Is Your House a Candidate for the Annual SBCO Home Tour? Nancy McCluskey-Moore Each year SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) hosts a tour of remodeled homes designed to show SaddleBrooke and SaddleBrooke Ranch residents changes that may inspire their own home improvements. This event helps SBCO inform both communities about its food, clothing, enrichment, and educational…
The University of Arizona, Cooperative Extension, Pinal County Southeast Master Gardeners are pleased to invite you to our Community Education Presentation on Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 1 p.m. in the SaddleBrooke Ranch Sol Ballroom, 31143 S. Amenity Drive, Oracle, AZ 85623. Join us for a presentation on “Building Healthy Soils and Organic Gardening.” Do you…
SBCO Scholarship Student Brooke Kelley Is Breaking Barriers Kathie Marshall You typically don’t see a plethora of females in construction careers, but the times they are a-changin’. According to a 2023 report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), women currently make up around 10.8 % of the construction workforce in the United States, although…
David Zapatka From 2.0 to 5.0, we have all faced the “bangers,” those players who prefer to hit everything hard rather than play the soft game hitting dinks and drop shots. Would you like to defeat these hard hitters? Consider adopting these tips. Hit deep returns. Keep the banger at the baseline with a deep…
SBCO Needs Volunteers to Help Local Students Succeed Nancy McCluskey-Moore SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) was founded in 1997 to meet the needs of children living in the 11 current and former mining communities in the “Copper Corridor,” stretching 100 miles north of Catalina, Ariz. SBCO’s mission of providing children with opportunities to succeed is realized…
Thanksgiving Baskets Brighten the Holiday for Local Families Mona Sullivan SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) now has two teams working on providing Thanksgiving baskets to local families. The SaddleBrooke Ranch team delivered 40 baskets to San Manuel High School and had 18 volunteers assisting with their program. Ranch volunteers included Co-chairs Anthony Signorelli and Tim Bowen,…
Make a Difference by Donating to SBCO Nancy McCluskey-Moore For more than 26 years, SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBO) has been providing young people in local communities with opportunities to succeed through programs that provide food, clothing, enrichment grants, and scholarships. We serve youngsters living in the Copper Corridor, mining towns stretching across more than 100…
Gail A. Nelli Have you a musical or theatrical talent you wish to share with our SaddleBrooke community? We have just the outlet for you in our new Variety Show 2025 called “A Seventies Shindig.” All of us Boomers lived through this exciting decade where recordings went from two tracks to 32 tracks and records…
SBCO Enrichment Grant Funds 5 Cs Education Nancy McCluskey-Moore School children in Arizona are taught the “5 Cs”—the five things that were once the main drivers of the state’s economy. While today the economic impact of cotton, cattle, citrus, copper, and climate has changed somewhat, the 5 Cs still remain an important tool for helping…
Wanda Bailey, President-Elect, Rotary Club of SaddleBrooke Many of us are retired or nearing retirement. As we end our working years, we create plans to make sure our financial resources are adequate. However, did we also consider how to spend our newly found free time? Healthy aging requires having purpose—a reason to get up each…