Crystle Nehrmeyer, District Superintendent Our annual “Stuff the Bus” events in SaddleBrooke and SaddleBrooke Ranch are valuable opportunities for our students, staff, and community to come together and help the students at Mountain Vista K-8 School in Oracle start their school year strong. The event is traditionally scheduled right after school starts in August. However,…
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July 2025, Front Page
‘Five Shorts with Shortcake’: Three Tall Women and Five Short Plays
This is the official word:auditions are a go for the Fall 2025 Community Circle Players (CCP) production, Five Shorts with Shortcake. Three directors–Susan Sterling, Shawne Cryderman, and Carol Henry–recently met to begin planning for auditions, finalizing scripts, rehearsal schedules, sets, props, and costumes, all the elements needed for another spectacular CCP production. We are very…
July 2025, Front Page
SaddleBrooke Health Fair Volunteers Needed
The SaddleBrooke Health Fair is scheduled for Oct. 18 from 9 a.m. to noon in the MountainView ballroom. This is a yearly event for all residents of SaddleBrooke One and SaddleBrooke TWO. We are looking for volunteers for positions in a team environment. It’s a fun experience and light commitment. We have openings on teams…
June 2025, Front Page
SaddleBrooke Squares Dance Club Graduates
Mary Klootwyk Graduating from a square dance class is a very special occasion for a new dancer and signifies successful completion of a series of square dance lessons that are necessary prior to entering the activity as a qualified square dancer. It is an achievement, it is a reward, it represents a degree of accomplishment,…
June 2025, Front Page
8-Ball Club Champion!
Joseph F. Giammarino The Pool Players of the Brooke Billiards Club (PPB) has been in existence as a SaddleBrooke One-sanctioned club since January of 2016, and it has not had an 8-Ball Club Champion until now: Tony “The Snake” Cardillo. In early 2024, PPB Vice President Phelps “Montana” L’Hommedeiu headed up a small committee to…
June 2025, Front Page
Creating Mosaic Art
Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg If you have ever visited any of the ancient cities of the world, you have probably seen the beautiful and intricate artistic style of mosaic art. Mosaic style is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. The oldest mosaics were…
June 2025, Front Page
Pinal County Recognizes SaddleBrooke Hiking Club
Lori Anderson On April 24 Pinal County Public Works recognized the SaddleBrooke Hiking Club for 15 years of picking up litter along Catalina Hills Drive as part of Pinal County’s Adopt a County Road program. Club volunteers clean the road’s shoulders from SaddleBrooke Boulevard for nearly three miles to The Preserve twice a year. The…
June 2025, Front Page
Win, Place, Show! Verde Sputters Host Derby Luncheon
Connie Kotke On May 5 some very fashionable ladies from the Verde Sputters enjoyed a Kentucky Derby/Red Roses luncheon in Vistas at the SaddleBrooke One clubhouse. Before dining, the group braved chilly temperatures and breezes (so unlike May!) to turn in a total of 41 holes-in-one for the round. Lydia O’Connor and Sue Ryan earned…
May 2025, Front Page
A Celebration of Community and Golf
Ellen Avenoso The SaddleBrooke Women’s Golf Association (SBWGA)-18 Member-Guest/Quail Classic 2025 was a resounding success, bringing together 66 members and their guests for an unforgettable experience. Participants traveled from across the country, representing states such as California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wisconsin. Additionally, we welcomed neighbors from SaddleBrooke…
May 2025, Front Page
Line Dance Disco
Judy Saks Picture this: On the evening of March 12 everything was normal outside the DesertView Theater. But that night, the doorway into the theater became a time portal, because, suddenly, you were transported back to the 1970s! No, not really. It was just the SaddleBrooke Variety Show, “A ‘70s Shindig!” There was music, singing,…