Tag: volunteer

Adopt-a-Family and Adopt-a-Child program again brighten the holiday season

Ken and Ellen Perkins For more than a decade, the SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Adopt-a-Family and Adopt-a-Child program has provided hand-picked and carefully wrapped Christmas gifts to local families and Apache children on the San Carlos reservation. In recent years, the program has grown to annually assist about 90 families and 257 Apache children. SaddleBrooke and…

Honoring Senior Village volunteers

Stephanie Thomas Once a year, the volunteers of Senior Village become guests of honor at a reception to thank them for the thousands of miles and hours they commit to serving the SaddleBrooke community. Starting on the patio of the Activity Center, they have a chance to mingle, sip wine and appetizers and get to…

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Happenings

SBCO honors volunteers and supporters 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, 17 schools, three Head Start programs and…

Health Fair volunteers needed

Phyllis Ketring, Publicity Coordinator SaddleBrooke volunteers and residents have supported the annual Health Fair for 21 years and 2019 will mark the 22nd anniversary of this popular event. Health Fair 2019 will be held on Saturday morning, October 12. Volunteers work in 90-minute shifts so they can attend the fair exhibits themselves. There are many…

“Little Jack Frost get lost”

Eileen J Snearly A frost delay on December 4, 2018, on the MountainView Golf Course forced a cancellation of a planned event in order to arrive on time for the holiday luncheon and entertainment at the MountainView Bistro. Given lemons the MountainView Preserve lady Niners chairpersons and their committee made lemonade by setting up a…

No one does it like CCSB

Carol Thompson I am proud to be a member and contributor to the Community Church at SaddleBrooke (CCSB)! Our membership grants monetary gifts to many local organizations in need: Gospel Rescue Mission, Family First Pregnancy Care Center and Diaper Bank, Youth On Their Own (YOTO), Young Life Capernaum, Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Habitat for…

Prescription drop off program

The prescription drug drop-off program will take place on Tuesday, February 26 from 2:00-4:00 p.m. March drop off dates are March 8 from 10:00 a.m.-noon and March 26 from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Drop off your unused prescription drugs at the Pinal County Sheriff’s SaddleBrooke substation located in the Mini Market near Bank of the West. Place…

Prescription drug drop off program

Prescription drugs can be dropped off on the second Friday each month from 10:00 a.m.-noon. This month’s date is Friday, December 14. You can also drop off on the fourth Tuesday of each month from 2:00-4:00 p.m.; however, it will be closed this month due to the Christmas holiday. Drop off your unused prescription drugs…

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach

The Educational Enrichment sub-committee needs you Nancy McCluskey-Moore SaddleBrooke Community Outreach is “All About the Kids.” Our Educational Enrichment sub-committee is an important part of our efforts to provide learning opportunities for students within the Copper Corridor where the schools have been devastated financially by the closing of the local mines. In fiscal year 2017-18,…