Employees' Holiday Party is a Special Evening for All Vivian Timian, General Manager
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ach year, SaddleBrooke One residents come together to show our employees their appreciation and thanks for all that they accomplish in the year. This tradition began in 2001, just after transition from the developer, when a group of volunteers came together to recognize the employees’ commitment to SaddleBrooke One. Many volunteers who started this event are still participating and involved in the planning of the 2018 celebration.
The volunteer group has grown each year in order to handle all the prep work needed, as well as taking care of: greeting employees and their guests; setting up and clearing tables; selling drink tickets; taking photos; and, some are even lucky enough to just be there, visiting with the employees. However, if you are a new resident, you may not be familiar with the annual Employees’ Holiday Party. In the November Communicator, a red flyer with an envelope attached was distributed. The envelope allows residents to donate funds to the event. All of the funds, collected from the residents, go directly to the employees. Each employee will receive a cash gift based on the total amount of money donated by the residents and determined by a criteria based on full or part-time work, as well as the employee’s date of hire. Each employee also receives a raffle ticket; so, some lucky employees will also win an envelope containing an additional cash gift. So, what does the party mean to our employees?
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HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION
64500 E SaddleBrooke Blvd
Each year, all of our employees look forward to this event. It is catered by an outside vendor to give our Food and Beverage workers an opportunity to enjoy the dinner and not worry about doing the dishes. SaddleBrooke One currently has a total of 150 employees, so from a serving and clearing point of view, this represents a large amount of work. The employees will enjoy the sounds of Don Bennett, as he goes through his list of Christmas melodies. SaddleBrooke One has many career employees; several have worked here over twenty years. These are dedicated employees who continue to serve and contribute to the Community. The Employees’ Holiday Party provides an evening for all employees to bring a guest, come together and enjoy our Clubhouse; and, for some the Clubhouse is the same setting where they work. It further allows the employees an opportunity to show their guest where they spend their working hours. It has been an extraordinary year, from the high expectations set (by the Board of Directors) for 2018. From the completion of the refurbished bunkers, Catalina Recreation Center expansion, Tennis Center Remodel and the day-to-day activities required to make the Community move forward, our employees have responded with their hard work and diligence. Needless to say, it is hoped that SaddleBrooke One residents will again express their appreciation of the continued dedication of our employees through this year’s combined contributions. Thank you for your support.
Thanks Jack!
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he exterior Christmas lighting is done each year by a resident volunteer-Jack Hacking. The work takes 65 hours to set up and then an additional 15 hours for troubleshooting the lights. Two weeks of work-but Jack does "not see it as a job, it's fun for me!" Jack has followed his passion for installing lighting themes at Christmas time for several years. When he was 16 years old, he won the St. Paul/ Minneapolis Christmas lighting contest with an elaborate show including a large sleigh on the roof with Santa and his reindeer actually floating between the trees and the house; a skating rink with ice changing colors and a nativity scene were extra embellishments. We are truly thankful to Jack for lending his expertise to our Community every December. Please enjoy the show and remember that it is the volunteer efforts that light up the Community.
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he entire SaddleBrooke One Food and Beverage Department would like to thank everyone in our Community for all of your overwhelming support and feedback all year. From outstanding compliments to constructive critiques, we have grown stronger as a team. To everyone, "We wish you a wonderful holiday season and we look forward to a great 2019."
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Pinal County Update Town Hall Pinal County Supervisor Anthony Smith, Pinal County Manager Greg Stanley, as well as other Pinal County officials will present a Pinal County Update Town Hall on Tuesday, December 11, 2018 in the DesertView Theater at 10:00am. Topics to be addressed include the following: • Highlights on major Economic Development Projects • Status of Local Projects • Changing the TV Broadcast Market • By-Pass road to Sundance Ridge Development • Improvements to Park Link Road • Fry’s Marketplace • County’s financial health • Legal Status of Pinal County RTA A Q&A will follow the presentation. All HOA1, HOA2 and SaddleBrooke Ranch residents are invited to attend.
