Category: Clubs & Classes

Happy New Year! No, That’s No April Fools

Left to right, top to bottom: Clarice Sullivan, Patricia Fina Weaver, Patty Zatkin, and Sandi Beecher

Deb Melton A year can be marked many ways. A calendar year begins on Jan. 1, but the Scholarship Committee for The Women of Quail Creek (TWOQC) measures their year beginning in April with the awarding of new scholarships. So, it seems fitting to sum up the year by reporting what has happened with the scholarship winners…

February Photo Club Contest: Black and White

Third place went to Steve Piepmeier’s Stare Down.

Deb Nesbitt The Photo Club of Quail Creek (PCQC) hosted the February photo contest with the theme of Black and White. This presented a great opportunity to see the world through a different filter! Photos from the last three years were eligible with minimal post processing. First place was awarded to Jim Burkstrand’s Hot Peppers.…

Health Care: Where We Were, Where We Are, Where We’re Going

Dr. Epperly

Marybeth Bates The Democratic Club of Quail Creek welcomes Dr. Ted Epperly as our speaker at the April 17 Zoom meeting. Dr. Epperly’s presentation will cover the direction and rationale of the Biden Administration’s plans regarding healthcare reform and transformation. Additional insight will be obtained about why this becomes important now. Dr. Ted Epperly is president and…

Behind the Scenes Work to Choose Scholarship Finalists

Screening team member Marilyn Burkstrand reviews applications, both online and in hard copy, to make her recommendation for which women should be scheduled for an interview. (Photo by Jim Burkstrand)

Peggy McGee Scholarship award time is on the horizon. Have you ever pondered just what happens before the winners are announced? The Women of Quail Creek’s scholarship program has two distinct components. One is for female high school seniors at either Walden Grove or Sahuarita high schools, or enrolled in the Sahuarita Digital Pathways program. The other…

Private Dance Lessons Have Resumed

The dance models are Gary and Penny Marshall, who love to dance for a fun form of exercise. They only needed minimal instruction to strike this picture-perfect Rumba pose.

Kathi Urban Have fun learning to dance in your garage or back patio. Choose from private lessons (one couple) or semi-private lessons (two or three couples), if we can socially distance. No contact, except with your partner, and COVID protocols are observed. Unless we have room to travel, choose from compact dances: * Latin (Salsa, Cha…

MOAA to Hold Spring Dinner at Quail Creek

Peggy McGee Before taking a summer break, the Green Valley Chapter Military Officers Association will be hosting a dinner on Tuesday, May 4, in the Madera Clubhouse Crystal Ballroom. Members and their guests will gather for a social period at 5 p.m., with dinner being served at 5:35 p.m. Social distancing rules will be in…

Giving Back to Our Community

DCQC members participating in the trash collection.

Marybeth Bates On March 3, 17 Democratic Club of Quail Creek (DCQC) members and friends got together for the Democratic Club’s first trash collection effort as part of Sahuarita’s Adopt-a-Roadway program. They picked up an impressive 32 bags of trash, a pile of PVC pipe, a 9 by 4 foot plywood sign, a pile of rebar, assorted whiskey…