Sports, April 2024
PCL9GA Happenings
Sports, April 2024
Chuck Johnson Wins 9-Ball Title; Scotch Doubles League Launches
Jim Padgitt Winter 9-Ball Tournament After a tightly contested battle for bragging rights in the PebbleCreek Billiard Club’s Winter 9- Ball Tournament, Chuck Johnson emerged with the Grand Champion title. Chuck prevailed by amassing 59 game wins over the 8-week mini-tourney series for a final total of 62 points (one point per game win, plus…
Clubs & Classes, April 2024
Loving Aerobics!
Pat Jensen Ann’s 8 a.m. aerobics class loves dressing up for special occasions. We meet weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. It is a great way to start the day, and Ann makes it so much fun. She knows all of our names, even if we are gone for extended periods. All of the regulars…
Clubs & Classes, April 2024
Camera Club Photo of the Month
Lynn Warren For the March Photo of the Month, the Camera Club selected an impressive macro photo taken by club vice president Ernie Jackson. Ernie is not only an accomplished photographer, but also loves to experiment with unusual subjects and somewhat exotic post-processing software. For this month’s photo, Ernie chose a seed pod that he…
Clubs & Classes, April 2024
PebbleCreek Quilters Celebrate Sandy Crabtree
Cynthia Schwartz In 2011, Sandy and her husband Mike moved to PebbleCreek. They were drawn to our community for the Creative Arts Center (CAC) and pickleball. Sandy had started her sewing journey in middle school and now the CAC offered something different—a class called Sew You Think You Might Want to Quilt. Sandy commented, “It…
Features, April 2024
Word of the Month: Trochus
David Zapatka While cruising around Australia on the way to Thursday Island, I read this description about the port city. “The mixed population of Malays, Chinese, Japanese, and Melanesians are engaged mainly in pearling and trochus and sea cucumber fishing.” Trochus—tro·chus noun: 1.a. Capitalized. a genus of chiefly Old World tropical marine gastropods (family Trochidae)…