Nan Nasser SaddleBrooke Community Outreach will hold its annual community food drive to benefit Tri Community Food Bank on Saturday, March 14. Last year the communities of SaddleBrooke and the Ranch collected over 19,000 pounds of nonperishable food and $12,000 in cash to help the people in the Mammoth, San Manuel, Oracle area known as…
Pam Boedeker The December meeting of SaddleBrooke Nature Club began with Jim Cloer telling the group about volunteer opportunities with the Catalina State Park Nature Program. Possibilities are endless from photography to geology and plant study. The speaker at the meeting was Jean Groen from Apache Junction. Jean has a lifelong love of cooking and…
Dr. Mark Magdanz Holiday festivities are done, it’s still about as dark as it gets. Oh, what shall we do? How about line dancing? All three line dancing levels will have classes starting the middle of January. Never danced with Rebecca? It’s all about fun, learning and laughter in her classes. December 9 brought a…
Carole Rossof An estimated 100,000 to 500,000 pets enter shelters each year because owners become incapacitated or die. Many of these pets are seniors and extremely difficult to place. When they are old, they are in need of some love and may be interested in the best dog toys, even if they are old they…
Ken and Ellen Perkins We wanted to provide everyone an update from cold and icy New England where we are spending the holidays with our family. The last week of school we borrowed the SBCO Kids’ Closet van on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, then borrowed the Catalina Community Services (rebranded as Impact) truck on Thursday…
Bonnie Thomas The arrival of the Christmas Season was apparent on Tuesday, December 9 at the SaddleBrooke Vistas Dining Room where the Lady Niners gathered after a game of golf to end their year with a luncheon and meeting. The women had been gathering toys since after Thanksgiving and they were on display as centerpieces…