Alisa Moore More than 60 members of the PC Democratic Club came together on Zoom for the club’s December meeting to hear from Councilmember Brannon Hampton about what’s happening in Goodyear. Councilmember Hampton also visited the club during pre-COVID meetings. Brannon was elected to his first four-year council term in 2017. His priorities as a…
Pam Kostakos A new year is starting for the Ceramics Club, and we would like to have you in our classes. Joining is only $10 a year, and for that you can make new friends, learn how to clean ceramic pieces, paint them, and take them home to show off to all your friends or…
Howie Tiger On Jan. 1, 2021, Ron Hagen will celebrate his 50th anniversary as a member of the Professional Golfers Association of America. Even though baseball was his first infatuation, the game of golf became his lifetime love. At age 12, Ron used to hunt golf balls near Jackson Park Golf Course in Seattle. He…
Pastor Bob Ripley “Onward Christian Soldiers” rings through my head as I think about what our PebbleCreek Community Church has been doing the last several months as a faith family. On Dec. 9, we had our first live service in nine months. We celebrated a Christmas worship gathering at the Bullard Wash Amphitheater behind the…
Kathy Sheard The Lady Niners celebrated a holiday golf outing on Dec. 8 with a four-person scramble. Golfers chose a holiday song and dressed their carts and corresponding attire to fit the song (there were a few red-nosed reindeers). Golfers all chose an envelope from the “money tree” at check-in, and they were all winners! It…
Traci Baker, Director of Community Activities and Communications Earlier this year, HOA staffer Trudy Shaffer began a donation campaign here in PebbleCreek to benefit deployed military soldiers. Her husband, Kurt Shaffer, Air Force Senior Master Sergeant, and member of the 55th CBCS squadron was deployed on a lengthy mission to develop a new military base in Africa.…
Gale Baldasare Saturday, Dec. 5, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. is the annual Holiday Toy Drive drop off! Please bring a new, unwrapped gift, cash, gift card, or non-perishable food item to Eagle’s Nest parking lot (across from Activities Office). All donations will be distributed by the Goodyear Fire Dept. in conjunction with the city…
Kathy Sheard It looked like the 24th annual fall Home and Garden Tour of PebbleCreek was not going to happen, due to the COVID virus, when the committee met last spring to begin their initial planning. Who would open their homes to strangers, and who would tour homes with a national health crisis looming? Thanks…
Cynthia Schwartz The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is an organization dedicated to the promotion and development of amateur sports and physical fitness programs in the United States. The AAU philosophy is “Sports For All, Forever,” and includes pickleball in the list of 44 sports that it supports. The AAU recently sponsored a pickleball tournament, the…
Charlene Romanos There can be no doubt that, when possible, viewing artwork is best done in person. However, with the COVID-19 shutdown of facilities here in our PC community, the Fall Show committee was able to procure FLITE Goodyear’s conference facilities to host the show. On Nov. 7 and 8, ticketed visitors attended the show…