Category: May 2014

St. Patrick’s Softball Tournament was a hit!

2014 St. Patrick’s Tournament Coyote League Champion – Ambient Air Heating & Cooling, back row: Paul Butler, Brad Adair, Joe Lestingi, Bob Alvarez and Gary Green; front: Al Cangeme, Vern Boothby, Alan Stein, Jerry Smith and Rob Gish; photo by Paul Jarzembinski

Carol Chiarello SaddleBrooke Senior Softball Association held its annual Saint Patrick’s Tournament on Saturday, March 15. Patrick Shaffer Dentistry sponsored the event which featured four exciting games with your friends and neighbors providing the entertainment. This tournament’s team sponsors included: Ambient Air Heating and Cooling, Catalina Smiles Dentistry, Twin Lake Air, Stone Canyon Painting, Orbitel…

Life’s a beach

SaddleBrooke 1st place winners Marlene Cowan, Joyce Sutay, Elaine Kienitz and Sharon Paxson

This was the theme for this year’s SaddleBrooke Niners’ Invitational. It was held on Tuesday, April 8. The Invitational is always held on even years with invitations extended to other nine hole women’s groups around the area. This year there were 15 guest clubs represented who came from Mesa, Sun Lakes, SaddleBrooke HOA 2, Tucson,…

Bridge Results

MountainView Bridge Club Stephanie Parks Hello, all. I don’t have a whole lot to say this month, especially since I spent a week pretty sick and not much interested in anything so about all I can do at this late time is list the winners in March. Not as dramatic as March Madness perhaps, but…

Hiking Club’s May program to feature Arizona photo adventures

Hiker Harry Ford

Elisabeth Wheeler The last program of the SaddleBrooke Hiking Club’s 2013-14 season at 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 21 in the HOA 1 Activity Center will feature a SaddleBrooke resident who has specialized in adventure travel photography for more than 35 years. Harry Ford will present three Blu-ray slideshows featuring some of his Arizona adventures: Rafting…

Partners Western Club fall 2014

Jane Gromelski What is Partners Western Dance? It is like a multi-layered cake. The first layer is the Texas Two Step; there are so many great country songs that lend themselves to the Two Step. Then there is the Swing layer with lots of free movement. The top layer is the Waltz! The dance floor…

DesertView Cinema Club: Volunteers needed for the fall season

Ron Bechky The DesertView Cinema Club just completed its eighth year of providing high quality professional cinema at bargain basement prices at the DesertView Performing Arts Center. The November/April season was extremely successful from an attendance and membership viewpoint. We thank all residents for their support; we thank the Unit Reps and the HOA staffs…

Democratic Club Adopt-A-Highway program

Elisa Hauptman It was a beautiful morning on March 26 when members of the SaddleBrooke Democratic Club went out to remove the trash along route 79 so that we could all enjoy the spring flowers. Taking part in Arizona’s Adopt-A-Highway Program were, left to right, Joel Hauptman, Steve Groth, Bernie Schaber and Elisa Hauptman.

Computer Club updates

Dennis Korger Each year we assess the past year and attempt to project our needs for the future. The most rapid growth area in club membership is PC users learning to use their new iPads followed by new owners of Windows 8/8.1 computers. We have had difficulty keeping up with the demand in both areas.…

Caregivers Support Group

No cost to attend. No commitment to come back. Caregivers support group meets the first and third Thursday of the month from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. beginning May 1 at the SaddleBrooke Clubhouse, HOA 1 in the Javelina Room at 64500 E. SaddleBrooke Boulevard in Tucson, Arizona. Support groups provide a forum to share feelings,…

Ballroom Dance Club – a great time for social dancing!

Steve Holdener What my wife Rita and I love about living in SaddleBrooke are the many varied opportunities for dancing. When we first came to SaddleBrooke near our retirement we knew we wanted to build on our dancing skills which were mostly polkas, waltzes and landlers. What we found in this great community was almost…