CERT Basic Course Being Offered in October

Unit Happenings – October 2025

Where in the World Is the ‘Crossing’?

August Photo Contest Winners

February Photo Club Contest: Black and White

Third place went to Steve Piepmeier’s Stare Down.

Deb Nesbitt The Photo Club of Quail Creek (PCQC) hosted the February photo contest with the theme of Black and White. This presented a great opportunity to see the world through a different filter! Photos from the last three years were eligible with minimal post processing. First place was awarded to Jim Burkstrand’s Hot Peppers.…

Health Care: Where We Were, Where We Are, Where We’re Going

Dr. Epperly

Marybeth Bates The Democratic Club of Quail Creek welcomes Dr. Ted Epperly as our speaker at the April 17 Zoom meeting. Dr. Epperly’s presentation will cover the direction and rationale of the Biden Administration’s plans regarding healthcare reform and transformation. Additional insight will be obtained about why this becomes important now. Dr. Ted Epperly is president and…

The Old Timers Will Remember, Part Two: Old Stories Create New Stories

Paul Riggins “Landscapes have names, hold stories, house spiritual deities, invoke prayer, provide food and medicine, mark ancestral boundaries, and are venues for the exchange of traditional knowledge,” Nanebah Nez. Federal and state laws protect artifacts of antiquity, many of which have special significance to the modern-day tribes from which they came. Many construction projects…

U.S. Military History: Armed Forces Day

Ross Dunfee Armed Forces Day is celebrated May 15 this year, but with Memorial Day also in May, this Armed Forces Day article is printed in April to avoid printing two articles in May. Clip and save. Each of the branches of Military Service (Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard) has a day…

QCLGA Results

PYP 2-Day Eclectic, February 25 and March 4 Debbie Scott First Flight First Place Tie: Cheryl Opsal/Jacquie Owens; Alice Dyke/Sonia Heeren; Bobbi Jo Rathvon/Bonny Wilcox Second Flight First Place Tie: Brenda Allred/Dena Knox; Lucille Carroll/Susan McCune Third Place: Roz Harrison/Theresa Stein Third Flight First Place Tie: Kathy Coleman/Pat Crane; Sherry Morris/Patty Zatkin Fourth Flight First…

Word of the Month: Negentropy

David Zapatka While reading Starseed Transmissions by Ken Carey, I ran across the word negentropy. I’ve always been fascinated by the word entropy and its meaning, so I was immediately intrigued by this related word, driving me to research it for this month’s issue. Entropy: noun /ˈentrəpē/ 1. thermodynamics: a measure of the unavailable energy…