The Windy City Club held its fifth consecutive annual social event celebrating our past U.S. presidents on Sunday, February 17, 2019. The event was held again at SaddleBrooke One with an excellent dinner served up by the exceptional RoadRunner staff. Our Windy City members and guests filled the Grill, for a great event filled with…
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…
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…
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…
Twink Gates-Zimdar, Publicity On Saturday, March 9, it was a beautiful sunny, but chilly day in SaddleBrooke when nine ladies of the British Club met for a coffee morning, book and fashion exchange at the home of Susan Biestek. As per usual everyone enjoyed the camaraderie of friends, exchanging tales of current events in their…
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…
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.…
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…
Liz Boyd Because our usual meeting site is not available, there will be no SaddleBrooke service on Easter Day. However, church members and guests will still be celebrating Easter together. A bus will leave the SaddleBrooke One Clubhouse at 8:15 a.m. and take some 40 people to attend the 9:15 a.m. Easter service at our…
Mike Oberski Yeah, yippee, we were finally able to have our first tennis social this year! If you recall, our New Year’s and Valentine socials were cancelled due to rain. Therefore, the flute playing legend of Kokopelli may be true because we felt the transition from winter to spring with a gentle breeze and warmer…