Holiday Adopt Program Brightens the Season for Local Families

Senior Village – February 2026

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Happenings – February 2026

Southern Arizona Arts Guild Gallery Is Relocating from La Encantada—Find Out Where They Are Going!

Introductory Level Classes

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…

Resurrection Church seeks new pastor

Senior Pastor Al Jensen

David Stanard The call has gone out for a Pastor of Evangelism at Resurrection Church. The individual selected will work closely with Senior Pastor Al Jensen and Pastor of Outreach Randy Winsand and will have major responsibilities at SaddleBrooke as well as at the main campus in Oro Valley. To bring focus to the search,…

Unit Happenings

And the winners of the Unit 21 Halloween Costume Contest (left to right) are: Pat and Ron Andrea – Supergirl and Superman - winners of best superhero/heroine category; Midge Mollenkopf - Face from Your Nightmares - winner of best Halloween/monster are Pat Anderson, Sherry England and Connie Wortman – The three widowed witches of SaddleBrooke - winners of best couple (real or fictional) who were actually a trio.

Villas 2 Susan Fusco A group of 14 women from Villas 2 took a mini-vacation recently when they traveled to Tubac on October 10 through 12. The ladies had frivolity in mind when they got underway and it was truly a frivolous and fun few days. The group stayed for two nights at Tubac Golf…