Punch Howarth Before looking ahead to next year’s opening concert, the Southern Arizona Symphony Family wishes everyone a Joyous Holiday Season and a Healthy 2016 New Year. Morton Gould’s raucous and stimulating American Salute opens the concert. This work is a series of variations on When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again, an American military folk song.…
The SaddleBrooke Troop Support (STS) Dinner Dance was held on November 13 at MountainView’s Ballroom with over 100 people in attendance to enjoy the dinner, entertainment and dancing. To start the festivities, Joyce Sutay introduced the special guests at the head table, Marine Colonel (ret.) Charlie Carr and his wife, two active duty Marines and…
Dick Fleming The PrimeTime Players just completed auditions for their spring play, Calendar Girls. Based on a true story and the blockbuster film starring Helen Mirren, a group of “plucky” mature women from a traditional British Women’s Club persuade fellow Women’s Institute members to pose “nude” with them for an “alternative” calendar in memory of…
Allen Crawford The Sr. Jose Women’s Center of Tucson (srjosewomensshelter.org), 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is currently in the process of acquiring new, larger property to better serve the homeless women in the area. To complete the sale and furnish it, an additional $500,000 will need to be raised. To support this effort, churches in the northwest…
Hal Dieterle An AARP Smart Driver class (formerly called Driver Safety) will be presented on January 22 at the Oro Valley Police Department on La Canada Dr. from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (four hour class). The AARP Smart Driver program is the nation’s first and largest refresher course for drivers age 50 and older and has…
Sr. Jose Women’s Shelter located in the “homeless corridor” in Tucson has a need for adult clothes, twin sheets, blankets (any size), towels and personal care items such as shampoo, shower gel, lotions (regular or travel size) and feminine products. Men’s clothing will also be accepted and donated where needed. The clothing should be boxed/bagged…
SaddleBrooke Troop Support (STS) is active throughout the year, providing food to the military food banks in the area to support our troops. In addition to the trunk loads of canned goods and other non-perishable items delivered to the food banks every month, in October, STS donated $500 worth of $20 Fry’s gift cards to…
Thursday, December 31 – New Year’s Eve Back by popular demand, The Retro Rockets will be rocking the Clubhouse to ring in the New Year. Join us for what promises to be a rousing evening! Bring in the New Year close to home with a live band! The evening starts with Chef’s Choice passed appetizers…
Join us on January 21 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. in the MountainView Clubhouse Ballroom West and meet Marylee Pangman, author and potted garden expert when she presents her program of “Planting Trees in Containers in your Desert Landscape.” Ask Your Master Gardener will be from 12:30-1:00 p.m. Marylee Pangman is the founder and former owner of…
Jane Gromelski We had so much fun dancing to Three Jacks and a Julie at the last Sock Hop, we will do it again! The night was a rip roaring success. It was sold out. When the band played the first song, they immediately had us in the palms of their hands. We realized we…