Carol Chiarello Several fun patterns have found their way into our meetings. Barb K. showed the ladies her reversible, two-color knitted bag, and a handful of members (actually twelve) could not resist doing it for themselves. The nice thing is that you can use up some stash yarn to get it done. Tina Marie had…
MountainView Bridge Sue Bush Sue Hagerty, a regular player at the MountainView Bridge Club, moved to SaddleBrooke from northern California with her husband, Rich, eleven years ago. They feel that it was the best decision they ever made. Before life in SaddleBrooke, Sue worked in retail and had three children. She also was involved in…
Karin Bivens The National Senior Games were held in Albuquerque this June. Nearly all 50 states and the District of Columbia, Mexico and Canada were represented. Competition in all sports was at a top-level. The swim competition was held June 15 through 19, in an indoor pool facility, and several SaddleBrooke Masters swimmers competed and…
Pat Morris On June 10, the MountainView Lady Putters (MVLP) held a “Goofy Golf” event. The ladies arrived all dressed up in their best “Hawaiian” outfits ready to tackle a very goofy putting course. Some of the holes were challenging at best—we had to putt through tubes, over ramps and water, backwards through our legs.…
Dick Cook On July 9, The SaddleBrooke Men’s 9ers and Lady 9ers combined forces to stage the seventh annual Niners Unite golf tournament on the SaddleBrooke-Tucson 9 Golf Course. For this event, members from each league were paired together for a spirited competitive round of golf over nine holes. The event wound up with a…
Carl Vernon (Vern) Boothby Jr. We have lost a dear friend, Vern Boothby, aged 79, who died on June 21. Boothby was a resident of Ponte Vedra, FL, but spent his last days at the Hospice Care at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville. Vern battled Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, in…