Meet One of The Senior Village’s Most Well-Educated Volunteers Barbara Barr How old were you when you began your journey in formal education? One of Senior Village’s newest volunteers, Gracie Bulakowski, began her adventures in learning at the tender age of eight weeks old. After successfully completing her first class in leash training, this four-legged…
Joan Benson, HOA2 FWR Committee Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022, is the date for the SaddleBrooke HOA2 Recreation and Activities Fair. The event will run from 8 to 11 a.m. This is always an exciting and busy event where clubs and social groups showcase their activities and inform prospective members. This event is coordinated by the…
Back to the Garden—Agave Snout Weevil Sheilah Britton, Pinal County Master Gardener Recent monsoon rains brought much moisture and beauty to our thirsty desert, and with the rain came mosquitos, gnats, and black beetles that carpeted our streets after the storms. Most of these critters are thinning out, although the Agave Snout Weevil (Sycphophorus acupunctatus)…
Unit 25 Celebrates Oktoberfest Ron Mazurek Over 35 members of Unit 25 got together at the HOA1 tennis pavilion on Oct. 24 to celebrate the annual German festival. With the threat of COVID finally subsiding, more folks are getting comfortable with getting together to socialize and have a good time together. The tennis pavilion was…
Jake Jacobson Eighty years ago, on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese Naval Air struck at the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. They used six aircraft carriers. They sank eight U.S. battleships, which were lined up in Battleship Row. In the 1920s, U.S. Air Force General Billy Mitchell gave two demonstrations where U.S. planes…
Bob Lenihan Bob Lenihan is a resident of SaddleBrooke; a retired Arizona public school elementary teacher and principal; a husband, father, and grandfather; a U.S. Air Force veteran; and a member of the Arizona Coalition of School Board Members. Yes, do we truly care about our children regarding their education? I’m not so sure. If…
Virginia Bynum Have you ever stopped to think about who walked on these hills before they were SaddleBrooke? Whose ranch was located here? And what was their connection to Johnson & Johnson? Did you know you could have waterskied on a lake near the Preserve? Who made the pottery shards that you can find out in…
CCP’s Official Stage Manager Andrea Molberg Community Circle Players (CCP) is thrilled to have Dana Goldsmith volunteer as its first official stage manager—the key person who makes sure props, sets, and actors are all in place. For CCP’s current, unique production, the challenge is to creatively and technically string all eight plays together to make…
Phyllis Ketring The Health Night Out presentation on Monday, Nov. 22, will feature a timely topic. Janko Nikolich-Zugich, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine, will discuss how the basic mechanisms of immunity decline with age and how we can devise methods to correct that process. Dr. Nikolich-Zugich is internationally recognized as…
Magic! Absolute magic, when some five or so years ago, I started playing timpani with my adult school band in Northern California. To be a part of making music—just pure magic! Now I play with SaddleBrooke Winds and Strings. Every Friday morning for an hour and a half, we rehearse together for concerts and our…