D. Pedota The SaddleBrooke Ranch Minnesota Club had an incredibly fun bocce event on April 15. We had close to 40 people playing and sported fun team names, such as the Lake Minnetonka Monsters and Kirby Puckett Home Runners. Lowell Sletten had a great playlist to keep us dancing while we played. The overall winners…
Pam Whims This year’s Cinco de Mayo Pickleball Tournament was a big hit. The three-day event was colorful, competitive, and fun for all 134 participants. Anna Ung of SaddleBrooke Ranch Pickleball Association (SBRPBA) was in charge of organizing the event, and she did a fabulous job. Here’s what participants and spectators are saying. Lisa Horton…
Lucy Lange Seventy-five friends and family showed up at Maryjane and Rick Carsten’s home on April 30 in SaddleBrooke Ranch to celebrate Maryjane’s 70th birthday. Maryjane was the star of the day but we all agreed her brother and paella maker, Paul Dimech, stole the show with a very artistic and super delicious paella. Paul…
Melanie Einbund Friday, April 28 was our last Shabbat service until the High Holy Days. It was the last service of our outstanding accompanist Harrison Scheckler. Harrison leaves us to teach at a university in Iowa as a professor of piano. Harrison learned Jewish liturgical music from scratch. We will be forever grateful for his…
Jeff Kaczmarek Your SBR Technology Club is branching out into some interesting new areas, including home energy saving, photography, 3D printing, and electric vehicles. Our members and others have expressed interest in a variety of additional topics, so we are putting together a late spring and summer calendar of events to satisfy those requests. As…
Former Lt. William Myers, CEC, USN The Catalina Mountain Chapter (CMC) of the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) held its most recent luncheon meeting on April 15 at SaddleBrooke Ranch. The meeting began with a business session presided over by retired Capt. Charles Vaughan, U.S. Navy, President, during which members were updated on the…