Debby Felzien 2024 has been quite a year for the SBR Art Club! We are inviting our members to reminisce with us and celebrate what we feel are some exciting achievements. This will be the last general meeting of the year, and it will be a party! Mark your calendars for the third Wednesday, on…
Clubs & Classes, December 2024
See You in 2025!
Debora Witten Creating with Friends has come to an end for 2024. The afternoon events for October and November were fun experiences with everyone doing a fast pastel color sketch with their non-dominant hand. Amazing results happened with the use of two colors creating windows into the beginnings of a vision board. The vision boards…
December 2024, Clubs & Classes
Creative Giving Becomes the Mad Hatters for Kids’ Closet
Linda Shannon-Hills When the Creative Giving of SaddleBrooke Ranch group found out Kids’ Closet could use handmade hats for the 1,800–plus kids they support with clothing sets, our Mad Hatters started sewing, crocheting, and knitting hats of all sizes to donate to SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) Kids’ Closet program. “Our group is so creative with…
Religion, December 2024
Congregation B’Nai MidBar at SaddleBrooke – December 2024
B’Nai Midbar Annual Meeting Please attend the annual meeting on Dec. 13 from 1 to 3 p.m. This meeting affects our common life together and as we look to the future and how we grow as a Jewish Congregation. The 2023 annual meeting minutes will be available, reports will be presented, and most importantly we…
December 2024, Religion
Ending Hunger
Daniel Engeljohn Mountain Shadows Presbyterian Church is designated as a Hunger Action Congregation in the Presbyterian Church (USA). We focus on what our small congregation of less than 100 active worshipers can do. To address immediate needs, we host numerous food donation drives specific to nonperishable items. We address longer-term, structural solutions through how we…
December 2024, Religion
Vista UMC Advent Class—Cards from the Characters of Christmas
Sharon Scanlan and Donna Boring Advent is almost upon us. And yet our world, like that of the world in Jesus’ time, is fraught with problems, worries, and anxieties. Into this web of issues came Saint Luke the Evangelist’s magical story of the birth of Christ. Chapter 2 of the Book of Luke tells us…
Religion, December 2024
Coping with the Holidays—A Medical and Spiritual Discussion
The Santa Catalina Mental Health Ministry’s next Mental Health Focus will be Dec. 8 at 1 p.m. in the Parish Hall at 14380 N. Oracle Rd. Father Huy, C.Ss.R, pastor at Santa Catalina Catholic Church, and Dasa Schmidt, treatment placement specialist at Acadia Healthcare, will be presenting. Join us to learn how to understand the…
December 2024, Religion
“Waiting for Christmas” Celebrates Heart of the Season
A Christmas musical presentation, “Waiting For Christmas,” is coming to the DesertView Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Dec. 8 at 9 a.m. Mrs. Ruth Rehm will be directing the Joyful Voices Choir of Community Church at SaddleBrooke. This Christmas presentation features a heartwarming story of a young girl who is writing to her “Nana.” She is expressing…
December 2024, Features
Ways to Reduce Holiday Stress
Suzanne Marlatt Stewart The holiday season can bring mixed emotions for many. For some, it’s their favorite time of year. For others, it brings feelings of sadness and loss. Seeing old friends and family members may be exciting or may bring up memories of disappointments. Feeling depressed or anxious is not unusual during the holiday…
