David Zapatka While traveling this summer on the Goldwing, I was fortunate to receive a private tour of Missouri State University’s Jane A. Meyer Carillon. Carillons are the world’s largest instruments and this one is the largest of all those located in the U.S. Midwest. This carillon is made up of 48 bronze bells and…
Gail Blizard Word for the day: Fiesta de bienvenida (Welcome back party!) We hope you will join us at our first meeting of the season on Monday, Oct. 21, at 5:30 p.m. in the SaddleBrooke One activity center. We’ll be having a wine and cheese party to welcome back current members and to especially welcome…
Box Tops for Education going digital! Emilie Siarkiewicz Drop the scissors and grab your smartphone! That’s the lead-in to an announcement on July 24, by General Mills, sponsor of the popular K-8 school fundraising Box Tops for Education® (BTFE) program. Since General Mills launched the BTFE program in 1996, 70,000 schools around the country have…
Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg Texas Governor Greg Abbott called it “one of the most deadliest days in the history of Texas.” On a Sunday in August, a gunman walked into a Walmart in El Paso and opened fire, leaving 22 people dead and 24 injured. In response to the carnage the American Red Cross went…
Andrea Molberg With outside temperatures exceeding 100 degrees, more than 160 SaddleBrooke residents viewed the Better Angels documentary on July 23 to see how citizens across the country are turning down political heat. Touched by what they saw on film, almost a third of those who attended the event hung around to discuss what they could do…
Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg Have you had any conversations with a teenager lately? Is it even possible to do so, what with all of the electronic devices that take center stage in their lives? It’s amazing how these young, wordless youth get along in life, for their lives are so…preoccupied. Over the millennium there has…