A walk in the dark

Richard Hinkel Richard and Cora Hinkel recently hiked the Lava Cave just outside of Flagstaff. It truly is a unique “walk in the dark” as the cave is one mile long (one way), unattended and unlit dead-end lava tube formed around 650,000 to 700,000 years ago by molten rock that erupted from a nearby volcanic…

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…