Dick Kroese SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club invited Dana Eriksson, MS, CCC-SLP, and Jessie Penkoff, fourth year Audiology Extern, to speak about the UA Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic and the Sertoma Arizona Hearing Aid Bank. Did you know that the UA speech-language pathology program is No. 7 of 269 programs in the country, and the…
Andrea Molberg Community Circle Players sold out all its shows of The Mafioso Murders held at SaddleBrooke One’s Vistas and SaddleBrooke TWO’s MV Ballroom in April 2018. CCP was built on Susan and Steve Shear’s PrimeTime Players foundation and brought dinner theatre to our community. Some residents are already thinking about becoming a part of…
Judy Cummings Chrissy Miotke is ready and waiting to hear the knock on her door announcing the arrival of her card-playing opponent. Each week, a Senior Village volunteer comes to Chrissy’s house to compete in whatever card game Chrissy has chosen for that day. Word on the street is that Chrissy is pretty darn good,…
LaVerne Kyriss Kathleen Brodkin loves horses. They were her whole life, she said, explaining that for 27 years she spent about four hours a day, riding, grooming and taking care of her horses. But that joy ended when she encountered a medical issue that prevented her from further riding. Grieving this loss and needing to…
Louise Grabell, Pinal County Master Gardener Strange things are happening [remember that line…Red Buttons]. It’s so darn hot outside that I decided tell you about some strange things, as gardening goes, that you might enjoy over a cool glass of iced tea inside your cool house. Before I begin, a few garden reminders for this…
Shawne Cryderman The SaddleBrooke Pickleball Association has successfully raised over $650,000 toward the building of new indoor courts. This phase one goal was reached with donations from 66 percent of the membership, promises of loans of 25K from ten SPA members, T-shirt sales and contributions from friends of SPA and other members of the SaddleBrooke…
Having moved to SaddleBrooke about a year ago, Mike and Leslie Owens have been quite busy with their new adventure. Moving to Tucson from Los Angeles was an easy decision for this active couple. Mike lived in LA for about 20 years having spent a life time working in the business of tennis. Growing up…
Lyn Moreno Eight Arizona master swimmers were among 521 other swimmers from all over Canada and the United States swimming in a three-day 2018 Canadian Masters Swimming Championship held May 19-21 in Calgary Alberta. Our team came away with our share of medals, mainly Coach Doug Springer and Corinna Goodman who received all first places.…
Jane Gromelski, Partners Western Dance Club President Partners Western Dance Club will continue dancing in the summer months in the MountainView Ballroom on Mondays at 6:00 p.m. The practices will start in May and run through September. These are not classes, but informal practices. Harry and Dottie Adams have volunteered to provide music and will…
Bob Stuart Arizona Pathfinders, a nonprofit volunteer group of the Arizona Historical Society, is conducting a five-day tour (Tuesday–Saturday) on September 25-29, 2018 to the Sacramento Mountain Area, New Mexico. Join us for an adventuresome tour to this region in south central New Mexico, east of the White Sands Missile Range. Sierra Blanca Peak,…