Jeanne Osterlund SaddleBrooke Ranch Women’s Golf Association hosted its annual Member-Member Tournament on Dec. 3. The weather started off a bit chilly but it turned into a beautiful day for golf. For this event, members choose another member to be their partner in a best ball event. The theme this year was “Girls Just Wanna…
Thank you to all who made the Golden Goose Thrift Shop’s fourth “Estate Quality Event” such a huge success! Thanks to our generous donors, loyal customers and stellar volunteers, we were able to generate significant revenue for the local charitable programs that we support! We were able to bring in many “first-time” Golden Goose shoppers…
Rebecca Williams The Rancheros Square Dance Club helped to graduate 15 dancers who spent the last ten Sunday evenings learning the advanced calls involved in the plus level of square dancing. The class was a total of 24, but included were some members who were just brushing up on their skills. The 15 all started square…
Carol Mihal The SaddleBrooke Ranch Women’s Golf Association (SBRWGA) would like to say thank you to the local businesses that partnered with us through their sponsorship during 2019! The purpose of SBRWGA is to promote good fellowship and interest in golf, enable our members to enjoy organized competition and social activities, and support the learning of the…
Linda Harvey and Linda Shannon-Hills You have just moved into SaddleBrooke Ranch. Getting to know other new neighbors is a good way to get incorporated into this friendly and fast-growing community. This event gives new residents a chance to meet other new residents and to hear about activities and events at the Ranch. Resident veterans…
David Zapatka Entering the 2020s, which seemed so far into the future, caused me to pause and focus on the plethora of words that come into our language every year. Entering the year 1920, some of the world’s great minds were inventing the rotary dial telephone, the pop-up toaster, and forming the League of Nations,…
Letter to Residents Crystle Nehrmeyer, superintendent, Oracle School District Community On behalf of the Oracle Elementary School District, our governing board, students, families, and staff, I want to express our sincere appreciation to the voters who supported and approved both Propositions 438 and 439, the override continuation and capital bond. Our community came together and made the decision…
Ellen Sosin Back by popular demand, the Master Gardeners will offer the six-week class, High Desert Gardening on Wednesday afternoons, starting Feb. 26, in the MountainView Ballroom at the MountainView Clubhouse, SaddleBrooke. Each session will last two hours, and registration is required. This course is designed to help residents resolve basic gardening issues, along with gaining new…
Mariano Samaniego, Pierre Charouleau, and William H. Sutherland are among the best-known ranchers from the late 1800s in Bob Simpson’s new history From the Cañada del Oro to the Tortolitas. But even more pertinent to the SaddleBrooke Ranch area history, Charles Bayless obtained title from the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad for today’s Oracle Junction (earlier…
Kim Schweitzer An important component and a core belief of the SaddleBrooke Ranch Democratic Club is charity and concern for our local community. A member of the SaddleBrooke Ranch Democratic Club became aware of a need at our local school in Oracle, and an email went out to our members requesting donations of toiletries and…