Bill Starr Sonoran Retractables has been a leader in the customized outdoor shade business for over a decade in the Arizona market. We maintain the highest quality of Italian engineered and designed retractable awnings and screens. Sonoran Retractables has seen an incredible boom in louvered pergolas. With our manufacturer and shade consultants, we now have a system…
Ross Dunfee The ink was barely dry on the Declaration of Independence. The thirteen British Colonies, in their view, were no longer a part of Great Britain, but they also were not conjoined by any body of law. On June 12, 1776, the day after appointing a committee of five to prepare the Declaration of Independence,…
Carole Jae Lennartson Babbitt Carole Jae Lennartson Babbitt, a loving wife, sister, mother, and grandmother, a resident of PebbleCreek in Goodyear, Ariz., passed away peacefully at age 78, early Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020. Stricken with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, Carole had spent the past 13 months in a beautiful assisted living home in Surprise, Ariz.—visited…
Fred Dresser The PebbleCreek Senior Softball Association (PCSSA) lost one of their finest in November. Dave Gasch was one of those individuals who played the game of softball like he lived his life. Dave loved the game and always appreciated the other players in the league. You would never hear an unkind word from him, truly a first-class gentleman.…
Jim Ellison, President, Pet Companions Club Hi, my name is Bobby, but my friends call me Bob. My dad, Ed Raker, and my mom, Lynn Jacobson, moved to PebbleCreek with me in 2015, and we like it here. It’s great how they built all these beautiful trails, one going right behind my house, just for…
JoAnne Gaudioso What Is Your Immune System? With the responsibility of protecting your body from illness and disease, your immune system is one of the most important components of your overall health. This complex network of cells, tissues, and organs works together to fight off fungi, bacteria, parasites, and other microbes while maintaining healthy tissue.…
Richard Shildt, M.D., Medical Oncologist, PebbleCreek Resident A call from Health Awareness Project (HAP) soliciting you to order a “free cancer detection test” is a scam according to the Better Business Bureau, AARP, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The caller, or email, will tell you the free test can detect whether or…
David Zapatka Dear friend and Wisdom Seeker moderator, Ellen Engel, suggested the word jeremiad for this month’s WOTM. Jeremiad: noun jer·e·mi·ad | ˌjer-ə-ˈmī-əd, -ˌad 1. a prolonged lamentation or complaint 2. a cautionary or angry harangue. 3. a long, literary work, usually in prose, sometimes in verse, where the author bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a…