Firewise Preparedness Day Per NFPA Preparedness Day, May 2

Dog Park Members Help a Horse

Unit Happenings

SaddleBrooke Nature Club

Hiking in the Heat

Expired or Unwanted Pills?

Twice monthly volunteers at the Sheriff’s Office Substation in the Mini Mart are available to help dispose of expired or unwanted pills on the second Friday of each month and the fourth Tuesday of each month. The next date is Tuesday, Sept. 26, from 2 to 4 p.m. Please be sure to empty the contents from…

A Space Analog for the Moon and Mars

Sam Miller The SaddleBrooke Skygazers Astronomy Club is pleased to host Kai Staats, the director of Research for SAM, a Space Analog for the Moon and Mars at the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2, on Sunday, Oct. 8, at the DesertView Theater, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive, at 7 p.m. Staats is an entrepreneur, researcher, and…

Dancers in the Spotlight

Tom Marshall When you reach retirement, it can be hard to start something new, much less take a class entitled “Novice,” but that’s just what Dick and Karen Schroeder did, and they fell in love with ballroom dancing. “It’s an exercise for both mind and body. It’s the social interaction with other dancers before and…

Significant Rule Changes Suggested to USA Pickleball for 2024

Raymond H. Goettsch This is the time of year when pickleball players make suggestions for rule changes to USA Pickleball for 2024. Approximately 100 proposed changes can be found on rules.usapickleball.org/entry, and comments can be made regarding these proposed changes. Probably the most important proposed change is to make the volley serve illegal and the…

Senior Village at SaddleBrooke

Senior Village Membership Team Phyllis Ketring When you say “hello” to Senior Village for the first time, it’s the Membership Team that greets you. There are currently 27 volunteers on the team with two co-leaders. One of them will be your first personal contact with Senior Village. Co-leaders Jaci Nissen and Betty Crawford are dedicated…

Hole In One

Anne Jones Rochelle H. Davies What could possibly be better than a summer morning spent with friends on one of SaddleBrooke’s golf courses? Seeing the radiant smile light up your friend’s face when she realizes her first hole-in-one = priceless. On the morning of Aug. 18 on the par 3, 100-yard (blue flag) hole number 6…