What: 8-Ball Tournament, $10 entry fee, BCA Rules. Play on two tables, double elimination, two out of three games in winner’s bracket and single games in loser’s bracket. Five dollars of the entry fee goes towards food, and $5 of entry fee goes toward prize money. Sixteen spots available; the first 16 to pay the…
Barbara Starrett The ALS Foundation is the one organization whose goal is to fight and eliminate Lou Gehrig’s disease. Last year’s Ice Bucket Challenge for the first time generated significant funds for research. Already there are discoveries being made in the laboratories, but much work remains before we will have a treatment, a cure or…
Val Bembenek The month of November at Oracle State Park Center for Environmental Education features a discovery program on the desert’s “five” seasons, a weekend of birding and the opening of an exhibit of award-winning astrophotography images. Five seasons. On Sunday, November 8, Dr. Robert Elder will present “Seasons of the Sonoran Desert” in the…
Linda Shannon-Hills What is the difference between Health and Wellness? Health originally meant absence of disease, both physical and mental. Wellness, on the other hand, is the state of living a healthy lifestyle. At SaddleBrooke Ranch many of us want to live a healthy lifestyle and moved here to improve our lifestyles. Wellness is the…
General meeting and School Volunteer Fair – November 16 SaddleBrooke Community Outreach, in proud partnership with three local area schools, presents our first School Volunteer Fair. Our mission is to introduce the volunteer opportunities for residents to learn about the need for volunteers at nearby schools and how you can make a difference. This is…
On Monday, November 23, the Health Night Out team will welcome Dr. Wendy Miller, Physiatrist (not Psychiatrist!) of Mountain Osteopathic, to SaddleBrooke. The title of her presentation tonight is “Doc, Is There Something Besides More Pills and Surgery?” And she will be talking to us about just that, non-medicinal and non-surgical treatments, OMT and Acupuncture.…