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

Carol and John Sochacki “Retirement should be a joy”

John and Carol Sochacki

Jay Clayton Wilson “The most outgoing couple one could hope to meet at STC.” That is the description most often heard about John and Carol Sochacki. It is an honor they have earned during their 10 years in the SaddleBrooke community. It would be a rare event or most unusual tennis opportunity occurring at the…

Unit Happenings

Left to right are our lunch organizer Linda Warfield, Bonita Nitcher, Linda Nagy, Stephanie Mattie, Elizabeth Vaughan and Fran Berman. Not shown are Karen Bettencourt, Ginny Rebmann, Kathy Soerens, Marcia Weitzman and LaVerne Tucker.

Unit 5 Fran Berman While it was hot outside, the ambiance was warm inside the Olive Garden Restaurant where 11 Unit 5 ladies gathered for our bi-monthly lunch. We all dove into the all-you-can-eat salad bowl (not literally, of course). Some chose the newest lunch special, which resembled an Italian quesadilla. Others went for more…

Artist of The Month

Barbara Leightenheimer with her oil-on-canvas painting, Going my way—March.

LaVerne Kyriss A teacher by trade and a life-long student, Barbara Leightenheimer served as the SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild’s first president. “The guild was already in place when we moved here, but it wasn’t a formal club. I’d joined and the group decided I had the right skills and credentials as both an art educator…

The civic side of SaddleBrooke CycleMasters

The CycleMasters enjoyed presenting bicycles to these deserving students.

Joanne Marmon For the past number of years the SaddleBrooke CycleMasters have purchased new bicycles and helmets for students in grades one through six at San Manuel and Mammoth school systems. The bicycles are part of the awards ceremonies held at the end of the school year. Children are chosen by their teachers and principals…

Palm Springs, California, tour planned

Bob Stuart Arizona Pathfinders, a nonprofit volunteer group of the Arizona Historical Society, is conducting a five day tour October 24 through 28, 2016 to Palm Springs, California. Join us for an eventful tour to this region, in southern California between the Mohave Desert and the Colorado Desert (a sub-division of the Sonora Desert). Highlights:…