Tag: events

Butterflies in the desert

Yvonne Bourgeois, the Butterfly and Orchid Exhibit Manager from the Tucson Botanical Gardens, will be the guest speaker on butterflies at the monthly Thursday Talk Series on April 20 at 4:00 p.m. Her talk will include information about monarch butterfly migration through Arizona. It is fascinating to learn how these fragile looking insects demonstrate real…

Join us at the Saddlebrooke Ranch Garden Tour April 29

Kay Lantow On Saturday morning, April 29, seven residents of SaddleBrooke Ranch will generously open their gardens to their neighbors for three hours. This will be the third SBR Garden Tour. SaddleBrooke Ranch residents will have the opportunity to view a wide variety of gardens and landscape designs. Some are relatively new, less than a…

Ranch Roots does DNA

Carol Andrews On Monday, March 27, the Ranch Roots Genealogy group will meet at 1:00 p.m. in the La Mesa Room. In February we held a DNA workshop, and we’ll continue the workshop this month. Each person who has had their DNA analyzed should bring any printouts they have and the online access codes. We’ll…

SaddleBrooke Artisans Arts and Crafts Fair

Eve Fly Save the date Saturday, March 11, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. MountainView Clubhouse. The SB Artisan Arts and Crafts Fair has over 100 artists, and our attendance is over 1,000 visitors from all over the Tucson area. What makes this show different and well attended is that we have so many different artistic…

Spring Bible Study – springing forward – or sliding into home?

Pat Huska, teacher

Terry Barringer So ladies of the SaddleBrooke communities, how is your fourth quarter living going? Have you recently taken stock of your spiritual progress? Are you maximizing your spiritual gifts? Do you need an “attitude change” to put wrong things right again? Have you considered those things that can never be reclaimed: spoken words, lost…

SASO to perform unusual works for saxophone

Punch Howarth Russian Romantic composer Alexander Glazunov’s, 1865-1936, last composition was a saxophone concerto, an instrument rarely used in a symphony orchestra. Only being invented in 1840 by Adolphe Sax, a clarinetist in Paris. Of nine varieties, soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones are most commonly used; made popular in the swing bands of the…

DAR to meet March 18

Danna C. Koelling Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is a lineage society devoted to patriotism, education and historic preservation. Patriots may have military, civil or patriotic service or be a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Honor them by preserving their service by joining the DAR. DAR is a non-profit organization. We are community…