Tag: events

Ranch Roots checks out Evernote

On Monday, August 22, the Ranch Roots Genealogy group will take a look at Evernote. This is an app you can use on all your devices to organize your life (and your genealogy?). We’ll have a presentation on how you can use this tool to keep track of your “to-do’s” in general and specifically in…

Food Drive for San Manual Food Bank – August 24

On Wednesday, August 24, 2016, Gathering Hearts will be sponsoring a food drive. All donated food will be donated to the Tri County Food Bank in San Manual. Please have your nonperishable food at the end of your driveway by 8:00 a.m. and someone will be by to pick it up. An example of items…

2016 Health Fair

Health Fair volunteers

The SaddleBrooke Health Fair will be Saturday morning, October 15, at HOA One. Many local medical and health care providers will be present. Flu and pneumonia shots and a wide variety of free screenings are available. Volunteers can sign up now. You will be contacted later in the summer. New volunteers may email Sally Sample…

Polish your sneakers

Nan Nasser As we tolerate three-digit temperatures and monsoon humidity it is difficult to envision participating in a walkathon. But on October 29, 2016 you are invited to join the annual SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Walkathon, marking the beginning of our 20th year of service to kids in nearby towns. The walk will begin in the…

SBCO 2015-2016 wrap up

Winter is over, school is out and snowbirds have left so things are slowing down in SaddleBrooke. However, SBCO will continue to work hard over the summer in preparation for the start of our 20th year of service. We will celebrate our wonderful volunteers as without them we could not exist as we are a…

SASO, Past, Present and Future

Punch Howarth The Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra season ended on May 7 and 8 with one of their most ambitious programs that included Brahms, Samuel Barber and Berlioz. Each of these works has intrinsic difficulties that gave the orchestra no small challenge. Also, with these concerts this writer of SASO articles retired as principal timpanist…

The Health Fair is looking for volunteers

Immunizations are always a busy activity at the Health Fair.

Phyllis Ketring, Publicity Coordinator Planning is well underway for this year’s Health Fair. The invitation to screeners has been sent out. If you have a doctor, clinic or medical specialty that you would like to have included in the Health Fair, now is the time to recommend them. There is always a waiting list, but…

Ranch Roots Genealogy helps keep data safe

Carol Andrews Computers have become such an important part of genealogy, and it can be a real tragedy if you lose all your computer data. At our June meeting we’ll discuss various ways to back up your data. We’ll talk about “the cloud” and what that means, and we’ll discuss tools such as Dropbox, or…

Southern Arizona Symphony season finale

Punch Howarth Symphonie Fantastique of Hector Berlioz will be the major work by the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra in their season ending concert. Not really a symphony in the traditional mode, the five-movement work is a series of opium induced musical dream depictions. Along with Beethoven’s five movement Symphony No. 6, the Pastorale, depicting musical sounds…