This Ain’t Your Daddy’s Barbershop!

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Happenings – November 2024

SaddleBrooke Pet Rescue Network – November 2024

World Card Making Day (WCMD)

Institute for Learning in Retirement

Intriguing lineup of courses offered Leigh Leuthold Why not expand your horizons this winter and learn something new? The Institute for Learning in Retirement (ILR) is offering an enticing lineup of courses. These courses are designed specifically for active retirees and are taught by resident experts. Most classes are four to six weeks in length…

Spanish Culture Club news

Chulengos (young Guanacos) at play

Tom Barnwell The Spanish Culture Club of SaddleBrooke (SCC) is a culture club, not a language club. It is composed of a group of social and intellectually curious Brookers that seek to expand their knowledge of Latin culture within the Old Pueblo and beyond. This is accomplished through monthly meetings that include speakers and tapas…

Artist of the Month

Teri Garner pauses with an in-progress work in her studio; photo by LaVerne Kyriss.

LaVerne Kyriss Research, study, documentation and thoroughness are highly disciplined practices that Teri Garner used during her career as a speech pathologist and special education program specialist. They’re also approaches Garner has transferred to her new-found pursuit of art. On bookshelves in her welcome and inviting studio are found neatly-labeled binders full of carefully documented…

Friday Quilters donate to local area organizations

Ann Richards presenting a check to Linda Lyon of the Oracle Schools Foundation

The SaddleBrooke Quilt Club (Friday Quilters) presented donation checks to two organizations in November. The first was the Oracle Schools Foundation whose primary mission is to provide preschool scholarships to three and four year olds who would not otherwise be able to receive this critical good start to their education. These students will eventually attend…

Meet the ILR instructors – Mike Carran

Mike Carran

The ILR is proud to introduce Mike Carran. He is relatively new to the ILR Board of Directors; however, he has been an Instructor and is now the Chairman of the Curriculum Development Committee. Mike was born in Iowa City, Iowa where he attended high school. From there he went to the University of Texas…

SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Fall Show

Some of the artists celebrated Halloween, left to right: Candy Armstrong, Karen Warner, Mary Kopp and Pat Parkinson

Jenni Long A large crowd came to see the 32 talented artists who participated in the fall art show sponsored by the SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild. Many of these artists have won numerous awards even though many only started their artwork after retiring here in SaddleBrooke. There were new artists who participated this year as…