Category: July 2016

Sunrise Rotary Club learns about geneology

SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club welcomed their own member, Patti Albaugh, to speak on May 26 on genealogy and the SaddleBrooke Genealogy Club (SGC). Patti brought her own family chart, which documents 12 generations of ancestors. “My Mayflower ancestors are down four more generations,” she said. Her chart showed obvious “brick walls,” those ancestors who couldn’t…

Carol and John Sochacki “Retirement should be a joy”

John and Carol Sochacki

Jay Clayton Wilson “The most outgoing couple one could hope to meet at STC.” That is the description most often heard about John and Carol Sochacki. It is an honor they have earned during their 10 years in the SaddleBrooke community. It would be a rare event or most unusual tennis opportunity occurring at the…

Unit Happenings

Left to right are our lunch organizer Linda Warfield, Bonita Nitcher, Linda Nagy, Stephanie Mattie, Elizabeth Vaughan and Fran Berman. Not shown are Karen Bettencourt, Ginny Rebmann, Kathy Soerens, Marcia Weitzman and LaVerne Tucker.

Unit 5 Fran Berman While it was hot outside, the ambiance was warm inside the Olive Garden Restaurant where 11 Unit 5 ladies gathered for our bi-monthly lunch. We all dove into the all-you-can-eat salad bowl (not literally, of course). Some chose the newest lunch special, which resembled an Italian quesadilla. Others went for more…

Artist of The Month

Barbara Leightenheimer with her oil-on-canvas painting, Going my way—March.

LaVerne Kyriss A teacher by trade and a life-long student, Barbara Leightenheimer served as the SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild’s first president. “The guild was already in place when we moved here, but it wasn’t a formal club. I’d joined and the group decided I had the right skills and credentials as both an art educator…

The civic side of SaddleBrooke CycleMasters

The CycleMasters enjoyed presenting bicycles to these deserving students.

Joanne Marmon For the past number of years the SaddleBrooke CycleMasters have purchased new bicycles and helmets for students in grades one through six at San Manuel and Mammoth school systems. The bicycles are part of the awards ceremonies held at the end of the school year. Children are chosen by their teachers and principals…

Nick Gallardo in concert for one night only

Nick Gallardo

SaddleBrooke favorite takes the stage in a one-man show. You may have seen Nicholas Gallardo play guitar and sing some Ritchie Valens tunes. You may have been there to hear him croon the songs of Paul Anka and the Everly Brothers. You may have been in the audience recently when he and three other lads…

Palm Springs, California, tour planned

Bob Stuart Arizona Pathfinders, a nonprofit volunteer group of the Arizona Historical Society, is conducting a five day tour October 24 through 28, 2016 to Palm Springs, California. Join us for an eventful tour to this region, in southern California between the Mohave Desert and the Colorado Desert (a sub-division of the Sonora Desert). Highlights:…

SaddleBrooke Nature Club goes batty

Speaker Sandy Reith (left) giving door prize for the month to Lois LaNassa; photo by Ed Skaff

Pam Boedeker Bats were the topic of SaddleBrooke Nature Club’s last meeting of the season. Sandy Reith, the speaker, is with Pima County Natural Resources Parks and Recreation. She currently develops and delivers environmental education programs and leads hikes and nature walks in Pima County Parks. Here in Arizona we have 28 species of bats.…

Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries

What FSL does for our libraries SaddleBrooke is very fortunate to have three libraries that provide residents with hardback and paperback books, audio books, videos, CDs, DVDs and magazines. Our SaddleBrooke, DesertView and MountainView libraries are staffed by volunteers and open all year around. Of the 4600 households in our community, 2450 are registered to…