Category: February 2021

Softball Clinic Covers All the Bases

Skills Clinic Commissioner Peter Romeo watches Wayne Stafford practice his swing off the batting tee.

Terry Hurley Michael Schumacher is not an experienced softball player but it didn’t stop him from signing up to play in the SaddleBrooke Senior Softball Sidewinder League this winter. He’s new to the sport, last year was the first time he ever played, but figured he had nothing to lose. “I still have a long…

MountainView Bridge Club

Royal hearts wish the bridge players good luck.

Ann Kuperberg Congratulations to Ed Helpert on reaching the Gold Life Member status and to Midge Miller on becoming a Bronze Life Member, both while playing bridge online. We can’t hug them, but the good wishes are there. It’s nice to see our SaddleBrooke bridge players succeeding in the confines of their homes. Many of…

Upcoming Book Sale

Cathy Schaber The SaddleBrooke Community Libraries will be having a book sale on Monday, March 15, between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. under the portico at the SaddleBrooke One Clubhouse. There will be many audiobooks for sale which have been recently withdrawn from the library’s collection. You will also find newer hardcover titles, DVDs, paperbacks,…

Radio Controlled Model Club is Flying High

Working on a model

Redge R. Meierhenry For aviation enthusiasts in SaddleBrooke and their guests, there is a club dedicated to radio-controlled, model airplane flying and drones. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) defines any craft capable of flight, flown within visual line of sight (by radio link) for recreation purposes as an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). Thus, fixed wing…

Unit Happenings

Kathy and Steve Sanchez in their winning holiday decorated golf cart (Photo by Bob Koblewski)

Unit 27 Activities Sue Case and Fred Pilster (contributor) The relatively warm January temperatures are nice for outdoor activities. However, our local—and hungry—javelinas like the warmer temperatures as much as we do. They proved it recently when many Unit 27 residents put their garbage bins out on a Sunday night for an early Monday morning pickup,…

CycleMasters Delivering the Progress

Delivery coordinators (left to right): Bruce Hale, Jim Thom, and Dan Hoshino

B.J. Murray The Progress has been delivered to SaddleBrooke residents since 1990. In January of 1997, Cyclemasters Cycling Club united with Robson Publishing to deliver the newspaper. Now, 24 years later, Cyclemasters continues to get this important communication out to all our residents. We start the process by learning from Robson when we can expect to…

Whimsy for Today

Becky Kueker 2020 made me a different person, and as my husband often says, in a very scary way. I kind of like that definition though. You can actually use sarcasm to punch someone out. I never would have considered it before but now, bam, hard left to the jaw. You know there are so…

Master Gardeners Presents: February Speaker

Sheilah Britton Your SaddleBrooke and SaddleBrooke Ranch Master Gardeners invite you to join us for an online Community Education program with Kim Matsushino of the Tucson Audubon Society on Thursday, Feb. 18 at 1 p.m. Kim will speak on Creating Beneficial Habitats for Birds and Pollinators. Kim Matsushino is a native Tucsonan who grew up…

2021 SBCO Home Tour Canceled

  Nancy McCluskey-Moore SaddleBrooke Ranch Community Outreach (SBCO) had originally planned to host our very popular annual Home Tour on April 4, 2020, but the coronavirus had other plans. Like many other groups, we had to postpone this event. This past fall we thought moving the event to April 10, 2021, would allow sufficient time…

Back to the Garden: High Altitude Orange Blossoms

Sheilah Britton The image of plump, colorful fruit against a background of verdant green foliage leaves a lasting impression on any visitor to the Southwest who has left a white, snow-covered universe in the midst of winter. There is something slightly liberating about being able to pick fruit from a tree in your backyard, peel…