Cheri Emahiser The SaddleBrooke Singers are busy rehearsing songs for their spring concert scheduled for April 1 at the DesertView Performing Arts Center. Look for tickets to go on sale soon. You won’t want to miss our spring concert titled Foolish Not to Love. She Can Swing: One of our veteran singers rehearsing with the…
Why Is Massage Considered Self-Care? Heidi Overman, LMT #MT-24997 My theme for 2020 is: Self-Care Is Not Selfish. We need to take care of ourselves—now, more than ever. When talking with clients, it seems that stress and anxiety have elevated more than ever, and our bodies and minds are taking the brunt of it. Our…
David Taylor An airport transportation service is available for SaddleBrooke residents: Arizona GO! Owners Greg and Robin Williams started their company in May 2018, servicing the six major 55-plus communities of Northwest Tucson, including the Robson SaddleBrooke and SaddleBrooke Ranch. As business quickly grew, they opened up in the Casa Grande area with Robson Ranch, since they always…
Suzanne Marlatt Stewart February is the month of love, sending valentines, enjoying a candlelight dinner with a loved one, or watching romantic movies. But what must come first is loving yourself. You can’t give to another if you don’t have it within yourself to give. Several world religions refer to loving yourself. “You shall love your…
Karen Brungardt COVID-19 gave Karen a gift, time on her hands because she had to stay home. She decided to take advantage and dug out her parents’ memoirs. Yes, both of her parents each wrote a memoir! She edited them, taking their typed manuscripts and making them into books, adding photos and other information. Her mother…
Stuart Watkins Okay, you keep the house, and I’ll take the Ford 150. Little did she know, the house was mortgaged up to the hilt. Only had $50 in my pocket and a Visa credit card, but in Nashville I met an online gal that looked swell. Had to stop in Bristol, Va., to gas…
Lisa John and Shelia Ratza Unit 11 has welcomed approximately 20 new residents in the last four years. We also have several original owners in our unit of 90-plus homes. Our Social Committee reconvened recently to resume the planning of unit get-togethers in 2021. The committee, consisting of seven members, held four unit events, plus…
Bernice Christian, Sharon Scanlan, and Janet Fabio This is probably not a question many of you have pondered over the years. Folks have just taken for granted that somehow three distinct libraries have been established here. To understand, we have to go back a bit in SaddleBrooke history. In about 1989, a “comfy cozy” room…
David Zapatka The Tour de France is one of the greatest sporting spectacles of the year. I love watching the drama and triumph. While watching the broadcast, I heard a commentator describe the upcoming chicane in the course and knew immediately, “chicane” would be my next word of the month. Chicane verb chi·cane | \…
Bruce Landeck Dec. 13 was a beautiful, sunny, early winter day as hikers started out to Dripping Springs. From the trailhead at Catalina State Park, they hiked for a short distance on the Canyon Loop to the Sutherland Trail, which they followed until the Dripping Springs Trail cutoff. This route is a beautiful, 4.2-mile out-and-back…