Thank you to Vicki Tessitore for the gorgeous centerpieces. Vicki spent several hours putting together table decorations for our "Holiday Season." She drove all over Tucson to secure the correct poinsettia materials; then carefully put together the centerpieces to make the dining room festive for the holidays. Thanks Vicki!
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6th Annual Golf Cart Parade of Lights Saturday, December 22nd
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ring your Golf Cart with Holiday decorations and lights. Tour the Holiday light displays throughout SaddleBrooke. Join us for the 6th Annual Golf Cart Parade of Lights. The parade will be starting and ending at the HOA1 Activity Center. Spectators are encouraged to watch from the HOA1 practice range or along the parade route -- the map for the parade route will be available just before the parade, so send us your email address. Registration begins at 5:00pm and the parade starts at dusk. There will be an entry fee of $5.00/person to cover the cost of the Activity Center & prizes. YES! PRIZES for the two (2) best decorated carts and the two (2) best Holiday Home Light decorations. Participants are encouraged to bring a beverage & an appetizer to share. The parade will line up and leave from the SaddleBrooke One golf course practice area at dusk, going up Howland's Highway looping through SaddleBrooke viewing the magnificent lighted homes and back to the Clubhouse. The Awards ceremony will be held at the Activity Center at the completion of the tour. If you would like to volunteer to help with this year's parade, or get further information about the parade route, decorating your golf cart and to register your cart, please contact Valerie Malik: vdesignm@yahoo.com; 503-998-6763. See you at the 6th Annual Golf Cart Parade of Lights on Saturday December 22nd!!!
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SaddleBrooke One Troy Jewkes, Interim Director of Golf
Golf Course Winter Walking Phone Line
All Pets must be on a leash Reminder - NEW Evening Walking Hours Nov-Feb All Courses are open to walking in the evening! "Golfers always have the right-of-way" "Winter Walking Hours" 5:00pm 5:15pm 5:30pm 5:45pm 6 • The Communicator
Walking allowed on Holes 1 and 2 Walking allowed on Holes 3 and 4 Walking allowed on Holes 5 and 6 Walking allowed on Holes 7, 8 and 9
SaddleBrooke One Frosty Mornings
Mike Roddy, Golf Course Superintendent
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s we enter the heart of the winter golfing season, cold mornings will become a more frequent occurrence. During frost events, the turf grass plant is susceptible to damage from any type of traffic. This includes foot traffic, cart traffic, mower traffic and even animal traffic. Almost all of this potentially damaging traffic can be prevented through the use of a frost delay. Frost delays are inconvenient to everyone involved in the golf course each day; including golfers, golf shop staff and the Golf Maintenance team. While we do what we can to limit them, it might help to remember that these delays are necessary to preserve current playing conditions.
Frost Delay Hotline: 825-2505 (option 1) Thank you in advance for your patience, as we work to preserve playing conditions during the cold winter mornings. Winter Walking Hours Reminder "Winter Walking Hours" have returned to the golf courses and will be in place until March 1st. This system allows for the first holes on each course to be available to walking at 5:00pm. Two additional holes are available every fifteen minutes. Please remember that golfers have the right-of-way, and please stay on the Cart Path. All pets must be on a leash.
HOLES #1 & #2 HOLES #3 & #4
AFTER 5:00PM AFTER 5:15PM
HOLES #5 & #6 HOLES #7 THRU #9
AFTER 5:30PM AFTER 5:45PM
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here are some very popular authors who have new books this month. Look for Lee Child – Past Tense: a Jack Reacher Novel and David Baldacci with Long Road to Mercy. These authors are so popular I have purchased two copies of each. The wait time will not be as long this way. Janet Evanovich has written another of her number books – Look Alive Twenty-Five. This is a new Stephanie Plum novel. Stephanie’s colleague, Lulu, is sure that there are aliens around – it seems that three managers of a favorite deli have disappeared in the last month and the only thing left behind is one shoe. Could this be aliens? Stephanie thinks it is more downto-earth.
