Category: December 2021

December at the Golden Goose

Jingle all the way to the Golden Goose Thrift Shop! We are your one-stop shop for all your holiday needs. Deck the halls! Dress in bling! Perfect gifts! It’s all here for a fraction of retail. Give the gift of joy! We have beautiful Golden Goose gift cards available that are sure to be a holiday…

Come Join Us: The Fellowship for Social Justice

Are you interested in learning more or sharing your thoughts about social justice topics? Do you want to help educate, advocate, and help victims of social justice issues? The Fellowship for Social Justice is a relatively new community organization created to do just that. We support each other as we discuss and learn about social…

“Boostering” the Ranch

Linda Shannon-Hills After having six very successful COVID-19 vaccination drives last winter, the booster to help continue and enhance our protection came to SaddleBrooke Ranch on Nov. 6. More than 890 people received the COVID-19 Moderna booster vaccination. Desert Life Pharmacy’s pharmacist and owner, Brianne Spaeth, was eager to come back to the Ranch to “booster”…

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

Ross Dunfee It was still dark, at 3:42 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, when the minesweeper USS Condor AMc-14 saw a two-man Japanese submarine two miles from the mouth of Pearl Harbor. The USS Ward APD-16 that located and destroyed the submarine at 6:45 a.m., was herself sunk later that day by a kamikaze military aviator. With that,…

We Be Beaders Jewelry Success

Roberta Bowers The SaddleBrooke Ranch We Be Beaders Fundraising Jewelry Sale during October’s Breast Cancer Awareness month was a huge success! Thank you to our awesome and generous community as well as the wonderful members of the We Be Beaders Club who helped create the jewelry that was purchased. Together we raised $1,029! All proceeds…

Don’t Miss Five Seasons of Bird Observations, December 16

Sheilah Britton, Pinal County Master Gardener SaddleBrooke/SaddleBrooke Ranch Master Gardeners are delighted to host one of our own for our December community education presentation. Birder and photographer Jim Hoagland will present “Five Seasons of Bird Observations” on Thursday, Dec. 16, at 1 p.m. As a young boy, Jim Hoagland and his family would explore the woods…

MOAA Meeting Notice

G. William Myers The Catalina Mountain Satellite Chapter (CMSC) of the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) held a meeting on Saturday, Oct. 16. The meeting began with a short business session presided over by Col. Bill Nagy, president, during which members were updated on the chapter’s current and future activities. Speaking to the group…

Puttin’ On the Dog

Nancy Eisenstein Five couples from SaddleBrooke Ranch attended a Sunset Luau on Saturday, Oct. 16, to benefit the Humane Society of Southern Arizona. Robin Muck, who is on the board of directors, was an event ambassador for the evening. Proceeds from this event directly benefited the Second Chance Medical Fund, which cares for homeless pets that…

SBR Residents Invited to Audition for Spring Show!

Andrea Molberg With the curtains barely closed on Community Circle Players’ (CCP) highly successful fall dinner theatre production An Evening of One Acts, the troupe is already turning its attention to the upcoming spring show, which will run March 14 through March 23, 2022. Save the dates! CCP will be bringing another fabulous dinner theatre…