Bill Barnard, who began his employment at PebbleCreek as assistant golf pro several months after McGinnis began mused, ”We’ve grown in PebbleCreek together and he’s made my success here better. Many of Paul’s (golf-course) improvements have been forgotten, they happened so long ago. New residents here are unaware of how much he has done. We went from having nothing to where we are now. We’ll miss him tremendously – he’s such a good person.”