

BY CHRIS McDANIEL, SUN STAFF WRITER

For people who want to lose weight and get in shape, the biggest obstacle may be the fear of embarrassment when joining a new gym. Nancy Winchip, executive director of Yuma Family YMCA, said her staff welcomes one and all to come no matter what... Full story

Big band sound comes to Yuma

BY CHRIS McDANIEL, SUN STAFF WRITER

A Christian musician with a big-band sound who has performed for three U.S. presidents is coming to Yuma to headline a benefit event called "It's Got to be You." The event is a fundraiser for Crossroads Mission, which is planning to build a new... Full story

Rural mail carrier provides special assistance

BY WILLIAM ROLLER, SUN STAFF WRITER

Neither rain, wind, nor scorching heat, will stop Yuma's rural mail carriers from delivering to Foothills residents who cherish that vital link to the daily loop. Rural carriers have become like extended family to those living far afield from... Full story

Woman vet selected as marshal of parade

BY CHRIS McDANIEL, SUN STAFF WRITER

The focus of the 2009 Veterans Day parade will be on the women who serve in the armed forces. That is why Yuma resident Maria Currie, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, has been selected as grand marshal for the parade. For Currie, who was on active... Full story

Benefit to help local musician battling cancer

BY DARIN FENGER, FEATURES EDITOR

A veteran musician known for playing at charity events around Yuma County is now battling cancer and will finally get paid back Saturday. Musician friends and relatives are putting together a barbecue benefit for Kenny Baughman. Organizers say... Full story

Yuman shares Day of the Dead experience

Once a year people in Mexico beckon spirits of the dead to return home for just a day, luring loved ones back with offerings of delicious food and extravagantly colorful altars. Day of the Dead, which reaches back thousands of years into Mexico's... Full story

Man recalls days of service, camping

BY JAMES GILBERT, SUN STAFF WRITER

For more than 35 years now, a group of friends who all served together in the military have been coming back to Yuma every year to go camping in the Kofa Desert.As part of the camping trip this year, those friends, and some of their family members,... Full story

Yuma Youth Choir to perform Nov. 14

BY DARIN FENGER, FEATURES EDITOR

The Yuma Youth Choir wants to take music lovers "Around the World in 80 Minutes," showcasing revolutionary music both old and new, that changed the world. The audience will be transported to Africa and Europe and treated to diverse musical styles... Full story

Review: British youth at the crossroads

BY MICHAEL MILLER, SPECIAL TO YUMA SUN

Somers Town is an area of central London at the crossroads among major rail lines to the rest of the country. Long past its prime in the glory days of Empire, the area had fallen into cultural decay - until recently, when one of its stations again... Full story

The Dunes Bar celebrates hip-hop

BY CHRIS McDANIEL, SUN STAFF WRITER

For the most part I have never been into hip-hop, but when it is presented in an entertaining and informal way, even I can get jiggy with it. My friends Jonathan "First Person I" Porter and Fausto "Legal Alien" Lopez invited me last week to come... Full story

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