SBR women golfers will host the first Sadie Hawkins (not your husband) invite on Tuesday, November 4, at 8:00 a.m. This is open to all men and women with an established handicap. The format will be a scramble. Entry fee is $5 per person with lunch to follow. Questions can be directed to Colleen Carey…
Bill Brennan Claire Mather has fun taking snapshots with her Canon point-and-shoot camera, an SX280HS, and making her keepers into Fine Art Photographs; all electronically. The camera is so good that the eyelashes on a leopard from an African Safari are clear and sharp. A fellow traveler with more complex and more expensive equipment was…
Vegetable gardening in the desert Having trouble with your tomatoes? Join Sarma Spitzer, Tohono Chul Docent, as she explains the basics of vegetable gardening with consideration given to the challenges of gardening in an extreme environment. The emphasis will be on small space, container and raised bed gardening aimed at including edibles in a landscape.…
Jeff McClure and Linda Thomas Oracle Elementary School District No. 2 (OESD) is placing a 15% Maintenance & Operations (M&O) Budget Override measure on the November ballot. This is NOT a new tax, nor is it a bond. Bonds are interest accruing tax levies for capital improvements to be repaid over a 10-year period. An…
Linda Shannon-Hills and Carol Smith La Vista Room was buzzing in August when 22 enthusiastic and skilled women of SaddleBrooke Ranch came together to make Little Dresses for Africa. Carol Smith proposed the idea of making the dresses as a Stitch N Chat group project. We jumped at the idea and it mushroomed from there.…
Patty Elliott Many among us have enjoyed an evening of music with Ron Aeschliman in the past few years at area restaurants or the clubhouses at MountainView, SaddleBrooke or the Ranch. His karaoke nights are sellouts. His gospel, easy listening, or Elvis music performances are wonderfully enjoyable. You and/or a group of your friends have…