Category: Generals

Join FSL for an exciting trip to Utah parks

Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries (FSL) is excited to announce another great trip to Utah parks including Bryce, Zion and Glen Canyon. The bus trip will depart from SaddleBrooke on April 19 and return on April 25. This escorted tour is designed for those who have never visited the parks and for return travelers who will…

ALS Walk

Barbara Feeley Sullenger On a beautiful sunny morning in September, walkers from SaddleBrooke and SaddleBrooke Ranch joined teams from all over Tucson for the annual Walk for a World Without ALS. Lou Gehrig’s disease has debilitated some of our residents so we want to remember them and support those with ALS, while working for a…

2018 Variety Show

Sue Case, Tom Koch and Gail Nelli Calling all interested SaddleBrooke and SaddleBrooke Ranch residents! There will be a Variety Show in March, 2018! Sue Case will be the executive producer, trying valiantly to fill the big shoes of former Producer Lloyd Maritz, who retired from that role at the end of the 2016 show.…

Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries

FSL announces Spring Lecture Series Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries (FSL) is excited to announce new spring lectures. All lectures are free for FSL members while non-members will pay $5 for certain speakers. All lectures are in the MountainView Ballroom and start at 4:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted. We start the new year on January 12…

Unit Happenings

October’s event was at the home of Bob Zimdar and Twink Gates.

Unit 2 monthly potluck Twink Gates-Zimdar On Monday, October 3, 23 neighbors in Unit 2 gathered together for their monthly evening potluck meal. October’s event was at the home of Bob Zimdar and Twink Gates. Neighbors welcomed Arthur Fife, a close friend of the Zimdar-Gates, visiting them from the Isle of Man, Great Britain. Twink…

Refugee Focus is looking for volunteers

Susan Shear Many of us come from families who once were refugees. Some of our families escaped persecution, trauma and death. As I know from the stories of my family of refugees who escaped the Nazis in the 1930s, it is incredibly difficult to come to a new country from a completely different culture, unable…

SaddleBrooke One Christmas Eve Service at 4:00 p.m.

Bob Ross A traditional Christmas Eve worship service will be held on Saturday, December 24 at 4:00 p.m. in the Vermilion Room of the SaddleBrooke One Clubhouse. This will be the eleventh holiday service at SaddleBrooke led by the Reverend James Briney, Pastor of Oro Valley United Church of Christ. The Reverend Briney noted that…

From your Events Committee at SaddleBrooke One

Monday, November 14 – Bingo Second Monday of every month The Vistas Dining Room Bingo sales begin at 5:30 p.m. Early Bird Bingo at 6:45 p.m. Regular Bingo begins at 7:00 p.m. (Prices start as low as $3 per pack for 11 games (cash only!) Seating is limited so come early! Food will be served…

SASO to perform Nielsen along with Rossini and Beethoven

Grammy-nominated flutist Carol Wincenc joins the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra to perform Danish composer Carl Nielsen’s Flute Concerto on November 19 and 20.

Punch Howarth Denmark’s Carl Nielsen is one of three outstanding Scandinavian composers of large instrumental works along with Kurt Atterberg of Sweden and Jean Sibelius of Finland. Nielsen’s Concerto for Flute with soloist Carol Wincenc will be performed by the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra conducted by Linus Lerner at their second concert of the season in…