Let me introduce myself. I’m Paula Gorbutt, a West Valley native and Medicare navigator. I was born and raised in the Avondale/Goodyear area and attended high school at Agua Fria. Aside from a few brief years in Texas, Utah, and California, I’ve lived here most of my life. My husband of more than 36 years…
Donna Gillen On Nov. 13, our tournament director, Aquine Jackson, coordinated a Turkey Shoot tournament, along with a canned food drive to benefit St. Mary’s Food Bank. As luck would have it, the day was bright, the temperature perfect, and the newly resurfaced courts were ready for intense action. There were 14 teams competing for…
Muriel Hiller Just Folks Association of PebbleCreek held its annual Kwanzaa Celebration on Monday, Dec. 6, in the Tuscany Ballroom with 180 masked people in attendance. As has been the practice, the celebration included a buffet breakfast. This year’s program included an African Marketplace where handmade artifacts from Ghana were sold throughout the three-hour celebration.…
Linda Rowe Who knew that PebbleCreek quilter Carole Schumacher was a cow lover? It started when she was a teenager spending summers at her uncle’s Chesapeake, Va. dairy farm. Rising at 4 a.m. every morning, she washed 70 Herford cows’ udders and repeated the process each evening. Carole’s husband, Ken, was a North Dakota farm…
Jeff Wilson What could be more interesting than a beautiful, handmade clay object? A beautiful, handmade clay object that makes a nice sound when shaken. So, a free one-day class to make beach stone rattles was offered to pottery club members. More one- and two-day classes will be taught in 2022. By joining the Pottery/Sculpture…
Your PebbleCreek Ballroom Dance Club invites you to their Black & White Dinner/Dance on Feb. 19. What a night—dinner and then the sounds of the Encores Big Band, a 15-piece band that includes three PebbleCreek members: Jeff Buda (director of the PebbleCreek Big Band), Howard Brodbeck, and David Skersick. This annual event has proven how…
The Friday Gimme Golf Girls celebrated their annual Christmas party at the home of Gayle Hubbard (Mrs. Santa) on Dec. 10. Her helper elves were Maria Murray and Lynn Grice. After playing golf that morning, lunch was served. It was chicken pot pie, spinach and Caesar salad, along with white cake. The Gimme Girls collected…
Suzanne Rambach, PCIAC Public Relations Director Twenty members of the Irish American Club gathered at the Tailgaters on Estrella Parkway on Wednesday, Dec. 8, for a wonderful dinner, drinks, and great conversation. The food was served hot and everyone really enjoyed the evening. It was a great opportunity to meet people!
Chapter P members will begin selling delicious Butter Braids toward the end of January. You will be able to purchase from a TTT Chapter P member directly, at the kiosk desk in the Eagle’s Nest Clubhouse, or directly online. Notices will be on the egroup to remind you. The Butter Braids will cost $13 and…
Sharon Hadley PebbleCreek Pickleball Club is one of the largest pickleball clubs in the country with over 1,400 members. What that affords us is great competition among our members, but it also prepares our members to compete at the highest levels. From Dec. 7 to 14, PebbleCreek Pickleball Club had 20 of our members compete…