Back to the Garden – Cristate Saguaro, An Eyeful of Magic Sheilah Britton, Pinal County Master Gardener The Sonoran Desert is full of surprises—javelina families sharing a prickly pear cactus, hawks on the arms of saguaros, water rushing through arroyos after a rain, a chorus of coyotes howling at dusk, cactus flowers coloring the desert…
The Golden Goose Thrift Shop regrets to inform everyone that the Spring Awakening event planned for Monday, April 4 has been postponed indefinitely due to COVID-related issues. We look forward to rescheduling this event as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding!
Mel (Skip) Brauns Our cycling club, Cycle Masters, recently donated $1,000 to SaddleBrooke Community Outreach for allowing us to use their office (Suite L in the SaddleBrooke commercial center) to stage our monthly delivery of the SaddleBrooke Progress newspaper. They graciously wrote us a nice thank-you letter to acknowledge our donation: Dear Skip, On behalf…
Rosemary Douglas We are sometimes asked where the Tri-Community Food Bank (TCFB) gets the food that we distribute to our customers. The answer is that we get food from a variety of sources. In the past, donations from food drives have been one source of supply. Recently, however, food donations have been minimal due to…
Help Stop Hunger with 24th SBCO Annual Food Drive ancy McCluskey-Moore Between Feb. 19 and March 19, SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) will hold its annual food drive to benefit the Tri-Community Food Bank (TCFB) based in Mammoth. TCFB serves needy families living in Mammoth, San Manuel, Oracle, and the Dudleyville/Aravaipa area. Many in these communities…
Andrea Molberg Getting tickets for Community Circle Players’ March dinner and theater production of The Curious Savage can mean no lines and no waiting, thanks to the online ticket sales process. Let your computer mouse do the work. Online ticket sales for this acclaimed comedy begin Feb. 1. Or if you prefer, in-person sales start a…
Linda Shannon-Hills Please, we need your help. The Red Cross is experiencing the worst blood shortage in over a decade. The SaddleBrooke Ranch Red Cross Blood Drive is on Saturday, Feb. 19, from 7 a.m. until 1 p.m. The American Red Cross continues to be short on needed blood. If you can donate, we encourage…
Ann Vernon Happy New Year! Believe it or not, March is just around the corner. I hope you have March 6 on your calendar and plan to attend the Oracle Schools Foundation Spring Fling dinner and auction at the MountainView Ballroom. The doors will open at 4:30 p.m. when registration begins with a no-host bar…
Jane Gromelski We enjoyed listening and dancing to Wild Ride in the MountainView parking lot. They are even better indoors in the MountainView Ballroom. SaddleBrooke Partners Western Dance Club will sponsor a concert dinner dance on Friday, Feb. 25, in the MountainView Ballroom. Come to listen or come to dance. All are welcome. The dancers are…
Kimberly Franklin If you’ve lived in Southern Arizona for some time, you likely realize that fire is not common in the desert. Deserts simply do not provide enough fuel to support fires of any significant size or severity, but this situation is changing rapidly. Two fire-loving grasses are invading the desert landscapes of Southern Arizona.…