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Pumpkin Time in the Pottery Room

Jeff Wilson The Pottery/Sculpture Club is fortunate to have the very talented and popular instructor, Ane Aune. Much time goes into preparation for each class, and the end result proves it. Students’ work is intricate, colorful, and beautiful. Examples of pumpkin sculptures will be on display throughout the holidays. All are invited to come to…

Calendar Girls Opens This Month

Laurie Farquhar Have you got your tickets for PebbleCreek Players’ upcoming production, Calendar Girls? This hilarious and heartwarming comedy opens later this month, and ticket sales have been brisk, so don’t wait too long to reserve your seats. Calendar Girls opens Wednesday, Oct. 27 and runs only four nights to Saturday, Oct. 30. All tickets are $16.50,…

Carolyn Suttles: AGA Senior Champion

Carole Schumacher Carolyn Suttles once again represented PebbleCreek in the AGA Women’s State Senior Stroke Play Championship, Aug. 31 through Sept. 2, at Superstition Mountain Golf Course. Ladies competed from all over the Valley. Carolyn won first place net in the Masters Flight and first place in the overall combined Legends and Masters Flight.

Inspiring Enthusiasm: Welcome to Beginning Pottery

Jeff Wilson The beginning pottery class is the essential class for learning the tools and techniques for making any handmade clay project. The beginning class always makes three to five beautiful projects, including an embossed bowl, a luminaria or brush/utensil pot, a traditional Japanese-style bottle with a sculptural spout, and unique and creative scrap bowls.…

Pickleball Club Social Benefits Students

Kathryn Villeneuve A big win for both PebbleCreek pickleball players and for students at Eliseo C. Felix Elementary School during the Pickleball Club’s 4th of July Social. For over 175 members, there was an abundance of fun, play, and food. For the teachers and students of the elementary school, our members donated a huge amount of school…

Calendar Girls Coming in October

Laurie Farquhar The Renaissance Theater is open again, and PC Players will be the first resident performing arts group to “tread the boards” when they present the heartwarming comedy Calendar Girls this fall. Calendar Girls is based on the true story of a group of older women in England who posed nude for a calendar in order…

Cool Hiking in the Grand Tetons

Lynn Warren While Phoenix temperatures were consistently hitting triple digits, three Hiking Club couples headed north for a week in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park and enjoyed great weather, with temperatures topping out around 80 degrees. If you haven’t been to the Tetons, the mountains are magnificent and offer great hiking. On June 28,…

Summer Lunch and Learn Launches in August

Patricia Ingalls Lifelong Learning plans to launch a new, free, four-part program that begins in August to engage PebbleCreek residents, no matter where they’re spending the hot-weather months. Summer Lunch and Learn invites registered participants to bring their own lunches to the LLL Center, where they eat together for 15 minutes, followed by a 45-minute,…

Christian Men’s Fellowship Renews Outreach at Food Shelf

Curt Zimmerman Outreach efforts were renewed recently by the Men’s Christian Fellowship of PebbleCreek, as volunteers traveled to St. Mary’s Food Bank in Surprise. COVID-19 restrictions on travel and indoor access to facilities has interrupted the annual outreach effort until recently. The contingent spent a busy and rewarding three hours sorting food items, packing food baskets,…