The Quail Creek Halloween Flashback Party will be held on Friday, October 31. Start the evening with cocktails and appetizers at 5:30 p.m. and a dinner buffet at 6:00 p.m. There will be an assortment of Hors d’Ouerves, salad, sheared pork, grilled chicken, brown rice, kidney beans and roasted squash. For dessert you can enjoy…
Category: October 2014
October 2014
2014 overseeding golf events
Wally Ueberschar On Tuesday, September 9 and Monday, September 15 the Desert Duffers hosted our annual overseeding golf events at the Canoa Ranch Golf Course and Desert Hills Golf Club of Green Valley. The golf, weather and the courses were wonderful. Ten full teams per event took the opportunity to play off-site while our course…
October 2014
Fall Harvest TGIF Nov. 14
Fall Harvest TGIF will be held Friday, November 14, 2014, in the Madera Clubhouse Crystal Ballroom. A cash bar begins at 4:30 p.m. followed by a dinner buffet at 5:00 p.m. Dancing and music will be provided by The Drift Band. Tickets are $18 per person. Menu: autumn green salad with apples, cranberries, carrots, pecans…
October 2014
QC annual Fall Festival Arts and Crafts fair
The Quail Creek annual Fall Festival Arts and Crafts Fair will be held Saturday, November 8 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Sunday, November 9 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Madera Clubhouse. Over 100 Quail Creek residents and clubs prepare all year for this annual craft fair featuring a large variety…
October 2014
In the Ogden Garden
Ron and Vicki Sullivan October is an important changing season month for a dozen or so Quail Creek residents and their fellow Allen J. Ogden community gardeners. First, the bounty of the summer harvest is ebbing. Second, it’s the beginning of the fall vegetable planting season. Ogden Gardener Lorna Mitchell writes in her Ogden Beet…
Front Page, October 2014
Annual clothing and household goods drive
Janice Pell Mark the calendar and clean out the closets. Saturday morning, November 1, The Women of Quail Creek will hold its annual clothing drive for homeless veterans and families. TWOQC volunteers will be accepting donations from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. in the parking lot in front of the Madera Clubhouse. Tucson’s VA hospital has…
October 2014
Members of TWOQC enthralled by historical re-enactment
Janice Pell A hush fell over the room at the August meeting of TWOQC as the women were transported back to the nineteenth century when Shirley Pinkerton, in period costume, portrayed The Story of Larcena Pennington Page Scott. Speaking quietly in first person, Shirley told Larcena’s remarkable story in such a way that the audience…
October 2014
Garage sale donations are being collected for cancer benefit
The fifth annual Relay For Life garage sale will be held at 2494 E Bluejay Bluff Lane to benefit the 2015 Quail Creek team and the goal to raise $10,000 for the American Cancer Society. Any good, clean saleable items for donation should be held until the week of November 10. Items should be priced…
October 2014
Trojans, viruses and worms, oh my!
The need for computer security is an old, old story to those who are long time computer users, but it’s a story that needs to be refreshed from time to time to include new information, especially now small and big business is collecting massive amounts of data on consumers, sensitive data has to be locked…
October 2014
Golf course update
Ralph Scafuri On August 26, 2014, the Green Committee did an analysis of our greens. The expert used was Jimmy Fox of Evergreen Turf of Chandler, Arizona. In attendance for the Green Committee were J.R. Kies, Joel Jaress, Mike Taylor, Ralph Scafuri, Craig Parsons, Skip Fumia, Dreama Fumia, Roger Oravetz and Frank Hewitt. The grass…