Category: Clubs & Classes

Irish American Club news – March 2015

Irish American Club members enjoy another benefit dinner.

John Flynn Cead Mile Failte (100,000 welcomes) from the Irish-American Club. February events included a benefit dinner hosted by Gus and Nancy Gustafson, an “afters” at the home of Dick and Carol Gwilt, and a bus trip to the Duttons Theater in Mesa. March is a big month for IAC members, of course, and features…

PC Sanctioned Bridge

Receiving their Regional Master Awards: Mault Mathias, Otis Cross, Norm Jacox, Karen Klug, Carole Mathias, Vickie Thomas, Jerry Burch and Sue Gainer. Not pictured: Nan Perkins

Kathy Bergman On February 2 PebbleCreek Duplicate Sanctioned Bridge Club held their annual awards luncheon and meeting. Our bridge players work hard to reach their master point brackets and so a special congratulations to all who received awards. In addition, the ACBL (American Contract Bridge League) has two major Master Point Races recognizing those who…

Something for everyone

Nancy Herrem Do Craks, Bams, and Dots mystify you? Do you know when you are allowed to use a Joker? If not, that means you probably haven’t attended one of the classes provided by the Recreational Mah Jongg Club here in PebbleCreek. Many arrived in PebbleCreek knowing how to play the game of Mah Jongg;…

Bridge Results – March 2015

Non-Sanctioned Duplicate Bridge Gillian Greenwood Non sanctioned Duplicate Bridge is played in the Palm Room at Eagle’s Nest on Mondays at 12.30 p.m. January 5, 2015: N/S 1st Phyllis and Dan Hollihan; 2nd Darlene Finnegan and Patti Murphy tied Dennis Yakobsen and Pat Anselmo E/W 1st Gretchen McDermott and Rosemary Vana; 2nd Toni Say and…

PebbleCreek Dog Park  is officially open

Kathleen Molony It’s finally really here! The beautiful new dog park at PebbleCreek officially opened Saturday, January 24, 2015. What a wonderful asset to our community. The park got a kick start with a Grand Opening/Ribbon Cutting Celebration and vendor fair hosted by the PebbleCreek Dog Park Association. Our HOA President Mr. John Kiekbusch and…

Bonne Année 2015 – Le Cercle Francais

Le Cercle Français welcomes new members at its meeting on February 3, 2015. From left: Rex Lambert, Claudia Gouronc, Marlene Lenstra, Bernard Chirent and Patrice and Bob Cole

Betsy Crosson Bonne Année means Happy New Year in French and 22 members of Le Cercle Français celebrated together in February with a get together at the home of Allen and Betsy Crosson. Perfect PebbleCreek weather allowed members to sit poolside and practice their conversational French and taste various appetizers from the group including ratatouille…

Group rebuilds horseshoe pits at Sunrise Park

Members of the All American Horseshoe Association enjoy the new horseshoe pits in Sunrise Park.

Vickie Hamilton Thanks to the All American Horseshoe Association of PebbleCreek for recently completing the four regulation horseshoe pits at Sunrise Park in Eagle’s Nest. These gentlemen volunteers worked together as a team to complete the project. It all started three years ago, according to member Ted Ingalls, when Sunrise Park had four original courts.…

Democratic Club news

Doug Nintzel and Bart Alford

Hello, PC Democrats, If you missed the February meeting you missed Doug Nintzel our feature guest speaker. Mr. Nintzel discussed his book and new organization Unity Initiative; for more information please go to www.Unityinitiative.org. Our next scheduled meeting will be on March 4, 2015, at 7:00 p.m. in the Tuscany Falls Ballroom. Once again we…

PC Hiking Club Diary – March 2015

PebbleCreek Hiking Club members and guests at the annual winter picnic in front of the Fire Up Freedom Fire Truck in White Tanks Regional Park; photo by Lynn Warren.

Lynn Warren On a mostly sunny January 23, 70 PebbleCreek Hiking Club members and guests enjoyed a unique winter picnic in nearby White Tanks Regional Park. Normally a fire truck carries water to put out fires but, for the picnic, the Fire Up Freedom Fire Truck was equipped with flaming grills to cook up brats,…