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Ginny Hutcheson The Quail Creek Fights Back Relay For Life team is asking Quail Creek residents to start saving their good, saleable items for the team’s annual garage sale to raise money for the American Cancer Society. Dollars raised from this event help fund cancer research grants for researchers at the University of Arizona. Items needed…
Sharon Pulcinella The Women of Quail Creek (TWOQC) found ways to stay active and engaged this month even in the midst of some of the hottest weather on record. On June 13, 15 ladies hustled down to the Kino Center, where dance teacher extraordinaire Jane Bottlinger soon had them gliding across the floor doing the Electric…
Alphie Smith With the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, the Quail Creek Billiards Club (QCBC) has resumed tournament play with other billiards clubs in the Tucson and Green Valley area. The QCBC Travelling Team of eight members competed in 8-ball at SaddleBrooke One on Saturday, June 19. Dennis Desmond, tournament chair for QCBC, will be scheduling…
Peggy McGee Valley Assistance Services (VAS) will be holding its second benefit fashion show and luncheon, Spring into Fall, in the Crystal Ballroom on Tuesday, Aug. 31, starting at 11:30 a.m. With the desire to keep things local, VAS has asked Nancy Pantz in the Continental Shopping Center to provide the fashions. The majority of…
Mary Jensen Being flexible and overcoming challenges are traits the most RVers have learned. The Quail Creek RV Club got to exercise those on our last trip to the Verde Valley RV Resort in Camp Verde. When we arrived, we learned that the eight sites we had booked by the pond were also right next to…
Peggy McGee Quail Creek activities are starting to return to normal, enabling a more traditional Food for the Troops collection. On July 4, immediately after the flag raising ceremony at the clubhouse and until 9 a.m., the Green Valley Chapter Military Officers Association will be collecting non-perishable foods for the junior enlisted airmen at the…
Karen Baker On May 15, Armed Forces Day, the Military Baby Shower Group successfully completed their mission of supplying 30 families (31 babies) with everything they would need to welcome their newest patriots into the world. COVID and social distancing made this annual baby shower event a little more difficult, but it was nothing the…
Peggy McGee Even though it has been over a year since they have been together as a group, the Lady Putters have remained in touch. When word went out that The Women of Quail Creek (TWOQC) would once again host a very modified baby shower for the young airmen of the 162nd Fighter Wing of the Air…
Monte Hudson Are you getting excited to start seeing the “nuggets,” as we call them, the baby quail that will be arriving soon? We may not see as many this year due to the drought, which affects their food sources, which in turn affects productivity. Our quail are Gambel’s Quail (Callipepla gambelii), named after naturalist…
Steve Shapiro and Thom Sharples The Quail Creek Men’s 9-Hole Golf Association (Desert Duffers) held their annual Individual Low Net Championship Tournament on April 20, playing all three 9-hole courses at Quail Creek. The Duffers field had 122 members with five flights. Four flights were based on handicap, and the fifth flight was Super Seniors…