Category: Clubs & Classes

Spanish Culture Club news

Chulengos (young Guanacos) at play

Tom Barnwell The Spanish Culture Club of SaddleBrooke (SCC) is a culture club, not a language club. It is composed of a group of social and intellectually curious Brookers that seek to expand their knowledge of Latin culture within the Old Pueblo and beyond. This is accomplished through monthly meetings that include speakers and tapas…

Friday Quilters donate to local area organizations

Ann Richards presenting a check to Linda Lyon of the Oracle Schools Foundation

The SaddleBrooke Quilt Club (Friday Quilters) presented donation checks to two organizations in November. The first was the Oracle Schools Foundation whose primary mission is to provide preschool scholarships to three and four year olds who would not otherwise be able to receive this critical good start to their education. These students will eventually attend…

Halloween hike

Halloween hikers are Michael Reale, Rainie Warner and Jan Springer; photo by Barbara Wilder

Barbara Wilder SaddleBrooke hikers enjoyed the first annual Halloween fun hike on the afternoon of October 31 at Catalina State Park. Everyone wore a silly hat and told jokes along the way, earning their treat which was a Hallow-weenie roast complete with potato salad, baked beans and desserts at the Gila Monster picnic site. This…

A cowboy’s quest to save the wild mustang

Lynn Wiese Sneyd and H. Alan Day

Patti R. Albaugh How many of us have used the phrase “Wild horses couldn’t make me—”? H. Alan Day, author of The Horse Lover: A Cowboy’s Quest to Save the Wild Mustang, spoke to SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary about starting the first government-sponsored wild horse sanctuary in the United States. Hearing his story, many of those…

SaddleBrooke saddles up for horseshoes

From left: Don Stone, Gary Zellinger and Gene Gross

Here’s something you may have enjoyed as a kid and may not have tried recently; horseshoes. Now that the weather is cooling off, it’s a good time to invite your friends and gallop on down to the SaddleBrooke Horseshoe Courts. It’s an activity that is perfect for most all of us. The courts are located…

What’s new at SaddleBrooke Computer Club?

Richard Beaty User Group meeting features one of the Apple Chicks One of the group of talented ladies that teach Apple topics for SaddleBrooke Computer Club (self-dubbed: Apple Chicks), was the featured speaker at the November SBCC Users Group Meeting. Her topic: Changes that help your computer, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch work together. It…

Why I joined GLAAS

Diane Clary In this world where things are becoming more and more digitized and less and less personalized I’ve noticed that hate seems to be an emotion that is spreading rapidly. I know this is not new, people have always been taught how to hate those who don’t mirror their beliefs; however, just as many,…

Hikers view petroglyphs and historic mines

SaddleBrooke hikers looking up at the numerous petroglyphs: Myrna Simms, Joyce and Joe Maurizzi, Mike Wolters, Sy Efron, Fred Norris, Rob Simms, Margaret Valair and Dave Corrigan (missing, Sharon Simpson); photo by Elisabeth Wheeler

Elisabeth Wheeler On one of the first cooler days of fall, eleven SaddleBrooke hikers hiked a loop in the Tucson Mountains from Kings Canyon to Wasson Peak to the Esperanza Trail and back to Kings Canyon. Hikers spent time finding and identifying several panels of petroglyphs in King Canyon. Wasson Peak provided 360 degree views…

Shop and support SBCO

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization that is a wonderful way to help the kids, clothe and educate children in the SBCO service area extending from Catalina to the San Carlos Apache Reservation. A great way to do this is by shopping at Bashas’ and using their Bashas’ Community Support Card.…