Category: Features

Happy Birthday to you!

Eight in the morning — up and at ‘em Aerobics class at the Fitness Center with instructor, Ann Merrill (front row center).

Ann Merrill Carrie Mataraza Each spring it has become tradition for Ann Merrill’s fitness classes to celebrate her birthday with a potluck party. The date varies but the important thing is that all her fans can be there before the snowbirds leave because no one wants to miss the opportunity to say thank you to…

2 Your Health: Breathe better for better health

Jim Mulroy, PT, MPT, AZOPT Glendale Physical Therapist The average person breathes 21,000 times a day, 12-20 times per minute and ventilates six-ten liters of air per minute. The primary breathing muscle in our body is the diaphragm. Good diaphragmatic breathing uses less secondary breathing muscles which lessen the chance of developing neck, head and…

Word of the Month: Bowdlerization

David Zapatka Reading one of my favorite magazines recently, I came across an article titled “The Real Frankenstein and Its Author” by John Lauritsen. 2018 was the bicentennial of Frankenstein, the most famous work of English Romanticism. It was published anonymously on January 1, 1818. To commemorate the anniversary of its first publication, events and…

In Passing

Thomas W. Davidson Tom was born in the summer of 1937 at Mercy Hospital in Denver, Colorado. His parents were Norris D. and Ruth C. Davidson. Within Tom’s first year, he moved with his parents to Vincennes, Indiana to be closer to family after the death of his grandfather and to help with the family…

Pet of the month

Lambeau and Wrigley Wendy Bachmann Meet Lambeau and Wrigley! We are Packers/Cubs fans if you didn’t pick up on that! You might have seen us walking around the neighborhood; however, maybe not, because they are not very polite to other dogs, but do love people very much. We adopted the boys from Arizona Small Dog…

Artist of the month: Debby Bolton

The PebbleCreek Art Club is delighted to award Debby Bolton our April Artist of the Month. She has in her short time here become an important part of the arts community. Debby retired from Kia Motors as a Government Relations Specialist. Since then she and her husband, Gene, have lived in California, Prescott, Coeur d’Alene,…