SASO season finale is a humdinger

Punch Howarth Linus Lerner leading the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra in this season’s final concert promises to be a great conclusion to an outstanding season. Three generations of composers are featured that includes the Russian Modest Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain who died in 1881; German Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto in G who died in 1920; Englishman…

If you love gardening, join the Master Gardeners

SaddleBrooke Master Gardeners are volunteers for University of Arizona Pinal Cooperative Extension. They assist the public with University research-based, home horticulture information through educational programs and projects. You don’t have to be an expert gardener to become a Master Gardener volunteer; you only need a desire to learn and to help others. The next Master…

Pickleball Club makes great showing at 3rd annual tournament

Bob Hills and Paul Frederickson were medal winners.

Linda Shannon-Hills The SaddleBrooke Ranch Pickleball Club members continue their success in area Pickleball tournaments. March 18-22, 2015 – Robson Ranch third annual tournament. Twenty-one players from the SaddleBrooke Ranch Pickleball Club competed in Women’s Doubles, Men’s Double and Mixed Doubles. In Men’s 3.0 Double, Bob Hills and Paul Frederickson won the Bronze medal The…

New activity: Outside the Box

Ross A. Messer We don’t discuss politics or religion, but we have compelling discussions on interesting topics, and by listening with openness, respect and curiosity, we learn a lot from each other. If you enjoy “thinking outside the box,” if you believe that there are a lot of really intelligent people here at Saddlebrooke Ranch,…

SBRTA holds quarterly meeting

The annual meeting of the SaddleBrooke Ranch Tennis Association

Janice Neal The SBRTA quarterly meeting was held on April 1 in La Hacienda Club. Forty percent of our membership was able to attend. Several new members were welcomed to the group. We have grown by 25% to date this year. Quite a bit of the meeting was spent discussing the expansion of our tennis…

6th Annual SBRMGA Community Golf Tournament a huge success

The SBRMGA Community Golf Tournament participants

A cool, windy April 12 brought out 88 golfers to play in the sixth annual Community Golf Tournament to raise money for the SaddleBrooke Community Outreach-Education Division to fund scholarships for local area high school students who are pursuing additional education. This is is a significant increase over the 20 participants in 2010, the first…