Dick Kroese SaddleBrooke plant-based support group tried out four of the plant-based items on Chef Spencer Gorman-Prow’s new menu at the MountainView Bar and Grill. All of us were so pleased with the food. The service was wonderful, and we will be doing it again. All of us feel that this is the way to go…
Category: September 2019
Generals, September 2019
Men’s Fellowship Breakfast notice
Jim Jensen On Oct. 16, Community Church at SaddleBrooke CCSB’s Men’s Fellowship is holding another Men’s Breakfast. It will be held at the SaddleBrooke TWO MountainView Ballroom, and doors open at 8 a.m. This is a wonderful time of fellowship and an excellent opportunity to bring a friend to enjoy a good meal and a great…
Clubs & Classes, September 2019
Quilter’s Spotlight: Kelly Rospond
Varda Main Meet Kelly Rospond, resident of the SaddleBrooke Friday Quilters. Kelly is now on the home stretch of her year as president and is still enjoying every minute of it. Kelly sees her presidency as not just a one-year term but rather as a part of helping the Friday Quilters grow (16 new members…
Generals, September 2019
Master Gardening training course
Carol Crawford The Master Gardener training course will once again be offered to all Pinal County residents. It will be held at SaddleBrooke on Thursdays from 8 a.m. to noon beginning Nov. 7, through Feb. 13, 2020. This is an intensive 13-week lecture series given by local Master Gardeners, guest lecturers from the University of Arizona, and…
Features, September 2019
Bury Not My Ashes in Desert Sands
Stuart Watkins not in the deep dark dry desert sands, please it may take too many blue moons to circulate in earth’s ever changing changing toss them into a stream, river, or ocean free, free to swim with swimming fish roll with rolling lapping tides oh, yes, take them on a cruise toss them overboard…
Clubs & Classes, September 2019
SaddleBrooke Singers welcome new members!
Steph Mattie In 1969, my family moved to Lincoln, IL, where I entered the third grade as a new student at Carroll Catholic School. I was sad to leave my old friends behind, but I was also excited to see what this new place would be like. Putting on my new clothes and hopping onto…
Generals, September 2019
Dress A Girl Around the Wolrd Sew-a-Thon
Margaret Thompson Dress A Girl Around the World Sew-a-Thon will be Nov. 2, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Oro Valley Church of the Nazarene, 500 W. Calle Concordia. Dress a Girl Around the World is a national organization sewing dresses for little girls living in poverty. Many of these little girls are wearing…
Generals, September 2019
Unit Happenings
Unit Happenings: Unit 3-S Brenda Newitter Did you see SaddleBrooke residents zooming around SaddleBrooke on Thursday, Sept. 12, in their golf carts, stopping to look at various yards in many SaddleBrooke One Units? Did you wonder what they were doing? Were you ready to call the SaddleBrooke Patrol? These residents were only having fun participating…
Features, September 2019
Aware of Breast Cancer?
Nancy Teeter, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist It’s October, and everywhere you look, you see pink ribbons. These are intended to increase awareness of breast cancer and to raise money for organizations which focus on awareness and cure. But what about prevention? According to research, diet is responsible for about 30% to 40% of all cancers. Though…
Generals, September 2019
SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Happenings
Box Tops for Education going digital! Emilie Siarkiewicz Drop the scissors and grab your smartphone! That’s the lead-in to an announcement on July 24, by General Mills, sponsor of the popular K-8 school fundraising Box Tops for Education® (BTFE) program. Since General Mills launched the BTFE program in 1996, 70,000 schools around the country have…