Tag: volunteer

Senior Village at SaddleBrooke: Neighbors helping Neighbors

Gather Your Electronics for Community-Wide Recycling Collection Suzanne Marlatt-Stewart Senior Village is working with Suburban Miners of Tucson to offer a community recycling event for all SaddleBrooke residents. Operating since 2007, Suburban Miners shreds all hard drives and guarantees safe and secure recycling. Electronics in working order are also passed on to those in need…

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Happenings

Coronado K-8 band students use ukuleles and music stands provided by an SBCO educational grant.

Help Feed Our Neighbors – Annual Food Drive on March 21 Nancy McCluskey-Moore Want to make a big difference in the lives of families in nearby communities? It’s easy – just participate in the 22nd annual SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) Food Drive. On Saturday, March 21, volunteers will gather donations of food and money to…

Thank You, Wags and Walkers volunteers!

Wags and Walkers volunteers

Marcia Vernon Thank you to the Wags and Walkers volunteers for all your support at this year’s I Don’t Want It Sale. Your efforts on behalf of the pets at the Pima Animal Care Center (PACC) helped raise an amazing $4,400. Our success is due in large part to the efforts of this dedicated group of…

Adopt-a-Family and Adopt-a-Child program again brighten the holiday season

Ken and Ellen Perkins For more than a decade, the SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Adopt-a-Family and Adopt-a-Child program has provided hand-picked and carefully wrapped Christmas gifts to local families and Apache children on the San Carlos reservation. In recent years, the program has grown to annually assist about 90 families and 257 Apache children. SaddleBrooke and…

Honoring Senior Village volunteers

Stephanie Thomas Once a year, the volunteers of Senior Village become guests of honor at a reception to thank them for the thousands of miles and hours they commit to serving the SaddleBrooke community. Starting on the patio of the Activity Center, they have a chance to mingle, sip wine and appetizers and get to…

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Happenings

SBCO honors volunteers and supporters Nancy McCluskey-Moore For more than 20 years, SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) has supported food, clothing and educational programs for local children. Annually SBCO serves a 100-mile corridor stretching from Catalina to Miami and San Carlos, which includes more than three counties, eight communities, 17 schools, three Head Start programs and…

Health Fair volunteers needed

Phyllis Ketring, Publicity Coordinator SaddleBrooke volunteers and residents have supported the annual Health Fair for 21 years and 2019 will mark the 22nd anniversary of this popular event. Health Fair 2019 will be held on Saturday morning, October 12. Volunteers work in 90-minute shifts so they can attend the fair exhibits themselves. There are many…

“Little Jack Frost get lost”

Eileen J Snearly A frost delay on December 4, 2018, on the MountainView Golf Course forced a cancellation of a planned event in order to arrive on time for the holiday luncheon and entertainment at the MountainView Bistro. Given lemons the MountainView Preserve lady Niners chairpersons and their committee made lemonade by setting up a…