Lynn Warren When conditions heat up during summer in the valley, pictures of cooler subjects are welcome. The August photo of the month is an impressive scene of Harvard Glacier taken by club member Lynn Warren while on a June “Solstice Cruise” along the coast of Alaska. This tidewater glacier is located in College Fjord…
Cathy Howell Each year, The Women’s Giving Circle (TWGC) of PebbleCreek organizes the creation, filling, and donation of 2,000 totes for the Go with the Flow project. Its purpose is providing menstrual hygiene products to young women throughout the valley. To kick off this year’s campaign, TWGC members provided fabric and invited the PebbleCreek Sewing…
Emily Grotta The Shalom Club is excited to introduce new prayerbooks, Mishkan HaNefesh: Machzor for the Days of Awe, at this year’s Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services, led by Rabbi David Rosenberg. (See accompanying article.) This 10-day period marks the start of the Jewish new year and are a time of introspection and atonement.…
Edna DeFord, Jean Kotula The Rainbow Acres Choir will be guest singers at the PebbleCreek Community Church (PCCC) Worship Service on Aug. 30. This unique choir is composed of residents of the Rainbow Acres Christian Community in Camp Verde, Ariz., who are called Ranchers. This community has provided a Christian environment for over 50 years…
Emily Grotta The Shalom Club is excited to welcome Rabbi David Rosenberg as the leader of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services this September. Born in Israel, Rabbi Rosenberg was raised in an Orthodox home rooted in Jewish prayer, learning and service. His father served as both a rabbi and a cantor, and synagogue life…
David Zapatka Reader and pickleball player Cindy Schwarzkopf wrote, “I am with SunBird Hikers, and we went to the Copper Mine tour at Bisbee. Very, very interesting story. It was incredible! I was reminded of the word ‘slavering’ from reading Wuthering Heights, which was written in the mid-1800s and is probably now an archived word.…