Laurel Vlcek Staff at Banner Estrella Medical Center contacted Knimble Kneedles about crocheting and knitting baby hats to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week. World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year in the first week of August, championed by WHO, UNICEF, Ministries of Health, and civil society partners around the globe. We provided 75 newborn hats that…
Bob Bolton On July 28, 16 PebbleCreek Corvette Club members and one guest drove to Wickenburg for lunch at Hassayampa Smokehouse BBQ. Skip Gault and Starla were our hosts for this drive and dine. Skip, as usual, had a funny joke to help make our day. After our delicious meal some walked around downtown while…
Our featured car this month belongs to Sue and Charlie Hunt. This gorgeous 2003 50th Anniversary Corvette convertible was a limited production model with rare Anniversary Red paint. This is the Hunts’ first Corvette and the culmination of a lifelong Corvette dream for Charlie. Charlie and Sue purchased their Vette in 2021. They were attracted…
Lynn Warren Camera Club meetings are held at 6:30 p.m. on the second Monday of the month in the Coyote Room in the Creative Arts Center. Be sure to add this to your calendar and join us for the first meeting of the 2025-26 season on Sept. 8. Members can submit photos for friendly critique…
Lynn Warren The photo of the month for September is a pleasing landscape by club president Keith Cunningham while on vacation earlier this summer. The location is a valley in northern Portugal where grapes are grown which are used to produce Port wine. The vineyards are found along the banks of the Douro River (seen…
Lezlee Leonardi, Education Coordinator Want to be a potter and play with clay? Ever thought about building pieces you can give as gifts or display in your home? If so, the Pottery Sculpture Club of PebbleCreek will be offering an Intro to Pottery class on Saturday, Oct. 18, followed by a three-day series of Beginner…
Dava Esman In spring, eight members of the PebbleCreek Quilt Club (PCQ) learned to make the Dancing Plus block. According to teacher and pattern designer, Jan Ochterbeck, this is “a cute, chubby little Plus Sign block that dances across the quilt. Blocks are made oversized and trimmed down to tilt to the left or the…
David Zapatka Longtime friend, wordsmith, and fellow verbivore Bill Lewis recently sent me a summary of the Missouri State Games table tennis results where he presides as the grand master tournament director. He writes, “In a Johnny Quest race for first place in the Under 2100 division, there were 12 hardy corrivals.” Corrival—cor·ri·val noun 1:…
PebbleCreek resident Dave Kiesling completed a hiking milestone on July 16, 2025. He hiked a cumulative 13,000 miles on that date since Jan. 1, 2016. Dave has hiked alone because he prefers solitude. He likes to take pictures and hikes at his own pace. He has hiked national parks, national monuments, state parks, county parks,…
Eldon Gunderson Eldon Robert Gunderson of Goodyear, Ariz., passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. He was 92 years old. Eldon was born on Nov., 15, 1932, in Hyde County, S.D., to parents Robert and Violet Gunderson, who farmed and raised cattle outside of Highmore. Eldon was the oldest of three sons, followed by James and Gareld…