Category: Generals

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Happenings

SBCO Enrichment Grants Bring Summer Fun to Local Kids Nancy McCluskey-Moore Did your childhood include visits to summer camp? For many of us, these trips into the “wilderness” provided opportunities to try new activities and experience life away from home. Triangle YMCA Ranch Camp in Oracle offers local kids a week filled with archery, horseback…

Papercrafters Card Sale August 14

Have you ever needed a greeting card or small gift at the last minute? The SaddleBrooke Ranch Papercrafters group will have a fine selection of handcrafted greeting cards and other paper-related items for sale on Aug. 14 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Creative Arts building. Purchases can be made with cash or check, and a few crafters…

Our National Parks

Linda Harvey Great Basin National Park (GRBA) in east-central Nevada is well known as a dark sky park and boasts that it has some of the darkest night skies left in the United States. Low humidity and minimal light pollution, combined with high elevation, create a unique opportunity to view the universe. The park will…

CCP Announces Dates for Spring 2024 Dinner Theatre

Susan Sterling Community Circle Players (CCP) has set the dates for a spring 2024 production. Mark your calendars now for entertaining dinner theatre performances during the last week in March. CCP principals have been reading and researching various scripts to tantalize our audience. Could it be a murder mystery in the vein of the well-received…

SBR: Strong-Brave-Resilient; Fighting Cancer with Knowledge

Sandy Jessop When SaddleBrooke Ranch (SBR) residents Nancy and Chris Racioppo’s youngest son, Anthony, was 4 years old, the unthinkable happened. Fifteen years later, those feelings come back as she describes those first days: “We took Anthony to the doctor one morning with a slight fever and bloody nose, and he was very pale. We were sent for…

Welcome New Neighbors

Linda Shannon-Hills Welcome to our new homeowners moving into our beautiful community in the last few months. We have a wonderful welcome program for all new residents to SaddleBrooke Ranch. Each month, the Newcomers Welcome volunteers hold a gathering for new homeowners and renters. You are invited to attend to learn more about our community.…

Do You, or Someone You Love, Live with Mental Illness?

The Santa Catalina Mental Health Ministry is hosting its bimonthly Mental Health Focus at Santa Catalina Catholic Church at 14380 N. Oracle Road. The same program will be presented twice, so feel free to attend the one that best fits your schedule—Sept. 17 from 1 to 3 p.m. or Sept. 25 from 6 to 8 p.m. Both sessions…