Category: Generals

Volunteer appreciation

Nan Nasser Come and celebrate another wonderful year with SaddleBrooke Community Outreach, acknowledging programs like Kids’ Closet, Teen Closet, educational opportunities and support of local food programs. On Monday, April 13 SBCO will celebrate its annual volunteer appreciation meeting, acknowledging individuals and corporations who have given special time and talents to our kids in communities…

SASO Season Concert IV

Punch Howarth Program Four of the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra season will present a divergent group of selections. Included will be a viola concerto, a new work premier, incidental music to a play and a concerto movement performed by the winner of the SASO young artist competition. Conductor Linus Lerner also leads the Rio Grande…

Donations needed

Maxine Wilverding Sr. Jose Women’s Shelter located in the homeless corridor in Tucson has a need for the following: adult clothes, twin sheets, blankets (any size), towels and personal care items such as shampoo, shower gel, lotions (regular or travel size) and feminine products. Men’s clothing will also be accepted and donated where needed. The…

Unit Happenings – March 2015

Front row: Suzy Miller, Lan Bedard, Pam Corrigan, Karin Menghini, Brenda Kore, Steve Wilson and Dave Corrigan; Back row: Steve Kore, Pam Brunelle, Sam Miller, Roger Bedard, Gary Brunelle, Maureen Edelblut, Ray Peale, Mark Menghini, Jen Drutis and Jim Thom

Unit 7 Nancy and Neil Macdonald On February 13, the evening before Valentine’s Day, almost forty of our Unit Seveners got together at Kay and Tony Cruise’s home where we all had an excellent time. The Cruises treated us to pulled pork sandwiches and later to cake and ice cream while the rest of us…

Tucson Concert Band performs at DesertView

Left to right: Jason Nofsinger, Edwin Sand and Jim Van Brocklin

Ed Sand Tucson Concert Band held a special concert on Saturday, January 24 at DesertView PAC. The band is in its 49th year being founded by Howard Beaver in 1966. It is a community concert band of volunteer musicians from 18 to 80. The director is Lorelei Allison Conrad, LCDR, U.S. Navy, retired. She enlisted…

Variety Show 2016: That’s Entertainment

Sing, dance, play harmonica? Solo, duet, quartet, more? SaddleBrooke’s wildly popular and most well attended talent event returns to the DesertView Theater stage in March of 2016. Following three successive musical type productions, Variety Show 2016 is returning to its roots featuring an array of vocal, dance and instrumental performances – with a few surprises…

News from the Desert Stars

Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg The Desert Stars had several performances in November and December of 2014. The troupe is under the direction of Patsy Chase who started The Desert Stars in 1997. The group’s motto is clogging with a flair. She and her husband, Bud, came to live in Tucson in 1980 and built a…

Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries – March 2015

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument

New Mexico guided bus tour March 28 – April 1 The Southwest New Mexico Tour sponsored by the Friends of the SaddleBrooke Libraries will explore the unique character of southern New Mexico. The five day, four night bus tour will be from Saturday, March 28 through Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Day 1: SaddleBrooke to Silver…

Why personal training?

A Personal Trainer is a fitness professional involved in exercise prescription and instruction. They motivate clients by setting goals, provide feedback and accountability. Personal Trainers educate their clients in many aspects of wellness and exercise such as bone and joint health, strength, core, posture, balance, sports specific training, cardiovascular fitness, injury prevention, and recovery, stress…