Carole Schumacher It all began in Anchorage, Alaska in 2012 when Audrey Dewan met Stephanie in a quilting class. Stephanie was only 29 years old, but the two became great quilt buddies. Stephanie’s husband later transferred to Jakarta, Indonesia, where Stephanie began collecting reasonably priced local batik fabrics until their return to Houston, Texas. Fast-forward to 2018…
Jill Miller At this time of the year, we usually plan the annual Tuscany Falls Golf Cart Christmas Caroling event. However, because COVID-19 has forced us to find other creative ways to celebrate the joy of the Christmas season, our committee decided to organize the Tuscany Falls Golf Cart Christmas Parade and Food Drive for Monday, Dec.…
Ronnie Levine The PC Shalom Club enjoyed an evening of Trivia Café on Sunday, Oct. 18, hosted on Zoom by Howard Rachelson, the Bay Area’s Master of Trivia. Judy Ruck has brought back the popular PC Shalom Club book discussion group, which met in October and November via Zoom. The December selection is Three Hours…
Cynthia Schwartz The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is an organization dedicated to the promotion and development of amateur sports and physical fitness programs in the United States. The AAU philosophy is “Sports For All, Forever,” and includes pickleball in the list of 44 sports that it supports. The AAU recently sponsored a pickleball tournament, the…
Hiking Club Visits the Black Canyon Trail Dana Thomas The PebbleCreek Hiking Club often hikes various sections of the Black Canyon Trail (BCT). The BCT is a long-distance single track bicycle trail paralleling highway I-17 that was designated as a National Recreation Trail in 2008. Club members hiked the Bob Bentley segment, which is the…
Lynn Warren The Camera Club continues to follow COVID protocol and will conduct meetings via Zoom for the next few months. November’s meeting featured an interesting presentation on Abstract Photography by Lisa Langell, an award-winning photographer. For December, join us as Adriana Greisman takes us on a photographic journey through Tanzania and South Africa (Dec. 21 at…
Linda Rowe Due to COVID-19, the PebbleCreek Quilters held their first virtual quilt show. Through the use of technology, viewers were invited to vote for their favorites in each category. Sixty-eight quilts were entered in this competition. Over 300 votes were cast to determine the winners. The winners are: Cheryl McGovern, Traditional Category: From My…
AA Serenity Group Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other, so that they may solve their common problem and help others recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for AA…
Emily Grotta The PebbleCreek Art Club is pleased to award Monica Rozwadowski our Artist of the Month for December. When Monica was in her twenties, she received a Christmas gift of beginners oils paints from her sister Joyce. She took an art course at the time, but never pursued painting until retiring in 1998. That year, Monica and her…
Alisa Moore The month since our last PebbleCreek Democratic Club meeting has been filled with campaign activities: dropping campaign literature, making phone calls, writing postcards and letters, sending text messages to potential voters, standing at the four corners of McDowell and PebbleCreek Parkway waving signs for the Biden/Harris and Mark Kelly campaigns, working at the polls,…