Daily Check-In: A Community Service for Quail Creek Residents

What a Wine Night!

Where in the World Is the ‘Crossing’?

Paper Flowers Handmade in Janet Rumford’s Creative Casita!

Thank You, Quail Creek!

The Quail Creek Fights Back Relay For Life annual Garage Sale donations filled at least 10 tables on the driveway of 2494 E. Bluejay Bluff Lane for the Relay team to sell. At 6 a.m. helpers came out of the dark to set up tables and start taking boxes of items and larger items out…

Woodcrafters Club Helping Pickleball Club

Shireen Kolarik Denny Huber, a member of the Quail Creek Woodcrafters Club, was presented with a gift card from QCPC President Dave Mungo and QCPC Maintenance Team member Bill Foraker for his great help in making ball tubes for the new pickleball courts. What a nice example of Quail Creek clubs helping each other! Thank…

What a Wine Night!

Carol Michels Donna Dabeck and her husband Rick Novosad hosted the Nurses of Quail Creek on Nov. 12 for a pretty amazing wine tasting event. They opened their lovely home to us. Yes, each nurse supplied a foil-wrapped wine bottle, but the many food pairings they supplied were served up to help us decide what…

Word of the Month: Gerund

David Zapatka Reader Luz Stella Perotti wrote, “I had a SPLENDID time reading that one (Splendor). It is one of my favorite words.” While reading a fiction writers evaluation team’s comments about what makes a story successful, I came across these sentences, “Successful: tight writing, sharp dialogue, creative use of language, vivid imagery, a surprising…

What Do You Say to a Gold Star Mom?

Kathy Sinnott How often do we see heroes wearing insignias or uniforms that identify one’s service in the military or other hero profession? How often do we then congratulate and thank them for their service? For the Gold Star Moms who wear the Gold Star lapel pin, it’s of the utmost importance to approach them…

In Passing – December 2024

Charles Edwin Astleford Charles “Chuck” Edwin Astleford Jr., 79, passed away unexpectedly on Oct. 25, 2024. Born on April 17, 1945, in Detroit, Mich., to Charles and Bess Astleford (Middleditch), Chuck was their only child as his father passed away in Germany in service to our country during WWII. At an early age, Chuck discovered…