Category: February 2017

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SaddleBrooke Ranch is starting the year off right! At the annual National Association of Home Builders Best of 55+ Housing awards ceremony, SaddleBrooke Ranch brought home a gold award for Best 55+ Clubhouse on the Boards, plus, Robson Communities received the highest honor–Best 55+ Builder of the Year! This is a great time to plan…

A Kendahl Jan Jubb workshop!

Learn to paint watercolors on canvas

By SBR artists’ popular request and to their good fortune, Kendahl is giving a two-day workshop instructing the art of watercolor painting on canvas. Supplies are provided! Students will take home a finished painting requiring no frame or glass to hang. Beginners, intermediate and advanced artists are all included. Pre-registration and pre-pay are required. Location…

A New Year’s memory

The SaddleBrooke Squares

Kay White All join hands and you circle the ring Stop where you are and give your honey a swing Swing that girl behind you Now your own, your very, very own Aallemande left with the sweet corner maid Do-sa-do your own Now you all run, run away with the sweet corner maid Singing Oh…

Come solve the Eat, Drink and Be Deadly Dinner Mystery

The cast of Eat, Drink, and Be Deadly!

Andrea Molberg Gather with friends at SaddleBrooke’s dinner theatre and solve the delightfully funny mystery. Was there a suicide, accident or murder? SaddleBrooke’s new acting group, Community Circle Players (CCP), is presenting the dinner theatre “whodunit” Eat, Drink, and Be Deadly! on February 19 and 20 in MountainView Ballroom and on February 26 and 27…

Get your ballgame back

This could be you…but you are watching as Jack Graef keeps his eyes on the pitch. Notice the pitching screen for added safety. Photo by Jim Smith

Jonathan Green You played ball years ago, loved it but moved on for one of a bunch of good reasons. Or maybe you always wanted to play but thought you weren’t good enough. You are in the right place…take the next step to first base. SaddleBrooke Senior Softball Association (SSSA) is waiting to embrace you…

Ranch residents enjoy annual golf cart parade

Neighbors at SaddleBrooke Ranch were cheering on the 15 electric carts decorated for the holidays that paraded around the neighborhood on Friday, December 14. With little time to prepare there were many clever decorated carts. We had a Santa sleigh, snow covered carts bringing home their holiday tree, holiday cart with their surf boards and…

Gardeners Exchange

The Gardeners Exchange of SaddleBrooke Ranch welcomes Renee Stevens, Home Depot plant expert, on Wednesday, February 15, at 1:00 p.m. at La Hacienda Club to speak on Garden Pests: the Good, the Bad and the Beneficial. One of Home Depot’s top garden gurus, Renee Stevens will share her secrets for keeping bad pests at bay…

Gathering Hearts 2017 kickoff

Gathering Hearts next event will be for Youth On Their Own, YOTO. The event will be a gathering of gift cards of $25 from Target, WalMart, Fry’s or Safeway. Your gift will help homeless, at risk youth to purchase food and other essentials. We will collect the cards on Friday, February 22, at the Bistro…

U of A Athletic Director visits Rotary Club

Greg Byrne, University of Arizona Athletic Director

Dick Kroese Club members enjoyed hearing Greg Byrne talk about University of Arizona athletics. Byrne officially started as Arizona’s Director of Athletics on May 3, 2010. Byrne has helped Arizona athletics maintain its proud position both nationally and in the Pac 12 through the department’s five goals and principles: Graduate Student-Athletes; Follow the Rules; Represent…

Oracle School District

Linda Lyon, Jeff McClure and Steve Brown

The Oracle School District Governing Board welcomed back Jeff McClure, Steve Brown and Linda Lyon on December 12, 2016 when they were sworn in to serve a second term. Board member Jeri Taylor, now beginning the second year of her first term, did the honors. Jana Looby, also entering the second year of her first…