Those who like Jeffery Archer will like this new stand-alone novel – Heads You Win. The main characters must leave the USSR after the father of Alexander/ Sasha is assassinated by the KGB. At the dock, a coin is flipped to see whether Alexander and his mother will board a ship for London or New York. Which do you suppose it is? Louise Penny returns with her Inspector Gamach series. This one is #14. It is titled Kingdom of the Blind. Why would the inspector, and two others, be named executor to a will of a woman no one knew? Odd! Mary Higgins Clark and her writing partner Alafair Burke return with a new mystery in the Under Suspicion series: You Don’t Own Me. Laurie Moran and her fiancé are planning their summer wedding and honeymoon when she is approached by the parents of a murdered physician. They are sure his widow is the guilty one – but is she? Many of you are waiting for Becoming by Michele Obama. She starts with her childhood on Chicago’s South Side and takes you through her days as an executive balancing motherhood and work, then on to the White House as first lady. It has been a fascinating life, certainly. The next nonfiction book is The Allies: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and the Unlikely Alliance that Won World War II by Winston Groom. This much told story is given a common sense presentation of the Big Three. It is an excellent history, according to Publishers Weekly.
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Another is Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight. Much has been written about this former slave who became an orator and leading abolitionist of his day. It seems that Blight has found new sources of information privately owned and now made available. It turns out there is much more to be learned about this 19th century man. If you enjoy our libraries and aren’t a member of Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries (FSL), it is time to think about joining. $20 is the minimum membership but you can give as much as you like over that. Application forms are available at each library. Do you need to renew your membership? That can be done on the same form. I hope to see you soon in the library!
Architectural & Landscaping Committee ALC Email: alcadmin@saddlebrooke.org ALC Secretary: Linda Irwin All ALC forms, as well as exterior home color selections, may be accessed on the ALC webpage or in the Administration Office.
December Meetings
ALC Hotline 917-3767
December 6th December 20th Meetings are the 1st & 3rd Thursdays of the month 9:00am Bobcat Suite (Lower level of the SB One Clubhouse)
SADDLEBROOKE ONE DECEMBER SCHEDULE RECYCLE PICK-UP REGULAR PICK-UP • Christmas Day Week • Christmas Day Week th Friday, December 28th delayed until Tuesday, December 25 delayed th Saturday, December 29th until Wednesday, December 26
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SaddleBrooke One 'Tis the Season Ron Tuxbury, Patrol Manager
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lease be very careful when driving around SaddleBrooke during the holiday season. Grandchildren, and other relations, will be visiting and may not be familiar with the community, our stop signs and speed limits. Another reminder for all residents with golf carts - golf cart drivers must be at least sixteen (16) years of age. Children’s Pool Hours Over the Christmas holiday, as in the past, our Children’s pool hours will be changed to 10:00am-4:00pm from Sunday, December 23rd through Saturday, December 29th. Our Patrol officers will be making extra trips through the pool area to answer any questions and ensure that everyone understands our rules. The normal afternoon children’s hours of 4:30pm-6:30pm are suspended during the special children’s pool hours. Guests over the holidays If you are planning to have guests over the holidays, please remember - no more than two (2) vehicles, excluding RVs/Trailers, can be parked overnight on your driveway or in front of your residence. If you plan to have more than two (2) vehicles parked at your residence over the holidays, please call the Patrol Office at (520) 917-3752 so that we can notify our 3rd shift duty officers not to issue a Notice of Violation. RV/Trailer Parking Rules RVs/Trailers owned by SaddleBrooke One homeowners, guests or renters may be parked on the street in front of their residence (unless otherwise posted) or on their driveways, if they do not extend into the street. All RVs/Trailers parked in the street should be marked with safety cones or triangles. RVs/Trailers with sliders should park them so that if the slider is in use it does not extend into the street. An RV/Trailer may be parked in SaddleBrooke One for a maximum of three (3) days and two (2) nights within a seven (7) day period. RVs/ Trailers in Unit 20 may be parked only in designated parking areas for a maximum of three (3) days and two (2) nights.
