Lydia O’Connor March and April were busy months for the SaddleBrooke Genealogy Club. First, nine club members traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah for a ten-day trip to do genealogy research. From all accounts, fun was had by all and a lot was accomplished. Some of the highlights mentioned by travelers include finding family information,…
Andrea Molberg This November SaddleBrooke’s theatre troupe will be offering dinner theatre with a twist. Having consistently sold out their spring dinner-theatre-in-the-round performances and entertained close to a 1,000 each season, Community Circle Players will offer a stage-production-with-dinner this fall, as well as another show in the spring. CCP’s founders Shawne Cryderman and Susan Sterling…
WOOO is for single women living in SaddleBrooke who want to stay busy and have fun. All of the following activities take place once a month: Dining Out: We go out for dinner and enjoy Tucson’s many good restaurants. Ethnic Dining: Our more adventurous diners go to one of the many ethnic restaurants. Potlucks: We gather at a…
David Stanard The Resurrection Church Men’s Breakfast group heard from one of its own in April when the group was addressed by John Ivanoff, Chief of Public Safety at the Tucson International Airport. John and his wife Julie are members of the Church and John is chair of the Resurrection Church Safer Campus Ministry Team.…
Andrea Sahl Retirement is a wonderful phase in our lives when we can try new things, return to long-lost passions or just reinvent ourselves. SaddleBrooke offers a myriad of opportunities to do any and all. I have always wanted to learn to dance, and when we moved here, the SaddleBrooke Line Dance Club was the…
Karen Gray On March 28, five SaddleBrooke hikers ventured up the Sutherland Trail in Catalina State Park. The day brought pleasantly cool temperatures and a few high clouds. For hikers, these conditions were perfect. Each hiker had been out on trails recently and looked forward to viewing the beautiful wildflowers this spring has produced. The…
Rolly Prager Join Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries for an exciting fall trip that includes two iconic national parks and an exploration of the Four Corners area. The trip dates are October 8-14, and will begin and end in SaddleBrooke. The trip will begin with a tour of the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff to…
Updates from the Computer Club Our first project this summer has been upgrading our classroom PCs to the professional version of Windows 10. The forced upgrading process inherent in the home edition had proved to be disruptive and problematic. We are currently in the midst of our annual maintenance program for all classroom equipment and…
Celebrates Columbia Month About Colombian Cumbia During the 17th and 18th century African slave populations of Colombia’s Caribbean coastal towns lived, worked and died alongside the indigenous Amerindians; a population similarly exploited by the colonial powers of Europe. Out of this society, cumbia emerged as a social and courtship dance, taking its name from the…
Kim Schweitzer Jewish families in need received a special Passover delivery the Sunday before the holiday. Residents of both SaddleBrooke and SaddleBrooke Ranch volunteered to deliver bags of Passover groceries to families in Tucson. This was a collaborative effort with members of SaddleBrooke Ranch Shalom Club and SaddleBrooke’s Jewish Friendship Club. Future projects are planned,…