Linda Shannon-Hills, SBR Neighbors Helping Neighbors When you can’t drive yourself to a doctor’s appointment, the grocery store, or the pharmacy, you can count on SaddleBrooke Ranch (SBR) Neighbors Helping Neighbors volunteers. Our community volunteer group provides many different services, one being volunteers to drive you, if they are available. There are over a dozen…
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June 2025, Generals
Thank You, SBCO! Helping Feed Our Pinal County Neighbors
Marilee Jensen With the SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) Food Drive behind us, the Tri-Community Food Bank (TCFB) Board would like to extend our deepest gratitude to SBCO for the continued support to ensure that our clients can receive a wide variety of healthy food options as well as high-quality proteins for the remainder of the…
June 2025, Generals
SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Happenings – June 2025
SBCO Scholarship Student Brooke Kelley Is Breaking Barriers Kathie Marshall You typically don’t see a plethora of females in construction careers, but the times they are a-changin. According to a 2023 report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), women currently make up around 10.8 % of the construction workforce in the United States, although…
May 2025, Front Page
What Is Neighbors Helping Neighbors?
Linda Shannon-Hills Here at the Ranch, we know that some of our neighbors may need additional assistance from time to time. One of the great things about living in a community like ours is the way we can look out for one another. That is what SBR Neighbors Helping Neighbors is all about, helping our…
March 2025, Religion
Congregation B’nai Midbar – March 2025
Congregation B’nai Midbar: More Happenings, Updates, and Vision Melanie Einbund The Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center inspired many who toured the first Jewish Temple in Tucson. No surprise, it was the Jewish women who raised the funds to establish this beautiful building. The first services were held on Rosh Hashanah in 1907! After the…
Generals, March 2025
The Tri-Community Food Bank—Feeding Neighbors for 44 Years
Marilee Jensen The Tri-Community Food Bank (TCFB) was opened in 1980/81 and founded by Jean Peterson and Beverly Pyritz. It was originally located in one room in the Pinal County Building in Mammoth and included a small thrift shop. Funding came from local grocery stores, resident donations, and the thrift shop. Later, the food bank…
January 2025, Generals
Tri-Community Food Bank—A Look Back at 2024
Marilee Jensen As 2024 has come to an end, the Tri-Community Food Bank (TCFB) Board of Directors would like to extend a big thank you to the many donors, volunteers, and organizations that have assisted in meeting the TCFB mission “Feeding Neighbors in SE Pinal County.” The food bank serves residents in the Copper Corridor…
January 2025, Generals
Master Gardener – January 2025
Growing Citrus at High Elevations Your Southeast Pinal County Master Gardeners are pleased to invite you to our Community Education Presentation on Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 1 p.m. at SaddleBrooke Ranch Sol Ballroom, 31143 S. Amenity Dr., Oracle AZ 85623. Join us for this free presentation on “Growing Citrus at High Elevations.” Love your citrus…
December 2024, Clubs & Classes
Creative Giving Becomes the Mad Hatters for Kids’ Closet
Linda Shannon-Hills When the Creative Giving of SaddleBrooke Ranch group found out Kids’ Closet could use handmade hats for the 1,800–plus kids they support with clothing sets, our Mad Hatters started sewing, crocheting, and knitting hats of all sizes to donate to SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) Kids’ Closet program. “Our group is so creative with…
December 2024, Generals
Do You Have a Passion for Ephemera? Do Clocks Make You “Tick?”
Pat Hillerud and Lynn Denning Then the Golden Goose has a volunteer place for you! In our VAC (Vintage, Antique, and Collectables) Department you will find collectable comic books, sports memorabilia, baseball card collections, collectable sports jerseys, signed hats, bats, footballs, baseballs, model cars, Star Wars memorabilia, and Legos, to name a few items of…