Category: November 2019

Camera Club events

Left to right: Lynn Warren, Len Jeffery (London), Adriana Greisman, and Paddy Hoy paused at the Bear Tracks sculpture on an outing to the Scottsdale Museum of the West.

Lynn Warren The Camera Club PebbleCreek Woodcarvers Club offers presentations on a variety of interesting topics. October’s general meeting featured a presentation on natural light portraits, and the club conducted an outing to Oak Creek Canyon in Sedona to photograph the fall colors. For the November general meeting, the topic will be plant photography, and…

Calling all bargain hunters

Traci Baker, director of Community Activities and Communications Secondhand Treasures: calling all bargain hunters! Your friendly activities office is bringing our annual Second Treasures event on Wednesday, Jan. 22, with shopping from noon to 5 p.m. in the Tuscany Falls Ballroom. Sometimes things that some people no longer want or need are real treasures for…

PebbleCreek Lady Niners host Sun City Ladies Grand Niners

Second place team TFW Back: Rosemary Palmer (SCG), Monika Charlesworth, Barbara Hockert, and Maureen Plate.

Pam Grimwood “Gourmet Golf” was the theme for this year’s fun event with the Sun City Ladies Grand Niners. Golfers were greeted by volunteer “chefs” who got everyone’s golf bags and cart assignments squared away. After checking in, ladies headed to the putting green to see what was cooking—a putting contest with a twist. Each player…

Great ski season just around the corner

Lynn Warren Recent weather systems have already brought snow to many western ski areas, so hopefully great ski conditions are in our future. It’s time to dust off and tune up your skis! PebbleCreek doesn’t have a ski club but many PebbleCreek skiers belong to the Valley of the Sun Ski Club (VSSC), which is open to…

In Passing

Joana Cornelia Pietersma Joana Cornelia Pietersma, age 93 of Goodyear, died on Sept. 24, in Litchfield. She was born Aug. 6, 1926, in Medan, Indonesia to Cornelis Johan and Jacomine (Jentink) Derksen. As a Dutch citizen, Joana and her family were imprisoned in Japanese concentration camps in Indonesia during World War II. Though just a teenager,…

Election Essentials

Steve Harper and Karl Havlicek are the two candidates running for the fall 2019 election. The candidates are vying for a two-year, resident-volunteer position on the PebbleCreek HOA board of directors, beginning Jan. 1, 2020. A director’s duties and responsibilities are described in Article V, Section 2 of PebbleCreek’s Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions (CC&Rs), which are posted on…

Lady Nine-Hole Golfers assist Millennium High School Tourney

Three of the Lady Niners helping with Roar Classic: Bobbie Wagner, Norma Guillaume, and Nancy Preston.

Pat Kaer, Publicity Chair PebbleCreek Lady Niners assisted the Millennium High School girls golf team by volunteering at their annual Roar Classic golf tournament on Sept. 13 and 14. A big thanks to Lynn Bishop-Pidcock and Charlotte Krause for organizing the volunteers. The Roar Classic was held on the Tuscany Falls East Golf Course, and the…

2019 Folk Festival November 3

Some of the participants in the upcoming Folk Festival. Standing (left to right): Jack Mateer, Alan Hoxie, Mike Caswell, Holly Carrier, Gary Kotula, Dave Silverstein, Carl Halladay, John Flynn, and Carlos Taylor. Kneeling: Robert Hover and Gene Fioretti. Not pictured: Howard Brodbeck, Karen Follett, and Greg Davis. Photo by Jim Workman.

Holly Carrier Get ready for the 2019 Folk Festival on Sunday, Nov. 3, at 4 p.m. on the Eagle’s Nest patio, and in the lounge and dining room. This annual live music event is free to the community. This year, the festival will feature many of the performers from Showtime’s spring production of “This Land is…