Category: October 2021

Immune Support 101

Barbara Barr On Friday, Nov. 5 at 1 p.m. in the Catalina Room of the Mesquite Building, Kim Tzintzun will be speaking on ways to build your immune system through nutrition. Please note the room change, as the ballroom is not available. The Wellness Integrated Network (WIN) will be meeting in the next largest room…

CCP Dinner Theatre’s New Faces

Andrea Molberg Look at these numbers for Community Circle Players (CCP): 34 auditioned for the 25 speaking and non-speaking roles in the eight plays that comprise An Evening Of One Acts. This remarkable production has five directors and a tech crew of six. Half of the cast is new to CCP! Eagerly joining the troupe is…

Six Ways to Deepen Your Spiritual Relationship to Nature

Suzanne Marlatt Stewart Like so many other people in SaddleBrooke, I moved here from a totally different environment. I lived in the Northwest all my life and loved the lush, green foliage and being close to the water—either a lake, the Puget Sound, or the ocean. I constantly complained about the Arizona weather—too hot, windy,…

Our Grateful Desert

Sheilah Britton, Pinal County Master Gardener Just over a year ago, I wrote my first column for SaddleBrooke/SaddleBrooke Ranch Master Gardeners. Titled “Ocotillo: Dead or Alive,” it was inspired by my own ocotillos that had looked dead from the moment they became part of my landscape but, according to my research, might come to life…

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Happenings

Tickets on Sale for SBCO Home Tour Nancy McCluskey-Moore The 2021 SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) home tour, which will focus on remodeled homes, will be held on Saturday, Nov. 13. The 2018 and 2019 tours were so well received (the 2020 tour was cancelled due to the pandemic) that the events committee decided to host two…

Benefit Concert Set for November 19

Alan Mollenkopf The SaddleBrooke Western Heritage Preservation Club is sponsoring a benefit concert to raise funds for the Oracle Schools Foundation (www.oracleschoolsfoundation.com). The concert is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 19 at 7 p.m., and tickets are now on sale. The concert venue is the DesertView Performing Arts Center at 39900 Clubhouse Drive. The entertainer is Western Music…

A Hole-In-One for One of Unit 48’s Very Own

Rochelle Davies I’ve heard it said that the odds of a golfer achieving a hole-in-one are something close to 12,500 to 1. It requires a combination of both skill and luck. On the morning of Sept. 7, on the Par 3, 108 yard 11th Hole, Sandi Cooper was playing her “other” home course, Camas Meadows, located…

Exploring Alcohol Inks

LaVerne Kyriss Tom Frost and Mike Rutt explore how alcohol inks flow on specialized Yupo paper during an introduction to alcohol ink session led by Karen Brungardt in the Topaz Room at SaddleBrooke TWO’s MountainView location. The class is one of many offered by the SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild. Classes are open to all SaddleBrooke…

Good Manners and Dog Etiquette—Behavior Classes at HSSA

Dogs, whose temporary homes end up being at the Humane Society of Southern Arizona (HSSA), often arrive at the shelter scarred by traumatic experiences, such as abandonment, abuse or neglect. Some are traumatized by the loss of a loved one and their subsequent release into the custody of HSSA. Here they are treated with compassion; their physical and emotional…