Karin Bivens On March 17-18, the SaddleBrooke Swim Club hosted the first USMS Pool Distance Invitational at the Oro Valley Aquatic Center. This was the brainchild of Doug Springer and Jack Allison. The Meet consisted of a 1650 and 1000-yard swim on Saturday and a 1500 long course meters swim on Sunday. To qualify…
Diane Wagner On Saturday, March 24, 2018, five SaddleBrooke triathletes (Rodger Bivens, Len Kershaw, Dave Taylor, Brian Stokes and Diane Wagner), participated in the third annual Oro Valley Sprint Triathlon held at the Oro Valley pool. Over 200 triathletes participated to make it their largest turnout to date. The race started with junior participants…
Riley Jackson In 1996, a golfer named Paul Howland thought that a shortcut from the north and west sides of SaddleBrooke to the SaddleBrooke One Clubhouse and the golf course was needed, so he persuaded Robson and the HOA staff to build a cart path from the putting green up the hill to Jade…
Louise Grabell, Pinal County Master Gardener There is a wonderful, care-free and attractive plant I’d like to tell you about. There is a story behind my love of this landscaping beauty that I need to share with you first. You know it is always a good idea to have different shapes, colors and textures…
Kay Sullivan Despite the late start on January 31, approximately 70 men and women signed up for Social Team Tennis this year so that we were able to field three teams each with a nice cushion of willing substitute players. With three teams, it meant that each team had two byes over the six-week…
Tim Morsani A work party from The Rotary Club of SaddleBrooke recently joined several nearby clubs for a mass tree-planting at the “new” Veterans Cemetery in Marana. Rotarians supplied and planted over 100 trees on the 32-acre site. For details about the cemetery, see dvs.az.gov/arizona-veterans-memorial-cemetery-marana. This group-effort dovetailed nicely with the Rotary International president’s…