Category: January 2021

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,…

Word of the Month: Jeremiad

David Zapatka Dear friend and Wisdom Seeker moderator, Ellen Engel, suggested the word jeremiad for this month’s WOTM. Jeremiad: noun jer·e·mi·ad | ˌjer-ə-ˈmī-əd, -ˌad 1. a prolonged lamentation or complaint 2. a cautionary or angry harangue. 3. a long, literary work, usually in prose, sometimes in verse, where the author bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in…

Save The Date for February 14 Blood Drive

Nancy Planck, Member Services The American Red Cross is holding the next blood drive on Sunday, Feb. 14, in front of the Kino Conference Center from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. For your safety and the staff’s safety, only four donors will be allowed in the Bloodmobile at one time. Please do not show up…

Appreciate Your Garden

Bonnie Nowicki Happy January 2021, dear Quail Creek gardeners. It’s a new year and, hopefully, many new beginnings. Perhaps now is a good time to review our home landscapes. Of course, there are many features we love about our personal gardens. We move through our yards so quickly; we don’t always savor the beauty before us. Are…

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…

January Gardening and Landscaping Tips

Cindy Mayhle, Maintenance Manager for AAA Landscape Here are this month’s tips for keeping your trees, shrubs, flowers, and plants healthy. Grass Fertilize once a month with Ironite for a dark green lawn and less mowing. If you did not overseed the Bermuda grass, water the dormant Bermuda at least once a month. Flowers January is…