Safety Tip Traffic increases by approximately 60% during our winter months. It it even more important for walkers, joggers and bicyclists to be aware of their surroundings and follow the rules of the road. Walkers and joggers should always walk/jog facing traffic. Bicyclists should always stop at stop signs and never ride more than two abreast when traveling our roads. As traffic increases during our high season, motorists and golf cart drivers should remember that stop means STOP. Not tap the brakes and then speed up.
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NOV Statistics for October 2017/2018 Violations
2018 2017
Fines Imposed
2018 2017
Speeding
4
8
Multiple or Flagrant Traffic
$100
0
3
Stop Signs
1
8
Stop Sign or 2nd Violation
$50
1
1
Handicap Parking
0
3
RV Parking
$50
0
0
RV Parking
1
6
Parking Violations
$100
1
0
Other Parking
8
10
14
35
Totals
Edward Lynch & Laurie O'Toole
3
Warren Henderson
3
Gary Powers
7
William & Kristi Waldman
5
Gary & Bonnie Wertz
8
J. Timothy Gutierrez
12
Jane Miner
11
James & Angela Kenley
9
Jose & Rita Granda
21
Christianne Dettman
2
Joseph & Mary Colgan
9
Paul & Ellane Jepson
9
Loretta Mihm
9
James & Angela Kenley
9
Marvis Tschetter & Steven Grossman
8
Robert & Ann Grover
Steven & LuAnn Johnson
5
Roger & Jacquelyn Berndt
4
Stuart & Noelle Minck
11
Ronald & Beverly Corso
3
Hugh & Janet Knowles
11
Ronald Ruberg
21
Gwen Janes & Sharon Svigel
5
Thomas & Janet Frost
19
Sharman Morrison & David Ellman
3
Philip & Deborah Hackney
21
Joseph & Joanne Delahunt
10
Larry & Peggy Diegel
9
Linda Rodrick
3
Scott & Janet Ferguson
1
Ronald Frederick & Judith Odell
9
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SaddleBrooke One Catalina Recreation Center (CRC) Rian Ross, Director of Operations
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he CRC expansion is complete! This thousand square foot expansion to the old Starter Shack has transformed the old shack into two rooms – one set for billiards and the other as a card/game room. The newly constructed part of the Center, that houses billiards, now boasts three (3) new game tables, new light fixtures over the tables and all brand-new furniture. The original part of the building has been fully freshened and updated and provides space for cards or games, as well as five (5) new tables and all new chairs.
The CRC has a whole new look and feel. Exterior painting has not been completed at press time; but, after it has been, the Center will have received a complete paint job both inside and out, as well as all new carpet, light fixtures, and a remodel of the ceilings for a smoother transition between rooms. Not to be overlooked, the Center grounds also received fresh new landscaping - bringing a more modern, classy look to the center all around.
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How to Plan a Library Dinner. . . • Make a list of friends who would love to be treated to the perfect evening 8-16 can be accommodated in the Library 16-24 can be accommodated in the Javelina Room Both are beautiful settings for your special evening • Make a consultation appointment with Carolyn Butler & Chef Dave Bishow to pick a date and plan your menu • Sit back, relax and enjoy your private party
Plan your menu with the help of Carolyn Butler and Chef Dave. Enjoy one of your favorite meals or try something new and exciting. Chateaubriand, Oven Roasted Pork Rack, Surf & Turf, Beef Short Rib, Slow-Roasted New York Strip Steak, Veal Chop and Braised Veal Osso Buco are some of our often-requested entrées. A dedicated service staff will personally take care of you and your guests. For additional information call Carolyn Butler at (520)917-4378. The Communicator • 15