Category: July 2020

Art and Wine Events

Karen Brungardt While many things have had to be postponed or cancelled due to the coronavirus, the SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild is resuming art activities with safety protocols in place and limiting our Art and Wine events to small groups. SaddleBrooke Sunsets continue to be the subject for our next three Art and Wine events.…

Resident Authors

Dr. Andrea Molberg

SaddleBrooke Author’s Emergency Kit for Finding Common Ground Diana Steinke Psychologist and SaddleBrooke author Dr. Andrea Molberg spent her career resolving conflicts, evaluating job candidates, developing leaders, teaching people skills, and helping people get along at work and at home. Never did she think about applying those tools to the political world—until now. Designed to…

Calling All Friends of the Evans Scholars Foundation!

Ray Rosenbach I am reaching out to residents in all of the Robson Communities looking for Evans Scholars Alumni or fellow supporters of the Evans Scholars Foundation. The Evans Scholars Foundation awards full tuition and housing college scholarships to high-achieving youth caddies with limited financial means. Established in 1930 by the Western Golf Association and…

What’s in a Name?

Photo by Bill George

Jim Hagedon What is in a name? A lot! Consider for a moment, Walt Disney, Budweiser, Star Wars, or Tiffany. For over fifteen years, the Digital Imaging Group of Saddlebrook, or DIGS, has come to represent a group of SaddleBrooke residents with a passionate interest in photography and a keen interest in learning new photographic…

MountainView Bridge Club

Ann Kuperberg The Bighorn fire has brought devastation to the Catalina Mountains and smoke-filled air as well as fear of evacuation for SaddleBrooke residents. Along with the coronavirus, we’ve had much to be concerned with. Yet, we go to doctor appointments, hair salons, and clubhouse for dinner or visit the malls, wearing our face masks…

Unit Happenings: Unit 27 Activities

Sue Case To paraphrase Garrison Keillor, it’s been a quiet month in Unit 27. However, things are happening, and activity is occurring, as some residents have shared. Golf is the one activity that SaddleBrooke TWO has allowed to continue since the shutdown began; and the unit golfers have continued to play, probably with more regularity…

Is That the Flute or the Piccolo Playing?

SaddleBrooke Singer Barb Quarantino

Cheri Emahiser Can you tell? Is it the flute or the piccolo you hear playing? Will it be possible for the SaddleBrooke Singers to perform our concert in November? If so, you don’t want to miss listening to the lovely musical sound produced by Barb Quarantino playing one of her woodwind instruments. The SaddleBrooke Singers…

How to Preserve Your Husband

Joyce Thomas Be careful of your selection Do not choose too young Take only such as have been reared In a good moral atmosphere Some insist on keeping them in a pickle While others keep them in hot water This only makes them sour hard and sometimes bitter Even poor varieties well-sweetened May be made…

ILR Meet the Instructor: David Cook

David Cook

Ken Marich The Institute for Learning in Retirement (ILR) is pleased to have David Cook as an instructor in the ILR program. David was born in Needham, Mass., and grew up in the New England area. He went to Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and earned a B.S. degree in geology. He moved to Arizona…