Duane Langston Named Artist of the Year 2025 Since childhood, Duane’s interests in life have been art and music. His answer to, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” was always, “An artist.” As a child, he constantly sketched with pencil and paper, drawing mostly animals and people. His art and his…
Lisa Reichert On Jan. 7, the PebbleCreek Sewing Club kicked off the new year with an informative and inspiring class taught by Sandy Crabtree. Sandy guided participants through the beautiful decorative and utility stitches available on their sewing machines, helping everyone discover features they may not have previously explored. She also shared information about online…
Sue White A Beginners Mah Jongg class was held for four weeks in January. The attendees learned how to play the game by learning the names of tiles, how to set up to play the game, and strategies of the game. They played Mah Jongg on their first day. Five Mah Jonggs were made that…
Pat Biancardi Zumba ladies got into the holiday spirit dancing “Zumba style” to Christmas music in December. Instructors Helen and Cindy spread the cheer to all who attended. You can catch their classes Monday through Saturday at the fitness studio. Check the PebbleCreek website and choose a class. You’re sure to enjoy yourself!
Kathy Stauffer In November the PebbleCreek Woodcarvers held a toucan intarsia class. Intarsia is similar to marquetry or inlay using different types/colors of woods to make a picture, only making it look more like 3D, by shaping and, at times, using shims to elevate some parts of the piece. Normally, no painting or staining is…
Experts Coming to Enlighten Audiences Patricia Ingalls LifeLong Learning (LLL) has invited a Mark Twain re-enactor, a world-renowned romance author and an epidemiologist to give expert presentations soon in PebbleCreek’s Renaissance Theater. An Evening with Mark Twain, Feb. 6, features Paul Mast portraying the legendary American author and humorist. Mast brings to life Twain’s penchant…
Lisa Reichert With the excitement of the holiday season in the air, the PebbleCreek Sewing Club kicked things off on Nov. 19, 2025, by creating festive Christmas trees from blocks of colorful holiday fabrics. These trees could be finished as wall hangings or transformed into decorative pillows. On Dec. 3, members returned to complete their…
Arty Bartlett It’s time to sign up at the OK Corral or Learn Basic Gun Safety! Now is the time to join! It’s OK to renew your membership for our PebbleCreek Gun Club and enter into the upcoming Shoot-Fest Competitions but, if you are not a member of the PebbleCreek Gun Club and want to…
Terry Lee Czechowski, education coordinator Want to come play with mud, errrr, I mean, learn to create with clay? The Pottery Sculpture Club of PebbleCreek will be having a beginners’ class Feb. 2-6, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with the glazing day class TBA (attendance at each class is necessary). Sign-ups will begin Jan. 19…
Kitty Kowalczyk Those of you who shopped in the Glass Arts Gallery at the 2025 Holiday Fest may have wondered who Santa and his helper were, but any glass enthusiast would have been able to tell you that Santa was none other than Steve Nathan, and his helper, Barbara Sanford. Both Barbara and Steve have…