Category: December 2018

Unit Happenings

Unit 17 Halloween happenings Mary Gelinas The Halloween Party has been a fun tradition in Unit 17 for about 20 years. And the costumes get more outstanding each year. After our pizza supper, we chose Patrick and Sandra Pollencheck as Best Couple; Chris Cochran had Best Men’s costume and Cindy Burnside had Best Woman’s. Ray…

Line dance lessons with Rebecca can be fun for you

Dr. Mark Magdanz Why line dance after the fun of seasonal celebrations fade? The lessons provided in SaddleBrooke promote the maintenance and improvement of your mental and physical health. How can an activity do this? Just to review a few ways: (1) Memory and Learning: Choreographed movements require some memorization, concentration, reading skills. Learning new…

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach

The Educational Enrichment sub-committee needs you Nancy McCluskey-Moore SaddleBrooke Community Outreach is “All About the Kids.” Our Educational Enrichment sub-committee is an important part of our efforts to provide learning opportunities for students within the Copper Corridor where the schools have been devastated financially by the closing of the local mines. In fiscal year 2017-18,…

Oracle School District

Oracle School District Introducing the inaugural Fundraiser Triathlon Saturday, March 9, 2019, in SaddleBrooke One and SaddleBrooke TWO. This will be a fun community event with a free t-shirt, awards ceremony and music with many options for participation. Those options are sprint distance, mini distance, AquaBike (no run), relays, fitness center teams and volunteers. This…

Photography Club welcomes beginning photographers

Tim Butler Are you new to photography and interested in learning about the basics of taking more interesting images without having to learn a lot of technical jargon? If so, the SaddleBrooke Photography Club is offering a course for you. The “Introduction to Photography” course is designed to help new photographers learn to capture more…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

The SaddleBrooke Barbershop chorus, for their 16th annual holiday show, will bring you a most wholesome and wonderful time at DesertView Theater. And it will be a wonderful time, because in addition to their marvelous chorus, they are bringing back for this show, the featured chorus from last year, The A Cappella Syndicate. If you…

Dog Park Paw Parade:  It’s Howl-o-Ween 2018

Karen Brooks It was a howling good time for the SaddleBrooke Dog Park’s fur-ever friends at the annual Howl-o-Ween Paw Parade on Halloween, October 31. What could be more entertaining than 25 dogs of all ages and sizes running around in costume, ready to strut their stuff for the annual contest? This Halloween had perfect…

2nd annual Wine or Treat event was a success

On Halloween night you may have seen a few creatures lurking around the Preserve. It was the second annual “Wine or Treat” event. Eight generous households (nine if you count an unscheduled stop at Mr. Pumpkin’s house) agreed to host 16 ghoulish characters. Thank you to Larry Reich and Joyce Hagin for, once again, putting…

Institute for Judaic services and studies

Yvette Sabulsky Our next Shabbat service is November 30, 7:00 p.m. in the MVCC West Ballroom. Services are led by Rabbi Sandy Seltzer and Cantorial Soloist Sarah Bollt, accompanied by Chris Hackett. Sharing Shabbat is a wonderful way to welcome the peace of Shabbat as a community. Oneg Shabbat Our Oneg Shabbat will be sponsored…

Community Circle Players’ excitement

Andrea Molberg We can be thankful that dinner theatre is returning to SaddleBrooke with Woody Allen’s Don’t Drink the Water presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Excitement is already building. Those who enjoyed the 2018 sold out performances of The Mafioso Murders and 2017’s Eat, Drink, and Be Deadly! have been wondering what the live…