Category: May 2018

Creativity in SaddleBrooke Photo Club

  Barbara Wilder After you have mastered the intricacies of your camera, lighting and composition, you still need a creative eye to make that “WOW” photograph. In the SaddleBrooke Photography Club we have a creative special interest group to help you go outside your usual comfort zone and try something new. The group meets once…

SaddleBrooke Hikers experience the desert at its best

  Elisabeth Wheeler Twelve SaddleBrooke hikers got an early morning start to enjoy hiking the Windmill Loop in Oracle State Park before the hiking club spring picnic. The early bird hikers were rewarded with over 40 wildflowers and 58 sightings of the stunning mariposa lily. Hikers delighted in the views of the Galiuro Mountains from…

Women On Our Own (WOOO)

  Liz Boyd WOOO is for single women living in SaddleBrooke and the Ranch who want to stay busy and enjoy life. Our activities include: Dining Out: We go out for dinner on the third Wednesday of each month and enjoy Tucson’s many good restaurants. Potlucks: On the fourth Saturday of the month, we gather at a…

SaddleBrooke Republican News

  Paul Herr Our May general meeting is on Wednesday, May 9, 2018, at SaddleBrooke TWO MountainView Ballroom. Please note the time change! Doors open at 3:00 p.m. and the event will begin at 3:30 p.m. This meeting is our annual Candidate Super Meet and Greet. Members will remain seated as the candidates rotate, in…

Spanish Culture Club news

  Elaine Pfeffer We were delighted to welcome a representative of the Mexican Consulate of Tucson as our guest speaker for our monthly meeting April 16. Sebastián Alfonso Galván-Duque Covarrubias spoke from his prepared remarks, “U.S.-Mexico Relations and the Role of the Consulate.” He presented information about the role of the consulate in representing Mexican…

Jewish Friendship Group news

  Marilyn Anthony The JFG will hold its Father’s Day Dinner on June 10 at 5:00 p.m. at the SaddleBrooke One Road Runner Grill Patio where we will be having marinated skirt steak with chimichurri sauce or grilled salmon (finish on plank) with mango ginger sauce, oil and vinegar coleslaw and white and wild rice.…

Unit Happenings

  Unit 3-S Happy Hour Brenda Newitter Thirty residents of Unit 3-S got together for a Happy Hour at the Agave Lounge on Thursday, April 12. Everyone wished the snowbirds farewell and safe travels and hoped that those who stay in SaddleBrooke will survive another Arizona summer! (We won’t tell the snowbirds that now we…

SaddleBrooke Pet Rescue Network

  Pima County Animal Shelter recent changes open door to support Leslie Rocco SaddleBrooke’s county animal shelter needs help and the Network wants to offer support, but our commitment has been limited in the past for several important reasons. Having spoken with the Pinal shelter director Audra Michael, we confirmed their biggest needs are an…

Music Mends Minds Restoring the Rhythm of Life community concert May 23

Music Mends Minds: Restoring the Rhythm of Life (sponsored by SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary) will hold its first SaddleBrooke concert on Wednesday, May 23 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in MountainView Ballroom West. We all know someone who has suffered from the devastating effects of neurodegenerative diseases. Music Mends Minds (http://www.musicmendsminds.org) is a nonprofit organization…