Category: October 2023

October and November Coming Events

Glenna Matthews, Pinal County Master Gardener Your Southeast Pinal County Master Gardeners (formally SaddleBrooke/SaddleBrooke Ranch Master Gardeners) are pleased to invite you to attend our following presentations. October Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 1 p.m., “Irrigation Basics” by Dale Suter. Many of us take our irrigation systems for granted, until they stop working. Dale Suter is an…

Spotlight on Advertiser: Medicare and Me: Get Personal!

Leah Kari, licensed insurance agent and retired pharmaceutical representative Are you wishing for an easy, more personalized experience when you access www.medicare.gov or call Medicare? Do you like to surf the plans available to you on www.medicare.gov, but dislike entering your prescription drugs repetitively? Knowing your prescription drug list, claims data for Part A (hospital…

Last Call for SBCO Walk for Kids Registrations!

Nancy McCluskey-Moore The Walk for Kids will begin with a warm-up session at 8:40 a.m. followed by the walk at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28. This signature SBCO event helps support our food, clothing, enrichment, and education programs benefiting youngsters along a 100+-mile corridor from Catalina to the San Carlos Indian Reservation and the Miami school…

Word of the Month: Verso and Recto

David Zapatka Reader, friend, and fellow bridge player, Gayle Covey, writes, “As always, enjoyed your SaddleBrooke word column. I’ve been saying I’d send a word or two. Finally … I’m an English major and a words person. How did I not know this? It just came up in Wordle (and I thought of you!) … verso. And…

Golden Goose Gift Cards

One of the most popular, easiest, and favorite presents for anyone to receive is a gift card. Did you know the Golden Goose Thrift Shop has gift cards for purchase? They can be found right up front at the cash registers and are so easy to get. Simply choose a card and hand it to the…

National Park Club News

A presentation about “Yellowstone National Park In the Winter” was hosted in August by the SBR National Park Club. Two club members contributed to making this an entertaining and informative meeting. Jef Farland started the evening by sharing photos and stories of the February 2020 trip to Yellowstone National Park (NP) that he and his wife, Dale, took.…

Make the Holidays Brighter—the Adopt-a-Family Program Angel Tree Is Back!

Kim Schweitzer Since 2007, the SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) Adopt-a-Family and Adopt-a-Child programs have provided hand-picked and carefully wrapped holiday gifts to local families and children. For the last 14 years, SaddleBrooke Ranch has joined this important cause to support children who are enrolled in the Mountain Vista School in Oracle. We ask that you choose…