LaVerne Kyriss In what has now become an annual event, several winners were named in the SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild’s “One Image, No Limits” contest. The contest invites all guild members to interpret a selected image in their desired medium. The 2022 image was a close-up photograph of a saguaro with numerous buds and one…
Enter to Win—and Support Our Libraries Nancy McCluskey-Moore The Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries (FSL) 2022 Bucks 4 Books Raffle provides funds for the three SaddleBrooke Community Libraries to purchase new books, audiobooks, and DVDs. Raffle entrants are eligible for a total of eight cash drawings, sixteen celebration event ticket drawings, and a final grand prize drawing…
Leah Sugar Kari, AMR, FHIAS, Retired Pharmaceutical Representative and Licensed Insurance Agent Specializing in Medicare Products No matter how accomplished we adults are, the subject of enrolling into Medicare is one we approach cautiously and respectfully. We simply do not want to get our enrollment into Medicare wrong. Here are some frequently asked questions you…
Stuart Watkins Patricia Smith read instructions on the “Dove Egg Hunt,” that the guests were invited to participate in before the potluck started. After the hunt for pieces of paper, which had snippets of past writings of the members, the fun began. Each member read the poem he or she had found, and the guests…
Hello SaddleBrooke submitters! Remember—when the 26th falls on a weekend, the editorial deadline is the Friday before. This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for the July edition is June 24 by 4 p.m. Please send your submissions on time, and early if possible! You can email your submissions to [email protected] or try our…
I was recently having breakfast with six friends on the patio of the Roadrunner Grill in SaddleBrooke One. I was telling my friends about my first grandson Ari, born in December in Singapore. He unfortunately was diagnosed with Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS), a rare but devastating genetic disorder. I told my friends that my son was…
Renee Mazin Ladies, it’s summertime! Wouldn’t you like a girl trip with a best friend, or lunch, or maybe just to hang out by the pool for fun? Meet some gals who want to be your pal. We are celebrating women authors who write about women. They deserve recognition for the characters they create in…
Howard Cohen, Co-President, SaddleBrooke Nature Club Mount Lemmon is named after Sara Plummer Lemmon, a forgotten botanist who was rediscovered by Wynne Brown, a writer, editor, illustrator, and the speaker at the May SaddleBrooke Nature Club meeting. Sara Plummer Lemmon lived from 1836 to 1908. Her husband, whom she married when she was 44, was…
Stuart Watkins Greg Hlushko has an active group of chess players who meet every Monday and Wednesday to hone their skills and challenge each other to a friendly game or two. The members meet from 2 to 4:30 p.m. on Mondays in the Cactus Room at the SaddleBrooke TWO clubhouse. On Wednesdays, they meet from…
Ann Lange The classic coyote is foxy; mostly nocturnal, but often active in the early morning; travels in packs; symbolizes playfulness, good luck, and supernatural qualities; and makes 11 different noises, including greeting songs, high-pitched yelps, yips, growls, howls, huffs, and whines. Well, doesn’t that just sound exactly like a pack of 52 MPWGA female canines loading…