Category: March 2018

SaddleBrooke Paper Crafters get a busy start to 2018

Carol Thompson SaddleBrooke’s Paper Crafters started off the year with their 20th Anniversary celebration. Then, some of our members visited Mountain View Retirement Community on La Canada. In February, they delivered some of their card creations to the doors of 80+ assisted living residents. The SaddleBrooke Paper Crafters meet on the second Wednesday every month…

Gardeners Exchange

  Linda Vautrin-Hale The Gardeners Exchange in conjunction with the SaddleBrooke/SaddleBrooke Ranch Master Gardeners welcomes you to attend “Month by Month Landscape Care Tips” presented by Dr. Jacqueline Soule, long time SW gardener, author of numerous gardening texts and garden consultant. The event will be on Thursday, March 15, 2018, at SaddleBrooke MountainView Ballroom West…

Senior Softball Winter League

  Mark Hojnacki Approaching the mid-season mark of the Winter League season stellar hitting dominates all seven leagues in SaddleBrooke Senior Softball Association. The season ends the last week of April when we say good-bye to our snowbird players returning to their summer homes. Sign-ups for spring season will be in early April. In the…

Prescription drug drop-off program schedule

  Esta Goldstein Pinal County Sheriff’s SaddleBrooke Substation allows you to safely dispose of your out-of-date or unused prescriptions or over the counter drugs; and sharp instruments (i.e. needles, syringe, etc) can now be dropped off, too. Drop offs are on the second Friday of each month from 10:00 a.m.-noon and on the fourth Tuesday…

Last call for the Yuma Square Dance Festival

  Bob White The curtain came down on February 12, 2018 on the perennial favorite square dance festival in Yuma, Arizona. After 68 continuous years of presenting a festival for square dancers from all over the Southwest as well as Canada, the organization that put on the festival (YSRDA) felt that they could no longer…

SaddleBrooke Swimmers compete in Tucson Sr. Games

  Don Schaefer An unusual middle of the week swim meet in South Tucson at Clements Swimming Pool was on the schedule for 15 members of the SaddleBrooke Swim Team. Clements Pool is located not far from the Pima Air and Space Museum on the Pima C.C. East Campus. Swimmers came from Sun Lakes, Green…

Health Fair needs Coordinator of Volunteers

  Phyllis Ketring The Health Fair Planning Committee needs a Volunteer Coordinator to join the team for this year’s October Health Fair. This person must have strong interpersonal skills to recruit and communicate with volunteers and interact with the planning team. Some familiarity with Excel and email will be useful. During the year, there are…

Meet Black Widow Betty from The Mafioso Murders

Andrea Molberg There will be lots of clues, surprises, and fun at Community Circle Players’ new dinner theatre show The Mafioso Murders. In the cast of the mystery dinner production at SaddleBrooke One’s Vistas April 8-11 and at SaddleBrooke TWO’s MountainView Ballroom April 12-14 is Kathleen “Casey” Domalewski playing Black Widow Betty. Seventeen years ago,…

The “Wall That Heals” coming to Oro Valley

  Ken Robinson, Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army (Ret.) The Wall That Heals, the largest traveling scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC along with a Mobile Education Center, is coming to Oro Valley, AZ March 15-18. The site will be open 24 hours a day and is free to the public.…