Category: Clubs & Classes

Private Dance Lessons Are Resuming

Kathi Urban … at 1998 prices! Your garage or mine? * Private lessons (one couple) * Semi-private lessons (two or three couples) if we can socially distance. No contact except with your partner. Masks or face shields required. Unless we have room to travel, choose from compact dances: * Latin (salsa, cha cha, rumba, samba,…

The Democratic Club of Quail Creek Welcomes 2021!

Marybeth Bates We are starting off the new year with a focus on our most precious commodity, water. Our speaker, Dale S. Bryson, is an expert in all things related to water pollution control and safe drinking water. Dale has sixty years of experience in environmental protection. Thirty-four of those years were spent working for…

The Women of Quail Creek Holds Small Group Classes

Joanna Miller's rock painting

Sharon Pulcinella Thanks to the efforts of the Programs Committee (led by Peggy McGee), members of The Women of Quail Creek enjoyed several opportunities to interact safely, learn, and have fun this month. On Dec. 3, fourteen participants logged in to Zoom to watch Sue Ann Obremski demonstrate how to create a number of different no…

TWOQC Scholarship Winners Deal With COVID

Left to right: High school students Haley Duncan, Amaya Barnes, and Samantha Witterstauter (Photo by Jim Burkstrand)

Peggy McGee Everyone has been challenged by COVID and that includes The Women of Quail Creek’s scholarship winners. Especially hard hit were the 2020 graduates from Sahuarita and Walden Grove high schools. They did not have a prom, a traditional graduation ceremony, or a party with friends. When September rolled around, they could not attend…

TWOQC Scholarship Committee Sends Thanks

Peggy McGee The members of The Women of Quail Creek’s (TWOQC) Scholarship Committee extend their sincere appreciation to the Quail Creek residents who have supported them by purchasing their remaining inventory of pint glasses, thermal totes, and flashlights since their fundraising activities were shut down by COVID-19. Over the past five years, the Scholarship Committee has…

RV Club Update

Mary Jensen In November, the Quail Creek RV Club spent four beautiful days at Catalina State Park, just an hour north of Green Valley. It’s an easy drive to the park in Oro Valley, and you’d never know it’s so close to town. While we were there, we enjoyed an evening at the Gaslight Theatre, in the…

MOAA Elects New Officers for 2021

New board members (left to right) Darren Venters, Jack Bundy, Nora Durham, Jadine Hilt, Peggy McGee, and Joe Longo are sworn into office by past president John McGee. (Photo by Betty Atwater)

Peggy McGee The Green Valley Chapter Military Officers Association installed its new and re-elected officers at its December luncheon. Of the 13 officers on the board, eight are Quail Creek residents. Two of the Quail Creekers hold distinguished positions. Guiding the operations of the chapter for the next year will be President: 1LT Joseph Longo; First Vice-President…

PCQC Photo Contest: Trees

Jim Burkstrand The Photo Club of Quail Creek continued with its monthly member’s contest, with November having the topic of: Trees. Each club member could enter up to three photos taken in the last three years. This subject was a popular one for the members and drew 38 entries. All of the photos can be…