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Linn Myrick Let’s Travel Club members enjoyed a beautiful Veterans Day by taking a private, guided, two-mile walking tour of El Presidio and Downtown Tucson. Scott Darlage, owner and tour guide of Strolls and Stories Tours, offers this tour. We began with a discussion of Tucson’s founding in 1775 as a walled Spanish Colonial Presidio…
Peggy McGee The Green Valley Chapter, Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) held its second annual Grocery Collection for homeless veterans served by Tucson’s VA Hospital. The Chapter far exceeded last year’s results, because both Quail Creek and La Canada Desert Homes III offered collection points. The value of the non-perishable foods and paper, cleaning,…
Roxanne Housley The Women of Quail Creek (TWOQC) Community Outreach Committee held a very successful fundraising drive for the Animal League of Green Valley (a no-kill animal shelter) on Nov. 6. Quail Creek residents drove or cycled to the pickleball court parking lot to drop off food, toys, snacks, collars, leashes, kennels, cat towers, blankets,…
This year the QC Performing Arts Guild (PAG) will present their annual Christmas dinner show with a format that has probably never been done in Quail Creek. The show will present three very different short, comedic Christmas plays. Between plays there will be a vocal quartet performing some upbeat, modern Christmas songs. Along with the…
Shireen Kolarik Twelve years ago, a beautiful, 16-court pickleball facility was under construction in Quail Creek. Even before the courts were finished, excited residents signed up for email notifications and free pickleball instruction. A group of even more excited residents started the Quail Creek Pickleball Club (QCPC) to organize and promote open play, organized round…
This year’s Javelina Hoedown raised a record amount of over $21,000 for The Women of Quail Creek (TWOQC) Scholarship Program, with 280 tickets sold. So, another great year for an event which succeeds because so many do so much to make it happen. The Fun: Hardscrabble Road Band was, judging from the crowds on the…
Alphie Smith The Quail Creek Library Management Team held a luncheon on Sept. 20 at the Grill in honor of Larry and Dianne Thomson and to thank them for their many years of service with the QC Library. After 20 years of living in Quail Creek, the Thomsons will be moving to Washington State to…
Connie Vaughan The women of Caring Hearts & Hands have been busy working on various art projects for the QC Fall Craft Fair on Nov. 8 and 9, from making our “now famous” greeting cards to a unique form of art, Aquarelle Broderie. Aquarelle Broderie is the art of combining embroidery and watercolors to create…
Melani Caron On Sept. 4 the Quail Creek Food and Beverage team, Christy Zaferis, and I traveled to Robson Ranch Texas for the 4th Annual BBQ Showdown. This event included all five Robson communities who came together to compete for the best BBQ. A variety of local vendors came out for residents to enjoy a…
Pam Hartwell-James The Women of Quail Creek served up another winning event with their latest In My Kitchen gathering, hosted by Dee Colicchia: a sangria and appetizer soirée that had everyone raising a glass—or two! On the menu were sangria wine; chicken marsala meatballs; pepperoni, basil, and tomato puffs; mini cheese balls; and refreshing cucumber…