Category: November 2016

2 Your Health: Why do muscles cramp?

Brooke Smith, DPT Everyone, at some point, has experienced a muscle cramp. Whether it’s at night, after a workout or randomly throughout the day, a muscle cramp comes without warning. It can be located along the front or back of the thigh, hands, arms, calves, abdomen or foot. Muscle cramps can be very painful. Some…

Artist of the Month

Lisa Flynn enjoys painting old cars.

Marianne Graff The PebbleCreek Art club takes great pleasure in awarding Lisa Flynn November Artist of the Month. Lisa had resided in Washington State for most of her life, calling Redmond her home until she and her husband, Len, retired to PebbleCreek in 2011. Lisa began her career in college working in a fabric store…

Day Trippers from PebbleCreek around the bend

Gatlin Site

Lance Motta-Vilensky Along the Gila River’s 600 mile journey across Arizona, there’s a great bend in the river where it traverses around the Gila Mountains. Around that bend is the tiny town of Gila Bend. An old stagecoach stop once called the “crossroads of the Southwest,” two modern day arteries, AZ 85 and I-8, intersect…

New Year’s Eve Dinner Dance planned

New Year’s Eve Dinner Dance – Saturday, December 31, 2016 – Tuscany Falls Ballroom Rhythm Edition will entertain at our New Year’s Eve festivities. Cocktails are at 5:00 p.m., dinner at 6:00 p.m., dancing at 7:00 p.m. There will be a champagne toast at 10:00 p.m. and the evening will wind down from there. Tickets…

For love and money

Susan Knox Wilson Let’s be honest, hosting a charity golf tournament is a lot of work for everyone involved. And not everyone can produce a first class event that raises a lot of money and has golfers return year after year. In fact, there are more than 1,000,000 golf events in this country each year…

Litchfield Park Library events

Nancy Stevenson The Litchfield Park Branch Library has a wonderful assortment of programs this month! On November 9, Wednesday, at 1:00 p.m., the Medigap program shows us what Medicare and Medicaid do not cover so we can be prepared! Learn watercolor painting on Saturday, November 12 at 1:00 p.m. with Walter Kane. You will paint…

Urgent need for English tutors

Jan Cosgrove Our volunteer tutors have been teaching English language skills to adults in the southwest valley for 40 years! Today the need is greater than ever. We are flooded with requests from adults for English language training. At this time over 50 adult students are waiting for a tutor. It is a two hour,…