Joan Elder, ILR Vice Chairperson The Institute for Learning in Retirement (ILR) is thrilled to announce a new program, Samplers, open to all SaddleBrooke residents. These one-hour classes will take place on five consecutive Thursdays at 1:30 p.m. on Zoom. You can attend as many of these free classes as you wish. All registered ILR…
Diana Wille Good news! The SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club (SBDC) has just been approved to resume many of our activities in the SaddleBrooke One Vermillion Room and the SaddleBrooke TWO Mariposa Room and MountainView Ballroom. These beautiful dance floors are a great place to learn some new styles, add steps to your current repertoire, or…
Gordon Bailey “Buzz” Hackett, Jr. Gordon Bailey “Buzz” Hackett, Jr. passed peacefully of natural causes to be with the Lord in the comfort of his home, with his wife of 10 years, Mary-Lou, by his side on April 21, 2021. Buzz was born in Newport, R.I., to Gordon Bailey Hackett, Sr. and Rose Dolores Hackett…
Suzanne Marlatt Stewart One of my favorite phrases is “There are many paths to the mountaintop.” For many of us, we are inching our way there through our 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Surprisingly, to me, one in 26 baby boomers is expected to live to be 100. Co-authors Steve Franklin, Ph.D. and Lynn Peters…
David Zapatka Last month’s column on “negentropy” elicited this response from a reader, “My thermodynamics class was at 8 a.m. and I slept through that particular law. Thanks for the review albeit a little late to do anything with it.” There’s an art to scheduling university classes and avoiding 8 a.m. classes was one of…
Vera Shury Dealing with unexpected backward falling. One of the symptoms that can arise as Parkinson’s progresses may be (don’t expect to get it, everyone is different) falling backwards! Even normal people can have a hard time stepping back. There can be various reasons for this symptom, such as hypotension, weak muscles, and loss of depth perception. One…