Category: Features

Spotlight on Advertiser: On the Go, With Arizona GO!

David Taylor An airport transportation service is available for SaddleBrooke Ranch Residents—Arizona GO! Owners Greg and Robin Williams started their company in May 2018, servicing the six major 55+ communities of Northwest Tucson, including SaddleBrooke and SaddleBrooke Ranch. As business quickly grew, they opened up to the Casa Grande area with Robson Ranch since they always passed…

U.S. Military History: U.S. Navy Flag, Seal, and Song

Ross Dunfee Flag—What do you think of by reading the following list: Fluked, Admiralty, Stockless, Grapnel, Herreshoff, Northill, CQR, Delta, Danforth, and Bruce? If your answer was “various kinds of anchors,” you are correct. The first (unofficial) flag of the Continental Navy, called the Infantry Battalion Flag, was adopted in December 1864. It consisted of…

Nature’s Way: Where Have All the Birds Gone?

Jim Hoagland Have you been wondering where all the birds are this year? Many at the Ranch have asked this question, as well as, “Why haven’t I seen as many birds in my backyard?” Or, “Where are the American wigeons, normally on the pond by the Ranch House?” There is no one single answer, but…

Word of the Month: Chicane

David Zapatka The Tour de France is one of the greatest sporting spectacles of the year. I love watching the drama and triumph. While watching the broadcast, I heard a commentator describe the upcoming chicane in the course and knew immediately that “chicane” would be my next word of the month. Chicane verb chi·cane | shi-ˈkān…

All In-Laws in the Ranch

In 2014, Cathy and Jim Kauffman (unit 3), retired and moved from Pennsylvania to SaddleBrooke Ranch following their son, Dan, who relocated to Tucson. Dan met Caitlyn Campbell in Tucson and they married in 2017. Caitlyn’s parents, Laurie and Tom Campbell (unit 16B), from Prescott, Ariz., then relocated to SaddleBrooke Ranch in 2018 to be…

SBR Trio in Concert

Nancy Carlson Three residents from SaddleBrooke Ranch will perform a free concert on Saturday, Feb. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Sol Ballroom at the Ranch. Bruce and Nancy Carlson, and Ken Wilcox, sing as Carlson/Wilcox 47 … or CW-47. This talented trio has been together at the Ranch for 20 months, but their collective…