By Elemer Magaziner(January 30, 2014) The new Citizen Engagement Program is a detailed set of rules the City Government is to observe when engaging citizens. These rules include the functions of many entities: City Council, City Manager, City Staff, Citizen Engagement Coordinator, Community Plan Advisory Groups, Citizen Work Groups, Arts and Culture Coordinator, Volunteer Registry, and a Citizen Registry. The rules also include a process covering Soliciting, Organizing, Prioritizing, Implementing, and Reporting Ideas and Issues; Periodic Reviews and an Annual Evaluation of the Program; and a Recognition Program. Overall, the process contains approximately three dozen steps, calls upon two dozen…
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By Donna Joy Varney, Sedona Resident(January 28, 2014) Dear Mayor Rob Adams and City Councilors, I just found out the chamber has moved the Sedona Marathon into the Kachina Subdivision, zoned residential. Kachina Subdivision has ONE access in and out. Kachina Subdivision is zoned residential. With very narrow roads, blind spots, two cars are unable to pass in many locations. Kachina Subdivision has No transitional zoning nor is it commercially zoned.
By Holly EprightSedona Main Street Program Sedona AZ (January 24, 2014) – Please join us for Sedona’s 44th Annual St. Patrick’s Parade & Festival. Entry forms for the parade have been mailed out to all previous participants. If you need an entry form, application packets are available at the ChamberVisitorCenter in Uptown Sedona. The entry form is also available to print from Sedona Main Street Program’s website (www.sedonamainstreet.com).
By Jeri Castronova, Ph.D.January 22, 2014 After writing to the Corporation Commission regarding the blue tags on analog meters, I received this reply which may be of interest to Nancy Baer and other Sedona.biz readers.
By Nancy BaerSedona Smart Meter Awareness(January 18, 2014) APS will begin installing Automated (Smart) Meters in Cottonwood area beginning Monday. After that, Sedona will probably be next. APS will give one-day notice by hanging a tag on your door. If you have a blue tag on your analog meter (see photo following), you will be safe. If not, even if you have opted out (e.g., refused), you’ll need to send another written notice to APS and to the Arizona Corporation Commission via mailmaster@azcc.gov, with copies to Commissioner Brenda Burns burns-web@azcc.gov and Gary Pierce pierce-web@azcc.gov stating that you have opted out,…
By Warren Woodward, Sedona Resident(January 17, 2014) In my letter to the Arizona Corporation Commission (following) there is a Youtube link to video proof of blatant lying by Arizona’s Navopache Electric Cooperative regarding the transmissions of their “smart” meters. As I ask in the letter, “If ‘smart’ meters are so wonderful, why all the lying?” Read more: Letter to Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) regards Navopache Electric Cooperative
By Steve HammonsTranscendent TV & Media(January 15, 2014) From Arizona’s Sonoran Desert in the south, to the pine-covered mountains in the central part of the state, and the Navajo and Hopi lands in northeastern Arizona, unusual incidents seem to occur with some regularity. When the 23rd annual International UFO Congress conference begins near Phoenix in mid-February, locals and visitors alike will certainly have plenty to see, do, experience and think about. Past incidents, current and ongoing research, and possible future developments seem to provide a rich combination of interesting phenomena to explore and discuss.
By Steve HammonsJoint Recon Study Group Sedona AZ (January 12, 2014) – For many years, stories and reports about the Sedona, Arizona, region have included claims of “vortexes” or energy streams and fields that affect people and the environment there in various ways. Many people claim they experience unusual and sometimes beneficial effects on their mental, emotional, spiritual and physical states when exposed to these energies. But these reports have been anecdotal and experiential. That is, people have reported interesting personal experiences, but there was little scientific evidence to support or explain such statements.
Sedona AZ (January 10, 2014) – Just like kids cats get colds and ours did. However we at the Humane Society of Sedona are thrilled to announce the sneezes and sniffles are over and the cats are bright eyed, bushy tailed and ready for their new forever home. To help get our frisky felines home the shelter is offering an Adoption by Donation promotion. Every cat eligible for adoption by donation is located at the shelter on 2115 Shelby Drive in Sedona. Their cottage will have a tag indicating they are part of the promotion, healthy and ready to go…
By Michael Wines(January 10, 2014)via The New York Times Lake Mead CO – The sinuous Colorado River and its slew of man-made reservoirs from the Rockies to southern Arizona are being sapped by 14 years of drought nearly unrivaled in 1,250 years. The once broad and blue river has in many places dwindled to a murky brown trickle. Reservoirs have shrunk to less than half their capacities, the canyon walls around them ringed with white mineral deposits where water once lapped. Seeking to stretch their allotments of the river, regional water agencies are recycling sewage effluent, offering rebates to tear…
By Jon Thompson, Sedona Resident(January 9, 2014) Last Monday, Sedona.biz published a letter to the editor by Elemer Magaziner, a member of the Citizens Steering Committee for the New Community Plan (CSC). If you missed it, I heartily recommend that you read it and the responses it generated before continuing with this letter. It’s a good example of the open and heart-felt dialogue that the CSC so earnestly sought since its formation. It also suggests continued involvement by citizens in government decision making to further clarify their desires—a position I strongly support. The Community Plan is not the end, but…
By Dr. Marta AdelsmanLife Coach in Communication and Consciousnesswww.DrMartaCoach.com(January 3, 2014) My training and coaching has led me to believe that I’m a pretty good listener. So imagine my chagrin when, in a recent phone conversation in which a friend shared a personal struggle, she gave me feedback that I hadn’t been listening very well. I had two separate inner reactions: 1) intense resistance to the idea that I hadn’t listened well, and 2) surprise that she would be so bold as to say so!
By Elemer Magaziner(January 3, 2014) Around the time the City began to update Sedona’s community plan about three years ago, Mayor Rob Adams authored an article in the Red Rock News. He said in effect that we live in a world class environment and that what we need is a world class city to match. Although at odds with the presumption of a “world class” anything, I took his underlying message to heart: we must look for the ingredients of Sedona’s future in the community’s relationship to the place it occupies. The City Council had appointed eleven residents to sit…
By James Bishop, Jr.(January 2, 2014) The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out alive.— Robert Heinlein (1907-1988) Now we know, with John Keats that there is no point in waiting for warm days, now comes a dose of reality as the New Year dawns. Don’t look now, gentle reader, but you, we, every Tom Dick and Harry are knee deep in irony otherwise called incongruities. Consider the principal threats to a healthy community, namely our own. Some say it’s the tree huggers, others cite liberals or Tea party strategists, or ex- Stalinists or uninformed, vision-less mayors.…
By Dr. Marta AdelsmanLife Coach in Communication and Consciousnesswww.DrMartaCoach.com(December 20, 2013) During the holidays, many of you spend more time with family members than usual. As you prepare for this holiday season, stay aware. The extra stress and pressure makes you vulnerable to the ego’s antics. It’s easy to take personally any criticism that comes your way from other family members who are also feeling stressed and pressured. I’m sharing with you a key principle of communication and spirituality: criticism aimed at you is really about the person who criticized you. It isn’t about you.