Christianne Dettmann It’s been an exciting summer for the SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club! Tom and Sandy Morgan are the newest in a steady stream of recent recruits, having been inducted at the club’s regular meeting on July 16. Tom was born in New York and lived on both the east and west coasts after obtaining…
David Zapatka In the Quest magazine article titled “The Lotus-Born of Ancient Egypt, A Legacy for Enlightenment in Egypt’s Megalithic Sites,” author Foteini Fotoula Adrimi used an epigraph to introduce her article. The epigraph read: O Atum-Beetle! You become high as the hill; You rose as the benben In the Benben Compound In Heliopolis. (Allen,…
Toni Graves The SaddleBrooke Ranch Duplicate Bridge Club was started some dozen years ago, and directors come and go. Lorraine Smith’s term has proven to be memorable. On July 17, members celebrated her instructive tenure on the final day of her play at the Ranch. Lorraine will find more slam bids in Texas, where she’ll…
Patti Jo Lewis The hot weather can take a toll on us at the Ranch. Many have escaped to cooler temps. Our league, SaddleBrooke Ranch Women’s Golf Association (SBRWGA), normally sends out 60+ players on Tuesdays. With the high temps, our numbers are down. We are so proud of the 40-44 players who pack up…
Sharon Scanlan and Marty Lenzini Tanya Fagentan, who teaches a very popular class in SaddleBrooke HOA One and SaddleBrooke Ranch, also teaches a weekly Chair Yoga class on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. at Vista United Methodist Church. The cost is $10/class, paid directly to Tanya in cash or check. It is held in the…
Dawn A. Walker SaddleBrooke Winds and Strings (SBWS) held a luncheon in July to honor our beloved conductor Jesus Jacquez. After three wonderful years with SBWS, Jesus is moving on to a music graduate program in Montana (the climate opposite of southern Arizona) starting SBWS in the fall. The luncheon was held in the HOA TWO…
Keith Vincent and Scott Hopkins Ranch Writers is a group of SaddleBrooke Ranchers who have a passion for writing. Our mission is to encourage writers and improve our writing skills. We recently asked members to write about an awkward date, and here’s what club member Keith Vincent shared: An Awkward Date As I was asked…
Suzanne Marlatt Stewart On Sept. 27 at 4 p.m., join Rev. Dr. Jonathan Zenz and let’s fall in love with wisdom. There is so much more to know about the nature of life and the universe. It is a great joy, to me, to be able to explore it. This renewed format is designed for…
Linda Harvey As a surprise to some, we learned that the story behind the designing, testing, and building of top-secret atomic weapons that helped bring the end of World War II is being preserved as a national historical park. At our recent meeting and via Zoom, National Park Service Ranger Nicholas Murray carefully explained what…
Historical Madness in Unit 16B Pete Watson As we age, many of us suffer the usual aches and pains and sometimes can be a little forgetful. It just so happens that Will Wells, our favorite pool guy, “forgot” what his Unit 16B neighbors did to his home at last year’s 4th of July Pool Party.…