PebbleCreek Singers preparing for spring concert
Diane Piehl
Since the PC Singers are in concert mode, it is our hope that you’ve been able to welcome in the holiday season at one of our concerts. The chorus has been part of this community for over 20 years when we began gathered around a piano in the Eagle’s Nest Ballroom with our first director, Helen Farnsworth. We became a club with fifty members in 1996. When Helen relocated to another community in 1998 a member of our men’s section, Robert Wilson, became our new director. He served us well and the chorus doubled. When Robert retired, yet another chorus member, Gail Kennedy, became our gifted and talented director.
We will be taking a short hiatus until we begin rehearsals on January 7, 2019 for the spring concert. The PebbleCreek Singers are accepting applications for all voice parts for the spring concert. If you would like to apply, please contact Nancy Gustafson at 623-215-3292. Nancy will arrange to meet with you and find the suitable voice part for your singing pleasure.
Save the date for the PebbleCreek Singers Spring Concerts beginning Thursday, April 25 through Saturday, April 27, 2019.
From left are Bev Buck, Jan Edwards, Barbara Dunson and Sandy Weitzman.
PC Readers out in the community
KT Tanner
Students in Palm Valley Elementary and Mabel Padgett Schools enjoyed hearing from our readers on October 23. Readers spent one half hour introducing, reading and discussing their story with a class.
Barb Dunson read Miss Spider’s Tea Party by David Kirk. Miss Spider is lonely and would like to have a tea party for her bug friends but they are all afraid she’ll eat them. Then a sudden rain storm hits and everyone cheers for Miss Spider as she kindly invites them to stay where it’s warm and dry.
Sandy Weitzman read Come Over to My House by Dr. Seuss; a delightful story of how children around the world live, eat, sleep and play. Students appreciated the similarities and differences in their lives.
Jan Edwards read At the End of the Rainbow by A. H. Benjamin. Fox and Badger (a small furry animal of the weasel family) are looking for the treasure at the end of the rainbow. They meet some friends along the way: a squirrel who treasures his stash of nuts, a mother duck – her baby and a hare – his memories. Fox and badger are under a shelter during a storm and realize that their friendship is their real treasure.
Bev Buck read The Three Little Javelinas by Susan Lowell. The charming Three Little Pigs are now ugly hairy “piglike” animals dressed in cowboy gear. One of the javelinas built his house of tumbleweed; the other brother built his of saguaro ribs. Running from the evil coyote, the brothers went to their sister’s secure house of adobe.
The readers were led by Bev Buck. Bev said she introduced herself as an older retired lady from PebbleCreek and “maybe some of you have grandparents in PebbleCreek.” One of the students who escorted the readers back to the office asked her, “How old are you anyway?” When she responded, he said it was his birthday and he was six that day. All of the readers enjoyed sharing their love of reading with these impressionable young students.