Beethoven will play music to your heart Carole Rossof Meet Beethoven, an eight-year-old, three-legged mixed breed male. Is there anyone out there who would open up their heart and home to this sweet and well-behaved boy? He was just a puppy when he ran out into the street and was hit by a car. His…
Many in our association credit SaddleBrooke resident Vic Garcia as the individual who kick-started the SSSA in 1996 when he formed a softball team, The SaddleBrooke Blues, to play in the Senior Softball League in Tucson. Those games were played at the Craycroft and 22nd Street softball field and consisted of teams from Sierra Vista,…
Louise Grabell That was quick, winter is almost over. Yup, it’s time to get your head on straight and start to focus on the outdoors once again. There are some basic late-winter tasks that you can get a head start on now. For all you citrus owners, fertilize your trees and container-grown citrus now. Pay…
Carol Chiarello 2019 is off to a great start for the Knit Wits. We had our monthly “show and tell” which always gives us lots of ideas, especially for the new year. It sometimes also gives us just the poke we need to finish off an old WIP (work in progress) or one of our…
The Oracle Schools Foundation was planning on our first annual Sprint -Distance Triathlon in SaddleBrooke on Saturday March 9th, 2019 – unfortunately, we need to postpone that event to a later date to be determined. By way of letting you know what is happening with the Foundation, please see below excerpts from our President’s most…
Dennis Korger On Friday, March 29 at 1:00 p.m. in the MountainView Ballroom, our presentation will be “Smart Phones” (Android and iPhones). This is a return visit from Alex Bruno, manager of Cellular Sales, a Verizon franchise at Grant and Swan, who was originally scheduled to speak in January. We’ve been receiving a stream of…
Debbie McGeehan Let the games begin! January 9 started the first Wednesday of six for Social Team Tennis. Four men’s teams (Eagles, Falcons, Vultures and Hawks) and four women’s teams (Manhattans, Martinis, Mojitos and Margaritas) played gender doubles for 75 minutes split into two sessions. The weather was almost perfect despite a small sprinkle of…
The SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild is pleased to announce the dates for our annual Spring Art Show on the evening of Friday, March 15, 2019, and all-day Saturday, March 16, 2019. Our show will showcase the many marvelous artists in SaddleBrooke and will bridge all mediums, including clay work, sculpture, watercolor, acrylics, oils and more.…
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Jane Gromelski Return with us to those thrilling years, when we were young. Some of us went to the dances and danced, some watched from the sidelines. Bah! To that; we can all get on the floor and dance with our own moves. Come and have fun with the music of our golden youth! Sip…