Linda Eisenhart SaddleBrooke Friday Quilters have elected Kathy Von Bargen to lead their club in 2020. Kathy’s interest in quilting began with her mother who was a prolific seamstress and hand quilter. Her mother taught her to sew her own clothes but Kathy didn’t take up quilting until 1999 when she and her husband Wally…
Terese Butler The annual Arizona Short Course Meters State Swim Meet was held in Tempe, Arizona, on Oct. 26th and 27th of last year. This year the meet was held almost one month earlier than normal, so many of the team’s members had not returned from their summer sojourns and were thus unable to attend…
Barb Soderberg I never felt my hearing loss was a disability until we moved to SaddleBrooke. There are hundreds of wonderful things to do, most of which require me to be able to hear. In a small group, I function fairly well, but not in a classroom, theater, or ballroom if there is no audio loop…
Jane Gromelski Our next series of dance classes will be the Arizona two-step. The first of the five-class session will start on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Our first meeting will be in the MountainView Ballroom at 6 p.m. The Arizona two-step is also called the rhythm two-step. It has steps that are different than the ones…
Stuart Watkins This is a saga about a friend of mine, a first cousin. We will call him Mitchell. He is from Alpharetta, GA, an upscale community near Atlanta. He moved to SaddleBrooke a few years ago because it is an active adult community. The problem was that he called me asking for advice concerning his…
Marsha Camp The SaddleBrooke Women’s Golf Association – 18 selected the501(c)(3) non-profit charity Youth On Their Own (YOTO) as their charity for 2020. This organization is in need of your support. Please go to YOTO.org and donate as much as you can. If you don’t know YOTO, let me tell you about 62,000 kids who need you. Established in…