Category: June 2016

GoodTime Gals news

Pat Atkinson All women who live in PebbleCreek are automatically members of the GoodTime Gals. Come alone or bring a friend to any of our activities. The GoodTime Gals have an email to send you news and announcements. To be added to our email list contact us at pcgoodtimegals@gmail with your name, address and phone…

PC Live On Stage

The PebbleCreek Big Band

Are you a musician? Bruce Birnel Are you a musician looking to join other musicians to make some music? After a sold out performance at our Burst of Music shows this past April, the PebbleCreek Musicians is looking for residents of PebbleCreek who play a musical instrument to consider joining the PebbleCreek Big Band. We…

PC fun seekers boogied with a Beach Boys tribute

A.D. and Lynn Cline

Recently a group of PebbleCreek fun seekers boarded the Lone Butte Casino bus – similar to this Casino bus charter – to visit the beautiful casino and event center. In addition to casino time, the group enjoyed lunch and a concert featuring a terrific Beach Boys tribute band. Be sure to check with your Activities…

Where do you get all this railroad stuff?

Mark Pelletier That’s a question we get all the time from visitors to our model railroad layout. To folks not involved with the hobby, it seems surprising that there must be so many companies making all the various items you see which make up a model railroad. But there are; although manufacturers come and go,…

Hikers impressed by rare crested saguaro

Left to right: Tom Wellman, Clare Bangs, Pete Williams (hike leader), Jim Gillespie, Betty Garner, Wayne Wills, Ann Rohlman, Lynn Warren (photographer), Joe Clarkson and Steve Duncanson pausing for a photo op with a rare double crested saguaro just off the Granite Mountain loop trail.

Lynn Warren On April 29, ten PebbleCreek hikers enjoyed an easy but very rewarding nine-mile hike on the relatively flat terrain of the Granite Mountain loop trail in Scottsdale’s McDowell Sonoran Preserve. The trail offers an excellent opportunity to see outstanding specimens of large, healthy saguaros and, by walking just a short distance off the…

PC Irish American Club donates to the New Life Center

John Pugsley, the president of the Irish American Club, Corine Raygoza, the director of the New Life Center and Ellen Jacob, the chairman of the PCIAC Charitable Contribution Committee. The Irish American Club has three purposes, education, social and charity.

Suzanne Rambach The New Life Center is a nonprofit corporation that provides a temporary shelter that is safe and full of caring volunteers to help female victims of domestic violence and their children. Most shelters will not offer services to mothers and their teenage boys, which keeps many victims in their current situation. NLC opens…

The Cleaning Crew!

Sherri Vanschaick PebbleCreek Art Cub members spent a few hours after last month’s meeting cleaning tables, chairs, cabinets and sinks while also organizing cupboard and work areas. Everything is spick and span now in the Coyote Room.

PebbleCreek Tennis Club enjoys social mixers

Flying high at Earth Day social

Susie Anderson “Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you’re too damned old to do anything about it,” said Jimmy Connors. But he hasn’t been to PebbleCreek, has he? The great thing about our tennis is that there is something for everyone and every level. From 55 to…