Category: Clubs & Classes

Let’s Dance through the summer

The energetic members of the Let’s Dance Club have completed a month of East Coast Swing lessons. Taught by Claudia Booth and assisted by Barry Moore the class ended the May session with a reincarnation of a high school dance. Poodle skirts, bobby socks and tight tee shirts abounded. Moving from East Coast Swing to…

Republican Club hosted Dist. 11 Senator and Representative

Senator Steve Smith

Neil Macdonald On May 13 your SaddleBrooke Republican Club was most pleased to welcome two of our three elected state senator and representatives of District 11. Unfortunately Representative Mark Finchem was called away for an important legislature meeting that morning. We did hear from Senator Steve Smith and our own SaddleBrooke representative Vince Leach. Both…

Summertime fun!

SaddleBrooke Squares’ website has online video lessons.

Janet Tucker The summer months are a fun and no stress way to take advantage of the SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild classes. These short classes have been very popular and are a great way for anyone interested in art to test the water and see if painting is right for you. Or perhaps you would…

Sometimes the beat doesn’t just go on…it parties!

Vivian Herman, Dianne Bank, Claudia Booth, Ann Kurtz, Janifer Farquhar, Laurie Page, Caryl Mobley and Linda Schuttler

Vivian Herman The SaddleBrooke SilverBelles have been dancing since the 90s and although dancers have come and gone in 20 years, the current ensemble has not only dancing in common, but friendship, camaraderie and the love of a good party. To celebrate another year of entertaining in various senior living communities and other venues in…

Savo Fries earns Paul Harns Fellow Recognition

Patti R. Albaugh Savo Fries, a member of the SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club, recently received recognition as a Paul Harris Fellow, a group of individuals acknowledged by Rotary International. Fellows have contributed, or have had contributions made in their name, of $1,000 to The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. Ms. Fries is a retired realtor…

Let’s Dance and SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Clubs

Steve Holdener The Viennese Waltz, also known in German as the Wiener Walzer, is quite different from other forms of waltz. It is a rotary dance where the dancers are constantly turning either toward the leader’s right (natural) or toward the leader’s left (reverse), interspersed with non-rotating change steps to switch between the direction of…

Queen of the Night

Pam Boedeker SaddleBrooke Nature Club adopted the Peniocereus greggi (desert night-blooming cereus) as its logo. It is one of the Sonoran Desert’s most famous yet least encountered plants. Most of the year it is a floppy, nondescript cactus. But on just a few nights it becomes the star of desert plants with its elegant white…

Thursday Afternoon Bridge Clinic

Paul Shalita This clinic is a practice and critique session designed for players at intermediate and advanced levels who desire to improve their Bridge. No partner is necessary. No time commitment; come late, leave early. Meet potential new partners. Sessions run from 12:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Thursday afternoons at 37901 S. Arroyo Way in…

SaddleBrooke Archers tour local bow factory

Bobby Vargas from PSE Marketing Department shows Ed Snyder some features of a compound bow.

Charla Blacker Eighteen members of the SaddleBrooke Archers toured the Precision Shooting Equipment Archery factory in March. PSE Archery is one of the largest manufacturers of bows in the world, providing over a quarter of all bows sold in the United States. PSE makes all of the components for their compound bows at their Tucson…