Going for a hike before the SaddleBrooke Hiking Club’s Spring Picnic at Catalina State Park is very popular! Twenty-three hikers explored the Ridgeline/50 Year Loop from the Equestrian Center in the park. Along the four mile trail hikers had fun discovering 29 different wildflowers including anemones, blue dicks, bladderpods, California suncups, white Easter bonnets and…
Rollinde Prager Have you visited the SaddleBrooke libraries lately? Do you know that there are three libraries in SaddleBrooke? The SaddleBrooke Library in the SaddleBrooke Clubhouse, the Cholla Library in the MountainView Clubhouse and the DesertView Library at the DesertView Theater and Sports Complex are fantastic resources for books, videos and magazines. Our libraries are…
Ann Kuperberg Congratulations to SaddleBrooke’s own Mike Levy who made the esteemed Barry Crane Top 500 list of Bridge players from around the United States. At the February weekly duplicate games on Tuesday and Friday afternoon, repeat winners were Steve Maltzman and Donna DePesa, Arlene and Jack Mayfield, Eric Vonderheid with Bob Brussel, Bob Murray…
Harriet Shemer At their March meeting, Mary Anderson displayed and gave a presentation on her Russian Santas collection and other Russian memorabilia. Below is part of her presentation. “Collecting Russian Santas began on September 11 when visiting Russia on business and pleasure. While Neiman Marcus was displaying these in their Christmas catalog that year, I…
Jenny Rink The 2017 American Heroes luncheon on March 8, sponsored by SaddleBrooke Troop Support, was enjoyed by a sold-out audience of 150. The speakers were from a group called “The Friday Pilots,” a group of fighter pilots, bomber pilots, airline pilots, corporate pilots and astronauts who meet for lunch every Friday at Hacienda Del…
Micki Wilverding The Refugee Ministry of Santa Catalina Catholic Church has teamed up with Refugee Focus, a refugee resettlement agency in Tucson. We are currently seeking basic items to set up apartments in Tucson for newly arriving refugee families. Household items such as lamps, kitchen utensils, can openers, pots and pans, other cookware, teakettles, household…