SaddleBrooke Troop Support helps military food banks

SaddleBrooke Troop Support (STS) is active throughout the year providing food to the military food banks in the area to support our troops. In addition to the trunk loads of canned goods and other non-perishable items delivered to the food banks every month, in October STS donated $500 worth of $20 Fry’s gift cards to…

SaddleBrooke Master Gardeners bring two gardening talks

Marylee Pangman, author and potted garden expert will present “Planting Trees in Containers in your Desert Landscape” at MountainView Clubhouse Ballroom West on January 21, 2016 at 1:00-2:00 P.M. Ask Your Master Gardener will be 12:30-1:00 p.m. Marylee Pangman is the founder and former owner of The Contained Gardener in Tucson, Arizona. She has become…

Is Tai Chi for me?

You probably have heard all the raves about how great Tai Chi can be for our health and well-being, but you may not be sure it would really suit your personality, physical abilities or interests. Here are some guidelines to help you decide. Tai Chi might be for you: 1. If you want to work…

“The Catalina Mountains”

Jennifer Jefferis Nestled against the foothills I live and rest at your feet Buffeted by a silent strength Sheltered with a quiet grace An anchor in the storms Protector of all who wander your slopes Through centuries of storms and floods You withstand. Throughout the winds of time These faithful hills remain sentinels of courage…

SASO plays Rachmaninoff’s “Resurrection” second piano concert

Punch Howarth SaddleBrooke’s Sheryll McManus will perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor(m), that this writer labels his “resurrection,” with the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra with Linus Lerner returning to the podium. The reason for my descriptive label is that following a disastrous failure at the premier of his First Symphony, Rachmaninoff…