Jim Roberts It was a beautiful day for horse racing. Sunshine, scattered clouds that occasionally blocked the sun, a slight breeze fluttered the flags and 12,000 excited fans packed the stands waiting for the trumpet to call the horses to the track. Thirty Italian-American Club members became railbirds at the beautiful Turf Paradise Track in…
Laurie Rosenbloom Spring has sprung and Passover is a spring festival. April 11 was the Shalom Club’s annual Passover Seder. Mimi and Bruce Birnel did a fabulous job organizing the event with so many helpers. Sandy and David Mednick conducted the service. Their reading of the Haggadah enriched the celebration. Over 100 people shared a…
Pat Jensen PebbleCreek offers Zumba classes six days a week. Since we get such great workouts, we decided we could afford to go out for lunch once a month. This month 29 members went to Mimi’s Cafe and enjoyed a delicious lunch. We also played a great get to know each other game that had…
Shawnee Robison Wow! This looks like a sales pitch, postcard, to me! Don’t YOU think? Well—I took this in our own back yard here in PebbleCreek! While I was enjoying Karaoke, I watched the ducks glide effortlessly across the pond behind the Eagle’s Nest Dining Room. I couldn’t keep myself from snapping this picture from…
Dee-Dee Patrick Several members of the Rug Hookers of PebbleCreek attended a four-day workshop in late March. The class was hosted by Priscilla Sharp who opened up her home to not only accommodate all the attendees but also the class instructor, Diane Stoffel. Diane and Priscilla have known one another for many years dating back…
Jeff Wilson The April Handmade Pottery class got off to a fast start by making large platters with 3-d embellishments of dragonflies, frogs, koi and flowers. This is the fourteenth time this class has been taught in the past two years by resident instructors Jeff and Terry Wilson. In this seven-session class participants learn the…
The PebbleCreek Quilters have been very busy with charity sewing. Several charity sewing days have been held. On April 11, over 20 members showed up with their machines. The room was packed and not all machines could be set up, but the extras were put to work pressing and trimming. As a result, 16 quilt…
Linda Babcock PebbleCreek Car Club membership continues to expand with car enthusiasts and their award winning vehicles. On March 25, the Cruis’n To The Lakes show sponsored by the Estrella Mountain Car Club was very well represented by the community. Receiving First Place awards in their respective categories were Jim Mitchell for his 1937 Chevy…
Grant Hachmann At O’darkthirty (6:30 a.m. to be precise) on March 25, 17 members of the Arizona Flats Bicycling Group began their ninth annual 100 mile bike ride. Although a tad dark, the weather was a bicyclist’s dream. It was cool and cloudy and no wind. Arizona Flats is a road riding group consisting mostly…
Carole Schumacher On Saturday, April 8, forty-six Unit 43A PebbleCreekers showed up in full force to prepare Manna Rice Packs for Feed My Starving Children (FMSC). Each manna pack contains rice, soy protein, dried vegetables and vitamins and must weigh between 380 and 400 grams. As volunteers, we wore hairnets and had numerous responsibilities including…