Carol Chiarello The SaddleBrooke Senior Softball Association (SSSA) concluded its winter season on April 22. This was a busy season filled with more than 150 players on 22 teams, in seven leagues, playing four days each week. Nearly 6,400 runs were scored by your friends and neighbors. Let’s recap: Monday Recreation League: Jonathan Green led…
Lorretta Johnson The SBR Ranchette Putters have been enjoying the new putting green and the challenges each week’s course presents. The other challenge has been figuring out what to wear due to the spring weather constantly changing. Just when you think it is warming up, the temps drop. And of course, there are the spring…
Janice Mihora, SBRWGA Secretary The 2016 SBRWGA Ryder Cup began with a kick-off party at the home of Marlyce Myka on March 14 where Blue Team Captain Brenda Armenia and Green Team Captain Mary Snowden revealed team selections. Ryder Cup competition was played on March 15 with a Partner Best Ball and March 22 with…
Some new riders joined in the fun with the SaddleBrooke Ranch Riding Group seeing the Catalina Foothills on horseback for the first time at one of the group’s frequent venues, Pusch Ridge Stables in Oro Valley. Janice Neal had only been on a horse decades ago while new resident Madoka Knight had never been horseback…
Punch Howarth Symphonie Fantastique of Hector Berlioz will be the major work by the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra in their season ending concert. Not really a symphony in the traditional mode, the five-movement work is a series of opium induced musical dream depictions. Along with Beethoven’s five movement Symphony No. 6, the Pastorale, depicting musical sounds…
Val Bembenek A lively musical celebration of the Roaring Twenties, showcasing jazz and ragtime inspired piano classics of William Albright and George Gershwin will syncopate the stage at the Oracle Center for the Arts on Sunday, May 1. Themed a “Speakeasy Rent Party,” Dr. Stephen Cook, Oracle Piano Society founder and artistic director, plans to…