Category: Clubs & Classes

Upcoming Learning Opportunities This Spring

Robbie Summers, Education and Registrar Below are the current art classes being offered. The spring session will continue with more special classes including the group book study of The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron that is moderated by Deb Kress. Don’t miss out. Check the Art Classes page at saddlebrookefinearts.org for the most up-to-date schedule and…

Pool Players of The Brooke Results

Joe Giammarino First, we would like to thank Sun City Oro Valley Billiards Club (SCOV), Activity Director Jim Lilja, and President Tom Caswell for the friendly competition and camaraderie. Another big thank you goes out to Dominic Borland and Gary Barlow, captains of the Pool Players of the Brooke (PPB) travel team for organizing this event…

SaddleBrooke Republican Club Recap

Hazel Staloff The SaddleBrooke Republican Club featured four Republican candidates for positions on the Arizona Corporation Commission at its Feb. 12 meeting: Neil DeSanti, Kim Owens, Nick Myers, and Eric Sloan. Former State Treasurer Eileen Klein represented a current member of the Commission also up for election, Lea Márquez Peterson. The ACC has a wide…

Learn the Modern Hustle

Roger and Linda Shamburg, Charla Blacker, Dan Eggleston, Peg and Joe Tomlinson, Dick Dunbar, and Bertie Litchfield practicing their dance lesson.

Diana Durham So, if you think of the hustle dance style and the ’70s come to mind, stop right there! The modern hustle (also called “New York Hustle”) is a dynamic, flashy, and superb series of dance steps that is the best all-around dance for contemporary music. You and your partner will look and feel…

Change Your Diet, Change Your Life

Guest speaker Dr. Ted Crawford

Sandy Rose “Plant Based Nutrition – What Our Medical Training Failed to Teach Us” will be presented by Dr. Ted Crawford in the MountainView Ballroom on Friday, April 3, 2020, 3-5 p.m. Dr. Crawford is a board-certified, family practice physician who promotes plant-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine. He will be retiring soon and plans to dedicate his…

Francophiles Celebrate February with SAACA and Valentine’s Day

Exploring and celebrating at the botanical gardens.

Pat Floyd The SaddleBrooke Francophiles celebrated February with two exciting and delicious events. On Feb. 8, we traveled to the Tucson Botanical Gardens to participate in the annual Southern Arizona Food and Wine Festival, sponsored by SAACA. Over 50 local wineries, breweries, distilleries, restaurant chefs, and food purveyors were located throughout the gardens. Art experiences,…

Hikers Explore a Desert Sanctuary

SaddleBrooke hikers pose at Maeveen Behan Desert Sanctuary. Photo by Elisabeth Wheeler.

Elisabeth Wheeler Sixteen hikers from the SaddleBrooke Hiking Club strolled along 5.2 miles of well-developed trails in the Maeveen Behan Desert Sanctuary, a part of the Arthur Pack Regional Park west of Thornydale Road. Their efforts proved how much fun it is to discover and explore an easy hiking trail where one can view many…

The Sadie/Bubba Brouhaha

First place winning team: Dan Nordhill, Ann Van Sickel, Bill Burnett, and Carey Ricard with Sweet Sadie Hawkins (front center) grinning, because she knows it’s all about her. Photo by Andrea Gray.

Ann Lange Each year, the MountainView/Preserve Women’s and Men’s Golf Associations (MPWGA and MPMGA) alternate hosting the Sadie/Bubba golf event. As Feb. 18 approached, the Sadies sharpened their spikes and set out to snag ‘n bag one of those fine Brooke Bubbas from our little village in Podunk Patch. Seein’ as how there aren’t actually any…

NW Tucson Bridge Club

Peter Godrey “I wouldn’t mind being in jail if I had three cellmates who were decent players and who were willing to keep the game going 24 hours a day.” —Warren Buffett, describing his love of the game of bridge. Bridge is the world’s most popular card game, enjoyed every day by millions of people.…