Deb McGiboney The SaddleBrooke Ranch Women of Wine (SBRWOW) club meets the third Thursday of every month, 3 to 5 p.m., at the Ranch House Grill Sol Ballroom. There is a $1 cash only admission fee that the Ranch House charges for the set-up. A portable bar is set up for you to order your…
Mary (Twink) Gates John Wayne, The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Tom Mix, et al, deck the halls with their pictures along with other western memorabilia at the Cadillac Chaparral Steakhouse, just outside Tucson on the Florence Highway. Just 20 minutes’ drive from SaddleBrooke. It was here on Jan. 23 that 22 members of…
Rebecca Williams The SaddleBrooke Ranch Riding Group had a perfect day of nice weather and clear blue skies for their ride on Feb. 1 at Donnelly’s D-Spur Ranch in Gold Canyon just east of Apache Junction. The venue is generally just a bit warmer than the Ranch and offers magnificent views of the Superstition Mountains…
Linda Harvey The National Parks Club Speaker Series continued with National Park Service Ranger (NPS) Callie Caplenor, who is the educational coordinator for three national park sites in southeast Arizona. Ranger Callie is a gifted storyteller who explained the history of the area with great clarity. Located in southeast Arizona, Coronado National Memorial (NMem) holds…
Patti West Participants in the SBR Painters Club Cold Wax class show off their finished abstract landscape paintings. Pictured are Susan Gitelson, Cheryl Margolis, Cathy Kauffman, Carol Beeley, Janice Mihora, Darla Carlson, Patricia Schofield, Lisa Zahn, Kathryn Krupski, Linda Schmidt, Karen Davis, Jim Cox, and Christine Blackburn. Cold Wax is an oil painting medium that…
Congregation B’nai Midbar: More Happenings, Updates, and Vision Melanie Einbund The Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center inspired many who toured the first Jewish Temple in Tucson. No surprise, it was the Jewish women who raised the funds to establish this beautiful building. The first services were held on Rosh Hashanah in 1907! After the…
Georgine Hurst A definition of sabbatical is any extended period of leave from one’s usual work, especially for rest, to acquire new skills or training, or exploration. The use of sabbaticals is most common in academia where the practice repeats every 7 years traditionally, but is trending to every 3.5 years. It is also used…
Vista United Methodist Church continues to answer the call to feed the hungry in our community. On Feb. 2 and Feb. 9, Vista joined hundreds of Methodist churches, along with other denominations, across our country in celebrating the Super Bowl in unique, creative, and fun ways. The “Souper Bowl of Caring” unites us in our…
Rev. Mary Dotson The season of Lent begins Wednesday, March 5. Traditionally we think Lent is 40 days of giving up pleasures that consume us. I have come to appreciate Lent to be a season to refocus my life. It is so easy for us to get caught up in the drama of life, relationships,…
Linda Galka, Benith MacPherson, Nancy Yob, and Sharon Scanlan Our ministry teams have had a busy 2025 so far! In addition to “Souper Sunday,” we supported Impact with the following collections: 245 boxes of pasta were collected for the food bank in January. For our Share the Warmth annual drive, we hit an all-time high…