Category: Features

Keven’s Corner – November 2014

Keven November is a great time to think ahead for the holidays and prepare your yard for the season. Just a little bit of work now will pay off when things get busy. Give Your Landscape a Bath Clean plants are happy, happy, happy. I use a quart sized hose end sprayer made by Gilmore…

Artist of the Month – November 2014

Antonine Koval is the Artist of the Month for November; photo by Sherri Van Schaick

Marsha Lyons The November Artist of the Month, Antonine Koval, originally from the Chicago area, is like many artists who live in PebbleCreek who let their art and creative energy sit on the back burner while they raised families and worked. This talented woman was drawn to art as a child, with art being her…

City of Cypress, CA honors PebbleCreek resident

The Cypress Show Stoppers Marching Band of 1966

Gail Kuester and Sheila Parker One would think the events that occurred in Cypress, California, fifty years ago were created in a Hollywood movie studio. In the early 1960s, while residing in Cypress, California, Clarence Parker invited 20 local youngsters including three of his own, aged five to nine, to learn the basic elements of…

Pet of the Month – November 2014

Lyric pretends to read

Irish champion “Lyric” of Ducktails companion dogs Hi, my name is Lyric and I live here in PebbleCreek with my mom Gretchen Liff. I traveled to Ireland before my retirement, where I earned my Irish Championship. After that I was trained to be a Service Dog. That was very challenging and I learned a lot.…

Veterans’ Voice – November 2014

Art Sloane The Arizona State Legislature needs to get involved in helping veterans in need by changing the law concerning tax credits in the Military Family Relief Fund which it established in 2008. Since that date almost seven million dollars have been contributed to help veterans of the last two conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.…

In Passing – November 2014

Daisy Mae Munn

Daisy Mae Mann Daisy Mann, a former resident of PebbleCreek and mother/mother-in-law of current residents Shirley and Rex Lambert, passed away at Genesis Estrella Center in Avondale on October 4 where she had lived for the past six years. She was 84 years old. Daisy moved to Eagle’s Nest in 2000 from Chino Valley, Arizona,…

The Wine Life – November 2014

Cabernet Sauvignon: The Blessed Savage Andrew McCreery Few things in the world of wine are as iconic and powerful as the mighty, long lived Cabernet Sauvignon. It is the power behind the left bank blends of Bordeaux, often is the Super in Super Tuscans from Italy and is the measure of excellence and elegance in…