Don Bott When the SaddleBrooke’s Canada del Oro Barbershop Chorus performs its Goodtime Barbershop Variety Show at the DesertView Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, March 5, guest artists will include two champion harmony quartets. Audacity, the international senior barbershop quartet champions, sang with the chorus a couple of years ago. Their songs of old are…
Nita Fuchs Don’t let anyone tell you the number 13 is an unlucky number. The residents of SaddleBrooke One proved 2013 to be the best in thirteen years when donating toward the thirteenth annual Employees’ Holiday Party. The party was held on Sunday, December 15 in the SaddleBrooke One Clubhouse. More dollars were donated this…
We are growing! Last year Catalina Community Services provided nearly 50,000 clothing items for qualified, local residents. To meet the needs of even more families we have expanded our services. Our new clothing bank is located in the Catalina Pointe Plaza at 15920 N Oracle Road, Suite 150, next door to the Golden Goose Thrift…
Elizabeth Stephens The Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries, FSL, Annual Membership Kickoff event is scheduled for Wednesday, January 22, 2014, in the MountainView Ballroom. The doors will open at 1:00 p.m. and the program begins at 1:30 p.m. Gregory McNamee, a dynamic speaker and prolific writer from the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona, will…
Ann Vernon When it comes to generosity, Jennifer Starner, managing partner of Carrabba’s Italian Grill, epitomizes the term. For the Treats and Talents Charity Auction she is like the gift that keeps on giving! Last spring she and her staff hosted a cooking class for 15 auction attendees who purchased this fixed price event. It…
Santa Catalina Catholic Church at 14380 N. Oracle Road will be hosting an open session on Sunday afternoon, January 26, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Parish Hall to address the issue of youth homelessness in our communities. Youth homelessness is a daily and growing problem for hundreds of teenage girls and boys throughout…
Mark your calendars for February 16 and 17 for the second A Community That Cares fundraiser for the University of Arizona Cancer Research Center. This two day fund raising event, chaired by Clark Hall, features two major events with lots of fun, activity and great prizes. The Sunday, February 16 event starts off with a Taste of SaddleBrooke at…
Cathy Schaber 2014 marks the twentieth year for the SaddleBrooke Friday Quilt Club, and to mark that milestone the theme of this year’s quilt show will be Memories. The show will be held at the MountainView Ballroom from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Expect to see at least 100 beautiful creations on display on Sunday,…
Nan Nasser Start clipping those food store coupons! The annual SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Food Drive will be held on Saturday, March 22, 2014. This event is open to all residents, including SaddleBrooke Ranch, with curbside pickup of nonperishable food items that will be delivered to the Tri Community Food Bank in Mammoth. It takes the…
Nan Nasser Two days before Thanksgiving, members of SaddleBrooke Community Outreach, Inc. loaded their cars with all the trimmings for a holiday meal and headed to Oracle. Under the direction of chairmen Joan and Rich Roberts, the first stop was at the Oracle Ridge Learning Center where 10 baskets of food were quickly assembled for…