Category: January 2022

Green Valley MOAA Elects New Board of Officers

Peggy McGee At its holiday dinner, the Green Valley Chapter Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) installed the Board of Officers for 2022. They are President: 1LT Elliott Jones; First Vice President and Membership: CW3 Jack Bundy; Second Vice President, Programs, and Public Affairs: COL Peggy McGee; Secretary: Maj. Gen. James Whitehead, Jr.; Treasurer: COL…

TWOQC Expands High School Scholarship Program

Peggy McGee In 2016, The Women of Quail Creek (TWOQC) started a scholarship program for high school seniors at both Sahuarita and Walden Grove High Schools. That first year, Kayla Christiansen, Sahuarita High School, and Carly Frieders, Walden Grove High School, were the two awardees in the newly formed scholarship program. Both young women have…

Relishing Pickleball: The Serve

David Zapatka Quoting from Pickleball Fundamentals: Master the basics and compete with confidence by Mary Littlewood, when hitting a serve, “contact must be made below the waist, which is defined as level with the navel. Further, International Federation of Pickleball Official Tournament Rulebook rule 4.A1 states the arm ‘must be moving in an upward arc’ and…

Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots

This year the Quail Creek Semper Fi Club (QCSFC) teamed with the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA), Green Valley Chapter, to support the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve’s Toys for Tots program. The program provides new toys to needy families with children ages 1 to 12 in the greater Tucson area. The MOAA kicked off…