Category: Features

Artist of the Month: Rita Lee

  00LaVerne Kyriss Rita Lee’s work has taken her around the world. She learned about photography and portraiture by being a photographer’s model as a young woman. She learned about architecture, drafting and reading building plans by handling architectural sales in the construction industry and she spent 40 years working as an interior designer, learning…

How Does Your Garden Grow?

  Louise Grabell Everyone can grow tomatoes! One plant is all you’ll need to harvest plenty of delicious fruit to enjoy in early summer. Growing tomatoes in the high desert of southern Arizona is a bit different from other places. Since I grow my tomatoes in a container, the following will explain how to do…

SaddleBrooke Pet Rescue Network

  Together, this is what we do Many hundreds of pets like Naysa receive urgent medical treatment because you supported the Network. We’re a powerful team! Found abandoned in a backyard, she was emaciated, had valley fever, and was extremely fearful of humans. She wouldn’t survive in a shelter. Our rescue partner, Cold Wet Noses,…

This I have learned…

  Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg She stood on the steps of the white gazebo that overlooked the serene lake and began to ruminate about the last 24 hours; a profound, heavy sadness overcame her. He was her touch stone, her confidant and her strength. She wondered how she would go on without him. She met…

Go further with food

  Nancy Teeter, RDN “Go Further with Food” is the theme for National Nutrition Month® 2018. Whether it’s starting the day off right with a healthy breakfast or fueling before an athletic event, the foods you choose can make a real difference. This year’s theme encourages us to achieve the numerous benefits healthy eating habits…

Project update

  James R. Pederson We are continuing to prepare the site at Oracle Road and SaddleBrooke Boulevard for the construction of our long-anticipated shopping center. The site is being prepared for the grocery store and other retail shops, which will begin their construction in late summer or early fall 2018. If all goes as planned,…

2 Your Health: Brue Chiropractic

  Dr. Craig Brue During the past few years I have been using chiropractic adjusting instruments; the Activator and the Impulse, where patients feel a light tapping sensation on their spine. The Activator is a spring-loaded instrument. The Impulse is an electronic device. I am often asked, “How does that work…or how can that help?”…

SaddleBrooke Gift Shop featured artist – Linda Whitehead

  Russell C. Stokes Linda Whitehead loves meeting people, chatting about mutual interests and sharing experiences. She describes herself as “friendly, outgoing and tenacious.” She is the SaddleBrooke Gift Shop featured artist for the month of March. Linda was born in Deweyville, Texas; a small town near the border of Louisiana. She grew up in…