Ann Vernon With a record-breaking 270 attendees, this year’s Oracle Schools Foundation (OSF) Spring Fling Gala was a huge success! Great energy floated around the ballroom as people socialized and bid on silent auction items or signed up for fixed-price events. The live auction bidding was very spirited! A special thank you to all who…
April 28 was our last Shabbat service until the High Holy Days. It was also the last service of our outstanding accompanist Harrison Scheckler. Harrison leaves us to teach at a university in Iowa. Harrison came to us not knowing Jewish liturgical music. He has learned this genre amazingly well. We will be forever grateful…
SaddleBrooke Off Road Bunch members recently received instruction in off-road rescue and recovery. The demonstration included discussions of overall safety during a recovery operation, safe techniques in using recovery equipment (winches, hooks, tow straps, snatch blocks, shackles, etc.), change of direction winching, doubling the pull power of a winch, and re-spooling the winch line correctly…
Constance Garrison The Lady Niners invited Anj Brown of the Arizona Golf Association (AGA) to address our club on March 22. She provided information about the organization and the benefits to SBR Lady Niners. Prior to the presentation, Lady Niners from the board of directors enjoyed a luncheon with Anj at the Ranch House Grill…
Linda Shannon-Hills and Dian Gowen, Creative Giving The Creative Giving SaddleBrooke Ranch group is collecting donations of various hygiene items for local groups needing these items. We take the items to homeless shelters and to foster care groups who provide backpacks for when children first leave their homes without many items. Everyone needs to feel clean and fresh,…
Vicki Ray Dennis Abbey is one of six top shooters in this year’s Robson Trap Trials held March 24 at Casa Grande Trap and Skeet. Dennis placed third in the men’s best of field as well. Quail Creek was this year’s winner and will host the 2024 event. PebbleCreek hosted 74 shooters and their guests…
New Board Member, Lisa John SaddleBrooke Pet Rescue Network (SBPRN) would like to introduce our newest board member, Lisa John. Lisa hails from Ridgecrest, Calif., and moved to SaddleBrooke in spring 2021. Before relocating to sunny Arizona, Lisa was a kindergarten and first grade teacher for 30 years. She jokes that this is why her…
Gerry Tietje One of the first things Claire and I noticed when we moved to SaddleBrooke Ranch (SBR) in June 2021 was how many lizards were around—in our backyard, on the Nature Trail, and in nearby state parks. With my penchant to know more about things in nature, I began to identify and study them.…
James J. Beregi In February, the Past Exalted Rulers Association (PERA) made a donation from the Queen of Hearts charity funds. A donation of $1,000 was made to the Desert Woodcrafters before our Queen of Hearts drawing on Jan. 27. In 2022 this organization distributed 2,292 Pens for Troops overseas through Chaplains and Woodcraft. This…
Congratulations to SaddleBrooke Ranch Young Guns 3.5, 55+ Men’s Arizona Pickleball Players League (APPL) State Champions. The Young Guns beat Las Palmas Grande 30-12 to become the first all-SaddleBrooke Ranch resident players to win a state championship. The April 4 playoff day was a challenge, playing in undesirable weather with 12 to 19 mph winds…