The Rotary Club of SaddleBrooke Raises Funds to Eliminate Polio Barbara Barr Bengen Bill and Diane Demeroutis opened their home to host over 30 Rotarians and guests for “Paella for Polio.” This is the second year the Rotary Club of SaddleBrooke has raised funds to end Polio with a Paella Party. Bill and Melinda Gates…
SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Supports Mammoth and San Manuel Students Christianne Dettmann The SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club participated again in the annual “I Don’t Want It!” sale, held this past Oct. 12 in the MountainView clubhouse parking lot. Favorable weather, fantastic finds, and friendly patrons yielded a donation of $700 to the Mammoth San Manuel (MSM)…
Number One in Service Projects Barbara Barr Bengen and Wanda Bailey District Governor Sue Archibald just made her annual visit to the Rotary Club of SaddleBrooke. While visiting, she had two big announcements for our club. We were so excited to learn that our club was #1 in the district in service projects. We were…
4th of July Celebration Barbara Barr Bengen You know when you are a small community, like Oracle, you are going to need some help to make the 4th of July a meaningful holiday for the kids. So, who ya gonna call? Why, the Rotary Club of SaddleBrooke! For the past several years, the Rotary Club…
The Rotary Club of SaddleBrooke Continues Its Winning Streak Barbara Barr Bengen So there you are at the annual installation of the new District Governor and awards for the 2023-24 Rotary year. You’ve been an award–winning club year after year. In past years you’ve won awards for things like membership growth, membership retention, being a…
City of Tucson Multidisciplinary Outreach Team Spoke to SSR Frank Shipton Guest speakers Thelma Magallanes, Elle Millyard, Alex Manriquex, Laurie Distel, and Zion Alderette from the City of Tucson Multidisciplinary Outreach Team (MDOT) were invited to speak to members of the SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary (SSR) club on March 21. The subject was MDOT’s project promoting…
The Rotary Club of SaddleBrooke Has Just One Word: Plastics Barbara Barr Bengen Let me take you down memory lane 57 years to 1967 and the Academy Award–winning movie The Graduate. In his critically acclaimed film, young Dustin Hoffman plays recent college graduate, Benjamin Braddock. To celebrate Ben’s graduation, his parents throw a cocktail party.…
The SaddleBrooke Rotary Club is busy planning the 24th annual Fore For Kids Golf Tournament scheduled for Monday, April 22, at The Preserve Golf Club. This year the tournament is being co-sponsored by Arizona Hearing Specialists. Fore For Kids was held at MountView Country Club for many years before moving to Oro Valley Country Club…
SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Supports the Golden Goose Frank Shipton Volunteer members of the SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary (SSR) Club gathered together as they prepared for the opening of “Midnight Madness” at the Golden Goose Thrift Shop in Catalina. SSR members volunteer each month in support of the Golden Goose event. Surprise! Frank Shipton Members of the…
Rotary International and Barbara Barr Bengen A group of third graders are going to be receiving a special gift—the gift of words. The Rotary dictionary project is a nationwide effort to provide young students with their own personal dictionaries. Members of the SaddleBrooke Rotary Club distribute the dictionaries to students in third grade at Mountain Vista…