SBCO Teen Closet helps students dress in style Nancy McCluskey-Moore For the past 18 years, the SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) Teen Closet program has enabled students between the ages of 13 and 18 to purchase new clothing and school supplies. Students from San Manuel, Canada del Oro and Ironwood Ridge High Schools eagerly shop in…
Save the date for SBCO’s 23rd annual walkathon Nancy McCluskey-Moore The 23rd annual SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) walkathon will be held at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26. This is SBCO’s signature fundraising event of the year and helps support our food, clothing and education programs benefiting youngsters along a 100-mile corridor from Catalina to…
SBCO honors volunteers and supporters Nancy McCluskey-Moore For more than 20 years, SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) has supported food, clothing and educational programs for local children. Annually, SBCO serves a 100-mile corridor stretching from Catalina to Miami and San Carlos, which includes more than three counties, eight communities, 17 schools, three Head Start programs and…
Nancy McCluskey-Moore On May 11, SaddleBrooke Ranch residents delivered 36 beautifully made bookcases to Ray School in Kearny. The bookcases were built by Ranch woodworkers Dan Carter, John Gordon, Jef Hansen, Barry Milner, Ron Gustafson, Ed Cheszek, Jim Lindley and Ron Hilbert for distribution to graduating kindergarteners. For many years, the Rotary Club of Kearny…
SBCO elects new Board of Directors Nancy McCluskey-Moore On April 8th, SaddleBrooke Community Outreach elected its Board of Directors for 2019-2020: President – Steve Groth Executive Vice President – Denise Anthony Recording Secretaries – Cheryl Smith and Marcia Van Ommeran Corresponding Secretary – Karen Green Treasurer – Camille Esterman Assistant Treasurer – Esther Moen Vice…
Nancy McCluskey-Moore The 2019 SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) Home Tour proved to be as overwhelmingly popular as the previous year’s event. All 300 admission tickets were sold in the first three hours of sales. Attendees and docents were able to see a variety of floor plans that had been transformed and personalized through skillful remodeling…
2019 SBCO food drive breaks all records Nancy McCluskey-Moore and Robert L. Wample SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) and Tri-Community Food Bank (TFB) are grateful to the SaddleBrooke and SaddleBrooke Ranch residents who supported this year’s tremendously successful food drive. This year’s effort brought in over $68,000 in cash donations (a 32% increase over last year)…
SBR Woodworkers Club assemble bookcases for the book shelf reading program Do you remember the first book you got as a child? That special feeling knowing you could read it over and over again and not have to give it back to the library? Such a book is even more special to a child in…
Nancy McCluskey-Moore/Robert L. Wample The 21st annual SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) Food Drive will be held on Saturday, March 23. Once again, SaddleBrooke Ranch Community will be cooperating on this significant and needed community event. On that day, volunteers will gather donations of food and money to support the Tri-Community Food Bank (TCFB) based in…
In an effort to revitalize its music program, Coronado K-8 School turned to SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) for much needed funding. To supplement the smaller instruments purchased by the district, SBCO provided the money required to purchase a vibraphone and a marimba. These instruments will expand the music repertoire of the school’s indoor drumline and…