Tag: PC Irish American Club

The Grand Emerald Ball

It is time for the Irish American premier event, The Grand Emerald Ball. It will be at the Tuscany Ballroom on Friday, March 17 – St. Patrick’s Day. Tickets will be $65 per person for members and $70 per person for non-members. You can also get tickets by calling Marlene Hayes at 623-535-9153. Music will…

PC Irish American Club 8th annual Golf Tournament

Suzanne Rambach The PebbleCreek Irish American Club is sponsoring their eighth annual Charity Golf Tournament on Sunday, March 12 at Tuscany Falls. This event will benefit The Southwest Lending Closet, The New Life Center and a high school scholarship. There will be a nine-hole step aside scramble (starting at 10:00 a.m.) and an 18-hole best…

Charitable donation

Suzanne Rambach The Irish American Club of PebbleCreek has three purposes: Education, Social and Charity. The members of the Charitable Contributions Committee are Ellen Jacob (chair), John and Carmel Flynn, Doyle Brown, Jim McKenna, Mary Petersen and Rick Vaughn. The committee focuses on charities that use donations directly for their cause and not for salaries.…

Irish American Club Home Hosted Benefit Dinner

John and Carmel Flynn, the HHBD coordinators, present a check for $1,600 to Leanne Leonard, the executive director of the Agua Fria Food and Clothing Bank.

Suzanne Rambach The Irish American Club held its 37th Home Hosted Benefit Dinner in April. These Irish traditional dinners are held to support the Agua Fria Food Bank. Members open their homes and make a delicious meal while sharing good times and talking with new and old members. It is a chance to socialize with…

PC Irish American Club welcomes new members

Suzanne Rambach The PebbleCreek Irish American Club is growing! At our monthly meeting in the Chianti Room of the Tuscany Falls Clubhouse on Tuesday, April 12, we welcomed six new members. Pictured left to right: Jim Neidhart, Jill Bushman, Barb and Dan Roberts and Tony Laspada. Pauline Dreuth was not present for this photo. Welcome!

PC Irish American Club donates to the New Life Center

John Pugsley, the president of the Irish American Club, Corine Raygoza, the director of the New Life Center and Ellen Jacob, the chairman of the PCIAC Charitable Contribution Committee. The Irish American Club has three purposes, education, social and charity.

Suzanne Rambach The New Life Center is a nonprofit corporation that provides a temporary shelter that is safe and full of caring volunteers to help female victims of domestic violence and their children. Most shelters will not offer services to mothers and their teenage boys, which keeps many victims in their current situation. NLC opens…

PC Irish American Club goes “pubbing”

The Spirited Lads performing at Irish American Club Pub Luncheon

Susan Kice If you have ever visited Ireland, you know that a cloudy, rainy day is typical weather. So Mother Nature graciously complied and contributed to the ambiance of the day by sending us a typical Irish Sunday morn—cloudy and rainy—for our pub luncheon on April 10. Saddle Mountain Brewing Co. in Goodyear was the…

PC Irish American Club annual golf tournament

Jan Kirk and Maureen Pugsley, Tarts-In-A-Cart

“Long ago, when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft.” “Today, it’s called golf;” Irish saying. The seventh annual PCIAC Charity Golf Tournament was held on Sunday, March 13, 2016, at Tuscany Falls. There was a grand turnout with all 216 slots filled, followed by a scrumptious corned beef lunch…

Irish American Club holds annual Emerald Ball

Co-Chairmen of IAC Emerald Ball, Marlene and Roger Hayes

Susan Kice The IAC’s annual Emerald Ball was fittingly held on St. Patrick’s Day. The Tuscany Falls Ballroom took on a lovely aura of green with decorations in keeping with the St. Patrick’s Day theme. Little spritely leprechauns could be spotted here and there around the room. The 195 people in attendance enjoyed a delicious…