Barbara McClure, Executive Director of IMPACT of Southern Arizona Many thousands of people in Southern Arizona are just getting by, at various levels of stability, lacking the resources and confidence to successfully reach an improved quality of life that includes greater self-sufficiency. In the food bank system, 75% of households with employment earn less than $20,000/year.…
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…
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”…
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,…
Janelle Arthur Western music and dancing filled the Sol Ballroom on Wednesday, Nov. 3 as 70 Ranchers stepped out to the live music of Wild Ride, a popular Tucson-based country band. As the number of western dancers at the Ranch continues to grow, the SaddleBrooke Ranch Social Dance Club (SBRSDC) has now sponsored three dances…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…