Category: September 2014

Tutor alert: Mark your calendars

When: Saturday, October 11, 2014, noon to 2:00 p.m. Where: HOA 1 Activities Center (refreshments included) Why: We need more tutors Did you know that SaddleBrooke Community Outreach supports reading and math tutoring programs at four local schools? Reading programs are in place at Mountain Vista Elementary School in Oracle and Coronado K-8 School in…

Changes at the SaddleBrooke Library System

Beginning in September the SaddleBrooke Libraries implemented a new software system to better serve the residents. For the past several years two databases have been necessary to administer the library, one to check out books and one to reserve books. Now there will be just one software program to accomplish both tasks. After extensive review…

Save the date

Mary Kay Stein October 22: Lunch and Learn What We Can Do About Domestic and Elder Abuse On October 22, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, County Attorney Lando Voyles and Dr. Tascha Spears, Director of the Family Advocacy Centers of the Pinal County Attorney’s Office, will be headliners at a special luncheon. The lunch and…

Help the children of Oracle

An exciting new math curriculum has been implemented at Mountain Vista Elementary School in Oracle, grades kindergarten through third grade. Dr. Carla Springer (SaddleBrooke resident) needs four volunteers to work in classrooms each Monday, Tuesday or Thursday from 8:15 to 11:00 a.m. (with break between classes). The school is only about six miles from SaddleBrooke…

The Oracle Piano Society concert in October

TOPS is proud to sponsor a classical music concert to be performed by Dr. James DeMars, R. Carlos Nakai and Dr. Stephen Cook. DeMars, TOPS Artistic Advisory Committee member, will be performing his duo-piano sonata, A Diary of the Seasons with former student Cook, the Artistic Director for TOPS. Nakai, renowned Native American flutist from Tucson,…

Annual plant sale details

SaddleBrooke Master Gardeners’ annual Plant Sale will take place Saturday, October 18 on the MountainView Clubhouse Patio from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 pm. Enhance your landscape or patio with outstanding locally grown propagation plants and cacti. Don’t be sorry you missed this once a year event! The Health Fair shuttle will be in operation so…

A maestro not to be forgotten

Conductor and Music Director George Hanson

Anne Movalson We meet people every day. Some people come into our lives; we lose contact with them and it’s hardly noticed. There are some whom we feel privileged to have met and known and then there are special ones who are a joy to have known but who also leave an imprint on our…