Category: April 2015

Health Fair turns 22

Phyllis Ketring, Publicity Coordinator SaddleBrooke volunteers and residents have supported the annual Health Fair for 21 years and 2019 will mark the 22nd anniversary of this popular event. Health Fair 2019 will be Saturday morning, October 12. Over 100 volunteers make it possible for over 1000 residents to meet local healthcare providers, have their annual…

Knit Wits news

Carol Chiarello Yes, we have done it again! In late February, the Knit Wits held the annual baby shower in support of SaddleBrooke Troop Support. Beth came to our meeting to share stories of the vetted families who will receive our baby and mom items. She also brought along Marlene, who volunteers at the Military…

Move to the Music 2019

This season’s Move to the Music, an exercise program featuring line dance, touched on many kinds of line dances and many kinds of music. In each eight-week series the dancers learned up to ten current and classic line dances. The dances were chosen to expose the dancers to most of the basic steps and sequences…

Wildflowers galore!

Elisabeth Wheeler On SaddleBrooke Hiking Club’s recent hike to Catalina State Park, members expressed amazement over the thirty types of wildflowers in bloom along the trail. They had great fun rock-hopping over the running stream six times on the way to Sutherland Loop. The venture became a kind of scavenger hunt, because leaders Tim Butler…

MountainView Bridge news

Sue Bush Congratulations to Virginia Brier who became a Life Master at the Palm Springs Regional Tournament in December. Virginia started playing five years ago with her friend, Linda Grissom. They took lessons from Barbara Rosenthal and one day in 2014 Barbara convinced her to attend the Las Vegas National Tournament that July. Virginia went…

SilverBelles enjoy a night out

Vivian Herman and Ann Kurtz Several SilverBelles attended the show Growing Up Kelly at the Gaslight Theatre on March 6. Our former choreographer Colleen Kelly Beaman performed in this special tribute to her father, the fabulous hoofer, choreographer, actor and music composer, Fred Kelly. Fred was the younger brother of the more well-known Gene Kelly.…

Leo Barron: The Battle of the Bulge

Larry Linderman On February 28, the SaddleBrooke World War II Roundtable presented a talk by Leo Barron, an instructor of military intelligence at Ft. Huachuca, on the Battle of the Bulge. Leo was able to take a complicated chapter of the war and break it down so the audience, many of whom had no military…