Nancy McCluskey-Moore Bring your outdated paper files to the Shredding and Recycling event on Saturday, Nov. 12, from 9 a.m. to noon (or until the truck is full). The event, hosted by Long Realty-Golder Ranch, SaddleBrooke Community Outreach, and the Beacon Foundation, will be held on the SaddleBrooke One bocce ball courts. All documents are…
Category: October 2022
Front Page, October 2022
Celebration of Watercolor—October 15
Karen Brungardt It is time again for the Celebration of Watercolor Art Show where several award-winning SaddleBrooke watercolor artists will showcase their original works of art! This one-day event is on Saturday, Oct. 15, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the west end of the MountainView Country Club Ballroom in SaddleBrooke, Ariz. The show…
Sports, October 2022
The Tennis Cabana Is Coming to SaddleBrooke!
Debbie McGeehan Cheri Megli will be bringing her “Tennis Cabana on Wheels” to the SaddleBrooke Tennis Center on Saturday, Nov. 5. Her shop will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tennis racquets, POP paddles, footwear, apparel, and accessories for tennis, POP, and pickleball will be available. This event will afford you the opportunity…
Features, October 2022
Dollars & Sense: What as an Investor Should We Be Looking For?
Premier Coin Galleries, Inc. Lost decade for the stock market? Winds of change. The sun will always come out in Arizona. It’s been a long time—the stock market could be at the beginning of a lost decade. It’s impossible to overstate just how good the stock market returns have been for investors over the last…
Clubs & Classes, October 2022
Word of the Month: Luthier and Oud
David Zapatka At a recent Weird Music concert at Stillwell Pianos in Mesa, I was pleasantly surprised to hear a traveling Belgian-Italian guitar duet playing the music of Gurdjieff collaboratively written with Gurdjieff’s musically gifted pupil, Thomas de Hartmann. I have had an appreciation for Gurdjieff’s philosophies since I began reading him in the early ‘70s…
Front Page, October 2022
Hats Off to SVSB’s Wizard David Loendorf
Andrea Molberg Mention David Loendorf, who’s retiring from Senior Village at SaddleBrooke’s (SVSB) Board of Directors, and immediately you’ll hear the word wizard—someone with magical powers or so skilled at something it seems like magic. King Arthur had Merlin, Harry Potter had Dumbledore, and SVSB had David Loendorf. David was the originator and designer of the…
Generals, October 2022
October HOA Elections Meetings Open to All
Fran Berman, United SaddleBrooke The November 2022 HOA Boards Elections may be the most important in SaddleBrooke history! There will be three open board seats in SaddleBrooke One and two in SaddleBrooke TWO. If you think it’s time to have new leaders with fresh ideas on the HOA boards, then be sure to attend United…
Sports, October 2022
Men’s Niners 2023 Membership Campaign Begins October 17
Why join the SaddleBrooke One Men’s Niners? * To golf in a friendly setting with new or existing friends * Learn more about the game in an easy nine-hole format * Experience competitive fun with other golfers in our community Who can join? Membership in the SaddleBrooke Men’s Nine-Hole Golf League is available to all…
Clubs & Classes, October 2022
Italy’s Jews Under the Shadow of the Holocaust
Barbara Starrett SaddleBrooke Freethinkers are proud to have Deborah Kaye, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in the French and Italian Department and Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona, speak on “Italy’s Jews under the Shadow of the Holocaust” on Sunday, Oct. 30, at 2 p.m. at the DesertView Theater, with a social at 1:30 p.m. The…
Features, October 2022
Odell, Pedota Seeking Seats on Oracle School Board
Karen Schickedanz Two new candidates from SaddleBrooke and SaddleBrooke Ranch are running in the November election for four-year terms on the Oracle School Board. Both Wendy Odell, a six-year SaddleBrooke resident, and Donna Pedota, a six-year SaddleBrooke Ranch resident, have extensive experience in public education and health care. Wendy grew up in Minnesota and attended…