Cynthia Schwartz Members of the PebbleCreek Pickleball Club have come up with many ideas for raising money for the new pickleball courts. One member, Bill Plesha, created a stair challenge. Bill challenged himself to walk up and down the Verrado Stairs as many times as possible. The Verrado Stairs consist of 331 steps that were created…
Cynthia Schwartz At the general membership meeting held on March 11, the PebbleCreek Pickleball Club (PCPB) members elected a new PCPB Club board. Martha Urbin, former board secretary, was elected as president. Jim Barbe (vice president) and Judy Parker (officer-at-large) will remain on the board in their current positions. Members welcomed two new board members…
Cynthia Schwartz Members of the PebbleCreek Pickleball Club overwhelmingly voted last year that the club would raise $500,000 to defray some of the costs for building 16 additional pickleball courts in our community. To date, the club has raised $290,000 through a variety of fundraising efforts. Tony Wells, chair of the fundraising committee, announced that…
Shirley Seymour Because of her passion and dedication to pickleball, Sherrill Mercer has been selected as this month’s PebbleCreek Pickleball (PCPB) Club Volunteer/Player of the Month. Sherrill has been an advocate for the beginner pickleball players in PebbleCreek. She is on the front line, introducing new players to the sport and to the club, taking…
Cynthia Schwartz Following the February PebbleCreek HOA meeting, the PC communications team published the following announcement: “Sixteen new pickleball courts are being planned for Tuscany Falls. Jack Sarsam, PebbleCreek HOA (PCHOA) Board President, made the announcement at the HOA monthly Board meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 19. Sarsam said that Robson Communities, Inc. (RCI) has agreed…
Cynthia Schwartz Marylou Furaus grew up in a small copper mining town in Montana and was one of 13 children. She commented, “Everyone was poor, and we did everything together. Everything we had was homemade. I shoveled sidewalks in the winter, babysat, ironed clothes for families, and sold newspapers in the saloons for my brothers.…
Cynthia Schwartz In February, the PebbleCreek Pickleball (PCPB) Club hosted the fifth annual PebbleCreek Pickleball Tournament. The PCPB Club’s tournament is a USAPA (United States of America Pickleball Association) sanctioned tournament and is classified as a tier 2 event. Almost 500 players participated in 44 bracket events that included men’s, mixed, and women’s doubles. Matches…
Cynthia Schwartz Starting in mid-October and running until April, more than a hundred men participate in the PebbleCreek Pickleball Men’s Ladder. Ladder is an event intended to provide competitive matches between players of similar abilities. Once a week, players in groups of four play a match of three games to 15 points. In the three…
Pancho Epstein To launch the fifth annual PebbleCreek Pickleball Tournament (Feb. 12-14), Goodyear Mayor Georgia Lord will deliver a welcoming address to the 500 participants from the USA and Canada. Then the country’s National Anthem will be sung and The Greatest Show on Courts will blast off. Singing the National Anthems will be Ken Porter,…
Cynthia Schwartz Bright and early on New Year’s Day, the pickleball courts were filled with players who were getting in a few games before heading off to spend time with family and friends. The chatter between games was about making new year resolutions. We compiled a list of what we heard on the courts! 1.…