Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg I did not expect The Envelope to arrive so soon. It languished on our kitchen granite countertop for hours, and then my husband arrived home. “I cannot open The Envelope,” I said with a voice tinged with fear. “Would you?” “Sure,” he said in a cheerful voice. I heard the…
Miles Bivens On Saturday, June 9 and Sunday, June 10, SaddleBrooke residents Karin and Rodger Bivens competed in the fifteenth annual Deuces Wild Triathlon Festival in Show Low, Arizona. Several triathlons and running races are put on during the weekend, including a kids’ sprint triathlon on Saturday afternoon. It’s a great advert for triathlon training…
Ed Davis The award winning American Legion Oro Valley Post 132 is sponsoring its annual charity golf tournament August 25 at The Views in Sun City. One hundred percent of the proceeds are to provide care and assistance to local homeless and at risk veterans and to the families of the deployed soldiers of…
Bob Edelblut The MPMGA has been a regular participant in Pima Cup competitions for quite some time and those asked could not remember a season where the MPMGA’s teams finished as high in the standings as they did this year. Listen to this—they finished second overall and were a measly two points behind the…
Ginny Berkey and Annie Maud Over a dozen Nature Club members drove far past Sells to the Tohono O’Odham Cultural Center and Museum for a tour of the new facility. We visited the museum portion before settling down to watch an interesting slide show about the center from the selection of the location to the…
Jean Kraus On Monday, June 11, MountainView Lady Putters presented their annual charity donation to IMPACT of Southern Arizona. Barbara McClure, Executive Director of IMPACT, accepted the $400 donation. MVLP members were told the money will be used to provide prescription eye glasses to children in need, specifically for children in the “Copper Corridor” directly…