Karen Brungardt While many things have had to be postponed or cancelled due to the coronavirus, the SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild is resuming art activities with safety protocols in place and limiting our Art and Wine events to small groups. SaddleBrooke Sunsets continue to be the subject for our next three Art and Wine events.…
Jim Hagedon What is in a name? A lot! Consider for a moment, Walt Disney, Budweiser, Star Wars, or Tiffany. For over fifteen years, the Digital Imaging Group of Saddlebrook, or DIGS, has come to represent a group of SaddleBrooke residents with a passionate interest in photography and a keen interest in learning new photographic…
Karen Gray On June 18, four SaddleBrooke hikers—Carol Burke, Elissa Cochran, Yvette Sibulsky, and hiking guide Karen Gray—set out for Honey Bee Canyon to hike the south trail, a path they had never before hiked. The scheduled hike for this day was to be the Nature, Canyon, and Birding loops in Catalina State Park. Unfortunately,…
Dottie Adams As we shuffle out of line dance limbo, progress has been made to reunite the SaddleBrooke Line Dance Club (SBLDC). The SBLDC has submitted their plan for getting back on the dance floor. A communication has been sent to members with the details on participation. In addition to following the steps in the…
LaVerne Kyriss Howard Cohen started painting in the early 1990s by taking an extension class at the local high school in a Chicago area suburb. “It was a small class and the instructor would walk around as he was coaching students. When a student needed help, the instructor would stop and either talk them through…
M.V. Moorhead A recent study by the University of Maryland’s Do Good Institute showed that volunteerism is on the decline in America. If true, that makes Bobby Apodaca an old-school specimen. Apodaca, current chief of Pinal Rural Fire & Medical District, has been a part of the volunteer fire service all his life. It’s been…