Caela Casarino The 2021-22 bocce season is over, culminating with the winners of our spring session. Congratulations go to the top teams on the following league days: Tuesday Night 1st—Bocce Buds and PC Rollers, tied 3rd—Night Rollers Wednesday Morning 1st—Holy Rollers and Bada Bing, tied 3rd—I Have No Idea Thursday Night 1st—Stand Pat 2nd—Bocce Boomers…
Category: June 2022
Sports, June 2022
Diamonds on the Diamond
Jay Sabatello The PebbleCreek women’s softball team, now called the Desert Diamonds, traveled to Liberty Field in Sun City West on April 15, to take on the Sun City West (SCW) women’s team known as the Hot Flashes. As you sports fans may remember, the Hot Flashes played here last month against the Diamonds, where…
Sports, June 2022
Pickleball Player Development and the Players Who Make It Happen
Sharon Hadley and Mimi Blythe Our new Player Development initiative is already 1 year old. There have been many people who have gone before us who laid an excellent foundation for player development at our club. However, over the past 12 months, the Player Development offerings have grown and gained the structure we need to…
Sports, June 2022
Pickleball Club Happenings
Mimi Blythe Court Resurfacing As part of the normal maintenance cycle, the pickleball court resurfacing will begin the first part of July. The plan is to close off only one section (courts 1-8, 9-12, and 13-20) at a time. As courts close, round robin play will be suspended so that all usable courts will be…
Sports, June 2022
PCMGA Introduces Officers for the 2022-23 Season
Howie Tiger On March 10 at the Member-Member tournament annual meeting, the PebbleCreek Men’s Golf Association (PCMGA) elected officers for the 2022-23 golfing season. They officially take office on June 1. Introducing our leaders: John Abercrombie (president)—John was born and raised in small towns in Kansas (Barnard and Minneapolis), and spent most of his adult…
Clubs & Classes, June 2022
Ceramics Club Profile: George Wagner
Ardell Roberts George Wagner can often be found in the ceramics room. He always wears a smile and likes to laugh with everyone. George and his wife moved to PebbleCreek six years ago from Colorado. He says he just got tired of shoveling snow. They had been looking at several communities in the area. When…
Clubs & Classes, June 2022
Camera Club Workshops: Adobe Lightroom
Lynn Warren The club will not hold normal monthly meetings during June and July but, instead, will offer a two-part class (via Zoom) covering Adobe’s Lightroom post-processing software. Lightroom (LR) is an Adobe application that allows you to organize, store, edit, rate, and share your photos. Unlike Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom is nondestructive, i.e., your original…
Clubs & Classes, June 2022
Camera Club Photo of the Month
Lynn Warren Each month, the Camera Club selects a picture as Photo of the Month and for June, the club chose Roger Bunting’s impressive night picture of a lighted cactus. Have you ever asked what camera is best? A photographer will likely tell you that it is the camera you have with you. Roger’s photo…
Features, June 2022
Surprise Birthday Party!
A surprise birthday party for Jane DeLosAngeles was held on May 2 at the home of Kathy Nemeth, a PebbleCreek resident. Her friends did a fabulous job of keeping the party a secret! The theme for the party was a wonderful ice cream social with four different ice cream choices and all of the toppings.…
Features, June 2022
Pet of the Month: Thunder
Hi! My name is Thunder, and I am a Border Collie mix. My parents, Lori and Doug Adair, rescued me as a puppy in 2009 after my sisters and I were abandoned. A herding dog by instinct, you will find me rounding up my family and literally at my mommy’s heels most of the day.…