Robert Hover During the month of December, Woolworth’s became a holiday mecca for the budget-conscious family and a fantasy of tree angels, fragile glass ornaments, tinsel, foil garlands, glitter pine cones, nativity figures, and wooden Hanukkah dreidels. The original F.W. Woolworth Christmas catalogs featured beautifully illustrated watercolor covers, offering everything from Gene Autry holster sets to…
Ross Dunfee When you hear your service-song played and you were in that branch of military service, please stand and be recognized. And so, the song goes, Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard, and now Space Force. In turn, veterans of each branch of military service stand, the audience appropriately applauds the veterans, and…
David Zapatka Reader Carmela Hopkins writes, “Every month I look for your column in the Splash. Have you considered an article on the word ‘run?’ You’re on a run. I mean roll.” There are more definitions of this word than any word I have researched. Here are a few. Run verb a. to go faster than…
Dan Phelka The PebbleCreek Computer Club resumes its weekly seasonal instructional meetings on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023 at 4:15 p.m. (until about 5:45 p.m.) in the Eagle’s Nest Ballroom. During the season (three months long), we will explain many Windows 11 and Windows 10 features and settings and show how to personalize your computer and…
Alisa Moore The PebbleCreek Democratic Club will host the creators and writers of the Arizona Agenda at their Dec. 7 club meeting to be held at Tuscany Falls Clubhouse. A new media outlet that provides in-depth reporting on politics and public policy issues, the Arizona Agenda (arizonaagenda.substack.com) is a daily political insider newsletter for political outsiders. The…
Amy Volstromer December means it is time to “deck the Tuscany Falls Ballroom with boughs of holly” and get our members ready for one of their favorite events of the year, the Irish American Club Holly Ball. This year’s Holly Ball will be held on Dec. 9. The event is for club members only and…