Brian Harpel We were recently informed by Fry’s Food Stores that construction on the SaddleBrooke Marketplace store has been temporarily postponed. The SaddleBrooke Marketplace store is one of several Fry’s projects across the state that have been placed on hold, along with several other Kroger (Fry’s parent company) stores across the country, while Kroger works…
LaVerne Kyriss Mrs. Owens taught art at Buena Vista Elementary School in Colorado Springs, Colorado and first got Joanna Voisine interested in exploring her creative side. “I always liked to draw and she gave us lots of exposure, but that was the extent of my art for years,” she remembered. The Pittsburg native worked in…
Want to become a master gardener? Barb Nicholson Master Gardeners are your neighbors and friends who have taken it upon themselves to complete the requirements for Master Gardener certification. If you are interested in becoming a Master Gardener volunteer, then you are invited to enroll in the Master Gardener Training Course for the fall of…
Ballbasher Balls have been a source of pleasure and entertainment for many generations of humankind. Small, large, soft, hard, round and oblong, all are there—in activities by the hundred. This article looks at two of them, probably the smallest and certainly the largest. We start with the latter. Big Imagine yourself on a wet playing…
Barbara Starrett On Sunday, April 23 at 10:00 a.m. at the MountainView Ballroom, SaddleBrooke Freethinkers is proud to present Hate Crimes with Kent Burbank, MSW and Denis Provencher, PhD. The FBI defines hate crimes as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or part by an offender’s bias against a race,…
Every rescue has two faces—the pet who is abandoned, traumatized and often abused or hurt and the human, a fearless soul who risks their time, finances and heart to save the helpless. Such a rescue occurred when our partner, Donna with RUFF Rescue, answered a plea from Pima Animal Care Center to rescue Teeka, a…