Patti R. Albaugh Every third Wednesday of the month SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotarians lend their hands to Golden Goose for their monthly Midnight Madness Sale. The Golden Goose is a renowned thrift store that has raised more than eight million dollars for SaddleBrooke Community Outreach & Impact of Southern Arizona. The “Goose,” as many refer to…
Dick Kroese Tucson Airport Authority Chief of Public Safety John Ivanoff spoke at the SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club on November 17 and he talked about his commitment to providing a safe and secure environment for passengers at Tucson International Airport and the users of Ryan Airfield. Through organized response to emergency situations, proactive education and…
Patti R. Albaugh How many of us have used the phrase “Wild horses couldn’t make me—”? H. Alan Day, author of The Horse Lover: A Cowboy’s Quest to Save the Wild Mustang, spoke to SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary about starting the first government-sponsored wild horse sanctuary in the United States. Hearing his story, many of those…
Dick Kroese Tammy Mockbee, Amy Armour and Marilyn Skoneczka of Little Hooves and Big Hearts (LHBH) visited SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club. Since its founding in 2007, LHBH has been helping seniors and children with special needs get to a better place in their lives, both physically and emotionally, through interaction with specially trained miniature horses.…
Dick Kroese SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club had John Adams, Deputy Director of Biosphere II, as the speaker at our weekly meeting. He told us that the University of Arizona assumed management of Biosphere 2 in July of 2007. The University has the vision of understanding complex environmental systems by engaging both the scientific community and…
Dick Kroese Bob Logan, Assistant Dean for External and Corporate Relations at the University of Arizona, spoke to The SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club about his own personal life changing experience as he traveled the Camino de Santiago. The journey is 500 miles. It has been walked by Christians and others from all over the world…
Theresa Poalucci This past November the SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club hosted a Veterans Day event for the 450 plus students at Mountain Vista School in Oracle. Working with the school’s Principal Nannette Soule, the club organized a program that included presentations by several veterans. An honor guard from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base started things off…
The Triangle Y Ranch has been serving campers for more than 60 years. A short distance north of the town of Oracle, with incredible views of the Galiuro and Santa Catalina Mountains, the facility hosts some 1,000 campers every season. Recently Executive Director of the Triangle Y Ranch and Retreat Center, Chip Hutler, hosted a…
Patti R. Albaugh A twenty-four hour day is never long enough for Daria Sparling, owner of Arizona Rescue Ranch near Mammoth. She spoke to the SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club about the ranch’s history and her passions as animal rescuer and horse trainer. Anyone looking at timberland for sale with a particular interest should evaluate whether…