High Desert Gardening classes start January 29 Vickie Butler and Cindy Blount High Desert Gardening will be presented in the MountainView Ballroom West, at MountainView Clubhouse, SaddleBrooke on Tuesdays 10:00 a.m. to noon, for six weeks starting January 29, 2019; registration required. Once again, due to popular demand, your Master Gardeners will be offering a…
Category: December 2018
Sports, December 2018
MPMGA hosts another First Tee Golf Event
Bob Edelblut The last Sunday in October has become the established date for the MPMGA and the MountainView Golf Club to host the annual First Tee of Tucson Golf Event. It is cast in stone! The PGA and the LPGA jointly sponsor the First Tee organization and the First Tee of Tucson is its regional…
Generals, December 2018
In love and support for families and friends of the LGBTQ community
Leslie Fore Following a tremendously well received November forum “A Brief Look at the History of Sexual Identities,” the LGBTQ Ministry announces its January 13 forum entitled “Understanding the Dignity of Transgender Identity” with Eric Plemons, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona. As an anthropologist, Dr. Plemons has conducted extensive research on…
Generals, December 2018
Editorial deadline announcement
Due to the approaching holidays, we are moving our editorial submission deadline up for December, so that our staff may relax and spend the holidays with their families. The deadline for all editorial for the January 2019 issue will be December 19 at no later than 4:00 p.m. Thank you and happy holidays!
Clubs & Classes, December 2018
Move to the music: a line dance based exercise
You are born to dance. Have you ever been listening to music and automatically start tapping your feet or otherwise moving to the beat? “It’s an instinctive response,” says Costas Karageorghis, Ph.D., a music and sports researcher and coauthor of Inside Sport Psychology. That’s because you’re hardwired to move to the music, possibly because even…
Sports, December 2018
Fourteen SaddleBrooke swimmers make All-American status
Karin Bivens At the fall meeting of the SaddleBrooke Swim Club All-Americans, 14 members of the team were recognized and presented with a certificate and patch indicating they were a United States Masters Swimming Association (USMS) All-American Swimmer in 2018 for their top short course yard competition times. This designation is quite a prestigious recognition. In…
Clubs & Classes, December 2018
Silver Belles welcomes new dancer
Welcome Sandy Schoenleber to the SaddleBrooke SilverBelles. Falling in love with Tucson after visiting family here for many years, Sandy relocated in August 2017 from Georgia. Although she enjoys tennis, gardening and traveling, seeing the SilverBelles perform in last year’s variety show awakened the joy of dancing she experienced when growing up in southern California.…
Clubs & Classes, December 2018
Your Cosmic Strategy, a life event
The SaddleBrooke Metaphysical Study Group is sponsoring a unique opportunity to hear internationally recognized Ascension Studies Guide and Intuitive Channeler, Quinn Tetterton, on Wednesday, January 9, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. in the SaddleBrooke One Activity Center. This is a free event. Are you interested in discovering/remembering your past and present life gifts/abilities? Do you feel it…
Clubs & Classes, December 2018
SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild and UAMA art lecture
Tammy Bearden The SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild, in partnership with the University of Arizona Museum of Art, will present a new series of art lectures, beginning on Wednesday, January 9, 2019, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., in the west ballroom of the MountainView Clubhouse. The presenter will be docent Gerry Bates and the subject will…
Clubs & Classes, December 2018
WOOO news
Some 35 ladies enjoyed great cooking and even better company at the WOOO semi-annual general meeting and potluck dinner, held on October 17 at the SaddleBrooke One Activities Center. WOOO is an organization for single women living in SaddleBrooke who want to stay busy and have fun. Our activities include: Dining Out: We go out for…