Peggy McGee Now that the days are getting shorter, a flashlight could be your best friend. A flashlight could keep you from encountering a snake as you walk from a store to your car, or even as you walk from your house to retrieve your newspaper or mail. An orange flashlight would be the color of the…
Tag: TWOQC
Clubs & Classes, November 2020
Tortilla Making Webinar with Minerva Orduño Rincón
Diane Gordon The Women of Quail Creek held its first Zoom presentation for members. Since COVID-19 entered our lives, TWOQC has not held a general meeting or presentation for the membership. Also, luncheons are canceled. In hopes of providing something new, the program committee arranged a cooking demonstration via Zoom. An email went to members…
Clubs & Classes, November 2020
Canned Goods Drive a Smashing Success
Peggy McGee The first ever canned goods and paper products drive for homeless veterans, held on Oct. 24, rose above our highest expectations thanks to the generosity of the Quail Creek community. The Women of Quail Creek ladies, who collected the food at the four locations, all commented on the variety of foods chosen. So many…
Clubs & Classes, October 2020
Javelina Hoedown
Peggy McGee What if you planned a Javelina Hoedown and no one could come? That is exactly what happened to The Women of Quail Creek’s Scholarship Committee. In preparation for the event, they made sure they had the popular Javelina Cowboy pint sized glasses available. Now they would like to sell their remaining inventory to raise needed funds…
Clubs & Classes, October 2020
TWOQC’s Mentoring Program Brings Challenges and Rewards
Peggy McGee Patricia Fina Weaver developed The Women of Quail Creek’s (TWOQC) mentoring program in spring 2018 to help ensure that the scholarship winners were successful in their academic endeavors. Initially, Patricia was the only mentor. And then COVID-19 hit! How could the 2020 scholarship recipients be helped when face-to-face contact was out of the question? It…
Front Page, October 2020
We Miss You Drive-Thru
Diane Gordon, Director of Publicity The Women of Quail Creek (TWOQC) created a unique way to honor their members. Because of COVID-19, the annual membership luncheon was canceled. To celebrate TWOQC membership, Director of Membership, Barb Huntsinger, and her team organized “We Miss You Drive-Thru.” On Sept. 18, TWOQC members drove in their golf carts…
Clubs & Classes, October 2020
Helping Students in the Reality of COVID-19 Learning
Peggy McGee Marisa Acosta, one of the recent Women-in-Transition scholarship winners, is a teacher at the San Xavier Mission School in Tucson, where many of the students live at or below the poverty level. She reported that online learning was presenting a real challenge for them, since many did not have a computer at home…
Clubs & Classes, October 2020
Thank you, Pima Love Note Senders!
Diane Gordon, Director of Publicity The Women of Quail Creek (TWOQC) send out a big thank you to community members and, particularly, the Quail Creek Stampers and Scrappers. The Stampers and Scrappers made many cards for Pima Love Notes, and are creating cards for fall, winter, and the holidays. Many community members sent cheerful messages.…
Clubs & Classes, October 2020
Non-Perishable Foods Drive for Homeless Veterans
Peggy McGee COVID-19 may have prevented the annual clothing drive for homeless veterans, but The Women of Quail Creek wanted to do something to help those who have served our country. The solution, a contactless non-perishable foods and paper products drive. The event will be held on Saturday, Oct. 24, from 10 a.m. to noon.…
Clubs & Classes, October 2020
Quail Creek Relay For Life Team Is One of the Top 100 Fundraisers in America
Ginny Hutcheson Denis Cournoyer of the American Cancer Society sent Team Captain Ginny Hutcheson an email congratulating the 2020 Quail Creek Fights Back Relay For Life team, for ranking 91st out of the top 100 Relay teams of fundraisers in the USA. There are thousands of relay teams in the United States. No other relay…