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…
Category: February 2021
Sports, February 2021
A Legend Has Retired as Chairman of the Pickleball Communications Committee!
Nancy Eisenstein Alastair Stone has resided in Saddlebrooke Ranch for over eight years. He and his wife Helga moved here from Colorado. Alastair immediately began volunteering his time to Saddlebrooke Ranch Pickleball Association (SBRPA). He took over the Communications, Marketing, and News Committee a little over a year ago. The biggest challenge faced by Alastair was…
Sports, February 2021
SBRWGA Announces New Board for 2021
Carol Mihal With an unusual and challenging 2020 behind us, the SaddleBrooke Ranch Women’s Golf Association (SBRWGA) is looking forward to the New Year with its newly-elected board to organize and lead the way to a wonderful year of golf and camaraderie. A large number of board members from 2020 decided to stay on for…
Sports, February 2021
SBRWGA Awards Most Improved Player for 2020
Carol Mihal In late December 2020, the SBRWGA announced that Beth Chamberlin was the winner of the “Most Improved Golfer” for the past year. When Beth started playing golf on Jan. 1, 2020, her handicap was 33.3. Over the course of the year, Beth worked hard to improve her game which resulted in a December…
Features, February 2021
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.…
Generals, February 2021
Unit Happenings
Unit 16B Christmas Decorations Laurie McCoy Given a challenge to decorate for the holidays, Unit 16B embraced the opportunity and awarded the three best. Between Dec. 13 and Dec. 20 neighbors voted for who they believed provided the best decorations in the community. The competition was stiff with snowmen, angels, gnomes, Santa, a golfing moose,…
Features, February 2021
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…
Clubs & Classes, February 2021
Acceptance Speech at the 2020 Paper Products Awards
Joy Hellard As the representative for toilet paper everywhere, I, Charmin Three-Ply, am flushed with excitement to accept this award for best paper product of the year. I, as well as other proud descendants of the Alabama loblolly pine, wish to thank the American consumer for our extraordinary fame during 2020. Although the toilet paper…
Sports, February 2021
SBRPA President’s Corner
Nancy Eisenstein Larry Burchfield is 2021’s President of SaddleBrooke Ranch Pickleball Association (SBRPA). There were many changes to the club in 2020 due to the sudden appearance of the Coronavirus. Larry is hoping for a much better year in 2021 and for play and social events to return to as close to normal as possible.…
Features, February 2021
SBR Troopers for Veterans
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…