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Canadian…Eh!

Over 30 members of The Canadian Club at Quail Creek recently held and enthusiastically enjoyed their second Happy Hour Meet and Greet on the Patio of the Grill in late February.

Harry Sawchuk The Canadian Club is an informal group whose members are interested in getting together occasionally with fellow Canadian snowbird residents and renters in Quail Creek to meet, mingle, chat, play, share ideas and interests, share mutual issues and information and celebrate our good fortune and lifestyles in the warm Arizona sun at Quail…

TWOQC seeks donations for baby shower

Baby shower committee with donated stuffed animals and children’s books donated by Quail Creek Canadian winter visitors; books were written by Yasmin Thorpe, a TWOQC member.

Janice Pell April 18, the date of The Women of Quail Creek’s fourth annual baby shower for expectant mothers of military families, is fast approaching. Noah’s Ark is, once again, the fun theme. Usually a summer event, many of our winter visitors indicated a desire to be here and take part in making the shower…

‘Lend Me a Tenor’ comes to the Quail Creek stage

Cast of Lend Me A Tenor, standing: Ray Hebert, Diana Paul, Jerry Smith, Jeff Webster, Francesca Schelenski and Davey Jones; seated, Pam Campbell and Sandra Haegele. Photo: QCPAG

Three Tony awards and successful productions in New York, London and across the world! Quail Creek residents will have the opportunity to be entertained by yet another Ken Ludwig masterpiece. Your very own friends and neighbors who make up the QC Performing Arts Guild presented to you last April the outrageously funny Moon Over Buffalo.…

Dancing with the Quail Creek Stars

Janet Mathis

Dreama Fumia Yes, it’s true! The Utah Ballroom Dance Company is once again bringing its troupe of college dancers to Quail Creek! Our 2015 edition of Dancing with the Quail Creek Stars will be performed on Sunday, March 15 in the Madera Clubhouse Ballroom. This year you’ll be able to see four QC residents (Deb…

New Year’s Eve Party

Join us for the New Year’s Eve party “Fire and Ice” at the Quail Creek Country Club on Thursday, December 31. Cocktails and appetizers at 7:00 p.m.; plated dinner at 8:00 p.m. Menu: First Course – Passed assorted hors d’oeuvres Second Course – Smoked corn croquets served with roasted red pepper sauce Third Course –…

TWOQC thanks residents for generous support of clothing drive

It was smiles all around from tired volunteers and the amazed VA staff members at the end of the successful drive.

Janice Pell Wow! The tremendous outpouring of generosity and support from the community for The Women of Quail Creek’s fifth annual clothing and household goods drive for homeless veterans was overwhelming. Contributions this year more than doubled last year’s donations. When volunteers delivered the donations to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Tucson, the staff was…

Fine Arts Painting Club off to a great start

Madera Canyon, a painter’s delight for Don.

Lee Asbell With the opening of the new Creative Arts and Technology Center just around the corner, Quail Creek now has a chartered club for those interested in all forms of two-dimensional fine arts. The club’s first membership event was held October 29 and now has over 30 members. While the artists wait for their…

Grateful Snowbird

Yasmin John-Thorpe In 2009, when I convinced my husband to purchase a winter residence on Orchid Lane, I had no idea how wonderful that decision would be for me. My husband is the golfer; I’m a writer but with little time to write. Back home, in British Columbia, I organize several literacy programs and my…