Joyce Hellard The SaddleBrooke Ranch Writing Guild is a group dedicated to improving our writing skills. We meet on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month in the La Vista Room, from 1-3 p.m. After discussing a topic on how to improve our writing, we share excerpts from our own memoirs, essays, fiction, or…
Susan and Craig Bauer At only 27 years old, Dmytro Choni has already made a name for himself on the international stage. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1993, he began studying piano at age four. This young concert pianist has won numerous prestigious competitions in Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Ukraine, China, Germany, Argentina, and the United…
Rebecca Williams On Saturday morning, Feb. 1, the group headed up to Gold Canyon east of Apache Junction for a scenic ride in the foothills of the Superstition Mountains at Donnelly’s D-Spur Stables. The foothills are beautiful in the morning. Due to lower elevation of 1800 ft. versus ours at 3400 ft., the plants were already…
The Paseo Financial Group The Reverse Mortgage of HECM loan products can be a challenge to explain or understand, even for people who have plenty of financial experience. We’ve put together a series of five articles in hopes of better explaining the basics in simple terms. Here’s the first in that series. The reverse mortgage…
Linda Shannon-Hills People have been making a living in the Sonoran Desert for thousands of years. Evidence of their villages, farms, stone quarries, and sacred sites can be found almost everywhere. Less than an hour away from SaddleBrooke Ranch is the Casa Grande Ruins, west of Florence. In the Catalina State Park, you can hike…
Pegg Ridolfo Our March meeting will be on Monday, the 27th, in the La Mesa Room at the La Hacienda Club, from 1-3 p.m. A few weeks ago, SaddleBrooke had a Genealogy Seminar at MountainView which was also open to SBR. Some of you may have attended this event and discovered a new idea or thoughts…