Category: November 2019

Honor Flight – October 2019

David Hale Hand, Korea Korea veterans, our turn is here to take the Honor Flight to Washington, D.C. I won’t take a lot of time telling you about the organization as you can read about it at www.honorflight.org. I will say that the veterans who are selected do not pay anything to go. The organization…

Holiday Fest is coming

Karen Giles Can you believe it’s November already and the start of the holiday season is upon us? Don’t panic as you make out your holiday shopping lists, the PebbleCreek Artists’ Holiday Fest is here to help! It is the perfect place to buy handmade, one of a kind items created by amazing PebbleCreek artists…

Putt for dough with the PCM9GA

Stan Fuller putts for dough.

Christopher Mucha There’s an adage in the game of golf—Drive for show and putt for dough! Well, Stan Fuller is a supporter of this mantra—big time. The PebbleCreek Men’s 9ers Golf Association (PCM9GA) Golfing Niners have several prizes when they play their tournament outings each month at PebbleCreek. In addition to low scoring and closest to…

Billiard Club Tourney results

Johnny Henson, president The winners for our 8- and 9-ball tournaments in August and September are as follows: 8-ball winners 8/6: Lynn Warren 8/13: Bob Macy 9/10: Bob Macy 9/17: Bob Macy 9/24: Bob Macy 9-ball winners 8/5: Rene Lefebvre 8/9: Marv Schrock 8/12: Bob Macy 8/19: Rene Lefebvre 9/6: Lynn Warren 9/13: Lynn Warren 9/20:…

Shalom Club members display their talents

Aquine Jackson (friend of Betsy Porter), Bobbie Harris, Gloria Kornbluth, Esther Schatz, Betsy Porter, Judy Friedman, Sy Rosenthal, Indy Rebhun, and Shelly Coate reveal their interpretation of Hot August Nights. Photo by Judy Friedman.

Laurie Rosenbloom They met on Sept. 22, for an evening of painting and fun at Creative Escape in Goodyear. This event, organized by Judy Friedman, required painting a canvas scene titled, Hot August Nights. Each painting took about two hours to complete with easy step-by-step instruction. Both owners are artists who started their business two years ago.…

LifeLong Learning at PebbleCreek

Thanks to our volunteers Ruth Shaffer LifeLong Learning (LLL) volunteers devoted many hours during the summer to preparing for the 2019-20 season. While the lecture, trip, and classes teams finalized locales and subjects, the special programs team finalized the LLL guitar group programs, TED Talks, the Sunday Series, and PC Reads. Writing, editing, proofing, and…

Meet your 2019 Election Committee Volunteers

Gordon Seaman

Our PebbleCreek Election Committee consists of five volunteer residents and is charged with conducting elections on behalf of the PebbleCreek HOA. The committee is responsible for notifying homeowners of election procedures and absentee balloting, counting ballots, tallying votes, declaring a winner, and presenting the winning candidate to the board. Each year, the board appoints the Election Committee chairman, who…

Pickleball at its sharpest

Pancho Epstein It’s the fifth annual PebbleCreek USA Pickleball Association (USAPA) sanctioned, 50+ pickleball, double elimination, doubles tournament. The sign-up date is Dec. 1, at 4 p.m. tournament dates: Feb. 12 (wednesday): women’s doubles Feb. 13 (thursday) mixed doubles Feb. 14 (friday): men’s doubles The age groups are 50-59, 60-64, 65-69, and 70+, and the skill levels are 3.0,…