Jacqueline Cohen Sometimes you enter a home and are awestruck by its décor, detail and artwork. And you know the person who lives there not only has an eye for beauty, but knows how to create it. Mick Desmarais is such a person. You can see it in the furniture he has built, the cabinetry…
Janet Tucker The summer months are a fun and no stress way to take advantage of the SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild classes. These short classes have been very popular and are a great way for anyone interested in art to test the water and see if painting is right for you. Or perhaps you would…
Vivian Herman The SaddleBrooke SilverBelles have been dancing since the 90s and although dancers have come and gone in 20 years, the current ensemble has not only dancing in common, but friendship, camaraderie and the love of a good party. To celebrate another year of entertaining in various senior living communities and other venues in…
Patti R. Albaugh Savo Fries, a member of the SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club, recently received recognition as a Paul Harris Fellow, a group of individuals acknowledged by Rotary International. Fellows have contributed, or have had contributions made in their name, of $1,000 to The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. Ms. Fries is a retired realtor…
Steve Holdener The Viennese Waltz, also known in German as the Wiener Walzer, is quite different from other forms of waltz. It is a rotary dance where the dancers are constantly turning either toward the leader’s right (natural) or toward the leader’s left (reverse), interspersed with non-rotating change steps to switch between the direction of…
Pam Boedeker SaddleBrooke Nature Club adopted the Peniocereus greggi (desert night-blooming cereus) as its logo. It is one of the Sonoran Desert’s most famous yet least encountered plants. Most of the year it is a floppy, nondescript cactus. But on just a few nights it becomes the star of desert plants with its elegant white…