Janet Fabio If you attended the lecture sponsored by the Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries (FSL) featuring Win Holden from Arizona Highways, perhaps you were inspired to explore more of our beautiful state. Make the DesertView Library your first stop. The library has many resources to help plan a road trip on scenic byways, explore hiking…
Category: May 2022
Features, May 2022
Let Slip into the Fog
Stuart Watkins Thoughts passing through one’s mind perhaps they should be acted on or let slip into the fog of faded memory memory of ages long ago gone
Generals, May 2022
U of A Cooperative Extension: Master Gardener
Four Master Gardeners Receive Honors Ellen Sosin, Pinal County Master Gardener One of Saddlebrooke/Saddlebrooke Ranch Master Gardeners’ longest-serving members, Zann Wilson, will be relocating and leaving our group. In addition to our Master Gardener sending her off with a personal tribute honoring her and her service, she was one of only four people in Pinal…
Clubs & Classes, May 2022
Silver Belles Go Hollywood!
Claudia Booth With the help of professional photographer Steve Weiss, the Silver Belles were turned into “Glamour Belles,” costumes and all, as he shot photo after photo through his magic lens! Are we ready for Hollywood? Maybe not yet, but we are ready to dance for you. This is a great time to schedule a…
Clubs & Classes, May 2022
Institute for Learning in Retirement
Meet the Board of Directors Ken Marich The Institute for Learning in Retirement (ILR) is proud to introduce Sharon Triester who has served on the board of directors for around 14 years. Sharon was born in Philadelphia and spent most of her life in the Philadelphia area. She married Dr. Arthur Triester, cardiologist, in 1967.…
Features, May 2022
Strawberry Moon or Pink Moon
Christine Reding Why the brilliant reddish hue? The Algonquin Indians anoint this name As implantation of strawberries are due Environmental plateaus are not the same Birchbark canoes along with the river glides Fish lines constructed of deer splinters or bone Roundish bull boats covered with buffalo hides Containing firewood or fresh meat to ferry home…
Clubs & Classes, May 2022
SaddleBrooke Pet Rescue Network
Happy Tail: Luna Romayne Trudo It was love at first sight! Meet Luna, a four-month-old goldendoodle. Her owner contacted SaddleBrooke Pet Rescue Network (SBPRN) because she received a recent medical diagnosis and realized that she would be unable to care for Luna long-term. Giving up Luna was a difficult decision for her, one that was…
Features, May 2022
Word of the Month: Emplacement
David Zapatka While watching the last two episodes of The Expanse, I heard significant dialogue about the rail guns being used by Marcos Inaros, the leader of the Belters’ Free Navy, who was intent on destroying the Inners (pronounced Innas), the people residing on Earth, Luna (the moon), and Mars. These rail guns were powerful…
Features, May 2022
This I Have Learned…
A License to Laugh! Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg Do you ever look at license plates while you are stopped in traffic or at a red light? Some of us do. For it seems that creativity, in the form of a unique admixture of letters and numbers on license plates, abounds on the highways and byways…
Generals, May 2022
Community Circle Players
Hope You Were at the Spring Dinner Theatre Show! Andrea Molberg Did you make it? Community Circle Players (CCP) produced the comedy The Curious Savage, written by award-winning playwright John Patrick who is also known for Three Coins in a Fountain and High Society. The dinner production held on the MountainView stage delighted SaddleBrooke audiences…