Category: Clubs & Classes

Sunrise Rotary guest speaker

Tabitha Yim is head coach of the University of Arizona Women’s Gymnastics Team.

Savo Fries and Dick Kroese Tabitha Yim recently visited the SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club. A former elite gymnast and assistant coach for the Stanford Women’s Gymnastics Team, she was hired in 2015 as the head coach of the University of Arizona Women’s Gymnastics Team by then Athletic Director Greg Byrne. Coach Yim is a talented…

Catalina Mountain Elks Lodge supports Food Bank

Elks members assembled 350 breakfast food bags for IMPACT.

Pat Cox Catalina Mountain Elks Lodge No. 2815 used a $2,000 Elks National Foundation Beacon Grant to purchase pancake mix, syrup and Spam for the food bank at IMPACT of Southern Arizona. Under the leadership of Catalina Mountain Elks Community Activities Coordinator Jan Trudeau, over 30 lodge members assembled 350 bags with these food items…

Out of the ordinary European Tours

Brian Mundy, founder of the European Travel Club

Patti R. Albaugh Most of us have taken the “If it’s Tuesday, it must be Belgium” tours. There’s a different way to travel, says Brian Mundy, founder of the European Travel Club. Mundy spoke to SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club about customized tours that his group arranges and guides. When he and his wife came to…

We will always remember graduation day

Student dancers line up for graduation ceremonies.

Kay White Graduations are memorable. You have reached a point in your life where you have completed a task that is very worthwhile – a high school graduation, a college graduation or in this case a Square Dance Class graduation. Whoever is graduating and wherever they’re graduating from, these longest lasting shirt blankets would make…

What’s new at the Computer Club?

Gloria Quigg New Website Is Online We’ve been alluding to a new website for SaddleBrooke Computer Club for a couple of months. It is now online. Our webmaster Richard Beaty made a great effort to keep the look and feel of our old site on our new site so it will seem very familiar. Now…

Bridge players raise money for Alzheimer’s Association

The Longest Day fundraiser will be held at the HOA 1 Activity Center.

Barbara Starrett Every year the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) on the summer solstice holds The Longest Day event to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Association. From sunrise to sunset, members across the country host tournaments, teach lessons and play multiple sessions to advance the cause. This year SaddleBrooke’s two ACBL sanctioned bridge clubs, MountainView…