The Swim Club is again offering its free swim clinic to residents. “It’s been years since I swam, but I sure would like to swim laps for exercise (insert weight loss, injury rehab, strength, or competition), but, oh, I am sooooo out of shape, and my strokes need work!” If this sounds like you, the…
Christine Reding To preserve frozen meat, the animal was suspended From the height of a tree, with its trunk being shaved back Preventing the wolverines causing the carcass from being upended Not even nibbling on the smallest portion of chack During the day the frost was sparkling with whitish sheen At night casting shadows of…
Raymond H. Goettsch On Jan. 8, SaddleBrooke resident Janie Fowler received her father’s military identification card that was recently recovered from the site of a 1952 fatal crash of an Air Force transport plane in Alaska. Air Force Capt. Monica Hottle flew from Dover, Del., to present the ID card to Janie. Janie recalled that…
Raymond H. Goettsch The changes to the USA Pickleball rules have been announced. Probably the most important rule changes relate to the serve. The “chainsaw” serve The rules now prohibit the so-called “chainsaw” serve. Under this change, a player may only use his/her non-paddle hand to toss the pickleball for the serve. In other words, the…
Connie Kotke, Publicity Chair The date for our next popular Art & Wine Event, sponsored by the SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild, is Wednesday, March 30, not Feb. 22, as previously announced. The event runs from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the Activity Center in SaddleBrooke One. Join your friends and neighbors to complete a painting…
Ross Dunfee Flag: What do you think of when reading the following list: Fluked, Admiralty, Stockless, Grapnel, Herreshoff, Northill, CQR, Delta, Danforth, and Bruce? If your answer was “various kinds of anchors,” you are correct. The first (unofficial) flag of the Continental Navy, called the Infantry Battalion Flag, was adopted in December 1864. It consisted…