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While the Cat’s Away

Annual Garage Sale takes place November 15

Quail Creek will be conducting its annual garage sale on Saturday, November 15, 2014, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. We anticipate having over 200 homes participating. Plan on taking part in our annual community wide garage sale. There will be a separately manned used vehicle lot with everything from golf carts to cars to…

In the Ogden Garden

Fruits of the harvest

Ron and Vicki Sullivan October is an important changing season month for a dozen or so Quail Creek residents and their fellow Allen J. Ogden community gardeners. First, the bounty of the summer harvest is ebbing. Second, it’s the beginning of the fall vegetable planting season. Ogden Gardener Lorna Mitchell writes in her Ogden Beet…

A stone, cairns, and cacti make a garden grow

Kathy Stone sits amongst her cacti; photo by Ron Sullivan.

Ron and Vicki Sullivan When Quail Creek resident Kathy Stone is not tending to the raised garden bed full of maturing peanuts at Green Valley Gardeners’ (GVG) Allen J. Ogden Community Garden, she is busy creating original home design projects for Sonoran Desert residents. Her latest cactus and succulent garden project at GVG’s Desert Meadows…

“Geology around Madera Canyon” set for November 5

Geology around Madera Canyon will be presented by Professional Geologist Dr. Richard Conway on Monday, November 5 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the Madera Clubhouse Ballroom. Tickets are $10 per person and available at the Concierge Desk, Meredith’s Hallmark Store or Green Valley/Sahuarita Chamber of Commerce. The Santa Rita Mountains are one of the…

Members of TWOQC enthralled by historical re-enactment

President of the Docent Council of the Arizona Historical Society Southern Division Shirley Pinkerton dressed in period costume for her performance for TWOQC; photo by Eileen Sykora.

Janice Pell A hush fell over the room at the August meeting of TWOQC as the women were transported back to the nineteenth century when Shirley Pinkerton, in period costume, portrayed The Story of Larcena Pennington Page Scott. Speaking quietly in first person, Shirley told Larcena’s remarkable story in such a way that the audience…

Halloween party planned

The Quail Creek Halloween Flashback Party will be held on Friday, October 31. Start the evening with cocktails and appetizers at 5:30 p.m. and a dinner buffet at 6:00 p.m. There will be an assortment of Hors d’Ouerves, salad, sheared pork, grilled chicken, brown rice, kidney beans and roasted squash. For dessert you can enjoy…