Patti R. Albaugh Maggie De Block recently spoke to SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary about her work with the Defense Support Program (DSP). She retired from the Aerospace industry (TRW) after 25 years. Maggie might be a petite woman, but she had tall responsibilities at work. In charge of negotiating major subcontracts for spacecraft hardware in support…
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Clubs & Classes, April 2017
WOOO Singles Club keeps busy
WOOO, a club for single women living in SaddleBrooke and the Ranch, continues to keep its members busy with activities. Dine Arounds: February’s dine around was held at BJ’s, hosted by Lucie Gerritzen. It was a great change from our local restaurants. We traveled even further for our March 15 Dine Around to The Wild Garlic.…
Clubs & Classes, April 2017
What’s new at SaddleBrooke Computer Club
Richard Beaty New Website FOR SBCC SaddleBrooke Computer Club has been so privileged to have Francis Adams as our webmaster. Over the years our website evolved from a static information site to a highly interactive one. New members can join the club, existing members can pay their annual course fee and register for classes—all automatic…
Clubs & Classes, April 2017
SaddleBrooke Hiking Club work event on the Arizona Trail
Elisabeth Wheeler Twenty members of the SaddleBrooke Hiking Club completed significant trail maintenance on the Oracle Passage of the Arizona Trail on March 15. Catclaw and dead tree branches were removed from the trail. The trail was widened next to natural drainages and water barriers were developed to prevent trail erosion. After three hours of…
Clubs & Classes, April 2017
March Party given by Line Dance with Rebecca is a rousing success
Dr. Mark Magdanz Forty-five of your SaddleBrooke and Ranch friends and neighbors spent the afternoon of March 18 on the MountainView Ballroom dance floor. Almost 30 different dances were performed at the fun and energetic afternoon party. A great time was had by all and a donation ($357) was raised and will be split between…
Clubs & Classes, April 2017
Let’s Dance and SBDC
Ballroom Dance Clubs to merge Ruth Birkhead The Let’s Dance Club and the SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club (SBDC) are merging to form one club to offer dance instruction, practice sessions and dinner dances. The SBDC was formed in 1999 with the mission to provide opportunities for ballroom dancing. The club has grown to include about…
Clubs & Classes, April 2017
SaddleBrooke Francophiles Club celebrates the coming of spring
Pat Smith The SaddleBrooke Francophiles have begun 2017 with a real flurry of fun activities: celebrating the Epiphany with the Feast of Kings on January 7; combining the festivities of Mardi Gras with La Chandeluer Crepe Party on February 18 and creating and enjoying the Foods and Wines from Four Regions of France on March…
Clubs & Classes, April 2017
Square ’em up for St. Patrick’s Day
Kay White 5:00 p.m. – Thursday March 16, 2017 * Friends of the Library occupy MountainView Ballroom for their monthly lecture. Two hundred plus people are seated listening spellbound to a lecture on Admiral Isoroku Yamamot, Japan’s premier naval strategist. They have no idea that 65 square dancers wait in the hall for their turn…
Clubs & Classes, April 2017
Coyote Country Cloggers perform at Federal Prison
Diane Korn In February the Coyote Country Cloggers had the experience of a lifetime performing at the Federal Correctional Institute in Tucson. Our troupe of eight cloggers had to go through extensive background checks to enter the facility. When we arrived we were subject to more screening procedures, similar to that done by airport security,…
Clubs & Classes, April 2017
MOAA Satellite Chapter learns about Air Force Reserve operations
Colonel Rett Benedict (U.S.A.F. Retired) The speaker for the March 18 meeting of the Catalina Mountain Satellite of MOAA was Chief Master Sergeant Thomas J. Brandhuber, Command Chief Master Sergeant for the Tenth Air Force, Naval Air Station, Ft. Worth Texas where he is the sole enlisted advisor to the Commander for the over 12,300…