Phyllis Ketring The nineteenth annual SaddleBrooke Health Fair is scheduled for Saturday morning, October 15. The fair features 75 providers and screeners, over 1000 fairgoers and over 100 volunteers. It truly represents SaddleBrooke in action. Nineteen years ago, Dolores Robu, Chairperson of SaddleBrooke Health and Wellness, visited a Health Fair in Sun City and instantly…
Julia Young Thanks to all of our volunteers and participants, our Charity Tournament for Children was a huge success again this year. We raised over $25,000 to benefit at-risk youth in Pima and Pinal Counties. The weather held out and almost 150 golfers participated to give back to our community. University of Arizona retired Coach…
Susan Shear The PrimeTime Players recent production of Calendar Girls was a huge success with sold out audiences, rave reviews and standing ovations. The cast, crew and staff along with our audiences, rode an emotional journey of tears and laughter as we told the true story of the original British Calendar Girls. All of us felt…
Phil Simpson On the weekend of April 2 and 3, 50-plus members of the SaddleBrooke Swim Club’s U.S. Masters Swim Team ventured north to Paradise Valley to compete in the Arizona State Short-Course-Yards Championship Meet, hosted by the Phoenix Swim Club. In a record setting, eye popping performance, Coach Doug Springer’s intrepid natators dominated the…
SaddleBrooke resident and author Richard Hamilton recently became the recipient of the courtship and Civil War letters of his great, great grandparents George Thomas Patten and Lydia Ann Denton-Patten. Surviving six generations the letters, along with several old tintype photos, were given to him in December 2015, by his cousin Louise Patten-Walma. Richard spent hours…
Editor’s Note: “2 Your Health” is a new column in the SaddleBrooke Progress dedicated to health issues. Each month different doctors and or medical associations, from varying specialties, will be writing on issues of importance. Articles are based on experiences and independent research conducted by the doctors or medical associations. We encourage anyone considering changing…