Mountains in Our Backyard—The Catalinas!

The Return of Our Snowbird Crafters

Move Over, Ms. Mystrie, Agatha Christie Is Coming!

7th Annual SaddleBrooke Skin Cancer Research Fundraiser November 16

Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries – April 2015

Pearl Hart is the subject of a future FSL event.

And the winner is… You! Did you know that essentially 100% of the donations by Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries members are used to buy books and movies for our three libraries? In 2014, thanks to the generosity of 690 members and other supporters, we were able to give $27,821 in grants to help purchase 1,336…

Major makeover scheduled for MountainView greens!

Linda DeWitt Since the MountainView Course opened over 20 years ago, it has hosted tens of thousands of rounds, extremes in weather and the encroachment of various competing grasses which have marred the putting greens. This spring RCI will fund a major project to revitalize and improve the course by replacing the greens with completely…

Catalina Timewalkers walks back through time

Marianne Lyons with some of her decorated, antique dress forms.

Gerry Burnside The Quester chapter of the Catalina Timewalkers has had an interesting, informative and varied year. Our year began with an October meeting when Nancy Harling, presenter and member, gave us the historic background of the Orphan Trains which began in the 1850s and ended in 1929. The children were sent from New York…

Let’s Dance and SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Clubs: Quickstep – a very “quick” trip around the dance floor

Steve Holdener Quickstep has been described as “a light-hearted member of the standard ballroom dances.” It’s fast and powerful, but contains subtle syncopations. The first time I saw a couple dancing a Quickstep I thought it was a very fast foxtrot and I was able to dance somewhat of a quickstep foxtrot even though it…

The British Club pub night in SaddleBrooke

The British Club gathered to be entertained by Bernie and Red.

Twink Gates-Zimdar On Friday, March 20 members and friends of the British Club (fifty five in total), celebrated a Pub Night at SaddleBrooke Activities Center. They were entertained by Bernie and Red, one of the most popular comedy and music acts performing today. In previous years Bernie and Red had entertained on cruise ships worldwide;…

Square Dancin’ Thursdays

The SaddleBrooke Square Dancers take their club on a road trip to several outside venues.

Rita Fletcher Thursday evenings the SaddleBrooke Square Dance Club holds dances at 7:00 p.m. in the MountainView Ballroom. Some Thursdays the club steps out to frequent fun venues in the area. So was the case on March 12. The Oracle Inn Saloon has some great food choices and great food to boot! The place allowed…