Category: Features

2 Your Health: Deep Tissue Massage: Why Does Massage Hurt?

Heidi Overman, LMT #MT-24997 Communication is key to a successful massage! Deep tissue massage is often preferred when getting a massage. This type of massage can be very successful in breaking up adhesions, chronic muscular holding patterns, increasing range of motion, decreasing pain, and can break up “stuck” fascia. Deep tissue massage usually focuses on…

Engaging and Enriching Virtual Programs for Older Adults

Jennifer Brauner The Center for Senior Enrichment (CSE), under the auspices of Jewish Family and Children’s Service (JFCS), provides daily Zoom programming for all older adults throughout the Valley, exploring music, movement, history, art, and more during the month of February. New this month is a Latin Fusion dance class on Monday mornings, Feb. 1…

Spotlight On Advertiser: Life Under the Oaks

Alicia Bristow Oracle continues to host visitors at the Life under the Oaks Lavender Farm, Arizona Zipline Adventures, and Titan Power Sports & Rentals for off-road vehicle enthusiasts! Our businesses are ready when you are! (See our ad.) The feature location and business is Life under the Oaks Lavender Farm, a small family-owned Lavender Farm.…

Word of the Month: Sublime

David Zapatka As my friend Mike Schneider and I were discussing this quote from The Urantia Book recently, “Such spirit-born individuals are so unmotivated in life that they can calmly standby while their fondest ambitions perish and their keenest hopes crash; they positively know that such catastrophes are but the redirecting cataclysms which wreck one’s…

SBR Troopers for Veterans

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Kay Lantow and Linda Nicholson On Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, SaddleBrooke Ranch residents gathered at Evergreen Cemetery in Tucson for the annual Wreaths Across America event. It was a beautiful and sunny morning for the volunteers to participate in honoring our veterans. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the beautiful ceremony which has taken place in previous…

Holiday Lights Golf Cart Tour

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Leslie Brown Remember bundling up in the family car with your hot cocoa and driving around to see the holiday lights? At this COVID-safe event, over 70 golf carts lined up to see the light displays around the Ranch at the eighth annual Holiday Lights Cruise sponsored by Les and Leslie Brown of the Sell,…