Summer vacations have finally started! If your vacation includes a trip to the mountains in northern Arizona, you will experience beautiful scenery, an array of local festivals—not to mention cooler temperatures. Summer is the perfect time of year for weekend getaways close to home. I recently came across an informative website that offers travel ideas,…
Don Beaver, Director of Fitness Summer is upon us at Quail Creek, and that not only means higher temperatures and fewer residents on property, but also increased use of outdoor activities at the Anza for both fellow residents and guests—especially visiting kids and grandkids. These changes in our use of Anza facilities triggers the need…
CAP Board Member and Quail Creek Water Rep to Highlight Oct. 25 Green Valley/Sahuarita Water Forum Pat Jacobs, Central Arizona Project Board Member, as a representative from Pima County, and Martin Roush, Robson Director of Utilities overseeing Quail Creek Water, will be the guest speakers at a Green Valley/Sahuarita Water Forum. This forum will be…
David Zapatka Reading in the Quest magazine recently, I came across the word cenote. Cenote—si-ˈnō-tē noun: a natural pit or deep sinkhole in limestone resulting from the collapse of limestone bedrock that exposes groundwater underneath with a pool at the bottom that is found especially in the Yucatán Peninsula. Origin and Etymology—Mexican Spanish, from Yucatec ts’onot…
Pam Rodgers, Chair, QC Activities Council Your Activities Council is planning a cool July 4th celebration and veterans recognition day! Plans include starting with a flag-raising ceremony followed by a parade around the loop. We are looking for volunteers with convertibles or jeeps with removable tops to drive some of our veterans in the parade.…
Pam Rodgers, Chair, QC Activities Council All parade entrants will meet in the Madera clubhouse parking lot for line-up at or before 7:30 a.m. for the celebrated flag-raising ceremony. The parade will begin at 8:30 a.m. The fire engine of the Green Valley Fire Department will lead the parade, followed by Grand Marshal Elliott Jones,…