SPA Celebrated Halloween with a Party, Music, and Dancing

Swimmers Celebrate Personal Bests and Team Spirit at Ron Johnson Memorial State Meet

Fit Fest Is Back!

Paper Crafters Support Senior Village

Oracle’s Singing Beekeeper

Speaker Fred Terry

Pamela Boedeker SaddleBrooke Nature Club’s first meeting of the season on October 13 introduced Fred Terry, known as Oracle’s Singing Beekeeper. Fred has been raising bees since the 1970s. His knowledge, experience and enthusiasm for the business are impressively extensive. Fred has researched and aided beekeepers in Central and South America. He has given presentations…

Home invasion by a Javelina

Jerry and Gladys Lujan As Foreign Service Officers we spent many years living in exotic places like Algeria, Bangladesh, Haiti, Nigeria, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Our dwellings were always well protected by security grillwork on the doors and windows. It was restrictive but necessary where personal security was at risk. When we returned to…

SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild announces gallery event and sale

Art work by Melanie Walters

Ron Powers The SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild is proud to announce a Gallery Event and Fine Art Sale for original artwork created by organization members. The Guild anticipates over 40 artists will be submitting works for this semi-annual event in acrylics, oils, pastels, watercolors, sculptures, textiles, photographs and in multi-media formats. An Artists’ Reception will…

Holiday Happenings in SaddleBrooke

Left to right: Ron and Leah Kari and Nancy and Brent Carlson

SaddleBrooke Thanksgiving Grandkids’ Days 2014 will be held November 28 and 29 The SaddleBrooke Ceramics Club is hosting a ceramics event where kids can paint a ceramic object of their choosing. The event will be held on Friday, November 28 in the Ceramics Club’s room (Quartz Room) in the HOA 2 Arts and Craft Complex.…

Windy City Friends Club forming

Dick Rouse As we approach 2015 a number of former Chicago area residents have expressed an interest in forming a Chicagoland social group within HOA2. We would certainly like to hear from anyone having an interest in meeting others who have lived in the Chicago and/or suburban area to revisit old times and wonderful experiences…