Free Beginner Ukulele Lessons Offered

The SBR Ukulele Club is offering free beginner ukulele lessons with a free loaner ukulele to use! Try it just for fun! You can’t read music? You don’t need to! Whether you’ve played before or want to learn now, you are invited to join in the fun of playing the ukulele. Ukulele songs are never…

Memories Matter Walk to End Alzheimer’s Disease

The morning air crackled with excitement on Saturday, Oct. 30, as approximately 50 SaddleBrooke Ranch residents wearing purple shirts, waving Alzheimer flags, and carrying Promise Flowers walked three miles through the community to raise awareness and help to fund research to find a cure for this deadly disease. Every 68 seconds, someone is diagnosed with…

New Chi-Yo-Gong Practice at SBR

Bridget Bonner Beginning Saturday, Dec. 4, I am excited to announce that I will be bringing this new practice, Chi-Yo-Gong, to SaddleBrooke Ranch. Each practice will be on Saturday mornings from 7 to 7:40 a.m., at the Hacienda Club’s Group Fitness Room. Prior experience in practicing Yoga, Tai Chi, or Qigong is not required. You…

Unit Happenings

“Wine Connoisseurs” of Unit 6 Linda Chase The Unit 6 residents held their first-ever wine tasting event on Oct. 16. Given it was the Halloween season, the theme was “Spooky/Mysterious Wines” hosted at Jes and Linda Chase’s home. The host family supplied the wines and the guests supplied the appetizers, which were not only very…

Relishing Pickleball: Arizona Pickleball Players League Adding White Mountain Region

David Zapatka The Arizona Pickleball Players league (APPL) has now expanded its popular team-based pickleball league into its fifth region. After founding the first team-based pickleball league, East Valley Interclub League in 2012 (which has grown ever since), the Arizona Pickleball Players League was formally organized as a nonprofit in 2019 by a group of…