Category: Clubs & Classes

Dementia Caregiver support group news

Support groups provide a forum to share feelings, concerns and information and as a way of supporting and encouraging each other. There is no cost to attend and no commitment to come back. First Thursday of the month we meet from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. in Javelina Room at SaddleBrooke Clubhouse, 64500 E. SaddleBrooke Boulevard…

Adventure Club goes rock climbing

In February the SaddleBrooke Adventure Club made an excursion to Rocks and Ropes, a first class indoor rock climbing facility in downtown Tucson. This facility is a converted warehouse which has multiple climbing walls of various degrees of difficulty. The first order of business was to get the proper gear for the 10 participants –…

Democratic Club news

Jim Vavra The March meeting of the SaddleBrooke Democratic Club was well attended, with the members interacting with Joel Feinberg, chairperson of the Board of Planned Parenthood of Arizona. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, April 14 at 3:30 p.m. The guest speaker for the April meeting will be Tory Anderson, the legislative liaison…

SaddleBrooke Republication Club meeting highlights

Attorney Sandra Froman speaks to the SaddleBrooke Republicans.

Neil Macdonald Sandra S. “Sandy” Froman is an attorney in Tucson, Arizona, whose practice includes business, contract and employment litigation as well as mediation and arbitration. She is recognized in the national publication Best Lawyers in America and was voted Best Lawyer of the Year for Employment Law – Management in Tucson, Arizona. Froman received her…

Shih Tzu Club news

The Shih Tzus brought their owners to hear Dr. Dimitri Brown.

Dolores Robu SaddleBrooke Shih Tzus have had a very busy spring season. On February 21, 2015, about 20 Shih Tzus and their humans hosted Dr. Dimitri Brown, DVM, from Veterinary Specialty Center of Tucson. Interesting topics that Dr. Brown shared with us were the usual reasons that people bring their pets to the emergency/specialty center,…

Tex Mex gourmet extravaganza

Spanish Culture Club chefs extraordinaire: Bob and Gail Blizard and Victor and Lilia Sosa

Sandy Brooks On March 25, forty seven members and guests of the Spanish Culture Club were treated to a fabulous gourmet Tex Mex meal prepared by Lilia and Victor Sosa. Born and raised in El Paso, Texas, the Sosas came to SaddleBrooke by way of San Jose, California. Having lived in multicultural communities for many…

SaddleBrooke Adventure Club experiences skydiving

Skydiving is just another Adventure Club outing.

On March 5, the SaddleBrooke Adventure Club traveled to Eloy, Arizona, to sample the world class skydiving facilities at Skydive Arizona. It was a beautiful, sunny day with clear skies and just a light breeze; a perfect day for skydiving and the sky was filled with multicolored parachutes gracefully tracking toward the ground. One day…

All aboard the Cha Cha Choo Choo train

The beginners Cha Cha class.

Little did the thirty dancers who attended the Let’s Dance Club’s Cha Cha beginning level class, taught by Linda and Barry Moore, know that they would be hopping aboard the Cha Cha Choo-Choo Train for four weeks of fabulous fun and instruction. Yes, the students actually moved into a single line holding on to each…