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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Pete Giljohann Gold, silver and bronze! SaddleBrooke Pickleball Association (SPA) was well represented at the fourteenth annual Duel in the Desert Pickleball Tournament at Palm Creek RV Resort in Casa Grande in early March. This year’s Duel in the Desert tournament played over four days had 518 participants and 690 matches. It is one of…
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…
Cathy Schaber Several SaddleBrooke Friday Quilters entered their quilts in the thirty-ninth annual Tucson Quilters Guild Quilt Fiesta held in February. Over the years SaddleBrooke quilters have been well represented at this large regional show. Doreen Diaz was a first-time submitter with Red Hot Hosta and won an Honorable Mention ribbon in the two-person large pieced…
Bernie Nagy At the requests of local residents and photographers, a new photography club was formed and is welcoming new members. SaddleBrooke Photography Club will provide an informal, friendly and supportive environment for all levels of experience from beginners and intermediate to advanced photographers. “Our club will foster and encourage growth of artistic vision by…