Get Out the Vote Effort

Barbra Stewart To support the national Get Out the Vote effort by Vote Forward (www.votefwd.org), Judy Baur, a Robson community resident and lead of a SE Valley AAUW Branch History Lovers group, invited group members to write postcards that will be sent to registered voters who did not participate in the 2016 election. The script…

LifeLong Learning at PebbleCreek

Palo Verde Generating Station

Monday Morning Lectures Free on Zoom Pat Ingalls, Lorna Bray, and Jill Burnham LifeLong Learning’s fall season continues with more free lectures, to be held Mondays at 10 a.m., using Zoom. Guest experts will inform registered Zoom audiences on these topics: Palo Verde Operations (Oct. 5) The largest nuclear energy facility in the U.S., Palo Verde…

Word of the Month: Petrichor

David Zapatka Following a good rain after a long, dry spell one evening on the pickleball court with friend Natasha Thompson, that luscious smell we are all familiar with danced in our noses. Imagine that fresh, earthy, smell we all know so well as you read this column. Tash said, “There’s a word for that…

General Manager’s Message

Bill Barnard, General Manager The end of the summer is near and in addition to hopefully cooler temperatures very soon, fall in the Valley typically means an increase in visitors and homeowners coming to enjoy our milder weather. While things in our world are different than they have been in the past, familiar things like…

Election Essentials

Meet the Candidates for the HOA Board Susan Knox Wilson The candidates are vying for a two-year, resident-volunteer position on the PCHOA Board of Directors, beginning Jan. 1, 2021. A director’s duties and responsibilities are described in Article V, Section 2, of PebbleCreek’s CC&Rs, which are posted on the PCHOA website. You’ll have a chance…

The Cold War

Ross Dunfee It is impossible for this writer to pen a history of the Cold War (war without heated conflict) in 500 words, so please forgive my inadequacies. The Cold War, like so many actions, is wrought in fear. After World War II, the USA and other nations feared the expansion of communism. It also…