Category: Generals

Latest News From New Home Sales

The SaddleBrooke Sales Team * A model is currently under construction for the 3,118 square foot Sonrisa plan at The Preserve. This innovative layout with flexible spaces offers optimum comfort, convenience and function, perfect for experiencing the ultimate in luxury resort-style living. * The Robson Resort Communities celebrate winning the Grand Award at the thirty-first…

Oracle School District

Superintendent Dennis Blauser, SaddleBrooke Resident Dianne Ashby, Special Needs Director Tori Johnson

New preschool scholarships provide more opportunities for early childhood education Dennis Blauser Thanks to the Oracle Schools Foundation founded in 2015, the Oracle School District is now able to provide the opportunity for more children to attend preschool. Last year the Foundation raised over $15,000 with its first fundraiser, the Toast to Teachers Gala. As…

Unit Happenings

Left to right are our lunch organizer Linda Warfield, Bonita Nitcher, Linda Nagy, Stephanie Mattie, Elizabeth Vaughan and Fran Berman. Not shown are Karen Bettencourt, Ginny Rebmann, Kathy Soerens, Marcia Weitzman and LaVerne Tucker.

Unit 5 Fran Berman While it was hot outside, the ambiance was warm inside the Olive Garden Restaurant where 11 Unit 5 ladies gathered for our bi-monthly lunch. We all dove into the all-you-can-eat salad bowl (not literally, of course). Some chose the newest lunch special, which resembled an Italian quesadilla. Others went for more…

Nick Gallardo in concert for one night only

Nick Gallardo

SaddleBrooke favorite takes the stage in a one-man show. You may have seen Nicholas Gallardo play guitar and sing some Ritchie Valens tunes. You may have been there to hear him croon the songs of Paul Anka and the Everly Brothers. You may have been in the audience recently when he and three other lads…

Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries

What FSL does for our libraries SaddleBrooke is very fortunate to have three libraries that provide residents with hardback and paperback books, audio books, videos, CDs, DVDs and magazines. Our SaddleBrooke, DesertView and MountainView libraries are staffed by volunteers and open all year around. Of the 4600 households in our community, 2450 are registered to…

American Legion Golf Tournament to benefit veterans in need

Ken Robinson American Legion Oro Valley Post 132 will sponsor a charity golf tournament Saturday, August 27, 2016. One hundred percent of the proceeds will be used for the benefit of local veterans in need and the families of the deployed soldiers of the Post’s adopted locally based Arizona National Guard Unit. The tournament will…

Flag Day – Flag Retirement

From left: Pat Cox, Diane Korn, Skip Brauns (kneeling) Donna Leonard and Sylvia Bonesky

Pat Cox A Flag Day and Flag Retirement ceremony was held at Catalina Mountain Elks Lodge on Tuesday, June 14, 2016. The Oro Valley American Legion Post 132 Color Guard opened the program by presenting the American Flag followed by Norm Beasley and Jim Cox leading the audience in singing the Star Spangled Banner. PER…

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach

The Brushes with their dogs--Who walks whom?

Polish your sneakers Nan Nasser As we tolerate three digit temperatures and monsoon humidity it is difficult to envision participating in a walkathon. But on October 29, 2016, you are invited to join the annual SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Walkathon, marking the beginning of our twentieth year of service to kids in nearby towns. The walk…

Donations needed for homeless women

Micki Wilverding Sr. Jose Women’s Shelter located in the homeless corridor in Tucson has a need for the following: adult clothes, twin sheets, blankets (any size), towels and personal care items such as shampoo, shower gel, lotions (regular or travel size) and feminine products. Men’s clothing will also be accepted and donated where needed. The…