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SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Happenings

Save the Date for 2021 SBCO Home Tour Nancy McCluskey-Moore The 2021 SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) home tour, which will focus on remodeled homes, will be held on Saturday, Nov. 13. The 2018 and 2019 tours were so well received (the 2020 tour was cancelled due to the pandemic), the events committee decided to host…

SBCO Board Reunites with Pizza Party

Nancy McCluskey-Moore For the past few years, members of the SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) Board of Directors have gathered in late spring to share a pizza dinner. It’s an opportunity for casual conversation about programs supported during the past school year, ideas about the year ahead, and, of course, summer travel plans. This year’s party…

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Happenings

SBCO Scholarship Endowment Fund Managed for Generations to Come Nancy McCluskey-Moore Since 2001, SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) has been granting two- and four-year college scholarships to deserving students in the Copper Corridor, an area that stretches 100 miles from Catalina to Miami, Ariz. Annually, SBCO allocates some of its general fund to granting new scholarships…

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Happenings

SBCO Announces Supporter and Volunteer Awards Nancy McCluskey-Moore For more than 20 years, SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) has supported food, clothing, and educational programs for local children. Annually, SBCO serves a 100-mile corridor stretching from Catalina to Miami and San Carlos, which includes more than three counties, eight communities, and approximately 4,000 youngsters. As an…

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach

23rd SBCO Annual Food Drive a Resounding Success! Nancy McCluskey-Moore The compassionate residents of SaddleBrooke and SaddleBrooke Ranch made the 23rd annual SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) Food Drive a record-breaking success. This year the food drive raised $226,647.83 in donations! This is an enormous increase compared to the $91,798 raised in 2020. The families assisted…

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Happenings

Steve Groth is stepping down as president of SBCO following many years of service to the organization.

Steve Groth Passing the Baton as SBCO President Nancy McCluskey-Moore After serving as the first male president of SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) for four years and executive vice president for a year prior to that, Steve Groth is ready to hand over the reins to Denise Anthony, the current SBCO executive vice president. Steve’s service with…

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Happenings

SBCO Volunteer Has Performed Many Jobs Over Two Decades Nancy McCluskey-Moore Every journey begins with a single step. That was true for Marcia Van Ommeran’s ongoing twenty-year sojourn as a SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) volunteer. She attended a new-members meeting about volunteer opportunities after she and her husband, Tony, moved to SaddleBrooke from Michigan in…

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Happenings

An emergency food box from Tri-Community Food Bank provides the ingredients for nine family meals.

Clean Out Those Files! Nancy McCluskey-Moore It’s a new year and time to bring your outdated paper files to the Shredding and Recycling Event on Saturday, April 17, from 9 a.m. to noon (or until the truck is full). The event, hosted by Long Realty-Golder Ranch, SaddleBrooke Community Outreach, and the Beacon Foundation, will be…

Unit Happenings

Kathy and Steve Sanchez in their winning holiday decorated golf cart (Photo by Bob Koblewski)

Unit 27 Activities Sue Case and Fred Pilster (contributor) The relatively warm January temperatures are nice for outdoor activities. However, our local—and hungry—javelinas like the warmer temperatures as much as we do. They proved it recently when many Unit 27 residents put their garbage bins out on a Sunday night for an early Monday morning pickup,…

2021 SBCO Home Tour Canceled

  Nancy McCluskey-Moore SaddleBrooke Ranch Community Outreach (SBCO) had originally planned to host our very popular annual Home Tour on April 4, 2020, but the coronavirus had other plans. Like many other groups, we had to postpone this event. This past fall we thought moving the event to April 10, 2021, would allow sufficient time…