Nature’s Way: Let it Snow, Let It Snow…

Gerry Tietje When Dean Martin crooned the classic holiday favorite, “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow,” I’m sure he wasn’t thinking of Southeastern Arizona. Winters in SaddleBrooke Ranch are mild, but occasionally atmospheric conditions are right for snow to fall, even here in sunny Arizona. It has only happened three times since…

SBCO Brightens Thanksgiving for Local Families

Mona Sullivan SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) has two teams working on providing Thanksgiving baskets to local families. The SaddleBrooke Ranch team, consisting of 18 volunteers, including six students, delivered 40 baskets to San Manuel High School. Ranch volunteers included co-chairs Anthony Signorelli and Tim Bowen, Lu Legel, Susan Knight, Vida Kaczmarek, Jeff Kaczmarek, Gretchen Annan,…

Happy Holidays from Voices in the Oaks

Lu Legel Happy Holidays SaddleBrooke Ranchers! We all enjoy a good holiday concert, and this year’s concert is not to be missed. We will wish you Happy Holidays singing many of your favorites, some new tunes, and a few selections from Handel’s Messiah including the Hallelujah Chorus. Come join us after your favorite football game…

Happy 2026! It’s a Great Time for Paper Crafting

Nichole Lawhon Are you looking for a new, creative, rewarding, and relaxing hobby for 2026? Well, look no further. Join the Paper Crafters. Paper is a fascinating and easily accessible material, most often used to write on or scribble doodles on, but it can be crafted to create magnificent paper works of art. Thank you…

National Parks Club Is Expanding

Linda Harvey The SaddleBrooke Ranch (SBR) National Parks Club is pleased to announce that it will be expanding its topics to include all Public Lands, including State Parks. * Our Jan. 13 meeting features two guests from Catalina State Park. Park Historian Pat Damiani will present a program entitled “Catalina State Park—Past, Present, Future.” Ranger…

Spotlight on Ron Lenz

Joyce Wainscott Intensely observant, intellectually curious, precisely diagnostic, and laser-focused on problem solving: all terms defining Ron Lenz, past president of SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary. Ron was born in Wisconsin in 1947; his brother Russell in 1955. Their father was a sheet metal worker, their mother a homemaker. In 1957 Ron’s family moved to the maternal…