Terry Heggy The SaddleBrooke Photography Club’s general meeting on March 14 features guest speaker Mary Jo Hoffman. Hoffman is an artist-photographer renowned for her unique and personal engagement with the natural world. Best known for her project, “STILL,” where every day (every single day) for over a decade she has taken a photograph of found…
Robert Kumza I’ll bet you thought I was going to say, “… with Doublemint, Doublemint, Doublemint gum.” Well, in SaddleBrooke, the saying goes, “Double your pleasure, double your fun by joining the SaddleBrooke Gardening Club.” Based on national statistics, 55% of American households participate in some form of gardening on a regular basis, and 78%…
Marlene D’Ambrosio The SaddleBrooke Paper Crafters (SBPC) celebrated the club’s 27th anniversary at the annual Holiday Party on Dec. 10 and honored the numerous members who support the club with sponsored volunteer activities. Angela Stokes, our club vice president, started planning for this event in April. Angela, along with her Holiday Party Committee, including Tina…
Sam Miller The SaddleBrooke Skygazers Astronomy Club is pleased to host Dr. Al Conrad, an astronomer and data scientist at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory’s Large Binocular Telescope, on Sunday, April 12, at the DesertView Theater, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive, at 7 p.m. Through the use of the latest visible light imaging technology, multiple…
Vicki Malueg Our February program, “Venomous and Poisonous Animals of Arizona,” was presented by Sandy Reith, a volunteer and recent retiree from the Pima County Conservation Lands Resources. The talk was very informative and described the species of the poisonous and venomous spiders, snakes, toads, scorpions, insects, and lizards that we live with here in…
Sheri Nockels The SaddleBrooke Quilters were well represented at the Tucson Quilt Fiesta and won in several different categories! The show was the 50th anniversary of the Tucson Quilters Guild. Previous award-winning quilts by Tami Graeber and Pat Morris were displayed. There were also hundreds of quilts in a variety of categories. A certified quilt…