Category: Features

A December tradition of giving continues

Patty Elliott Cheer, cheese and chatter has been a SaddleBrooke tradition for more than 17 years. Each December, holiday decorations abound and lots of ladies gather to enjoy appetizers and sparkling punch while sharing gifts of money, baby food and items for children. What began as a ladies’ party with fruitcake and sherry wine almost…

Confessions of a Surviving Alien by resident John Meade

Stuart Watkins Confessions of a Surviving Alien is a two-volume book by SaddleBrooke resident Jon Meade that is filled with his amazing personal life experiences. He said it is a memoir of a life defined by one word: Vietnam. Vietnam certainly affected his life and his struggle to find his meaning in life and life’s purpose.…

Gift Shop Artist of the Month: Dixie Diane Irwin

M. Sedgwick Dixie describes herself as a ‘Jack of all trades’ and exhibits a wide variety of arts and crafts items in the Gift Shop gallery. Geckos form her most prominent display, but she also creates jewelry, cards, pottery/ceramics, fabrics etc. A SaddleBrooke fabric painting class she attended in 1998 launched her artistic career (“I…

Good Samaritans save sweet dog

Cleeda Junglas Two ladies I work with rescued a precious little dog on Oracle Road that was hit by a car. The driver stopped, got out of her car and looked at the injured dog and then drove away leaving the poor animal in the road. The dog crawled off the road with her severe…