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Category: September 2026
September 2026, Sports
SaddleBrooke and Ranch Senior Softball Action!
King Mitch Well fellow softballers, it’s late July and time to bang out the latest and semi-greatest in SaddleBrooke softball action. Well, being as it’s July 22 as I write this and the Summer league started on July 13, there ain’t a lotta news—especially since it’s been raining cats and dogs for the last two…
September 2026, Clubs & Classes
The Rotary Club of SaddleBrooke Passes the Gavel
Barbara Barr Bengen Happy New Rotary Year! The Rotary Club of SaddleBrooke celebrated the new Rotary year with a scrumptious dinner at the MountainView Ballroom. This traditional transition was marked by the passing of the gavel from President Alfred Lowy to incoming President Lynn Devou. Each new Rotary year, as we pass the gavel, brings…
September 2026, Clubs & Classes
Still Growing! Tom and Sandy Morgan Join Sunrise Rotary Club
Christianne Dettmann It’s been an exciting summer for the SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club! Tom and Sandy Morgan are the newest in a steady stream of recent recruits, having been inducted at the club’s regular meeting on July 16. Tom was born in New York and lived on both the east and west coasts after obtaining…
September 2026, Features
Savor Retirement: Savor Digital Identity in Retirement
Tim Malone Digital identity in retirement refers to the way a person represents, expresses, and manages themselves online. It includes the digital traces they create—such as social media profiles, online communities they participate in, personal websites, shared photos, written reflections, and the ways they communicate with others through technology. In retirement, digital identity becomes a…
September 2026, Features
Word of the Month: Epigraph
David Zapatka In the Quest magazine article titled “The Lotus-Born of Ancient Egypt, A Legacy for Enlightenment in Egypt’s Megalithic Sites,” author Foteini Fotoula Adrimi used an epigraph to introduce her article. The epigraph read: O Atum-Beetle! You become high as the hill; You rose as the benben In the Benben Compound In Heliopolis. (Allen,…
September 2026, Clubs & Classes
Friday Duplicate Bridge Club Celebrates Director Lorraine Smith!
Toni Graves The SaddleBrooke Ranch Duplicate Bridge Club was started some dozen years ago, and directors come and go. Lorraine Smith’s term has proven to be memorable. On July 17, members celebrated her instructive tenure on the final day of her play at the Ranch. Lorraine will find more slam bids in Texas, where she’ll…
September 2026, Sports
Too Hot for 18 Holes
Patti Jo Lewis The hot weather can take a toll on us at the Ranch. Many have escaped to cooler temps. Our league, SaddleBrooke Ranch Women’s Golf Association (SBRWGA), normally sends out 60+ players on Tuesdays. With the high temps, our numbers are down. We are so proud of the 40-44 players who pack up…
September 2026, Generals
Chair Yoga Is Happening at Vista United Methodist Church
Sharon Scanlan and Marty Lenzini Tanya Fagentan, who teaches a very popular class in SaddleBrooke HOA One and SaddleBrooke Ranch, also teaches a weekly Chair Yoga class on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. at Vista United Methodist Church. The cost is $10/class, paid directly to Tanya in cash or check. It is held in the…
September 2026, Generals
SaddleBrooke Winds and Strings New Season, New Era
Dawn A. Walker SaddleBrooke Winds and Strings (SBWS) held a luncheon in July to honor our beloved conductor Jesus Jacquez. After three wonderful years with SBWS, Jesus is moving on to a music graduate program in Montana (the climate opposite of southern Arizona) starting SBWS in the fall. The luncheon was held in the HOA TWO…