Larry Linderman On November 26, 1941 a Japanese aircraft carrier strike force which included six carriers left home waters and set out for the Hawaiian Islands intending to attack and destroy American warships and planes on December 7. The attack was devastatingly successful: eight battleships were heavily damaged as were three cruisers and three…
Category: April 2018
Religion, April 2018
CCSB understands about the children
Kathy Doran Community Church at SaddleBrooke (CCSB) donated 226 Easter bags for distribution at the Tri-Community Food Bank in Mammoth on Palm Sunday. So many children came with big smiles on their faces in anticipation of what was in their Easter bag! CCSB members are a very generous and giving congregation with programs for…
Clubs & Classes, April 2018
Celebrating over 150 volunteer hours on the Arizona National Scenic Trail since October
Elisabeth Wheeler On March 21 SaddleBrooke hikers celebrated the completion of over 450 volunteer hours (since October) on the Arizona National Scenic Trail. Volunteers under the guidance of Zach MacDonald of the Arizona Trail Association enjoyed a morning of putting the finishing touches on 1.5 miles of newly built trail on the Oracle Passage…
Clubs & Classes, April 2018
MountainView Bridge Club news
Ann Kuperberg Now that the first Arizona Senior Regional in Tucson is over, we can look forward to future Senior Regionals here instead of in Chandler. Congratulations to Betty Edwards who became Life Master after the Regional and to Sharon Wyles who reached NABC Master. The MountainView Bridge Club meets at the Catalina Room…
Clubs & Classes, April 2018
Mule Ears hike
Randy Park Above SaddleBrooke, in the Santa Catalina Mountains, is a rock formation on the Samaniego Ridge called Mule Ears. From most of our community it looks like just another rock formation, but from the 16th or 17th hole on the Preserve golf course, one can see that there are, in fact, two separate…
Features, April 2018
Resident wins grand prize #2 in TMC Mega Raffle
Tucson Medical Center’s sixth annual TMC Mega Raffle broke records with its earliest sell-out to date and the 50/50 jackpot hitting nearly $700,000. As a result, both the Early Bird and Final winner drawings took place last week. On Wednesday, March 14 Early Bird winners were selected and on Thursday, March 15 the winners of…
Clubs & Classes, April 2018
Move to the Music
Bonnie Schoenfelder In the winter session of Move to the Music we learned 12 new dances in eight weeks while logging as many as 5000 steps per session, a really nice moderate aerobic experience. It doesn’t even seem like exercise, just a lot of fun. We also dance to almost every kind of music…
Clubs & Classes, April 2018
Margarita Madness with Mariachis
Twink Gates Thanks to Rory and George McGovern, snowbird friends from New York, it was a Margarita Madness evening with Mariachis, Wednesday, March 7; for SaddleBrooke friends Sandy Morse and Tom Swikoski, Michelle and Tim Wiklund, Lynn Denning and Tom Costner, and Twink Gates and Bob Zimdar. Who would have thought that dancing under…
Clubs & Classes, April 2018
SaddleBrooke Gift Shop Featured Artist for April – Lorraine Roman
Russell C Stokes Lorraine Roman loves observing nature’s beauty first hand. She gets many of her craft ideas studying how succulents and nearby flora grow; she then lets her creative imagination take over. Lorraine is this month’s SaddleBrooke Gift Shop Featured Artist. Lorraine was born in Hartford, and grew up in Manchester, Connecticut. Lorraine…
Sports, April 2018
Looking for spring flowers in Oracle State Park
Elisabeth Wheeler Discovering spring flowers on a hike is delightful. Nine SaddleBrooke hikers hiked the Oracle Passage of the Arizona Trail in March looking for signs of spring. Oracle is at a higher elevation than SaddleBrooke. Spring flowers arrive later. It took “eagle eyes” to discover early verbena, fairy duster, bladder pods, anemones, silver…