SBR Cancer Support Group’s Second Annual FUNraising Event Update

We Invite You to Visit Us, Inspire Us, and Support Us

Save the Date for Annual Foundation Gala Dinner and Auction

Now Is the Time to Join the Fun at the Robson Pickleball Center

Senior Village – October 2026

We dropped everything for a good cause

Left to right: Connie Ward, Karen Schickedanz, Shawne Cryderman, Karen Moore, Susan Sterling and Carol Merlini; photo by Steve Weiss

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…

4peat is sweet! SaddleBrooke swims to State Championship

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…

Civil War letters survive six generations

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…

2 Your Health: Lower back and leg pain

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…

This I have learned

Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg The movie was The Yearling, adapted for the screen from the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s novel of the same name. It starred Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman. At one point in the movie Jane Wyman appeared to be darning a sock. I had recalled the word “darn” from my childhood, as my mother…

June 14 Gardeners Exchange notice

The Gardeners Exchange of SaddleBrooke Ranch welcomes Yadi Wang, a PhD student in Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences at the University of Arizona. Yadi’s presentation, “Unearth the Secret of Soil Genesis” will be held on Tuesday, June 14 at 1:00 p.m. at the La Hacienda Club, in SaddleBrooke Ranch. Soil genesis is a complex process…