SBCO Elects New Board of Directors for 2026-27 Nancy McCluskey-Moore On April 13 at the annual meeting of SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO), the organization elected its Board of Directors for 2026-27. The members of the new board include: * President: Laura Pauli * Executive Vice President: Gayle Van Natter * Recording Secretaries:Susan Knight and Ann…
Shawne Cryderman Significant changes are happening within Community Circle Players (CCP). It is time to become our own entity, separate from the SaddleBrooke Theatre Guild. The CCP new executive board is: Shawne Cryderman, president, Tim Morsani, vice president, Jim Ward, secretary and Patty Gregory-Burke, treasurer. Connie Ward and Al Weigel are on the board as…
Toes Were Tapping at the Senior Village Spring Birthday Party! Laura Anderson Toes were tapping as the SaddleBrooke Coyote Country Cloggers entertained Senior Village members at the March/April birthday celebration held at the SaddleBrooke One tennis pavilion. The ladies’ group danced and sang, teaching the audience some of their steps. The routines were captivating as…
LaVerne Kyriss At SaddleBrooke’s National Firewise Awareness Day event, held May 2 at the MountainView Clubhouse, participants learned about preventing wildfire damage and destruction to our homes and properties. Taking these simple steps can help us live in a resilient community, noted one speaker at the event. In addition to minimizing or removing combustible items…
Dawn Walker Watch this space! SaddleBrooke Winds and Strings (SBWS) summer concert will include several pieces from the American Folk Tradition in honor of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. Details are still being worked out, but the concert will be held at The Holy Way Presbyterian Church 4040 S Bilbray Ave,…
Keith Schiller On May 5, Pinal County election officials, headed by Dana Lewis, Recorder for Pinal County, and with our Supervisor Jeffrey McClure led a tour for Saddlebrooke residents of the state-of-the-art election headquarters in Florence. Concerns about the integrity of the voting procedures and safeguards so that only qualified voters can cast ballots have…
Connie Kotke While some SaddleBrooke putting groups pause for the summer, the Verde Sputters continue to meet on the SaddleBrooke One main putting green every Monday. Starting Monday, May 11, we beat the heat by gathering early; check-in starts at 8:30 a.m. and putting starts at 9 a.m. It’s a beautiful time as the sun…
Marsha B. Mantykow This has been a fun-filled season. We went off the reservation to the Gaslight Music Hall. We played Bingo and shared our culinary talents at our potluck. We gathered on Valentine’s Day for cocktails and conversation. We made children with cancer a little happier with our holiday gifts. Of course, the monthly…
Penny Bartley Thank you to everyone that made the 2026 quilt show a huge success. Over 100 quilts were displayed showing the talents of SaddleBrooke residents. The quilt show could not take place without the efforts of our quilt show co-chairs, Linda Greenough and Marcia Webster, and all the committee chairs, club members and the…
Rev. Mary Dotson When I was in my 40s, I entered seminary. It was an American Baptist seminary, but the student body was quite ecumenical, including Lutherans, Presbyterians, United Methodists, and other denominations. It was during a semester in Systematic Theology that I sensed my understanding of God—and God’s work in and through all of…