Ron and Vicki Sullivan In November 2014 Quail Creek community gardeners and friends planted over 1,440 Texas Sweet onion bulbs in anticipation of reaping a 2015 bumper crop. Proceeds from the fundraising project will be used to support Green Valley Gardeners club projects. On May 15, 2015, more than 1400 golf ball, baseball and softball…
The first place winners in the Partners Match Play Tournament, left to right: Sherry Morris, Bessie Moretto, Darthea Tilley, Nancy Diefenthaler, Barbara Erickson, Mickey Zimney, Paula Scafuri, Betty Martens, Barbara Haley, Lynda Eckebrecht, Sharon Bisping and Lynn Thomas.
Peggy McGee The Quail Creek Lady Putters will be holding a Christmas in July food collection for the Green Valley/Sahuarita Food Bank on Wednesday, July 8. Members are asked to bring donations of groceries, paper products, cleaning and hygiene items. Especially needed food items include peanut butter, canned tuna and chicken, baking products, salad dressing…
Ron and Vicki Sullivan For all Quail Creek clay enthusiasts and those contemplating a brief summer get away, check out this 2015 clay festival. A pleasant three hour drive from Quail Creek is the Silver City Clay Festival July 27 through August 2. A couple of overnight reservations are suggested for this quaint artsy town…
Janice Pell As is often the case with desert gardening, it’s all about the water. That fact was continually stressed by Eric Clark during his talk for TWOQC’s May meeting. Eric, the horticulturist and landscape designer for Civano Nursery, entertained and educated TWOQC with numerous tips on how to have a beautiful garden during monsoon.…
Christi Tucker This was our sixth year of hosting the Junior Tournament. The tournament consists of 36 Continental Middle School students and 36 Quail Creek Lady Niners. The students have to earn the right to participate in the tournament by written golf test, effort during their golf classes, school behavior, attendance and school grades. The…
Congratulations to Barbara Erickson, winner of this year’s SDWGA Telegraph Tournament at Quail Creek Thursday, May 14!
Robert Thoresen Photography Club of Quail Creek’s April contest was themed In My Backyard. There were thirty two entries for the month and our independent, non-member judges came back with four winning pictures. Jim Burkstrand placed first with an image of a male wood duck that, with its mate, nested in a tree outside a…
We have all browsed the numerous publications at the newsstands or the catalogs mailed to us monthly and envision ourselves wearing the fashions worn by the 20 something size zero model. Coming back to reality, we realize the only things we can possibly identify with and conceivably use are her purse and maybe her shoes.…
Skip Fumia A native of Tucson, J.R. Kies learned about growing grass and playing golf at an early age. His father was a landscaping contractor who knew how to grow things in the desert and his first experience with golf came at the tender age of 11 at the Forty-Niner Golf Club. He knew then…