Fran Berman SaddleBrooke Freethinkers held its first ever Thirdsty Thursday at the Roadrunner Grill on June 18. Nineteen SaddleBrooke residents attended this informal gathering during the Roadrunner Grill’s happy hour (happy two hours) to get to know each other better in a casual environment. As this new monthly event is strictly for socializing there was…
Patti R. Albaugh SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club had plenty to celebrate at their June 25 breakfast meeting. Outgoing President Dick Kroese received a standing ovation for his initiative and hard work to start a morning Rotary club in SaddleBrooke. In less than a year, the newly chartered club received a Presidential Citation from Rotary International,…
Bob Edelblut On Friday, June 12 at The Preserve Golf Club, Dick Stanley had his seventh hole-in-one. This is not a misprint. It really was his seventh. It occurred on the sixth hole and Dick’s best guess was that the shot was about 140 yards. He chose his trusty eight iron. Dick and his playing…
Our winter friends may have flown away but that doesn’t stop the good times at the SBWGA for a minute! Thanks to the hard work of our Home and Home Chairs, Geri Sandilands and Nancy Huffman, we were treated to a fantastic morning of wonderful golf in perfect weather, a wide open course and a…
Bobbi Forsch Even though it’s summer and so many of our winter visitors have gone to cooler climates there are still exciting things going on at Knit Wits. After Jonelle and Velvet visited us in March from Southwest Trading Company in Phoenix, Velvet went home and created a shawl and named it the SaddleBrooke Shawl.…
Stephanie Parks I was right—it got hot. But not until the very end of May. Maybe climate change is causing Arizona, and specifically Tucson, to become better than before. Nice thought. There are no big tournaments coming up in July or August, so everybody come to our game and keep your wits sharp. We had…