Category: November 2018

SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Happenings

  SBCO Grant assists middle school intervention students Nancy McCluskey-Moore Rebecca Green is an intervention teacher at Coronado K-8 School who assists middle school students (grades 6-8) who need extra help or who are at risk for failing multiple classes, including reading, writing, math, science and social studies. Some students come to her class daily…

Unit 8 residents enjoy a progressive dinner

Janelle Authur Forty Unit 8A residents thoroughly enjoyed an evening of getting to know one another in a more intimate setting and sampling the culinary skills of their neighbors at Unit 8A’s second Progressive Dinner on September 12. The evening started with small groups gathering for appetizers at seven Unit 8A resident homes. Participants were…

SBR Employee Appreciation donation

  Colleen Carey, Judy Andrasic, Mindy Hawkins, Mary Spyros and Sandy Seay; The Employee Appreciation Committee This will be our seventh year celebrating the employees of SaddleBrooke Ranch. We will have almost 80 employees this year as we welcome Executive Chef Jose and his team to our family of employees! Our employees include staff from…

Start planning now for Holiday Parade

Linda Shannon-Hills The SBR Holiday Parade is scheduled for Friday, December 14. Start planning your award-winning decorated entry for either your electric cart, bicycle or ATV. Each year the decorations for Christmas or Hanukkah get more creative. More details will be released in early December on how to register, start times and route around the…

Master Gardeners Program

High Desert Gardening classes start January 29 Vickie Butler and Cindy Blount High Desert Gardening will be presented in the MountainView Ballroom West, at MountainView Clubhouse, SaddleBrooke. Tuesdays 10:00 a.m. to noon, for six weeks starting January 29, 2019; registration required. Once again, due to popular demand, your Master Gardeners will be offering a six-week…

2nd annual Golfer Appreciation Day

Robson Resort Communities sponsored the SaddleBrooke Ranch second annual Golfer Appreciation Day on Sunday, September 16. It was a beautiful Sunday morning and over 140 residents participated. The event was a 9-hole community wide scramble competition. The event was designed to include golfers at all levels. The teams were mixed men and women, golfers and…

What Linus and I missed at the manger

Terry Barringer We all know him, Linus van Pelt, thumb in mouth and never without his blue blankey. Using Luke’s scripture, Linus very carefully answers Charlie Brown’s question, “What is the meaning of Christmas?” But wait! Was there more? Did Linus miss something? Did we miss something? Those answers and much more await you at…

First banquet held in new Sol Ballroom

Donna P. Nelson On October 8 the SBR Women’s Club’s Luncheon was held in the Sol Ballroom. The room is beautiful, servers and service were great and the food was phenomenal! Great job, Robson team, Chef Jose and all the Ranch staffers. We are looking forward to our monthly luncheons in this beautiful facility. On…

Asteroid ahoy:

OSIRIS-REx is NASA’s first mission to collect a sample from an asteroid and return it to Earth for study and it’s being led by the University of Arizona, right here in Tucson. Join Unit 32 on November 26 for a presentation and Q and A with the Mission’s Deputy Communication Lead, Christine Hoekenga, to learn…