Category: September 2016

Harvest your own home decor

(Family Features) Warm up your home with this season’s trendiest looks. Put your personal touch on your home’s decor with crafting projects that highlight the best of fall: copper detail, animal icons and pumpkins of every color, including white. Create a seasonal tablescape or mantel decoration with these Harvest Fall Lanterns created by the crafting…

TWOQC Clothing Drive for Homeless Veterans Otober 15

Photo by Eileen Sykora

Diane Quinn The Women of Quail Creek’s annual clothing drive for homeless veterans is fast approaching. Now better referred to as the clothing and household items drive, TWOQC is collecting not only a variety of clothing items for the still homeless, but also collecting small household items for previously homeless, recently housed veterans. The number…

Quail Creek 10th annual Garage Sale November 12

Quail Creek’s tenth annual Community Wide Garage Sale will take place Saturday, November 12 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Registration begins Tuesday, August 23, 2016. Registration is $8 per household. A managed vehicle lot (Slow Eddies Used Car Lot) is set up at the Madera Clubhouse parking lot at $8 per vehicle. You may…

Ask Your Agents

Dear Tammy and Cheri, My husband and I will be stopping in Vienna, Austria, and wanted your advice on things to see and do there. This has been on my bucket list and now we’re actually going! Signed, Karen and Bob Hello Karen and Bob, You will love Vienna! The capital of Austria, Vienna is…

What happens during golf course overseed?

Skip and Dreama Fumia Ok, if your guess is that “our golf course is unavailable for play due to grass maintenance,” you’d not be entirely wrong, but not entirely right either. Here’s a little more information for you. Ideally an all-season grass would exist – one that thrives in our summer heat and endures our…

8th annual GVFFA Chili Cook-Off

The Chili Cook-off will take place Friday, September 23, 2016 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Madera Clubhouse Crystal Ballroom. Local fire and law enforcement departments will kick up the heat at the eighth annual chili cook-off fundraiser and all proceeds will benefit families in need in the Green Valley-Sahuarita area. Hosted by Quail…

Conservation Corner

Pauline Lee While most national parks were established to preserve vast areas of untouched nature from human development, Cuyahoga National Park has a very different story. Before the area was designated a national park, it was ruined and then restored. The park’s centerpiece, the Cuyahoga River, was originally pristine and unblemished until two expanding industrial…

What’s in a theme?

Kandi Roy created the stained glass design with the rising sun providing a background for the breast cancer ribbons all held in the arms of a Saguaro.

Gail Phillips After 17 years hosting a Rally for the Cure for the Susan G. Komen Foundation to fight Breast Cancer, it is a challenge to design the setting for a day of golf and food and prizes and especially to honor our Quail Creek Cancer Survivors. Our three Quail Creek Golf Associations: the QCLGA,…