Category: March 2022

A Concert You’d Be Foolish to Miss

Claudia Kistler, President, SaddleBrooke Singers The SaddleBrooke Singers invite you to join us for a concert on Friday, April 1 at the DesertView Performing Arts Center in SaddleBrooke, starting at 7:30 p.m. Our appropriate theme for April Fools’ Day 2022 is a concert entitled Foolish Not To Love. Spend your April 1 evening with the…

SaddleBrooke SilverBelles Welcome Terri Mullin

  Tami Peterson Terri is a Colorado native whose profession for 40 years was dental assisting. Inspired by one of her patients, who was a ballroom dancer, upon retiring, she decided to take it up. Now, competing with her professional ballroom dance teachers is one of the highlights of her newfound love. As a young…

Grand Kids Days Are Back—April 15 and 16

Doug Springer Grandkids visiting for Easter break? The SaddleBrooke TWO Fitness, Wellness, and Recreation Committee brings two days chock full of activities for your grandkids. We happily announce the very popular Grand Kids Days are back following a two-year suspension; the fun and games have returned. If you have visitors from away or local family…

Why Are Tennis Courts Blue?

TJ Duffy Premier amenities make SaddleBrooke one of the most desirable places in the country to live. Thankfully, our golf courses are built and maintained for residents to play golf, and bocce ball courts are built and maintained for residents to play bocce ball. So it follows that our tennis courts are built and maintained for residents…

It’s a Win-Win for You and Our Libraries

Nancy McCluskey-Moore The Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries’ 2022 Bucks 4 Books Raffle is designed to provide funds for the three SaddleBrooke community libraries to purchase new books, audio books, and DVDs. Raffle entrants are eligible for eight cash drawings, eight celebration event ticket drawings, and a final grand prize drawing in November. For the grand prize…

Donations Needed to Help People Start a New Life

Can you imagine having to flee your home without a moment’s notice because you were in imminent danger? Can you imagine traveling a long way to a new country where everything is so different and you don’t speak the language? How wonderful it would be to find out that people who don’t even know you…

The Art Form of Portrait Miniatures

Harriet Shemer and Andrea Holland The Catalina Timewalkers SaddleBrooke chapter of The Questers held its Feb. 18 meeting at the elegant home of Sandi Newberry, who served as co-hostess for the event. Program hostess Harriet Shemer prepared a fascinating presentation that traced the development of portrait art miniatures and the various techniques involved to create…

Back to the Garden—Seeds for Global Gardens

Sheilah Britton, Pinal County Master Gardener I’ve just purchased $30 worth of seeds to plant in the small bins at SaddleBrooke Ranch’s Community Garden and, as an experiment, I intend to catalogue and keep a daily journal of its progress and success, to be followed up with a report at the end of the summer.…